XRP Sentiment Drops to Eight-Month Low as Traders Lose Patience
Social sentiment around XRP has fallen to its weakest level since October 2025, according to Santiment. CoinDesk reported that similar moments of heavy disinterest have preceded strong rebounds before, though the signal is not a timing tool.
What happened?
Social sentiment around XRP has fallen to its weakest level since October 2025, according to Santiment. CoinDesk reported that similar moments of heavy disinterest have preceded strong rebounds before, though the signal is not a timing tool.
Why it matters
Social sentiment around XRP has dropped to an eight-month low, with Santiment’s weighted sentiment metric falling to minus 0.908 on Thursday, CoinDesk reported. The metric combines the balance of positive and negative posts with the volume of discussion, suggesting that online interest in the Ripple-linked token has weakened sharply.
Social sentiment around XRP has dropped to an eight-month low, with Santiment’s weighted sentiment metric falling to minus 0.908 on Thursday, CoinDesk reported. The metric combines the balance of positive and negative posts with the volume of discussion, suggesting that online interest in the Ripple-linked token has weakened sharply.
The shift matters because sentiment has previously worked as a contrarian indicator for XRP traders. Santiment noted that some of the token’s strongest rebounds have started when the crowd was highly negative or disengaged, though the current reading does not by itself predict when or whether a price recovery will happen.
XRP was trading at $1.14 on Friday, up 2.3% on the day, but still far below earlier levels. CoinDesk reported that the token remained well under January prices above $2.40 and roughly 69% below its July high.
The weak mood comes despite several developments around XRP and the XRP Ledger. In May, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee advanced the Clarity Act, which would classify XRP as a digital commodity under Commodity Futures Trading Commission oversight. Standard Chartered projected that U.S. spot XRP exchange-traded funds could see $4 billion to $8 billion in additional inflows if the bill passes, while existing funds have attracted about $1.4 billion since January, according to SoSoValue data cited by CoinDesk.
Activity on the XRP Ledger has also been rising, with payment counts, automated market-making activity and tokenized real-world assets reaching records this year. Santiment pointed to the gap between fading social enthusiasm and continued development, ledger usage and institutional product activity, leaving the market focused on whether real demand follows the long-running buildup around Ripple’s ecosystem.