Elon Musks’s X teases crypto-aware ‘smart cashtags’ just day after community backlash
Elon Musk’s social media platform X is developing a new feature designed to make financial and crypto-related discussions more precise on the platform, according to a post by its head of product that appeared a day after backlash from parts of the crypto community.
In a post on X on Sunday, Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, announced that the platform is developing “Smart Cashtags,” a feature that will enable users to specify the exact asset or smart contract they are referring to when posting a ticker. Bier said users will be able to tap those tags directly from their timeline to view real-time price data and all related mentions of that asset.
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