Crypto Tops X’s Most Muted List, And Why It Could Be AI Slop.
Crypto has topped the most muted topics on X since the platform started using its snooze feature alongside spam and artificial intelligence content, or “AI slop.”
On Thursday, Nikita Bier, Head of Product X, crypto has become a very muted topic before politics, the Iran conflict, sports and business and finance, a significant change in the platform that was once the heartbeat of Crypto Twitter.
The snooze feature, which allows premium subscribers to hide content for 24 hours, launched on April 22. At the time, Beer described the tool as a “way to curtail or curtail” the platform's growing flood of low-quality content.
Source: Nikita Beir
Crypto-content on X has come under intense scrutiny, with the platform changing its API policy in January to block apps that pay users to post. The move was aimed at stemming the tide of AI-generated spam and low-quality content from crypto feeds that reward participation in apps called “InfoFi”.
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Bair is logged in on Crypto Twitter.
Earlier this year, Bier said in a now-deleted post that Crypto Twitter's visibility problems were largely self-inflicted, with many accounts burning through their daily routines by over-posting or flooding replies with low-value messages such as repetitive “GM” greetings, leaving little room for substantive content.
The comment drew a sharp response from the crypto community. CryptoQuant founder Ki Young Joo pushed back, saying the X algorithm was a flood of spam indistinguishable from legitimate accounts. “X would rather ban cryptocurrency than improve boto detection,” Ju wrote.
Bier joined as product lead in June 2025 shortly after taking on a consulting role at Solana Foundation in March, where he focused on helping consumer-facing apps built at network scale and reaching core mobile audiences.
X also launched Smart Kashtags on April 15, allowing iPhone users in the US and Canada to view real-time price charts of stocks and crypto, including Bitcoin, Ether, XRP and stocks like Coinbase and MicroStrategy. The release comes days after Bier teased that crypto's difficult Year X would “launch a fix.”
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Crypto sentiment and search demand is low
The Fear and Greed Index sits at 29, or in “Fear” territory as Crypto market sentiment remains subdued. While the rebound from last month's high fear reading of 11 is notable, it still reflects the state of investor anxiety.
Google Trends data tells a similar story. In the year Global search demand has fallen sharply since peaking in early 2026, with demand for cryptocurrencies such as “crypto”, “cryptocurrency” and “Bitcoin” declining towards April.
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