Elon Musk is open to raising X creator fees with strict anti-abuse protections.

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Elon Musk expressed support for higher developer fees at X, stressing the importance of protections against abuse. The comment comes after comments that X should pay more than YouTube to secure more original content.

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Elon Musk supports X creator's idea of ​​increasing payments, insisting that fairness should be respected. His statement comes in response to suggestions that the popular platform should pay creators more than YouTube to pull original content.

OK, let's do it, but we won't strictly enforce any gaming of the system @nikitabier.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 30, 2025

X works as a social media platform with creative monetization tools. The platform is moving into ‘everything app' and is actively developing features to support in-app financial transactions and native marketing.

X is developing X Money, a peer-to-peer payment system, in partnership with Visa. There is currently limited internal testing of the service, with a planned regional rollout expected soon.

While Musk has long-standing support for Bitcoin and Dogecoin, the new services currently lack crypto integrations. However, users assume that digital asset payments will follow as X builds its financial ecosystem.