Well, if you’ve got the time the nearly full timeline of trade that we knew and were presented is mostly documented in the A Brief History of Trade thread. From there we got the Item Gifting Dev Blog which was presented as the only version of trade we’d see and went against all expectations up until that point. Clearly that didn’t go over very well and EHG decided to collect player data concerning trade in the LE Trade Survey. Then, finally we got the version of trade that we know today in the first Item Factions Dev Blog.
But, what I think you’re likely thinking about is the Multiplayer FAQ, which stated that item gifting would be coming. That thread was created July 20, 2021.