Elon Musk has again pushed his “everything app” vision for X into the spotlight, telling users that a native payments layer, X Money, is now close to launch – and reigniting questions over whether Dogecoin, Bitcoin or crypto at large will be part of it.
On the payments side, X Money is no longer just a concept. The service has entered limited beta, offering peer-to-peer transfers, a digital wallet and bank or debit-card connections, with settlement handled through Visa Direct. X has secured dozens of US money-transmitter licences, though key jurisdictions such as New York remain pending, which continues to delay a full nationwide rollout.
So far, all official product descriptions put X Money firmly in the fiat camp at launch: a Venmo- or Cash App-style wallet inside X, backed by Visa, focused on traditional payment rails. Neither Musk nor X has committed publicly to integrating crypto in the first release.
The remark was read widely as a renewed endorsement of Bitcoin’s “hard money” properties after years of relative silence, and it aligns with Musk’s broader narrative that fiat currencies are structurally fragile.
That minimalist update was enough to ignite trading frenzies in DOGE-linked instruments. A DOGE-1 memecoin tied to the lunar mission surged roughly 300–350% in the days after the post, while derivatives volumes in Dogecoin itself spiked by orders of magnitude on some venues, even as spot price action remained more muted.
The pattern is familiar. For years, Dogecoin has traded as a high-beta bet on Musk’s product roadmap and memes. Double-digit intraday moves in DOGE following earlier Musk posts such as “One word: Doge” or his “people’s crypto” comments were common for years.
Crucially, however, there is still no explicit link between Dogecoin and X Money in any official communication. X’s payments documentation and third-party reporting consistently describe a product that launches as a fiat wallet and P2P system. The crypto layer – whether BTC, Dogecoin or stablecoins – remains in the realm of possibility rather than confirmation.
Musk has, if anything, narrowed the scope in one important respect. In response to waves of “X token” rumours, he has repeatedly insisted that none of his companies will issue a native coin, writing in late 2023 that “none of my companies will ever create a crypto token.” That means any eventual crypto support inside X Money would almost certainly rely on existing assets rather than a proprietary token.
Taken together, Musk’s recent posts sketch a clear but incomplete picture. On one side is a rapidly evolving infrastructure: encrypted messaging in Rust, a Visa-backed wallet, and money-transmitter licences across much of the US. On the other is an increasingly loud set of ideological and cultural signals: Bitcoin as an energy-anchored antidote to “fake fiat,” and Dogecoin as the meme-driven transactional asset most closely tied to Musk’s public persona.
At press time, Dogecoin traded at $0.16325.
