XRP is trading at $1.40 again after failing to breach the $1.50 ceiling last month, and interestingly, this is the bullish side of the story. Social sentiment recorded its second highest figure in two years, thanks to the full integration of XRP into a wallet. Rakuten Wallet. So, what are our expectations for the XRP price for next week?
From today, @Rakuten_Wallet Users in Japan can convert @Rakuten Points in XRP, one-time redemptions in the app, and spending on over 5 million merchant sites.
With 44 million Rakuten Pay users and $23 billion in loyalty points now redeemable for XRP, this is one of the largest retail rollouts… pic.twitter.com/P7I52bGjVL– RippleX (@RippleXDev) April 30, 2026
The data showed Feeling The ratio of positive to negative comments was 4.8, which is close to historical levels for the coin. The Rakuten Wallet extension also allows 44 million users to convert loyalty points to XRP and spend them at over 5 million merchants.
Rakuten also launched a tiered rewards campaign including rewards for purchases of 30,000 yen or more, as well as a lucky draw for buyers of 100,000 yen or more, ahead of the app’s launch on iOS. We’re talking about a $23 billion loyalty system that adopts XRP on a mass scale.
XRP Price Prediction: Will it Break $1.50 Resistance and Target $5?
XRP recently reached a local high at $1.44 before stopping, and this level now represents the immediate price ceiling. This rejection was followed by a liquidation of leveraged positions, a sign that speculative positions had outpaced organic demand.
The price is currently in a consolidation phase below the 60 and 200 day moving averages, which constitutes a structurally bearish formation that complicates the bullish scenario.
The artistic image seems completely contradictory; The combined signals give a “Strong Buy” reading on 6 indicators (5 Buy, 1 Sell), but the price is down approximately 55% over the past nine months. Historically, peaks in social sentiment are preceded by short-term plateaus rather than immediate spikes, because the FOMO (fear of missing out) dynamic builds before investment conviction takes hold.
The Ripple adoption story is still relevant, but price discovery requires balancing sentiment ratios, and confirmation of trading volume remains the missing ingredient in this equation.
LiquidChain Targets Early Leadership Advantages as XRP Tests Key Levels
XRP’s current situation, characterized by a strong narrative, lukewarm price response, and overhead resistance, creates an environment that pushes capital toward startup opportunities possessing asymmetric upside potential. When the major currencies thesis fails, the search for the next upward move shifts to higher levels of the risk curve, and that’s where it comes into play. Liquid Chain.
project Liquid Channel ($LIQUID) It is a layer 3 infrastructure that integrates Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana liquidity into a single execution environment, and is a cross-chain liquidity layer aimed at solving the fragmentation problem plaguing decentralized finance (DeFi).
Order and LiquidChain L3 have one thing in common.
They are both ready for anything.⟁ pic.twitter.com/eHoGD2wtG0
– LiquidChain (@getliquidchain) May 1, 2026
With Liquid, developers can deploy once and access all three systems simultaneously. Currently at pre-sale price $0.01455with the collection of over 700 thousand dollars Again.
Key features of the project include a unified liquidity layer, single-stage execution, verifiable settlement, and a single deployment infrastructure.
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