X’s Crypto Chaos: Will Twitter’s New Feature Turn Your Timeline into a Wallstreet Wipeout?

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According to X’s Head of Product, Nikita Bier, the soon‑to‑arrive Smart Cashtags feature will let folks trade crypto and stocks right from their feed. Because nothing says “I’m keeping my bank account envy in check” like a flashy ticker tickling your side of the screen.

Trade Crypto and Stocks While You Scroll

On February 14, Bier dropped the teaser: X is rolling out a suite of features in a couple of weeks. The star attraction? Smart Cashtags-think of it as your financial Alexa, but it can shout out the latest market gossip.

Earlier this year, Bier foreshadowed the launch, hinting at a future where you could actually buy your way out of the “I wish I had a better investment strategy” feeling. X’s original Cashtag system, introduced in 2022, let users tag stocks and crypto with a dollar sign and get a quick price splash. It was short-lived because no one was willing to pay for it-who would’ve thought?

The upgrade promises slick live charts, related X posts, and direct buying. It’s basically the $TICKER system getting a makeover that might-or might not-actually make your friend jokes about margins a touch less hurtful.

In a Saturday reply to a thread about third‑party crypto apps, Bier tackled the nitty‑gritty of spamming, raiding, and harassment. He said, in tidy corporate flavor, that encouraging chaos on the platform isn’t the artistic vision Musk has in mind.

Screenshot of X interface

I genuinely want crypto to proliferate on X, but applications that create incentives to spam, raid, and harass random users is not the way. It meaningfully degrades the experience for millions of people – only to enrich a few people.

Meanwhile, Christopher Park, director of X’s developer platform, announced that bots and scraping are going to be flagged, and that there will be no more engagement‑farming programs. “No more robots that play Pokémon Go with our users’ inboxes,” he said.

X’s Payment Beta Hits the Soil

Bier clarified that X isn’t going to execute trades or become a full‑blown brokerage. Rather, it will be the flashy data layer, letting you see prices and click into a third‑party’s checkout. It’s part of X’s grand “everything app” vision, because if you can’t have it all on one platform, you’re probably using something that thinks you need to download a new app every time you want to buy a coffee.

Enter X Money. Musk announced that peer‑to‑peer payments are ready for internal testing, and in a limited beta over the next two months. The goal? Make sending money as easy as that one awkward “What did you just say?” DM from a stranger.

X Money screenshot

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2026-02-15 16:21