The mass retail investor has temporarily cooled toward XRP, shifting into a deep wait-and-see mode. According to Google Trends, by mid-October 2026 global search interest in the coin had corrected by more than 90% on an annual scale compared with the historical peak of July 2025, when the price was storming the $3.65 mark.
The global popularity index for the query slid to 13 points out of 100, marking the sharpest shift in market sentiment.
Global search interest for XRP hits multi-year lows after a 90% decline from its 2025 peak, Source: Google Trends
The published charts clearly illustrate this dynamic. If the historical curve is unrolled from 2012, the phenomenal surge of mid-2025 looks like an isolated peak, before and after which traffic literally sits at zero.
The statistics for the past 12 months on an annual scale only confirm the trend: search query volume has fallen by exactly half, and the local spike in activity in August–September had faded completely by mid-October.
People are searching for the coin less, but they are not rushing to sell
Still, for the crypto market this is classic off-season apathy: search activity for bitcoin is also at multi-year lows right now. In XRP's case, however, the lull in search engines has created a unique paradox: while small traders have stopped clicking links, the price chart stubbornly refuses to fall further.
The coin's price is squeezed into a narrow corridor of $1.30–$1.34, holding key support around $1.25.
Amid the collapse in Google queries, the derivatives market has fully cleared itself of excess leverage and unnecessary froth. The current silence in search engines scares speculators, but prediction platforms and algorithmic models agree that the psychological bottom of retail interest has been found.
The most likely scenario until the end of October is consolidation in the $1.40–$1.50 corridor. It is premature to expect new records without the mass trader's return to Google, but it is precisely this calm on an annual scale that may become a solid base for the next long-term cycle.