A confidential blockchain advisory settlement between Libra co-creator Hayden Davis and Argentinian president, Javier Milei, has been found on a suspect’s telephone in the course of the nation’s ongoing investigation into the collapse of the LIBRA token.
That’s in line with La Nación and sources accustomed to the outcomes of a January 9 report led by the Public Prosecutor’s Workplace (MPF).
The division’s laptop consultants reportedly recovered a number of copies of the settlement from Mauricio Novelli’s seized telephone. The doc appeared in exchanges between himself and Davis as numerous drafted iterations earlier than the ultimate model was signed by Milei.
The Argentinian president reportedly nonetheless denies the existence of the “confidential agreement” that cemented Davis’ function because the nation’s blockchain advisor and, in flip, his affiliation with LIBRA’s launch on February 14, 2025.
Novelli is a part of a bunch of lobbyists, alongside Manuel Terrones Godoy and Sergio Morales, who allegedly helped launch and profited from LIBRA’s collapse.
Prosecutor Eduardo Taiano stated that the MPF’s findings imply that the undersecretary of presidential affairs, who stories to Milei’s sister, Normal Secretary Karina Milei, will now have to substantiate whether or not or not she has copies of the key settlement.
The report additionally discovered Novelli performed a key function in organizing the LIBRA launch and maintained contact with each Milei and his sister, Davis, Terrones Godoy, Morales, and Julian Peh, the CEO of the KIP protocol, which helped launch the token.
A number of messages between Novelli and different events had been additionally discovered to have been deleted, however some messages had been recovered after forensic extraction.
“All individual conversations and those related to WhatsApp groups made up of Novelli, Terrones Godoy and Sergio Morales were found to be empty or had been deleted,” analysts claimed.
One change concerned Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson who accused Terrones Godoy of demanding a five-figure sum of cash to fulfill Milei.
Hoskinson was promised “magical things will happen,” however refused the supply.
Hayden Davis-linked wallets despatched $1M USDC after signing deal
Argentinian outlet Clarín revealed that Milei had signed a “confidential agreement” with Davis 15 days earlier than the launch of LIBRA. It was topic to a non-disclosure settlement and required Davis to offer unpaid blockchain recommendation “ad honorem.”
Davis would “provide professional support, in line with global trends in decentralization and technological modernization, ensuring the highest quality and confidentiality at every stage of the advisory process.”
On the day it was signed, two funds of USDC price roughly $1 million, had been despatched from Davis-linked wallets to the pockets of 75-year-old Orlando Rodolfo Mellino, a retiree with no actual deal with, who then despatched the funds to a pockets linked to Novelli.
La Nación stories that after a 12 months, the investigation into LIBRA has been carried out at various speeds, and has witnessed delays in key areas, such because the disclosure of the report into Novelli’s units. It provides that Milei is but to rent a lawyer to signify himself.
In the meantime, Davis seemed to be strolling free as of December 2025. Crypto analytics agency Bubblemaps just lately claimed that Davis had made $15 million from Pump Enjoyable’s personal token sale simply six months after LIBRA’s launch.
Nevertheless, Bubblemaps then deleted its findings after Pump Enjoyable’s pseudonymous CEO, Alon Cohen, referred to as it defamatory “misinformation.” He stated, “No one from the team ever spoke to the guy, I didn’t even know he existed until after the scandal.”
what an embarrassing evaluation, actually greedy at straws right here.
nobody from the staff ever spoke to the man, I didn’t even know he existed till after the scandal
the statements you’re making listed below are nothing wanting misinformation, and are subsequently defamatory
for the sake of…
— alon (@a1lon9) February 19, 2026
