{"id":59107,"date":"2026-01-12T10:13:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/x-to-roll-out-smart-cashtags-for-crypto-stocks-next-month\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:13:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:13:44","slug":"x-to-roll-out-smart-cashtags-for-crypto-stocks-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/x-to-roll-out-smart-cashtags-for-crypto-stocks-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"X to roll out \u2018Smart Cashtags\u2019 for crypto, stocks next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"html-renderer-container\">\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s social media platform is building a \u201cSmart Cashtags\u201d feature for release next month, giving users access to real-time price movements of cryptocurrencies and stocks. <\/p>\n<p>One of the concept screenshots has also teased a highly-anticipated in-app trading feature.<\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">In a post to X on Sunday, head of product Nikita Bier <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nikitabier\/status\/2010277345651990564\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> users would be able to access smart contract information linked to crypto tokens, while all assets would have \u201cmentions\u201d showing recent discussion about the asset and news related to the companies and teams behind them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cX is the best source for financial news \u2014 and hundreds of billions of dollars are deployed based on things people read here,\u201d Bier said, adding that X is aiming to collect feedback before publicly releasing the feature in February.<\/p>\n<figure>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2026-01\/019baf93-3e32-7637-b73a-9d256e30b2e1.jpg\" title><figcaption><em>Display of X\u2019s planned Smart Cashtags feature. Source: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nikitabier\/status\/2010277345651990564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nikitabier\/status\/2010277345651990564\"><em>Nikita Bier<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Incorporating finance into X has been part of Elon Musk\u2019s vision to turn the social media platform into an Everything App since his acquisition in October 2022.<\/p>\n<h2>X\u2019s second attempt at a Cashtags feature<\/h2>\n<p>X <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/twitter-quietly-adds-btc-and-eth-price-indexes-to-search-function\">introduced a Cashtags feature<\/a> in December 2022 that showed the price charts of Bitcoin (<a href=\"http:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/bitcoin-price\">BTC<\/a>) and Ether (<a href=\"http:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/ethereum-price\">ETH<\/a>), as well as top stocks and exchange-traded funds. However, that feature was later removed.<\/p>\n<p>Those charts were sourced from TradingView and included a \u201cView on Robinhood\u201d link.<\/p>\n<p>The planned \u201cSmart Cashtags\u201d appear to add more functionality, with one concept photo showing \u201cBuy\u201d and \u201cSell\u201d buttons; however, there is no information on how this feature would work or when it would roll out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><template data-ct-widget=\"buzzsprout\" data-buzzsprout-podcast-id=\"2040516\" data-buzzsprout-episode-id=\"18304599\"><\/template><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, X has secured <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/x-payments-details-released-app-become-bank-account\">money transmitter licenses<\/a> in at least 25 US states, but it isn\u2019t clear how close the social media platform is to enabling payments, including <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/dogecoin-jumps-after-elon-musk-shares-glimpse-into-twitter-2-0-plans\">crypto-based payments.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cointelegraph reached out to X for comment, but didn\u2019t receive an immediate response.<\/p>\n<h2>Rumors that X is silencing crypto content<\/h2>\n<p>It comes about a day after the crypto community <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/cryptoquant-founder-slams-x-over-bot-spam-and-crypto-suppression\">accused the social media platform<\/a> of suppressing legitimate crypto content while allowing a flood of spam to dominate feeds.<\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\"><em><strong>Related: <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/bitcoin-elon-musk-adoption-jan3-samson-mow\"><em><strong>Samson Mow tips Elon Musk will \u2018go hard\u2019 into Bitcoin in 2026<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">Bier responded to the backlash in a now-deleted X post, calling the criticisms a myth.<\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/2010062264976736482\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> that his team plans to make X\u2019s recommendation algorithm open-source within the next week.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Magazine: <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/crypto-market-bear-phase-youtube-views-influencers-carl-moon-runefelt-cointelegraph\/\"><em><strong>One metric shows crypto is now in a bear market: Carl \u2018The Moon\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"markets_outlook\" label=\"Subscription Form: Markets Outlook\"><\/template><\/div>\n<p>Cointelegraph is committed to independent, transparent journalism. This news article is produced in accordance with Cointelegraph\u2019s Editorial Policy and aims to provide accurate and timely information. Readers are encouraged to verify information independently. Read our Editorial Policy <a href=\"http:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/editorial-policy\">https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/editorial-policy<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s social media platform is building a \u201cSmart Cashtags\u201d feature for release next month, giving users access to real-time [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":59114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tien-dien-tu"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}