A large number of X users with X Money turned on are waking up to unsolicited cash in their accounts, sometimes into the thousands and tens of thousands, thanks to a viral new trend on the platform.This isn’t part of X or its recently launched content rewards program. It’s crypto made accessible to everyone through a project called UsePaid.Paid is officially livePair a https://t.co/9NgfbQ1Zdg token to any X handle. Creator fees get paid to that account in dollars through X MoneyWere rebuilding token fee sharing from first principles, so anyone on X can back a project and earn from it pic.twitter.com/9dt4wCp0b2— Paid (@UsePaid) September 15, 2026Polymarket had a viral tweet early Saturday morning that said, “BREAKING: users are reporting being ‘financially DDOS’d’ with tens of thousands of dollars being sent to them unsolicited via money.”BREAKING: users are reporting being “financially DDOS’d” with tens of thousands of dollars being sent to them unsolicited via money.— Polymarket (@Polymarket) September 26, 2026That post has more than two million views, 750-plus quotes, and a reply section full of people begging to be targeted with the free money.I personally quoted that post and joked that someone should financially DDoS me so I could get a friend for one of my animals.Pls financially ddos me so I can get oliver a friend lol https://t.co/CUJpWpUbkP— Cassandra MacDonald (@CassandraRules) September 26, 2026Not long after, it happened.A user named @WhaletraderX responded, “you’ve been DDOSed,” and tagged it “America Only,” referencing my X bio.DpzZTX4UgqbX5hC4V5xVRzLiuzfeD52aCqsNfL7tpumpyouve been DDOSedAmerica Only— Whale (@WhaletraderX) September 26, 2026Replies started rolling in, and my estimated payout climbed.Well, this has already started. pic.twitter.com/WzjdbbUPbw— AAAMEMEDEV (@AAAMEMEDEV) September 26, 2026It is now at nearly $500.The project, UsePaid, is a Solana crypto coin launch tool that routes meme-coin creator fees to an X handle in regular US dollars, so recipients don’t need to sign up, have a crypto wallet, or convert any earnings. It is simply sent to them.“Direct token fees to X users through X Money. Pair any pump fun token to a handle to start sending them fiat,” the account’s bio explains.Can someone smarter than me tell me what is going on with the @UsePaid thing?https://t.co/WqPJGIrh54 pic.twitter.com/reBEZN7Ffd— Battle Beagle (@HarmlessYardDog) September 26, 2026The whole thing seems too good to be true, and the excited posts from recipients have left many wondering if people are hacked, but they aren’t, and it’s real.Only on @UsePaid and @fomo pic.twitter.com/drOitawuus— ALX (@alx) September 26, 2026Alex Lorusso, known on social media as @alx, has had his token really take off.“People launch coins and redirect fees generated when people buy them. Usually people have to claim fees on platforms like pumpfun, this launchpad allows fees to be redirected to users and paid out in Money directly, which is new. When I first saw it, I thought it was fake until it actually paid out,” he wrote of the phenomenon.Not sure how much you know about memecoins so I’ll put it as simply as I can as I understand it.People launch coins and redirect fees generated when people buy them. Usually people have to claim fees on platforms like pumpfun, this launchpad allows fees to be redirected to …— ALX (@alx) September 18, 2026Lorusso told The Gateway Pundit, “It’s real, yes. The payouts come through every 24 hours roughly (but there are rate limits with XMoney so sometimes these are delayed in times of high volume).”“It took off because people aren’t used to seeing ‘free money’ being sent to people on the internet and naturally this leads people to think it’s a scam. There was a similar concept ‘bags.fm’ last year but those required users to manually accept the fees. This is the first to utilize XMoney, which goes through automatically,” he continued.“I think the coolest part about it is that it’s onboarding large audiences that aren’t native to crypto and causing them to want to learn about it,” he added.Asked whether the money bomb has staying power, he said, “I think the best chance at longevity is more cases like this with people doing something meaningful with the fees so people have a reason to keep supporting,” and pointed to an account called Beff Jezos.That user posted Friday night that he was getting “DDOSd with money” on X Money and didn’t know what was happening.Over $30,000 had been deposited in his account.Genuinely wtf is going on pic.twitter.com/QzygZKVzjL— Beff (e/acc) (@beffjezos) September 25, 2026A few hours later, he said he would put the donations into a real e/acc think tank nonprofit.Ok, going to use the proceeds from donations to start a legit e/acc think tank non-profit.Thank you to everyone contributing! Didn’t expect this. https://t.co/7KIFKf53nh— Beff (e/acc) (@beffjezos) September 26, 2026The @UsePaid X account has been posting its deposit receipts.On Saturday alone, UsePaid announced X Money sent $6,282.95 to @joerogan, $6,777.68 to @unicef, $6,638.55 to @mayemusk, $10,507.51 to @ericbolling, and $5,756.62 to @stevewilldoit. BlockBeats reported Saturday that Paid said it had already pushed about $1.44 million to X Money users through the fee splitter, and that the PAID token’s market cap ripped past $40 million, then $50 million.According to a Bitrue explainer:UsePaid routes token creator fees to designated X accounts through X Money.Each eligible fee claim follows an 80/20 split: 80% goes to the recipient and 20% buys and burns $PAID.PAID is a Solana token, but its buyback mechanism does not guarantee any particular price or return.When UsePaid claims a token’s creator fees, about 80 percent goes to the named X account in dollars. About 20 percent buys the project’s own token and burns it, or, in some descriptions, converts to SOL for a repurchase.Bags.fm attempted a similar model last year. Creators on that Solana launchpad can earn royalties on trades and point the token fees at social handles.The problem, as Lorusso explained, is that people had to accept and understand crypto.X Money has made it simple. Once the handle is in the token text, dollars are sent.ton of people getting paid 4 figures through X moneybut how does @UsePaid work?with usepaid, you can forward creator fees from a token to any X accountbig difference vs bags: the recipient does not need to acknowledge the token to get the moneyalso, there’s no crypto… pic.twitter.com/LkaKNgDdfW— fabiano.sol (@FabianoSolana) September 26, 2026That is how celebrities, charities, Elon Musk’s mother, and a Gateway Pundit editor all got hit with a “financial DDOS” in the same 24 hours.$2M in creator fees claimed through @UsePaid.Fees are automatically paid out to X accounts in dollars through @XMoney.The future of token fee sharing is here. pic.twitter.com/DNI6OJGQqM— Paid (@UsePaid) September 24, 2026UsePaid announced Friday that it had paid out over two million dollars to X accounts.In a post on X, UsePaid wrote:All of these are from our ledger as of 7:40 PM EST today, September 23. The same figures are on usepaid.app, updated every few seconds.Creator fees generated: $2.0M, from 183,903 on chain claims. 17,413 SOL claimed in total.Paid out to X handles: $1.08M in 1,011 payments to 553 people and organizations. The median payment was $154. 182 payments were $1,000 or more, and 16 were $10,000 or more. The largest single payment was $79,839 to @elonmusk on day three.Tokens: 17,997 launched, naming 3,720 different X handles. On the busiest day, September 17, 4,606 tokens launched, $512,000 in fees came in, and 214 payments went out.$PAID: $393,000 of protocol fees has been spent buying back $PAID, and every one of those 254 buys was burned, 26.6 million $PAID in total. Each buy and burn is listed on the analytics page with its Solscan link.The tokens are still meme coins. They can go to zero, or they can explode.For now, many people on X are waking up to some exciting news.The Gateway Pundit has reached out to UsePaid for comment. 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