Lately I've met people who genuinely believe Donald Trump is some kind of modern Jesus and Elon Musk was one of his apostles. They also insist the conservative–liberal divide is a holy war. If nothing else, it confirms America is deep in a surreal moment.
Meanwhile, Musk is busy building something real.
X's long-promised financial layer is finally materializing. The company has begun hiring a senior engineering lead to build a payments platform "from the ground up," signaling that X Money is no longer theoretical. If successful, it will touch more than 600 million monthly users.
And naturally the question emerges: what money will power X?
Spoiler: it probably won't be Bitcoin.
Yes, Musk still loves BTC, but he made no mention of it. Instead, the job spec strongly suggests he wants a proprietary payments engine capable of competing with, or outright replacing, legacy rails.
Crypto projects clearly smell opportunity. Solana, never shy, openly pitched itself as Musk's future partner.
"This is your chance to shape how hundreds of millions access financial services." - Solana
Why Everyone Is Asking: What Is the Elon Musk Crypto?
Solana's interest is not subtle. The ecosystem blasted X's hiring announcement to its millions of followers, and the timing matters: Solana advisor Nikita Bier joined X this year as head of product.
The job listing never explicitly mentions blockchain, yet its references to greenfield design and distributed systems match exactly what you would look for if stablecoins or digital asset rails were intended under the hood.
This all follows X's January announcement naming Visa as its first wallet partner. CNBC reported a Q1 rollout for X Money, yet the company is only now hiring the engineer responsible for building its core. That signals a delayed but committed push.
Musk keeps adding philosophical breadcrumbs. Asked about the future of money, he said traditional currencies may eventually become "irrelevant," arguing that the true basis of value is energy.
• "Governments can print money, but you can't print energy." – Elon Musk
What Comes Next for X Money?
If X Money launches as a true super-app, the economics shift instantly. A platform of this scale can consolidate functions that currently sit across dozens of fragmented fintech services:
• Wallet balances
• Peer-to-peer payments
• Merchant transactions
• Digital asset rails
• Creator monetization
• Banking-adjacent utilities
The open question is how much crypto integration Musk allows at launch. History suggests he will experiment. His rhetoric suggests he will disrupt. And if we were Polymarket betting men — and we are — we'd say at least some form of crypto rails is inevitable.
Bullish.
