Nikita Bier, who ran product at X for 13 months until Aug. 5 and now advises the company, said trade buttons are coming to the crypto charts embedded in X posts. He gave no timeline.

The claim has no corporate backing. X’s public record on crypto products — the Cashtags launch, its roadmap, its scope and its only volume figure — sits entirely on Bier’s personal account. There is no post from @X or @XMoney about Cashtags, no help-center page for it, and nothing about crypto or trading on X Money’s product site.

Bier made the remark at 03:15 UTC on Tuesday, replying to a user who joked that a bull market could start because Bier was “no longer shadow banning CT.” His reply: “I literally built Cashtags, allowing people to add Solana and Ethereum charts directly into posts—with trade buttons coming soon. You can even paste contract addresses for newly minted tokens. There wasn’t a single feature on X for crypto traders until I joined.” The post has drawn more than 225,000 views.

Execution Or Just Links

Bier has said something close to this before and then narrowed it. On Feb. 14, while still head of product, he wrote that X was “launching a number of features in a couple weeks, including Smart Cashtags that will enable you to trade stocks and crypto directly from timeline.” Nine hours later he corrected himself: “This is wrong. X is not handling trade execution or acting as a brokerage. Just building the financial data tools and links.”

A button that hands the order to an outside broker is consistent with that correction. A button that fills the order on X is not, and no one at the company has said which one is being built.

Bier announced his departure on Aug. 5, saying he would “demote myself to my natural state: a poster” and continue as an advisor. He named three leads to take over product areas — Benji Taylor on design, @singhai on core product engineering and Jonah Katz on mobile engineering — and no single successor. None of them has said anything publicly about crypto trading. His bio now reads “ex-head of product @x.”

Wealthsimple Takes The Order

What shipped in April is a deep link. Bier launched Cashtags on April 14 in the US and Canada on iPhone: post or search a ticker or contract address, and X suggests the matching stock or token; tap it and you get a price chart plus related posts without leaving the app. The Defiant covered the rollout and the $1 billion volume estimate Bier posted three days later, a self-reported figure with no disclosed methodology.

Wealthsimple, the Canadian brokerage on the other end, has described the mechanism plainly. “Any ticker tapped on @X routes Canadian investors straight to Wealthsimple to trade,” the firm posted on launch day. A week later it told a user: “All trading happens on Wealthsimple’s platform, and no client data is shared with X.”

Which Chains, Unclear

X has published nothing on which networks Cashtags covers, and the accounts of everyone else involved disagree. Bier’s Tuesday post says “Solana and Ethereum.” The @solana account said on April 19 that “@x debuted Cashtags with Solana tokens powered by @saydialect, @helius, @JupiterExchange, and @birdeye_data,” and repeated the Solana-only framing in an April ecosystem roundup. At launch The Defiant reported contract-address support on Solana and Base. Of the four named data providers, Birdeye covers Ethereum and several other EVM chains alongside Solana.

X Money Without Crypto

X Money began rolling out to US Premium and Premium+ subscribers on July 27. Its product page lists up to 6.00% APY, 3% cashback, a Visa card, FDIC coverage up to $10 million through a cash sweep program, and banking services provided by Cross River. The words crypto, bitcoin, trade, trading, stock, brokerage and cashtag appear nowhere on it.

The contrast with X’s prediction-market push is direct. When X made Polymarket its official prediction market partner in June 2025, the announcement came from the @X account itself. Cashtags never got one.

Bull Call, Market Down

Bier closed Tuesday’s post with a market call: “The bull market is starting because the Treasury announced it’s buying back bonds and debasing the dollar.”

Total crypto market cap fell 3.2% over the following 24 hours to $2.68 trillion, according to CoinGecko. Bitcoin traded at $79,503 as of 16:01 UTC, up 0.3%, with ether down 0.3% at $2,483. Solana was up 1.8% at $98.44.