COINDESK DAILY: Global Arrest Warrant Sought for LIBRA's Hayden Davis

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🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Host Christine Lee breaks down the latest news in the crypto industry as an Argentine lawyer seeks an interpol red notice for Libra memecoin co-founder Hayden Davis. An Argentine lawyer seeks an interpol red notice for Libra memecoin co-founder Hayden Davis. Plus, Hyperliquid loses $4M after a whale's $200M ether trade unwinds, and Binance receives $2 billion investment from Abu Dhabi-based MGX. CoinDesk's Christine Lee hosts "CoinDesk Daily." - Friends, DeFi is having a moment — Uniswap Labs' web app and wallet connect you to the excitement. Swapping and bridging are simple, low cost, and lightning fast across 13 chains, including Base, Arbitrum and Unichain, the new Layer 2 network designed for DeFi. Thanks to deep liquidity on Uniswap Protocols, you get minimal price impact on every trade, now with even greater efficiency through Uniswap v4. Swap, send, on-ramp, off-ramp, and bridge into a bright future — get started at uniswap.org. - This episode was hosted by Christine Lee. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Christine Lee and edited by Victor Chen. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:49.7	A global arrest warrant is being sought for Libra Mune Coin co-founder Hayden Davis. It's Thursday, March 13th, 2025.
0:58.0	I'm Christine Lee. This is Coiness Daily.
1:05.1	An Argentine lawyer is reportedly requesting an Interpol red notice for Libra meme coin co-founder Hayden Davis to locate
1:12.9	and arrest him to face fraud allegations in Argentina tied to the collapse of Libra, which rose to a
1:19.1	$4.4 billion market cap before plunging more than 95% last month, leaving Davis holding over $100 million
1:26.7	in profits. In texts shown to
1:29.3	CoinDesk, Davis bragged he owned President Javier Millet, who tweeted about the project, sparking
1:34.6	outrage in Argentina from political adversaries. Davis also told YouTuber CoffeeZilla that he was
1:40.7	behind other meme coin pump and dump schemes like Melania coin. A whale wallet on Hyperliquid opened a $200 million long trade on Ethereum,
1:50.0	resulting in a $4 million loss for one of the protocols vaults.
1:54.0	The user withdrew funds, reducing their margin below maintenance requirements,
1:58.0	which led to a $1.8 million profit for the user,
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