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Elon Musk's X to deploy scam kill switch by auto-locking first-time crypto mentioners

The move comes in response to a wave of phishing attacks using fake copyright emails and is the latest in an attempt to shut down crypto-linked scams on the platform.

X and other social media apps on smartphone (Julian/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Elon Musks's X teases crypto-aware ‘smart cashtags’ just day after community backlash

Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, outlined plans for asset-aware Smart Cashtags a day after criticism from parts of the crypto community over a now-deleted post.

Elon Musk (jurvetson /CC BY 2.0./Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Most Influential: The Social Media Traders

Crypto Twitter’s social media traders turned their X dashboards into public PnL reality shows in 2025, sending billions in volume through memecoins and perp DEXs in real time.

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Consensus Magazine

The Funniest Anon on Crypto Twitter

Gwart has the ear of DeFi’s elite. What they don’t know is that crypto’s truth-telling funnyman is secretly a Bitcoiner.

(CoinDesk)

Opinion

Twitter Is Dead. Long Live Crypto Twitter?

Elon Musk's rebranded X.com used to be the white-hot center of the crypto world. What comes next?

(Steve Jurvetson/Wikimedia Commons)

Videos

Dogecoin Jumps Amid Hopes Token Plays Larger Role in X Platform Rebrand

Dogecoin (DOGE) rose for the second straight day as speculations of the memecoin playing a bigger role on the newly-rebranded X platform, fuelled the rally. Futures traders lost nearly $10 million betting on and against dogecoin’s price movements, Coinglass data shows. "The Hash" panel discusses the latest price action in the meme economy.

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Finance

Crypto Community Donates $1M to Sleuth ZachXBT After Defamation Lawsuit

Backers include the likes of prominent crypto businesses and personalities such as Binance, CertiK and Justin Sun, among others.

Wikimedia acepta bitcoin, bitcoin cash, y ether vía BitPay. (Unsplash/Fabian Blank)

Finance

Wassies NFT Prices Surge as Crypto Twitter Lore-Themed Hotel Opens in Singapore

A room at the Wassie-themed hotel goes for $129 a night as of Monday.

Wassie toys sitting by the pool. (Wassies)

Opinion

The End of Crypto Twitter as We Know It?

An impending departure of millions of users from Twitter could threaten the platform's diversity of viewpoints and force crypto enthusiasts to fully adopt decentralized Web3 social media.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Consensus Magazine

He Put a Magnifying Glass on Terra and It Went Up in Flames

Having whistleblowers’ trust made a cranky pseudonymous Twitter account key to the flameout of Terraform Labs and its LUNA token. That’s why FatManTerra is one of CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2022.

FatManTerra (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)