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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}Verify offline (run on your own machine)python -m src.verify_decision 7edcf5f1-897b-4a59-8409-1efcecd65c04
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