What "checked" means on these pages
Every page carries a date instead of an author. Here is what somebody actually did on that date, and what the date does not promise.
Every page here shows a date labelled Checked, and no author name. Both choices are deliberate, and the first one only means something if we say precisely what it covers.
Three recent cases, if you want to see the problem
Nigeria admitting firms that are then marketed as licensed; Indonesia, where the old regulator's page still answers and now shows nothing; and Vietnam, which wrote the penalty before the licence. In all three the page you would naturally check is wrong, and only the date tells you.
What the date means
On that day, somebody read the page and confirmed that its factual claims still hold. Not that it was written then — that it was verified then.
For a page about how seed phrases work, that is a quick reread; the underlying facts do not move. For a country page or anything touching regulation, it means opening the sources again and confirming nothing has changed. Those pages carry their sources at the bottom, with the date each was read.
What it does not promise
It does not mean the page is complete, or that we caught everything that changed. A rule can change the day after a check, and the page will carry a recent date while being wrong.
It also does not mean every sentence was re-verified from scratch. It means the claims that could plausibly have changed were looked at again.
We would rather state that narrowly than let the date imply more than it delivers.
Why the date and not the author
Because for a reference site, the useful question is not who typed a sentence but whether the sentence is still true.
Bylines invite you to trust a name. A checked date invites you to notice when something is stale — and to distrust it, which is the more useful instinct. A page last verified two years ago should worry you regardless of who wrote it.
How to use it
Treat a recent date as evidence that somebody looked, not as a guarantee that they were right. Where a page makes a claim about rules or platforms, the sources are listed underneath and you can check them in a couple of minutes.
And if you find something out of date, the contact page exists for exactly that. A correction is worth more to this site than a compliment.