Hayden Davis

2020-10

Hayden Davis becomes CEO of Kelsier Ventures, a Delaware-registered entity he operates with his father Tom and brother Gideon.

2025-01-19

Kelsier Ventures facilitates the launch of the $MELANIA memecoin. Davis later admits his team sniped the token, extracting profits via shared wallet infrastructure.

2025-02-14

Kelsier Ventures creates the $LIBRA token at 6:58 PM Argentina time. Three minutes later, President Milei promotes the token on X, Instagram, and Facebook. Price surges to ~$5.20 and market cap reaches $4.6 billion before insider wallets liquidate holdings, crashing the price by 85-95%.

2025-02-15

LIBRA market cap collapses to ~$162 million. Nine founding accounts are identified as having extracted approximately $87 million in liquidity. Over 112 criminal complaints are filed in Argentine courts within 48 hours of the crash.

2025-02-17

Davis appears in a Coffeezilla interview, denying rug pull allegations and characterizing the collapse as 'a plan gone miserably wrong.' He admits to sniping LIBRA and MELANIA and discloses his team's profit of approximately $113 million.

2025-03-08

The $WOLF token launches. Bubblemaps subsequently links the launch wallet to the same infrastructure Davis used for LIBRA, with $WOLF reaching $43 million market cap before collapsing 99%.

2025-03-13

Argentine prosecutor Gregorio Dalbón petitions a federal judge to issue an Interpol Red Notice for Davis, citing flight risk and alleged fraud. Multiple outlets later report the notice was issued.

2025-03-17

Plaintiff Omar Hurlock files a class action complaint against Davis, Kelsier Labs LLC, and co-defendants in New York Supreme Court (later removed to S.D.N.Y. as Case No. 1:25-cv-03891-JLR).

2025-04-08

Argentina's Chamber of Deputies formally approves an investigation into the LIBRA scandal.

2025-05-30

S.D.N.Y. Judge Jennifer L. Rochon enters a temporary restraining order freezing approximately $280 million in LIBRA-related assets.

2025-06-23

Davis files a voluntary three-page declaration in S.D.N.Y., denying fraud, asserting LIBRA was intended to benefit Argentine small businesses, attributing the crash to Milei deleting his posts, and challenging the court's jurisdiction.

2025-08-19

Judge Rochon denies plaintiffs' motion for injunctive relief and dissolves the $280 million asset freeze, agreeing that plaintiffs had not met their burden. The underlying class action remains pending.

2025-10

A court filing in the $MELANIA class action names Davis and Benjamin Chow, alleging they 'weaponized fame to disarm diligence' across multiple coordinated token launches.

2025-11

Argentine federal judge orders freezing of assets belonging to Davis and two associates. An Argentine congressional commission issues a 200-page report concluding Milei allegedly used his presidency to promote a scam.