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# X will launch “Smart Tickers” with cryptocurrency and stock prices

The X team is working on the Smart Cashtags feature. It will allow linking cryptocurrency and stock tickers in posts with real-time market data, said platform product lead Nikita Bier.

X is the best source for financial news — and hundreds of billions of dollars are deployed based on things people read here.

We are building Smart Cashtags that allow you to specify the exact asset (or smart contract) when posting a ticker. From Timeline, users will be able to… pic.twitter.com/nFtuA2ISqJ

— Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) January 11, 2026

“X — the best source of financial news: hundreds of billions of dollars are invested based on what people read here,” he wrote.

Clicking on a “smart cashtag” will open a page with quotes, a price chart, and a feed of posts mentioning the asset. In some cases, tokens will be identified by their smart contract address.

The feature launch is scheduled for February. According to Bier, the company is currently analyzing community feedback.

The top manager also hinted at the possible implementation of trading. It is expected that transactions can be made through connected non-custodial wallets or widgets of centralized exchanges.

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— Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) January 11, 2026

In June, former X CEO Linda Yakkarino announced the introduction of trading and investment tools in the app, but she left the company a month later.

Elon Musk has also repeatedly stated plans to turn the platform into a financial “super app,” including integrating cryptocurrencies.

At the end of 2023, the billionaire said that the company expects to obtain licenses to launch a payment service by mid-2024, but as of writing, the service has not yet launched.

Conflict

The announcement of Smart Cashtags came amid disputes that erupted in the community the day before. The reason was a deleted post by Bier, in which he criticized the behavior of crypto segment participants on X.

Nikita Bier deleted his tweet about how theres a ‘reach meter’

Absolutely comical.@nikitabier, why delete it, if it exists we should know about it no?

Isn’t this app entirely built around transparency, and THE TRUTH! pic.twitter.com/hTKDRS8sQ8

— Easy (@EasyEatsBodega) January 10, 2026

He wrote that the digital assets section of the social network “is killing itself.” The top manager refuted the popular fallacy from autumn that a large number of replies under posts helps boost the account. Bier called this theory a myth.

“Each of your posts consumes part of your daily audience reach. […] In the end, [crypto-X] spends all its reach on replies like “gm” hundreds of times, and when it finally posts something real, like a project announcement, only three people see it. [Crypto-X] is dying from self-destruction, not because of the algorithm,” he stated.

Users found the top manager’s words contradictory, as previously the X team encouraged active engagement to increase reach.

Critics believe that Bier’s proposed “attention economy” concept undermines the platform’s fundamentals. In their view, the main value of the social network lies precisely in participant interaction.

So Nikita Bier deleted his post about replies taking away from your “reach XP” because it was the most nonsensical thing an X team member could post and CT rightly roasted him for it.

Both grok and X have been posting completely conflicting recommendations about how to get the… pic.twitter.com/WqH2Na3k03

— meta (@akidcalledmeta) January 10, 2026

“The very concept that active commenting can reduce your own post reach, and that ‘attention resources’ need to be ‘saved,’ directly contradicts the platform’s fundamental principle as a social network,” commented a user under the pseudonym meta.

A similar opinion was expressed by analyst under the nickname KALEO. He believes that limiting reply frequency contradicts the very essence of X. The prospect of introducing such limits already causes concern among users.

“Imagine if streamers were limited in how many times they could reply in their chat,” the expert drew an analogy.

Against the backdrop of the conflict, members of the crypto community created a new meme — “Nikita Boar,” shared by Bier himself.

Who made this? pic.twitter.com/M9qJ0wyQSn

— Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) January 11, 2026

Decentralized exchanges have already flooded the relevant meme coins. As of now, the market cap of the largest one under the ticker BOAR exceeds $318 million.

Source: GeckoTerminal Remember, in November, X added a geolocation feature. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin called it “risky.”