Eighty-seven days from now, the EU AI Act's high-risk obligations open under Article 12 (record-keeping), Article 19 (provider retention), Article 26 (deployer retention), and Article 72 (post-market monitoring). In the autumn, the NIST CMVP non-PQC validation cut-off follows. ESMA's February 2026 Supervisory Briefing has, in the meantime, tightened the language around what "algorithmic trading" means and what evidence supervisors expect to see. VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO) is preparing to publish VCP v1.2 as a Public Review Draft (PRD) — not a GA release — within the coming days. What v1.2 adds on top of v1.1, with full backward compatibility: — A Regulatory Profile selector (AI_ACT_HRAI / MIFID_ALGO / MIFID_HFT / MIXED_FINANCIAL_AI), so an event can be read against the rule-book it was designed for. — ClockEvidence aligned with ESMA Q&A 2825: utc_source, offset, max_error, holdover state. An auditor can read how trustworthy a timestamp actually is. — ChangeEvent operationalising the ESMA material-change taxonomy: logic, execution behaviour, risk controls, external dependencies, ML retraining, scope. — PTCSnapshot / PTCBreachEvent for pre-trade controls under RTS 6 Article 13. — ProviderDependency Attestation for outsourcing oversight — because responsibility does not transfer. — PMM Manifest as evidence packaging for post-market monitoring under Article 72. — Erasure Certificate v2 aligned with GDPR Article 17 and the EDPB CEF 2025 report. — Reservation of `ed25519+mldsa65` as the hybrid post-quantum SignAlgo, with a verify-then-emit ratchet so relying parties can verify hybrid signatures before issuers must emit them. — Regulatory Evidence Bundle: a reproducible packaging contract for delivering an audit-grade evidence set to a supervisor or auditor. Honest scoping. VCP is a private-industry specification. It is not a harmonised standard under Regulation (EU) 1025/2012 and confers no presumption of conformity with the AI Act. It supports evidence generation for Articles 12, 19, 26, and 72; it does not by itself make any system compliant. VeritasChain is not a blockchain; it is an evidence-infrastructure layer. The two v1.1 hard deadlines — PolicyIdentification by 2026-03-25 (now in force) and Silver-tier external anchoring by 2026-06-25 — are preserved unchanged. The PRD will ship with the specification, JSON Schemas, a Silver/Gold conformance test suite, PQC hybrid reference vectors, and a CI pipeline that re-runs them on every push. Public Review will run for approximately 45 days, with comment disposition recorded openly. The v1.2.0 GA decision follows. We are publishing this not as a finished answer but to invite scrutiny. If you read the EU AI Act, MiFID II / RTS 6, ESMA briefings, or NIST IR 8596 closely, your PRD comments are exactly what we need. — Tokachi Kamimura Founder & Technical Director, VeritasChain Standards Organization #VCP #VAP #AIAct #MiFID #PQC #StandardsTrack #FinTech #RegTech