Crypto: Star Trek’s Captain Kirk Shows Off X Money As Limited Beta Goes Live

Screenshots shared by movie star William Shatner offered some hints into how Elon Musk's X Money would work.

Elon Musk’s new payment app X Money has rolled out limited external beta testing this week, with early screenshots showing that users would be entitled to cashbacks and yield on deposits.

One of the beta testers included Hollywood actor William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk in the original Star Trek series, and was invited to participate in the beta.

Several screenshots shared by Shatner show that X Money users will be able to earn cashback on certain card purchases and earn 6% annual percentage yield on deposits.

Another screenshot shows that deposits are held by Cross River Bank, a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and are insured up to $250,000 per person.

On Feb. 11, Musk said X Money would go to external beta before launching to X users worldwide. It had been in closed beta testing since at least May 2025.

The integration of crypto payments into X Money remains a mystery, however.

X Money is part of Musk’s broader vision to make X an everything app, from payments and private messaging to AI chatbot services through Grok, creator content, identity and more.

“This is intended to be the place where all money is. The central source of all monetary transactions,” Musk said in February, calling it a “game changer.”

Shatner has since used the $42 sent to him by Musk to raise money for charity. With the permission of X, Shatner auctioned out 42 X Money beta invites for $1,000 each.

Source: CoinTelegraph