XRP tokens, linked to Ripple, have regained attention on social media with a historically contrarian price signal. The token's positive-to-negative sentiment ratio on social media reached the FOMO zone on April 29, peaking at 3.9 on Santiment's tracker. This reading is the highest since March 19, when a similar spike was followed by a sharp decline. According to Santiment, sentiment ratios above the FOMO line indicate overly positive crowd commentary, which is treated as a contrarian signal.
Historically, when social media chatter reaches these levels, the token tends to consolidate or correct in the following days as the buyers driving the wave exhaust their demand. The recent integration of XRP with Rakuten, allowing users to convert points into XRP, has sparked excitement among traders, with the asset seeing its second-highest bullish sentiment on social media in the past two years. The Rakuten Pay integration, which went live in early April, 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 app, and convert their Rakuten points directly into XRP.
The announcement was hailed as a significant milestone by Ripple's senior ecosystem growth manager, Tatsuya Kohrogi. The market took two weeks to fully process the implications, with sentiment building gradually before spiking this week. 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 fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) 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 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 marks the start of a sustained re-rating or another fleeting headline.