X to Add Crypto Trade Buttons Soon, Nikita Bier Says

X is preparing to add trade buttons for crypto assets, moving the social platform closer to letting users go from discovering a token to trading it without leaving the app.

Nikita Bier said trade buttons are “coming soon” alongside X’s existing Cashtags infrastructure, which can display Solana and Ethereum charts inside posts and recognize contract addresses for newly launched tokens.

A launch date, supported token list and execution partner have not been disclosed.

Trade Buttons Build on X Cashtags

X began its latest finance push with Smart Cashtags in April, initially bringing real-time stock and crypto market data to iPhone users in the U.S. and Canada.

Cashtag pages combine an asset’s price chart with posts discussing the same stock or token. Users can also paste crypto contract addresses into X, giving the platform a way to distinguish between assets sharing similar tickers or names.

Trading was already part of the longer-term design. X paired the April rollout with a Wealthsimple pilot in Canada that placed a trading button on supported Cashtag pages, allowing users to move from market information into an order through the brokerage integration.

Bier said at the time that X wanted financial content to become directly actionable, describing the Wealthsimple integration as an early preview of a wider trading experience.

His latest trade-button update puts crypto directly into that roadmap.

X Moves From Market Data Toward Execution

The product direction has shifted quickly this year. In February, direct crypto trading was still outside the initial scope of X’s Smart Cashtag plans, which were initially built around discovery, market information and asset-specific conversations.

By April, X had added live charts and the Wealthsimple trading pilot. The next step would shorten a process that currently sends traders from an X post to a wallet, decentralized exchange or centralized trading platform to execute an order.

The structure of the crypto trade buttons will determine how far X actually moves into execution. A brokerage or exchange integration could keep custody and execution with a third party, while wallet-connected or onchain trading would require a different product and compliance structure.

X Money Adds Another Piece to Finance Push

The trading expansion is developing alongside X Money, which began rolling out to selected U.S. Premium+ users in June.

The early X Money product includes peer-to-peer payments and Visa-backed financial services, while a subsequent feature expansion added cash-management features including yield and expanded sweep coverage.

Crypto trading has not been tied directly to X Money’s payment infrastructure. Bier’s current update instead places the coming trade buttons alongside Cashtags, where X already surfaces Solana and Ethereum charts and token contract addresses inside the social feed.

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