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X Turns Timelines Into Trading Terminals: Smart Cashtags, X Money and the Next Wave of Crypto Adoption
Elon Musk’s X platform is gearing up to let users trade cryptocurrencies and stocks directly from their timelines via “Smart Cashtags,” with the first rollout slated for the coming weeks and powered by a new payments layer called X Money. By fusing real‑time market data, social feeds, and an in‑app wallet backed by Visa, X is positioning itself as a WeChat‑style “everything app” that could significantly lower the friction for global crypto adoption.
X Trading & X Money Countdown: Elon Musk’s ‘Everything App’ Is About to Go Live
Years after Elon Musk promised to turn Twitter into an “everything app,” crypto and stock trading on X is finally moving from rumor to countdown: product lead Nikita Bier says Smart Cashtags with in‑feed trading will roll out “in a couple of weeks,” while X Money — the platform’s Visa‑backed wallet and payments rail — is shifting from internal to external beta with a limited public launch targeted within the next two months. For a platform boasting more than a billion users, that combination could turn timelines into trading terminals and make X one of the most powerful on‑ramps into Bitcoin, DOGE and other digital assets in 2026.
Dorsey's Disruption: Block Eliminates 4,000 Jobs as AI Reengineering Reshapes the Future of Fintech's Most Bitcoin-Native Company
Block Inc. has cut approximately 4,000 jobs — around one-third of its total workforce — with Jack Dorsey publicly attributing the decision to artificial intelligence's capacity to replace functions previously performed by human teams. The move is Block's largest workforce reduction in its history and the most explicit statement yet by a major fintech CEO that AI is not merely augmenting human workers but actively replacing them at scale. For an industry watching AI adoption with a mixture of ambition and anxiety, Dorsey just set the benchmark — and made it impossible to look away.