Elon Musk’s X is rising its pushing to put up the social media platform in an “all app,” the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
The platform, formerly known as Twitter, will “allow” users to make investments or trade on the platform, CEO Linda Yacarino told the newspaper in an interview At the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival.
“As soon as you can live your whole financial life on the platform,” Yacarino said in a panel look at the same eventList of peer-to-peer payments (P2P), storage amount, payment of creators or watching pay-per-view events (PPV) as examples.
X Partnered with Visa to generate “x money” Earlier this year as a digital wallet and P2P-paying service. It forms a part of Musk’s ambition to make X a super app, similar to Chinese Wechat, which offers many retail and financial services as well as messaging.
Elon Musk has been closely related to cryptocurrency for many years, because of his love of Memecoin Doge and the 11,500 BTC ($ 1.2 billion) that Holds his electric-car manufacturer Tesla.
As such, crypto observers will think that any Musk plans are for X to provide financial services will involve cryptocurrency in some form.
X did not respond immediately to CoinDesk’s request for comment.
