Kelsier Labs
Summary
Kelsier Labs LLC, operating as Kelsier Ventures, is a Delaware-incorporated Web3 investment and marketing firm founded in 2020 and led by CEO Hayden Mark Davis and family members Gideon Davis (COO) and Charles Thomas Davis (father). The firm is the subject of multiple active legal proceedings alleging that it orchestrated coordinated pump-and-dump schemes across several high-profile Solana-based memecoins — including $M3M3, $LIBRA, and $MELANIA — resulting in alleged investor losses estimated at over $286 million. Argentine authorities have frozen assets tied to Davis and requested an Interpol Red Notice for his arrest in connection with the $LIBRA scandal.
Connected Entities
1 entities · 10 linked investigationsTimeline(9 events)
2020-10-01
Hayden Mark Davis begins as CEO of Kelsier Ventures (approximate founding date); company incorporated in Delaware.
BlockBeats / PANews reporting2024-12-04
$M3M3 token launches on Meteora's Solana platform. Alleged insider wallets acquire approximately 95% of supply at low prices before public trading opens.
Burwick Law case page; CoinTelegraph2025-01-19
$MELANIA memecoin launches on Solana, reaching over $1.6 billion market cap before collapsing. Wallets alleged to be linked to Kelsier Ventures reportedly extract approximately $26 million.
Solana Floor on-chain research2025-02-14
Argentine President Javier Milei promotes $LIBRA on social media. Token market cap surges to approximately $4.5 billion. Milei deletes post hours later. Kelsier-linked wallets allegedly withdraw over $85 million from liquidity pools within two hours; token collapses over 90%.
Yahoo Finance / Protos2025-02-17
Media reporting identifies Hayden Davis and Kelsier Ventures as central figures in the LIBRA launch. CryptoTimes profiles Davis.
CryptoTimes2025-03-01
Argentine Judge Marcelo Martinez de Giorgi orders freezing of all property and financial assets belonging to Hayden Davis and two crypto intermediaries linked to the LIBRA scheme.
Protos2025-03-13
Argentine lawyer Gregorio Dalbon formally petitions courts to issue an Interpol Red Notice for Hayden Davis's arrest and extradition. Interpol has not yet issued the notice as of available reporting.
CoinDesk; Fortune2025-04-19
Class action lawsuit (Hurlock v. Kelsier, Case No. 1:25-cv-03891-JLR) filed in U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, against Kelsier Labs, Davis family members, Benjamin Chow, and Meteora.
Burwick Law case page2025-07-29
Amended complaint filed in Hurlock v. Kelsier, expanding allegations to include both M3M3 and LIBRA token manipulation schemes.
Burwick Law case page; BlockTribuneDecision Log
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This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain and source URLs are archived via the Internet Archive.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 6/16/2026, 11:09:47 PM
last updated: 6/16/2026, 11:09:56 PM
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