XRP (XRP) social media sentiment has skyrocketed over the past few days, but overall resistance at $1.40 has kept the price consolidating.
Key takeaways:
- XRP sentiment on social media has increased by 240% in the last 30 days, reaching a two-year high.
- XRP price rebound may face resistance at $1.40, with consolidation likely to continue.
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XRP sentiment is rising after integration with Rakuten Pay
The news of XRP’s integration with Japanese payment platform Rakuten Wallet has sparked renewed optimism among investors.
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This integration enables Rakuten’s more than 44 million users to redeem their loyalty points (worth over $23 billion) directly for XRP, redeem them in-app, and spend them at over 5 million points of sale through the Rakuten Pay app.
This marks “one of the largest retail deployments of XRP as a payment method to date,” combining loyalty programs, payments and a crypto utility in a major global economy, Ripple he said in Thursday’s post X.
XRP integrates with Rakuten Pay. source: Ripple
As a result, XRP saw “the second highest increase in social media sentiment in the last 2 years,” Santiment he said in Thursday’s post on X.
Santiment’s Positive/Negative Sentiment Index, which measures the ratio of positive and negative social media mentions about a cryptocurrency, shows XRP has a score of 3.9, last seen in early 2024.
This was more than 240% higher than the 1,135 mark recorded on March 29, after the price fell 20% in two weeks.
Traders are showing excitement that XRP “continues to be deployed,” the onchain data provider said, adding:
“When it comes to prices, these events often do not immediately lead to major price outbursts. It is usually only after the initial wave of euphoria, after the FOMO has calmed down, that the impact of this type of news produces a bullish result.”
XRP Positive/Negative Sentiment Indicator. source: Santiment
“Buy XRP with points. Spend them at millions of merchants in Japan,” analyst John Squire he said in response to the development, adding:
“This is what mass adoption looks like.”
On this news, XRP/USD is up 2% in the last 24 hours but remains 62% below the multi-year high of $3.66 reached in July 2025.
XRP faces sturdy resistance above $1.40
XRP’s recent 18% surge from the local low of $1.27 reached on April 5 has been halted at $1.48, coinciding with the upper limit of the symmetrical triangle.
This trendline has been suppressing the price since early February, as shown in the chart below.
Bulls need to push price above the $1.40-$1.45 resistance zone to confirm a bullish triangle breakout. The 50-day exponential moving average, 100-day straightforward moving average, and the upper triangle trendline are also within this area, reinforcing the importance of this resistance zone.
XRP/USD daily chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView
According to XRP cost-based distribution datainvestors hold approximately 2 billion XRP at an average cost of $1.40-$1.45, creating a potential resistance zone. This concentration suggests that many investors may sell once break-even is reached, which could hamper XRP’s growth momentum.
XRP cost base distribution chart. Source: Glassnode
A break above this supply area could open the door to a rally towards the measured triangle target of $2.10, or about 50% above the current price.
In a Friday post on X, a ChartNerd analyst he said There was going to be a substantial move in the XRP price once the resistance above $1.40 is cleared.
As Cointelegraph reportedthe XRP/USD pair needed to hold support at $1.27 and rise above moving averages around $1.40 to signal a trend change.
