Elon Musk is pushing X nearer to changing into an ‘all the things app,’ with X CEO Linda Yaccarino asserting Tuesday that the platform will quickly help in-app investing and buying and selling.
Yaccarino mentioned customers will be capable to purchase and commerce on the social media platform, in response to a report by the Monetary Instances. She additionally mentioned the corporate is exploring an X-branded debit card, though she made no point out of crypto, a Musk ardour.
“You’ll be capable to come to X and be capable to transact your complete monetary life on the platform,” Yaccarino mentioned.“And that’s whether or not I pays you for the pizza that we shared final evening, or make an funding, or a commerce. In order that’s the longer term.”
In Might, Musk confirmed that X Cash was on the horizon with a “very restricted entry beta.”
The transfer continues Musk’s ambition to create an app that mixes social interactions with monetary companies.
Past buying and selling, X will roll out its long-awaited peer-to-peer cost system, X Cash, that Musk revealed in January. Musk is a longtime cheerleader for Dogecoin, however Yaccarino’s announcement didn’t point out the unique memecoin or some other cryptocurrency.
X Corp didn’t instantly reply to Decrypt’s request for remark.
Elon Musk first publicly talked about Dogecoin on Twitter on April 2, 2019, calling it his favourite cryptocurrency, and saying, “It’s fairly cool.”
Dogecoin could be my fav cryptocurrency. It’s fairly cool.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 2, 2019
Since then, Musk has championed the cryptocurrency, going as far as to vary his Twitter bio to “Dogecoin CEO” and calling himself the “Dogefather,” forward of his high-profile look on Saturday Evening Dwell.
Musk has continued to help Dogecoin. After Musk turned a major supporter of Donald Trump in 2024, Musk went on to go the U.S. Division of Authorities Effectivity, aka DOGE. The value of Dogecoin elevated 12% after Musk talked about the brand new company on X.
In 1999, Musk co-founded X.com, a cost platform that will later evolve into PayPal in 2021. X.com would finally develop into the title of Twitter after Musk bought the social media platform in 2022.
Edited by James Rubin
