Elon Musk's social media platform X has added a new "trade" button to its feed, allowing users to tap ticker symbols known as cashtags, such as bitcoin or Tesla, to instantly view real-time charts and begin a trade, the latest step in Musk's broader effort to transform X into a comprehensive "everything app."

The feature links users directly to a range of partner brokerage platforms, including Interactive Brokers, Moomoo, Gemini, Kraken and Coinbase, where trades can be completed once initiated through X. Mridul Singhai, product engineering lead at X, described the goal behind the update in a post announcing the rollout. "Cashtags close the gap between a ticker on the timeline and the market itself," Singhai said. "When you post or tap a ticker, you're taken right to the asset, where you have seamless access to the live chart, the conversation around it, and now the ability to trade with one of our brokerage partners."

The update builds on the wider rollout of X Money earlier this summer, part of Musk's continued push to expand the social platform's functionality well beyond its original role as a messaging and news-sharing service. The new trading feature arrives as bitcoin's price has continued climbing in cycles since Musk stepped back from actively posting about the cryptocurrency in 2022, a period during which........

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