Stablecoins join the payment conversation at X
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Thu, August 20, 2026 at 11:53 PM GMT+5:30
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Scott Melker breaks down Elon Musk’s X exploring stablecoin payments for creators, and what the move could mean for the future of payments on the platform
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00:00Speaker A
X is exploring stable coins to pay influencers and content providers. Conversations with X are ongoing according to a person who also works with other social media platforms testing stable coins to pay influencers
00:09Speaker A
Okay, so we’ve already seen this on YouTube. It’s not necessarily a big news, but the big news is that XMoney launched and there was no crypto in it, right?
00:16Speaker A
We know that Elon Musk likes Bitcoin, we know that Elon Musk loves Dogecoin, and we know that the future of payments is blockchain and stable coins, uh integrated with AI agents, which we’ll get into a bit more
00:30Speaker A
But if that was all true, why didn’t X money have anything to do with stable coins? Well, this is not X money
00:38Speaker A
but it would be people getting their creator payments all over the world in a much easier way cheap and it makes a lot of sense. So
00:53Speaker A
a lot of speculation as what this will mean for XMoney or the future of ways that X will integrate crypto assets
01:03Speaker A
We don’t really know, but to me it is a meaningful step to finally see crypto mentioned in the conversation of what Elon Musk and X will do with X money
