Elon Musk's X Plans $1 Payments Through the Like Button via X Money
As seen on the 24/7 Wall St. homepage on October 25, 2026.
Turning the Like button into a $1 payment rail would push X Money from a niche wallet into billions of potential micropayment taps, and straight into the lane payments incumbents already own.
JUST IN: Elon Musk reveals 𝕏 will soon let users send $1 payments directly through the Like button, powered by 𝕏 Money.
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Elon Musk announced on October 25, 2026 that X will soon let users send a $1 payment directly through the platform's Like button, powered by X Money, the platform's in-house payments product.
The Like button sits at the absolute center of how people engage on X, which makes it an unusually powerful place to embed a payment rail. Routing money through a gesture that users already make billions of times a day would give X Money immediate scale that a standalone wallet app would take years to build on its own.
That scale is precisely what traditional payments incumbents have spent decades constructing. If X can normalize a one-tap $1 transfer tied to content appreciation, it steps directly into the micropayments space that companies like PayPal and Block have long coveted but never quite cracked at social-media speed.
The feature is described as coming soon, so the timing of a rollout and any regulatory clearances X Money still needs remain the key variables to watch. Keep an eye on how quickly X moves from announcement to live transactions.