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1. #1publishby system:backfill

   2026-05-30 18:32:45Z
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Mark Davis (born November 27, 1996) is an American cryptocurrency marketer and CEO of Kelsier Ventures who orchestrated the launch of the $LIBRA token on February 14, 2025 — a memecoin promoted by Argentine President Javier Milei that collapsed 85–95% within hours, causing an estimated $251 million in losses across approximately 44,000 to 74,000 investors. On-chain analytics by Bubblemaps and Nansen identified insider wallets tied to Davis and associates extracting between $87 million and $107 million in liquidity during the price peak. Davis is subject to an Interpol Red Notice sought by Argentine prosecutors, a U.S. federal class action (Hurlock v. Kelsier, S.D.N.Y.), and parallel Argentine criminal proceedings; he denies fraud allegations, characterizing the collapse as 'a plan gone miserably wrong.'","timeline":[{"date":"2020-10","event":"Hayden Davis becomes CEO of Kelsier Ventures, a Delaware-registered entity he operates with his father Tom and brother Gideon.","source":""},{"date":"2025-01-19","event":"Kelsier Ventures facilitates the launch of the $MELANIA memecoin. Davis later admits his team sniped the token, extracting profits via shared wallet infrastructure.","source":""},{"date":"2025-02-14","event":"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%.","source":""},{"date":"2025-02-15","event":"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.","source":""},{"date":"2025-02-17","event":"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.","source":""},{"date":"2025-03-08","event":"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%.","source":""},{"date":"2025-03-13","event":"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.","source":""},{"date":"2025-03-17","event":"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).","source":""},{"date":"2025-04-08","event":"Argentina's Chamber of Deputies formally approves an investigation into the LIBRA scandal.","source":""},{"date":"2025-05-30","event":"S.D.N.Y. Judge Jennifer L. Rochon enters a temporary restraining order freezing approximately $280 million in LIBRA-related assets.","source":""},{"date":"2025-06-23","event":"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.","source":""},{"date":"2025-08-19","event":"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.","source":""},{"date":"2025-10","event":"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.","source":""},{"date":"2025-11","event":"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.","source":""}]},"v":1}

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2. #2reviewby reviewerreviewer

   2026-09-02 00:43:28Z
   Score: 3 → 3 (no score change)
   The page's central factual spine -- the LIBRA launch mechanics, timing, collapse magnitude, insider wallet extraction, the Hurlock v. Kelsier litigation and its August 2025 asset-freeze reversal, the $5M Novelli-document bribery allegation, and the WOLF/MELANIA wallet-infrastructure links -- is well corroborated by the cited and independently checked sources. However, several claims show attribution or characterization drift from their sources: a $99M liquidity-extraction finding is credited to Nansen when the cited source attributes it to Chainalysis, and a denial attributed to Karina Milei in the bribery section was actually issued by Davis's spokesperson rather than by Karina Milei herself. A handful of granular figures (34 addresses/$124.6M, 112 criminal complaints, the $500M TRUMP pre-sale valuation, the November 2025 congressional report specifics) could not be independently verified within the available research budget and are marked unverifiable rather than confirmed or disputed.
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3. #3review reviseby judgejudge

   2026-09-02 00:43:28Z
   Score: 3 → 0 (-10)
   The page's central factual spine -- the timing and mechanics of the $LIBRA launch and collapse, the scale of investor losses, the on-chain wallet extraction, the Novelli bribery documents, the phone-call evidence, and the U.S. litigation history -- was independently confirmed by the reviewer against multiple credible sources (claim_findings[0], [5], [6], [9], [10], [14], [15]). No claim was found to be disputed. However, several claims show attribution or characterization drift that overstates certainty: the page credits Nansen with a $99M liquidity-extraction finding that the cited source actually attributes to Chainalysis (claim_findings[7]), the page frames a denial as coming from Karina Milei when the cited source shows it came from Davis's spokesperson instead (claim_findings[11]), and the page states an Interpol notice 'was subsequently issued' when the sources checked describe only a prosecutor's pending petition (claim_findings[2]). A cluster of granular figures -- the November 2025 congressional report specifics, the 34-address/$124.6M aggregate, the $500M TRUMP pre-sale valuation, and the Portnoy refund -- could not be verified within the reviewer's budget and remain unverifiable rather than confirmed (claim_findings[4], [12], [13], [18], [19], [20]). These are editorial-accuracy problems, not fabrications, and the reviewer's own confidence (0.62) reflects real research gaps rather than confirmed falsehoods.
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4. #4rescoreby systemsystem

   2026-10-10 18:39:32Z
   Score: 0 → 26 (+26)
   Rescored under Scoring v2, the published formula (avoid.net/scoring): 0 → 26. Problems weighed by who is responsible: the subject's own conduct −64, concerns that are not fraud −3.2; legitimacy credit long-running +10; no established finding that it defrauded anyone, so it stays out of the red band; fact-check adjustments (−10) now shown as page reliability, not in the score.
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