XRP price prediction: Ripple-linked token zooms to FOMO levels on Japans Rakuten partnership
Ripple-linked xrp tokens are back in positive social media chatter in a historically contrarian price signal. The token‘s positive-to-negative sentiment ratio on social media spiked into what Santiment calls the “FOMO zone” on April 29, hitting 3.9 on the firm’s tracker, per data shared on X. The reading is the highest since March 19, when a similar spike preceded a sharp pullback. Sentiment ratios above the FOMO line indicate that crowd commentary is overwhelmingly positive, which Santiment treats as a contrarian signal. Historically, when retail chatter hits these levels, the token tends to consolidate or correct in the days that follow as the buyers driving the social wave run out of fresh demand. 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 applications ecosystem. The deal an estimated 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, of which 3 trillion are in circulation worth roughly $23 billion, directly into XRP. That announcement was framed by Ripples senior ecosystem growth manager Tatsuya Kohrogi as “one of the