Canon reference · v1.0 — September 2026

The Calendar. One world, two clocks.

The Chain runs on two clocks at once. The real-world clock is yours — auctions, seasons, deposits, the countdown. The in-game clock is the world's own narrative time. They move together during active seasons — and diverge deliberately between chapters. This page is the canonical mapping. If any surface disagrees with this table, this table wins.

REAL WORLD — the operator's clock

Dutch auction Nov 11, 2026 · TGE Nov 22 · Season 0 opens Nov 30. Seasons of 14 days, back to back. The Crack arrives October 2029. Everything you can calendar, invoice, or countdown lives here.

IN-GAME — the world's narrative clock

The Signal is detected in 2028. Chapter 1 is the year the world learns to listen. Then three years of silence — the Long Listen, 2029–2031 — and in December 2031, the quantum break: The Crack. The fiction runs ahead of reality, on purpose — by exactly four years.

The master timeline

Arc	Real world	In-game year	Clock
Auction · TGE	Nov 11 → 22, 2026	—	real only
The Signal emerges — S0 opens	Nov 30, 2026	2028	1 : 1
Chapter 1 — Signal (S0–S26)	Nov 30 2026 → ~Dec 8 2027	2028	1 : 1
The Rising launches	~May 2028	2031+ era	1 : 1
PostBTC decision gate	Nov 2027	—	real only
The Crack — S26 finale resolves into the break; Chapter 2 opens	Dec 2027	Dec 2031	scene-cut
The Long Listen — 2029–2031	the chapter break (zero real time)	3 narrative years	told, not played
PostBTC era (S27+)	Dec 2027 →	2031+	1 : 1

The three rules

During active chapters, narrative time runs ~1:1 with real time. A season on your calendar is a season in the world. Chapter 1 — the entire Signal era, S0 through the S26 finale — is the narrative year 2028.
The chapter break carries the skip. Between S26 and S27, three narrative years of Long Listen — 2029 through 2031 — pass in the cut: 384 agents holding position around sealed Block Zero, told, not played. The skip is the story, and it costs zero real time.
The real dates never move; the narrative years never drift. The auction is always Nov 11, 2026. The Crack is always December — real December 2027, in-game December 2031, exactly four years apart. One table, both truths, no contradictions anywhere in the ecosystem.

Why ahead, not synced? A fiction that tracks the present reads as commentary; a fiction set slightly ahead reads as prophecy. When real quantum research converges on our scheduled dates — as it has been doing — the calendar was already there. The fiction scheduled the break; the research is converging on the same window.

CANON SOURCES — Whitepaper v5.2 (timeline anchors) · EHI Narrative Bible v4 · GAME-ARCHITECTURE-FINAL (Aug 16, corrected Sept 10 2026)
Maintained at agents.game/timeline · discrepancies: this page governs until the whitepaper says otherwise.