XRP tokens, linked to Ripple, have regained traction in social media conversations, exhibiting a historically contrarian price signal. The token's positive-to-negative sentiment ratio on social media spiked into the "FOMO zone" on April 29, reaching 3.9 on Santiment's tracker. This reading is the highest since March 19, when a similar spike was followed by a sharp decline.
Sentiment ratios above the FOMO line indicate that crowd commentary is overwhelmingly positive, which Santiment views 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 new 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 went live in early April and added XRP as a payment method across the Japanese wallet application's ecosystem. This deal enables an estimated 44 million Rakuten users to spend XRP at over 5 million merchant locations, spot trade it inside the Rakuten Pay app, and convert their Rakuten points directly into XRP.
The market took two weeks to fully process the implications, with sentiment building gradually before spiking this week. XRP traded at $1.37 on Thursday, down 2.1% over 24 hours and 3.7% on the week, despite the social hype. Santiment also flagged March 29 as the prior "buy the dip" window, when XRP sentiment hit the FUD zone and the token bounced shortly after. The pattern through 2026 has been consistent, with crowd sentiment leading price by 24 to 72 hours in either direction, and crowd extremes marking reversals more often than continuations.
XRP has spent most of April between $1.37 and $1.60, and a clean break of either side will determine whether the Rakuten integration is the start of a sustained re-rating or another headline that fades into the chart.