XRP, the token linked to Ripple, has seen a resurgence in positive discussions on social media, a trend that has often preceded a reversal in price. The token's sentiment ratio on social media reached 3.9 on April 29, the highest since March 19, when a similar spike was followed by a sharp decline. This reading indicates that the crowd's commentary is overwhelmingly positive, which is treated as a contrarian signal by Santiment. Historically, when social media chatter reaches these levels, the token tends to consolidate or correct in the following days as buyers driving the social wave exhaust their demand.
The recent integration of XRP with Rakuten Pay, allowing users to convert points into XRP, has sparked excitement among traders, with the asset experiencing 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 users to spend XRP at over 5 million merchant locations. Despite the social hype, XRP traded at $1.37 on Thursday, down 2.1% over 24 hours and 3.7% on the week. Santiment also noted that XRP sentiment hit the fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) zone on March 29, which was followed by a price bounce.
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 largely traded between $1.37 and $1.60 throughout April, 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.