XRP tokens linked to Ripple have regained traction on social media, exhibiting a historically contrarian price signal. The token's positive-to-negative sentiment ratio on social media spiked into what Santiment refers to as the 'frenzy zone' on April 29, reaching 3.9 on the firm's tracker.
This reading is the highest since March 19, when a similar spike preceded a sharp decline. Sentiment ratios above the frenzy line indicate overwhelmingly positive crowd commentary, which Santiment interprets as a contrarian signal. Historically, when retail chatter reaches these levels, the token tends to consolidate or correct in the following days as the buyers driving the social wave exhaust their demand.
The recent integration of XRP with Rakuten, allowing points to be converted into XRP, has contributed to the asset's second-highest bullish sentiment on social media in the past two years. The trigger for this surge appears to be the Rakuten Pay integration, which added XRP as a payment method across the Japanese wallet application's ecosystem, enabling an estimated 44 million Rakuten users to spend XRP at over 5 million merchant locations, trade it within the Rakuten Pay app, and convert their Rakuten points directly into XRP. Despite the social media frenzy, XRP traded at $1.37 on Thursday, down 2.1% over 24 hours and 3.7% on the week. Santiment also identified March 29 as the previous 'buy the dip' window, when XRP sentiment hit the fear zone and the token bounced shortly after.
The pattern in 2026 has been consistent, with crowd sentiment leading price by 24 to 72 hours in either direction, and crowd extremes often marking reversals rather 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 headline that fades into the chart.