My favorite topic and the timing is exquisite. announced this morning

Banks and New York Fed Team Up On Digital Dollar Pilot


Several big name financial services companies have joined up with the New York Federal Reserve to announce a 12-week digital dollar program.

The proposed platform will use distributed ledger technology, a decentralized peer-to-peer digital system for recording transactions between parties in multiple places at the same time, according to a statement issued by the participating companies

The speed of the CBDC development has surprised even me.