"...you, like everyone else, have pointed to no additional signal to suggest they are coming."

As you may suspect, I conduct research for ~8 hours a day, and sometimes more, and I cannot save links to everything I see. During these dives into evidence of machinations I have come across authoritative statements of governments and financial institutions testing, and preparing to impose CBDCs. There are several today in the wild in China, the EU, and, as you point out, FedNow here in the US, and the WEF has hosted several speakers touting them. The reasons for increasing control of plebian financial power sought by authorities are pretty obvious. Controlling our ability to attain and deploy financial instruments enables them to attain to a cut of our production, and parasitism is the foundation of sybaritic wealth and power. It should also be obvious that, like income taxes starting at 1% of the income of the wealthy, the initial form of FedNow isn't how it will end.

However, as I eschew such financial products and seek economic increase via goodwill transactions, I have not saved such evidence (because it doesn't do more than increase my aversion to financial instruments), and cannot specifically detail it to you. I have kept my tongue firmly in my cheek above, yet you might (having substantial assets at risk) be inspired to do a dive into the web to ascertain whether there actually is such a threat to your assets and what specifically is dangerous. The basal principle of investing is increasing personal wealth and felicity, so, unable to avail you of specific details regarding financial instruments, I repeatedly counsel securing assets from every potential vector of attack, which I hope you understand I could not completely detail even if that was my sole purpose in life because there are so many of them.

I am sure it is obvious to you that people want to take your money, and hearing of a potential threat, you are implored to undertake such due diligence as you see fit to ascertain threats to the security of your assets. I am grateful to you for your help in the past by which you demonstrated impeccable integrity, and I want you to prosper to the limits of your ability. I have serially lost all of my wealth, but suspect this is a personal lack of competence rather than proof financial wealth is impossible for good people to keep, so have generally described how Citi used the courts as means of stealing my property so that you won't trust lenders. I doubt I need to even mention divorce as a means of being robbed, but there, I just did. Probate is another vector for blatant theft, but that is easily avoided through selling assets to heirs, which farmers have long employed. I have had to learn such things by experience, which means I had to start over from scratch each time I learned because I didn't diligently research these threats before they took everything I owned from me.

You can only be betrayed by those you trust.

Number go up isn't useful to you if your assets fall into the ravening maw of theft by fraud, and CBDCs aren't imaginary. I am only capable of such general hints as I provided above, and urging you to keep what you have by your understanding gained through your due diligence. While CBDCs clearly are utterly undesirable to we plebs, so is fiat, fractional reserve banking, inflation, and much more that undeniably has been imposed on us. Honestly, if you keep your wealth in crates of ammunition, barrels of kerosene, and a compound surrounded by a concrete wall topped with broken glass, CBDCs won't be a threat, but since you have your assets in crypto, you should follow the leads I provide above and consider whether evil overlords are actually intending to force CBDCs on you.

My research suggests they are.