Add cashtag support for stock ticker discussions

Display cashtags ($TICKER format) as clickable links with dedicated menu actions and search feed, alongside hashtags. Includes composer highlighting and proper formatting.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/components/RichTextTag.tsx

@@ -48,10 +48,11 @@ export function RichTextTag({
     reset: resetRemove,
   } = useRemoveMutedWordsMutation()
   const navigation = useNavigation<NavigationProp>()
-  const label = _(msg`Hashtag ${tag}`)
+  const isCashtag = tag.startsWith('$')
+  const label = isCashtag ? _(msg`Cashtag ${tag}`) : _(msg`Hashtag ${tag}`)
   const hint = isNative
-    ? _(msg`Long press to open tag menu for #${tag}`)
+    ? _(msg`Long press to open tag menu for ${isCashtag ? tag : `#${tag}`}`)
-    : _(msg`Click to open tag menu for ${tag}`)
+    : _(msg`Click to open tag menu for ${isCashtag ? tag : `#${tag}`}`)
 
   const isMuted = Boolean(
     (preferences?.moderationPrefs.mutedWords?.find(
@@ -109,20 +110,24 @@ export function RichTextTag({
       <Menu.Outer>
         <Menu.Group>
           <Menu.Item
-            label={_(msg`See ${tag} posts`)}
+            label={_(msg`See ${isCashtag ? tag : `#${tag}`} posts`)}
             onPress={() => {
               navigation.push('Hashtag', {
                 tag: encodeURIComponent(tag),
               })
             }}>
             <Menu.ItemText>
-              <Trans>See #{tag} posts</Trans>
+              {isCashtag ? (
+                <Trans>See {tag} posts</Trans>
+              ) : (
+                <Trans>See #{tag} posts</Trans>
+              )}
             </Menu.ItemText>
             <Menu.ItemIcon icon={Search} />
           </Menu.Item>
           {authorHandle && !isInvalidHandle(authorHandle) && (
             <Menu.Item
-              label={_(msg`See ${tag} posts by user`)}
+              label={_(msg`See ${isCashtag ? tag : `#${tag}`} posts by user`)}
               onPress={() => {
                 navigation.push('Hashtag', {
                   tag: encodeURIComponent(tag),
@@ -130,7 +135,11 @@ export function RichTextTag({
                 })
               }}>
               <Menu.ItemText>
-                <Trans>See #{tag} posts by user</Trans>
+                {isCashtag ? (
+                  <Trans>See {tag} posts by user</Trans>
+                ) : (
+                  <Trans>See #{tag} posts by user</Trans>
+                )}
               </Menu.ItemText>
               <Menu.ItemIcon icon={Person} />
             </Menu.Item>

src/screens/Hashtag.tsx

@@ -46,13 +46,22 @@ export default function HashtagScreen({
   const {tag, author} = route.params
   const {_} = useLingui()
 
-  const fullTag = React.useMemo(() => {
+  const decodedTag = React.useMemo(() => {
-    return `#${decodeURIComponent(tag)}`
+    return decodeURIComponent(tag)
   }, [tag])
 
+  const isCashtag = decodedTag.startsWith('$')
+
+  const fullTag = React.useMemo(() => {
+    // Cashtags already include the $ prefix, hashtags need # added
+    return isCashtag ? decodedTag : `#${decodedTag}`
+  }, [decodedTag, isCashtag])
+
   const headerTitle = React.useMemo(() => {
-    return enforceLen(fullTag.toLowerCase(), 24, true, 'middle')
+    // Keep cashtags uppercase, lowercase hashtags
-  }, [fullTag])
+    const displayTag = isCashtag ? fullTag.toUpperCase() : fullTag.toLowerCase()
+    return enforceLen(displayTag, 24, true, 'middle')
+  }, [fullTag, isCashtag])
 
   const sanitizedAuthor = React.useMemo(() => {
     if (!author) return
@@ -255,7 +264,7 @@ function HashtagScreenTab({
           isError={isError}
           onRetry={refetch}
           emptyType="results"
-          emptyMessage={_(msg`We couldn't find any results for that hashtag.`)}
+          emptyMessage={_(msg`We couldn't find any results for that tag.`)}
         />
       ) : (
         <List

src/view/com/composer/text-input/web/TagDecorator.ts

@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ import {type Node as ProsemirrorNode} from '@tiptap/pm/model'
 import {Plugin, PluginKey} from '@tiptap/pm/state'
 import {Decoration, DecorationSet} from '@tiptap/pm/view'
 
+// TODO: Import from @atproto/api once updated
+const CASHTAG_REGEX =
+  /(^|\s|\()\$([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]{0,4})(?=\s|$|[.,;:!?)"'\u2019])/gu
+
 function getDecorations(doc: ProsemirrorNode) {
   const decorations: Decoration[] = []
 
@@ -28,6 +32,7 @@ function getDecorations(doc: ProsemirrorNode) {
       const regex = TAG_REGEX
       const textContent = node.textContent
 
+      // Detect hashtags
       let match
       while ((match = regex.exec(textContent))) {
         const [matchedString, __, tag] = match
@@ -52,6 +57,27 @@ function getDecorations(doc: ProsemirrorNode) {
           }),
         )
       }
+
+      // Detect cashtags
+      const cashtagRegex = new RegExp(CASHTAG_REGEX.source, 'gu')
+      while ((match = cashtagRegex.exec(textContent))) {
+        const [_fullMatch, leading, ticker] = match
+
+        if (!ticker || ticker.length > 5) continue
+
+        // Calculate positions: leading char + $ + ticker
+        const matchedFrom = match.index + leading.length
+        const matchedTo = matchedFrom + 1 + ticker.length // +1 for $
+
+        const start = pos + matchedFrom
+        const end = pos + matchedTo
+
+        decorations.push(
+          Decoration.inline(start, end, {
+            class: 'autolink',
+          }),
+        )
+      }
     }
   })