Just found this article on cointelegraph it says according to BoJ's report they will begin the first of several testing phases for its own CBDC sometime in 2021. This will include the development of a test environment for the currency and experiments on its basement functions as a payment instrument.
It’s not a surprise for me, I was already expecting more countries to make this kind f report since China created their own CBDC. Maybe as time goes on we will be hearing from more countries on this same topic. But to be sincere I keep wondering why we need CBDC, are they going to allow international transactions like Bitcoin does,or they are going to be something that will only function within the country? Would like to know more on this thing, my country is not talking about it, but Bitcoin is legal here, so that’s what everyone is talking about.
The US has theirs but it's known to be the Libra.
That’s not that way in my understanding, Libra is a cryptocurrency that was being created by Facebook, but the government of the US didn’t allow them to continue with the work. But they have changed their plan, and Libra is going to be something different, and will now be like a wallet that will have different cryptocurrencies on it, including their own Libra. US have not said anything about creating CBDC.