The Solana-based protocol UsePaid has halted automated transfers and now requires users to claim their funds manually in $SOL. This transition follows a surge in creator fee activity where $1.54 million flowed into the system within 24 hours, a 26 fold increase over the previous day. The change comes after X cut off the service's access to the X Money financial infrastructure.

UsePaid allows creators of Solana meme coins to direct trading fees to specific X handles, a mechanism that distributed nearly $1.5 million before X blocked the tool for spam. Some recipients received unsolicited transfers of tens of thousands of dollars, which they described as a "financial DDoS," including one who used $100,000 to launch the Kardashev Research think tank. The $PAID token, associated with the protocol, crashed after a weekend rally of 500%.