Ripple-linked xrp tokens are back in positive chatter on social media in a historically contrarian price signal.
The token’s positive-to-negative sentiment ratio on social media surged into what Santiment calls the “FOMO zone” on April 29, hitting 3.9 on the firm’s tracker, per data divided by X. The reading is the highest since March 19, when a similar rise preceded a sharp pullback.
Sentiment above the FOMO line indicates that audience comments are overwhelmingly positive, which Santiment treats as a conflicting signal. Historically, when retail talk hits these levels, the token tends to consolidate or correct in the following days as the buyers driving the social wave run out of new demand.
🥳 Partly because of the new integration of XRP with Rakuten, which makes it possible to convert points to $XRPthe asset has experienced its 2nd highest bullish sentiment across social media in the last 2 years!
Traders show excitement over the fact that the #4 market cap in crypto… pic.twitter.com/CXvfJ2KZW9
— Santiment Intelligence (@SantimentData) 30 April 2026
The trigger appears to be the Rakuten Pay integration that went live in the first week of April, which added XRP as a payment method across the major Japanese wallet application’s ecosystem. The deal estimates that 44 million Rakuten users spend XRP at over 5 million merchant locations, spot trade it inside the Rakuten Pay app, and convert their Rakuten Points, 3 trillion of which are in circulation worth about $23 billion, directly into XRP.
This announcement was framed by Ripple’s senior ecosystem growth manager Tatsuya Kohrogi as “one of the most significant XRP milestones.” The market took two weeks to fully process the implications, and sentiment gradually built before surging this week.
XRP traded at $1.37 on Thursday, down 2.1% over 24 hours and 3.7% on the week, despite the social heat.
Santiment also marked March 29 as the previous “buy dip” window when XRP sentiment hit the FUD zone and the token jumped soon after. The pattern through 2026 has been consistent, with crowd sentiment leading the price by 24 to 72 hours in either direction, and extreme volumes have marked reversals more often than continuations.
XRP has spent most of April between $1.37 and $1.60. A clean break on either side will determine whether the Rakuten integration is the start of a sustained revaluation or another headline that fades into the chart.
