X crypto trading feature adds buy button after Cashtags’ $1B debut
X is preparing to let users buy and sell cryptocurrency without ever leaving their timeline, a move that would turn the social platform into something closer to a trading terminal. The X crypto trading feature was teased by former X head of product Nikita Bier, who said on the 25th, local time, that a buy button is coming to follow up on the platform’s existing “Cashtags” tool. If it launches as described, users could go from spotting a token in a post to owning it in a single tap.
Key takeaways
- Nikita Bier announced that X will add a buy button for direct crypto trading on the timeline, building on the Cashtags feature he created.
- Cashtags already displays real-time Solana (SOL) and Ethereum (ETH) price charts inside posts, and generated roughly $1 billion in trading volume within 48 hours after its April debut for iPhone users in the US and Canada.
- Contract address verification is designed to help traders confirm they are buying the real token rather than a scam copy.
- No official launch date has been set, and Bier’s recent exit from his product-chief role leaves the rollout in the hands of his successor.
- Bitcoin was trading near $80,643, con un incremento del 4.25% nella giornata e del 24.5% nell’ultimo mese, a rally Bier attributed to US Treasury bond purchases rather than to X’s own features.
X Introduces Buy Button for Direct Crypto Trading
The plan is simple on paper: put a trading button directly inside the timeline so users can act on a token the moment they see it discussed. Bier revealed the plan while responding to a user who joked that a bull market might be starting simply because he had stopped shadowbanning “Crypto Twitter,” the informal term for X’s crypto-focused community. Shadowbanning refers to quietly limiting a post’s visibility without telling the account holder.
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