Restrict interactions while pushing new tools? X previews stock and crypto tag feature "Smart Cashtags"

Just one day after the social platform X (formerly Twitter) faced backlash from the “Crypto Twitter” community over plans to limit user interaction frequency, X Product Director Nikita Bier posted a preview announcing that the platform is developing a financial topic hashtag feature called “Smart Cashtags,” which can automatically identify specific assets, including cryptocurrencies and smart contracts, making asset tags and information links more precise and real-time.
In his latest post, Nikita Bier pointed out that “Smart Cashtags” will address the current chaos in tagging. When users input stock or cryptocurrency symbols, they will be able to clearly specify the involved assets or smart contracts. Readers can click on the tags in the post to view real-time price data and related discussions directly on the feed, without needing to navigate to another page.
Nikita Bier wrote: “X is one of the most important sources of financial information worldwide, with hundreds of billions of dollars in the market making decisions based on what people see here.”
He also added that the team is still collecting feedback, and if progress goes smoothly, there is a possibility of releasing it publicly as early as next month.
Solana Labs quickly reposted the news, highlighting its significant implications for the crypto community: in the future, users will be able to precisely tag Solana ecosystem tokens and view real-time prices, charts, and related discussions with a single click, seamlessly integrating community interaction and market information.

Preview image of the upcoming “Smart Cashtags” feature on X.

From the official interface screenshots, it can be seen that when users input the “$” symbol, the system will automatically pop up a list of assets for selection, including options like Bitcoin, BONK, and Base, implying that future posts will be directly linked to asset-specific pages, greatly improving information retrieval efficiency.
However, the timing of this positive news release coincides with a tense relationship between X and the crypto community. Just the day before, Nikita Bier posted (and later deleted) a message that some users interpreted as “X may limit the reply frequency of highly active users.” This caused a stir in the highly interactive and fast-paced crypto community, with users worried that it would stifle community-driven discussions and lead to a sharp decline in reach.

Screenshot of Nikita Bier’s deleted post.

Anonymous crypto analyst KALEO criticized that limiting reply counts not only damages the community ecosystem but is also as absurd as “telling streamers they can’t chat with viewers too often.”