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Twitterโ€™s crypto price index feature expands to 30 tokens and counting

January 16, 2023No Comments


Twitter has quietly expanded its new crypto feature that allows users to look up the price of individual tokens, adding at least another 30 tokens.

The new additions are part of the social media giant's "$Cashtags" feature that was announced by Twitter Business account on December 21 with the Bitcoin news (BTC) and ether (ETH) they were the first to be a part of the new feature.

Tweeting or searching for a crypto token or ticker symbol with a dollar sign ($) in front of it now links to price charts for those symbols.

Cointelegraph found 30 of the top 50 tokens by market cap made the cut, including Tether (USDT), XRP (XRP), BinanceUSD (BUSD), Cardano (ADA), Solana (SUN), polygon (MATHIC) Litecoin (LTC), Dai (ICD), Avalanche (AVAX), Uniswap (UNI), Dogecoin (DOGE) and Shiba Inu (shib).

The Dogecoin Twitter community was particularly happy with the addition as new Twitter CEO Elon Musk has offered words of cryptocurrency support many times.

However, there were some notable omissions at the time of writing such as BNB (bnb), USD currency (USDC), OKB, Lido Staked Ether (STETH), Polkadot (POINT) and Tron (TRX).

This was despite crypto tokens being listed in the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market cap.

Other added tokens include Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), Ethereum Classic (ETC), Bitcoin cash (BCH), stellar (XLM), Internet Computer (ICP), Decentraland (MANNA) and The Sandbox (SAND).

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It's unclear how the tokens will eventually be added, but in the original Twitter Business account advertisementteased that symbols will continue to be added.

The price index is understood to get its data from Trading View, but it also includes a link to view the cryptocurrency on the Robinhood online trading platform.

However, no partnership agreement between the two has been officially released.

Since taking the reins at Twitter, Musk has shared glimpses of what his vision for "Twitter 2.0" might look like, including the possible integration of cryptocurrency-based payments on Twitter.