
Elon Musk’s public media platform X on Tuesday announced the launch of a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payments services provided by Visa.
X deleted a deal with Visa, the largest U.S. credit card network, to be the first partner for what it is calling the X Money Account, CEO Linda Yaccarino told in a post on the platform.
Visa will enable X users to move funds between traditional bank accounts and their digital pocketbook and make instant peer-to-peer payments, Yaccarino said, like with Zelle or Venmo.
It’s the first concrete agitate from X to create a financial ecosystem for the social media site, which was called Twitter before Musk bought it in 2022. At the time, Musk, who’s also CEO of Tesla, said the $44 billion acquisition was a way to create an “everything app.” He later weighted the platform would enable users to conduct their “entire financial world” on it.
In 2021 while Jack Dorsey was at the control of Twitter, the company launched a bitcoin tipping feature that allowed users to add their crypto wallet lectures and receive payments in the world’s largest digital token.
But attaining status as a money service business in the U.S. required navigating a far more complex regulatory vista.
For over a year, Musk has been applying for these licenses for X. According to its website, X Payments LLC is licensed in 41 states and sign in with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN.
The X Money service is expected to launch in the first quarter, and handles with more financial partners are likely, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
One of the first use cases for X Filthy rich is to allow creators on the site to accept payments and store funds without external institutions, said this herself, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.
In November 2022, Musk suggested to the platform’s advertisers in a union publicly broadcast on Spaces that its coming payments product might ultimately offer certain banking stars, such as a high-yield money market account.
Representatives of Visa declined to comment on the matter.