XRP tokens, linked to Ripple, have regained positive attention on social media, a signal that has historically been contrarian to price movements. On April 29, the token's positive-to-negative sentiment ratio on social media jumped into what Santiment refers to as the "FOMO zone", reaching 3.9 on the firm's tracker. This is the highest reading since March 19, when a similar spike was followed by a sharp decline.
When sentiment ratios exceed the FOMO line, it indicates that public commentary is overwhelmingly positive, which Santiment views as a contrarian indicator. Historically, when retail discussion 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.
This integration, which went live in early April, added XRP as a payment method across the Rakuten Pay app'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 market took two weeks to fully process the implications of this announcement, with sentiment gradually building before spiking this week. Despite the social excitement, 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 through 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 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.