Elon Musk’s X Money is recruiting a senior engineer to develop a new payments platform for the social media network formerly known as Twitter.
The position is for a technical lead to build a payments system “from the ground up,” designed for X’s more than 600 million monthly users.
The job listing emphasizes expertise in distributed systems, secure transactions, and high-availability architectures. Experience with greenfield product development is considered a bonus, suggesting that X Money intends to create a proprietary system rather than rely heavily on third-party providers.
The Solana ecosystem has expressed interest in the recruitment.
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— Solana (@solana) December 2, 2025
X is hiring a technical lead for X Money, based in Palo Alto.
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Solana involvement and previous announcements
Solana advisor Nikita Bier, who joined X as head of product in June, provides an existing link between the platform and the blockchain community. While the current listing does not reference cryptocurrency, Solana’s involvement may influence future integration.
X Money’s launch was first mentioned in January when then-CEO Linda Yaccarino announced a partnership with Visa. This partnership was intended to enable wallet funding, bank transfers, and peer-to-peer payments.
The platform was initially expected to launch within the first quarter of 2025.
The current job posting indicates that development may take longer than originally planned. Although the new role does not mention crypto directly, Musk has previously indicated that digital assets could play a role in X’s services. SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci suggested the platform might support either a stablecoin or a proprietary digital currency.
"I do think that you will see X-XL whatever you want to call that conglomeration, he's going to build a super app there and I think he's going to be using crypto," Scaramucci said.
The technical requirements, scalable, secure, distributed systems that would allow X Money to accommodate digital assets or tokenized payments in the future if needed.
Vision of money and value
Elon Musk has repeatedly suggested that traditional currency may lose relevance in a world of technological abundance. In a recent discussion, he framed energy, not fiat, as the ultimate measure of value, highlighting Bitcoin’s proof-of-work model as a rare digital asset grounded in physical effort.
While X Money itself is focused on practical payments today, Musk’s long-term perspective underscores the rationale for building a platform that could integrate digital assets, peer-to-peer transfers, and new forms of value representation.
In this view, wallets and payment infrastructure are more than convenience tools: they are a stepping stone toward a financial ecosystem aligned with his broader thinking on digital scarcity, energy, and the future of economic systems.
Gunel Ismayilova
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