To qualify as an activation client, it must have an established block height or time in which the client will explicitly reject blocks which are currently consensus valid, but do not follow the "Reduce Data Temporary Soft Fork" rules

To qualify as an activation client, there must be new consensus logic added to the client.

To qualify as an activation client, a fully open source codebase must be available to compile the client.

A client which contains new rules, but do not enforce the new rules does not count.

The release time will be determined based on when a post is made to: Bitcoin Talk, Delving Bitcoin, The Bitcoin Developer Mailing List, Twitter, or NOSTR with all of the above conditions being met, as the official announcement.

To qualify as an activation client, LukeDashjr must endorse it as a client to run instead of any currently available bitcoin client.

All dates are based on UTC. For example, if the client is released Noon February 10th UTC, February 15th will win. In the unlikely event of a tie between two of these dates, the tie will go to the one which is further in the future.

In the event no activation client which meets the above conditions is released by the end of this market, "No Activation Client Released" wins the market.