XRP crowd sentiment has deteriorated to its weakest level in three weeks, according to a Santiment Intelligence chart shared on
Santiment said the ratio of positive to negative comments on social media around XRP has fallen to just 1.1 bullish comments for every bearish comment. In the chart, the positive-to-negative sentiment ratio on May 25 is around 1.104, close to the lower fear threshold marked by Santiment, while XRP’s price line has hovered around the mid-$1.30s.
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“XRP public sentiment has once again turned sharply negative, with the ratio of positive to negative comments falling to just 1.1 bullish comments for every bearish comment,” Santiment says wrote. “Historically, this type of fear and skepticism has often functioned as a contrarian signal for the price of XRP.”
What this means for the XRP price
The point of the signal is not that bearish commentary has outright overtaken bullish commentary. Rather, it shows that the balance of social discourse has been heavily compressed toward parity. For a token that is often heavily dependent on retail sentiment, legal narratives, speculation in the currency markets and broader altcoin risk appetite, a sharp drop in public confidence could be significant as it could indicate that bullish positioning has already been washed away.
Santiment framed the move as a possible contrarian approach. The company argued that when traders become unusually anxious, weaker holders may have already exited, reducing marginal selling pressure and creating the conditions for stabilization.
“When traders on social media become overly fearful, many weak hands have already sold, reducing selling pressure and setting the conditions for a recovery,” Santiment said. “The chart below shows that previous dips in the ‘FUD zone’ were often followed by price stabilization or rebounds shortly after.”
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The graph contrasts that lower fear band with a higher ‘FOMO zone’, where the public’s optimism is stretched. Santiment’s historical framework is simple: extreme pessimism can coincide with sales exhaustion, while extreme enthusiasm can appear near local highs because too many market participants are already positioned to move upward.
“The opposite effect can occur during periods of extreme excitement and hype,” Santiment wrote. “When the positive-to-negative sentiment ratio rises deep into the ‘FOMO zone’ it usually means traders become overconfident and buy aggressively based on the fear of missing out. Those moments often occur near local highs because too many traders are already positioned bullishly, leaving fewer new buyers available to drive prices higher.”
Notably, Santiment does not say that a recovery is guaranteed. Instead, the data suggests that current sentiment has historically been more constructive for short-term recovery efforts than periods of heightened public optimism.
Santiment told traders to keep an eye on XRP’s “heightened fear level,” saying the current zone has historically increased the likelihood of a near-term rebound or recovery.
At the time of writing, XRP was trading at $1.34.
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