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By Evie Vavasseur
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From Beta Tests to 40-State Licenses. Musk said in May 2025 that X Money had kicked off limited beta testing.
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What Cross River Actually Brings. Cross River isn't a household name to most consumers, but in fintech infrastructure it's pretty…
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The Everything App, Still Under Construction. Musk has been talking about the "everything app" since the Twitter acquisition.
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Cross River Bank is powering X Money. The fintech lender is providing the core banking infrastructure behind Elon Musk's push to turn X into a full-blown financial platform —…
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The deal puts Cross River at the center of one of the more ambitious bets in consumer finance right now.
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Musk said in May 2025 that X Money had kicked off limited beta testing. He was careful about it — his words leaned heavily on the need to handle user money cautiously, which is…
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The regulatory groundwork took years. X has now secured money transmitter licenses in over 40 U.S. states and registered with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
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Cross River's platform can technically support lending and cryptocurrency services too. But the announcement didn't commit to any near-term crypto or stablecoin rollout.
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The interest-bearing accounts are part of the package too. That's not a throwaway detail. If X can offer a competitive yield on deposits sitting in the app, it gives users a…
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And the Visa debit card matters for the same reason. It's the bridge between X's digital wallet and the physical world.
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Musk has been talking about the "everything app" since the Twitter acquisition. It's been kind of a running joke in some corners of tech — the timeline kept slipping, the vision…
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What's still murky is the full launch timeline. The announcement didn't give one. No date, no specific rollout target.
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The crypto question also hangs out there. Cross River's platform can handle it. X has crypto-friendly ownership at the top.
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