Two Argentinian crypto tokens referred to as MILEI and ARG that had been launched across the identical time because the Javier Milei-backed LIBRA could be the work of the LIBRA workforce.
That’s in keeping with Blockworks’ Senior Information Engineer Fernando Molina who claims there might have been a last-minute try to vary the LIBRA token to ARG.
Molina demonstrates how the three tokens share traits that will hyperlink them collectively. As an illustration, all of them had been funded by completely different creator accounts utilizing the identical crypto alternate, FixedFloat.
He additionally claims the creator of every token used liquidity pool Meteora and in every case deposited 108 tokens into the pool. ARG has barely completely different metadata to LIBRA whereas they share an virtually similar emblem.
3/ $MILEI parecería haber sido gestado como un token de prueba ya que compartía la misma metadata que $LIBRA
Pero la metadata de $ARG es diferente a la metadata de $LIBRA como se ve en la captura. Inclusive se tomaron el trabajo de cambiarle el nombre en la imagen.
Token:… pic.twitter.com/eej6gWNQip
— Fernando Molina (@fergmolina) March 17, 2025
The ARG emblem Molina retrieved from its metadata.
Molina states that MILEI is the work of the LIBRA workforce, and was presumably used to check the launch of the Milei-backed token. As for the timings, MILEI was launched simply minutes earlier than LIBRA, whereas ARG was launched a couple of minutes after, however earlier than Milei’s LIBRA announcement.
It’s price noting that Argentinian writer Pagina experiences the wallets behind the token funding are nameless and that “this data is not enough to confirm that the same people are behind each launch.”
Again in February, Milei promoted the controversial token which then dumped on buyers. The entire affair has became a political scandal and the companies related to launching LIBRA, together with Meteora, are being sued within the Supreme Courtroom of New York.
