Every date on this page was set by a parliament, not by us.

To a government.

You are the party most of these dates actually bind, not us. The Regulation gives you a date for handing at least one wallet to every person and company in your state, and no vendor's roadmap moves that date by a single day. If you miss it, the people who lose something are your own residents, waiting in the gap between a law that already applies and a wallet that does not exist yet. We build to the wire your own reference architecture specifies, and we will keep building to whatever it specifies next — but the date is yours to hit, not ours.

To the rest of this field.

You read this page the way we do — looking for the date that forces somebody's hand. Almost none of these dates force anything on either of us: they bind governments and the narrow set of firms already required to authenticate their users strongly, and selling a compliance deadline to anyone outside that set is selling them a fear rather than a fact. We would rather lose the sale than make that pitch. If a date on this page ever does start to bind us and not you, we intend to be the ones who tell our own customers first.

To the person these deadlines are about.

Almost none of the dates below are a duty on you. Nobody can compel you to carry a wallet because a law told a government to offer you one, and nobody here is going to tell you otherwise to make a date feel more urgent than it is. If a state misses its own deadline, what you lose is a service that should have existed and did not — not a status, not a right you signed away, and not a countdown you need to beat. Read the table at your own pace. It will still be true tomorrow.

Why this friendliness is a position, not marketing.

Open protocols shall form the backbone of the shared digital world, developed through inclusive processes rather than corporate fiat; technical standards shall be developed through processes that centre the people they affect. Both sentences are this platform's own founding document, not language written for this page, and both are scored honestly rather than quoted for effect: the Declaration marks the first Article partial — the open-protocol limb is real and countable, universal access is not ours to claim — and the second not-yet, because this platform is governed by its owner and says so plainly. Citing a founding document is easy. Meeting it is the part that is not finished, and the register below is where that gets checked rather than asserted.

Before you go any further.

Straight answers.

Why is there no countdown?

Because a countdown is a script, and this site does not ship one to reveal content — the same rule that keeps every page readable with JavaScript off. The date does the work; the ticking would only have been decoration.

Does any date here create a duty on you, the reader?

No, almost never. Read the third letter above — that is the whole answer, and it is not going to change depending on how close the date gets.

Could one of these dates be wrong?

Yes, and it has happened before. Several rows on this page carry a correction against a date this site got wrong the first time. Some of them are recorded there.