Overview
- On Tuesday, Aug. 25, product advisor Nikita Bier said X will add native buy and sell trade buttons to Smart Cashtags so users can place orders without leaving a post.
- The new buttons build on Cashtags, which already shows live price charts and lets users paste contract addresses to pull up token details inside posts.
- X confirmed it will not execute trades itself and will route transactions to third-party trading partners to complete orders.
- The initial rollout is expected to focus on iPhone users in the United States and Canada, and on-chain support will start with Solana and Ethereum while contract-address verification is added to cut scam risk.
- Cashtags produced strong early demand — reportedly about $1 billion in trading volume within 48 hours of its April debut — a sign that faster in-feed trading could change how users discover and buy tokens and raise questions about partner integrations and user protection.