X (formerly Twitter) plans to add in-timeline trading for cryptocurrencies and stocks, according to comments from the platform’s head of product.

### What’s being introduced

- **‘Smart Cashtags’**: interactive ticker symbols in posts that users can tap to view details and **execute trades inside X**.

- A wider rollout of **X Money**, the company’s payments product currently in internal testing, with an external beta planned.

### Why it matters for crypto

If X successfully integrates payments and trading, it would bring crypto activity (quotes, discovery, execution) into one of the world’s largest real-time discussion platforms—potentially boosting retail participation and changing how exchanges and brokers compete for order flow.

### Context

Elon Musk’s companies have previously held bitcoin on their balance sheets and have supported crypto-adjacent initiatives like dogecoin payments for merchandise.

**What to watch next:** product launch timing, the partners providing brokerage/crypto execution, and any regulatory structure (licensing, custody, KYC/AML) that will underpin the feature in different jurisdictions.