XRP tokens linked to Ripple have seen a resurgence in positive chatter on social media, a trend that has historically signaled a contrarian price movement. The token's positive-to-negative sentiment ratio spiked into the FOMO zone on April 29, reaching 3.9 on Santiment's tracker, the highest level since March 19, when a similar spike was followed by a sharp decline. When sentiment ratios exceed the FOMO line, it indicates overwhelmingly positive crowd commentary, which Santiment views as a contrarian signal.
Historically, when social media chatter reaches these levels, the token tends to consolidate or correct in subsequent days as buyers driving the social wave exhaust their demand. The recent integration of XRP with Rakuten, allowing users to convert points into XRP, has contributed to the asset's second-highest bullish sentiment on social media in the past two years. Traders are excited about the prospect of 44 million Rakuten users spending XRP at over 5 million merchant locations, trading it within the Rakuten Pay app, and converting their Rakuten points directly into XRP. The Rakuten Pay integration, which went live in early April, added XRP as a payment method across the Japanese wallet application's ecosystem.
Despite the social media buzz, XRP traded at $1.37 on Thursday, down 2.1% over 24 hours and 3.7% on the week. Santiment also noted that on March 29, XRP sentiment hit the FUD zone, and the token bounced shortly after, consistent with the pattern in 2026, where crowd sentiment leads price by 24 to 72 hours in either direction, and crowd extremes have marked reversals more often than continuations.
XRP has spent most of April fluctuating between $1.37 and $1.60, and a clean break of either side will determine whether the Rakuten integration marks the start of a sustained re-rating or another fleeting headline.