Nobody Likes XRP Right Now, and That May Be Bullish: Santiment

Declining social activity is occurring despite continued development across the XRP Ledger and broader ecosystem initiatives.

There has been growing pessimism among those who trade in XRP, as the token has hit its lowest sentiment since October 2025, as reported on June 12 by Santiment.

The decline in sentiment has occurred amid difficult conditions for the asset despite years of expectation around Ripple-related developments. But Santiment says that this kind of pessimism has historically lined up with some of XRP’s strongest rebounds.

XRP Sentiment Sinks as Social Interest Fades

The blockchain analytics firm’s weighted sentiment metric, which blends social volume with the ratio of positive to negative commentary, has XRP sitting at levels not seen in 8 months.

While part of the decline is just price weakness dragging down the crowd’s feeling with it, Santiment also pointed to something else: that traders had gotten tired of waiting for a catalyst to significantly push up XRP’s price, despite Ripple’s legal situation clearing up.

In addition, there’s a feeling that all the talk about institutional adoption hasn’t quite translated into gains for holders of the world’s sixth-largest cryptocurrency, and that is wearing people down.

But there’s a silver lining to the situation:

“Some of XRP’s strongest rebounds have occurred when the crowd became the most disinterested,” Santiment wrote.

According to them, the drop in discussion volume combined with the huge amount of negative commentary around the Ripple token is a sign that many holders might have either moved on or lowered their expectations for the asset.

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And that fading enthusiasm on social media is coming at a time when there’s lots of development activity around the XRP ecosystem, with use of the XRP Ledger growing, tokenization initiatives coming up, and more institutional products being launched.

Meanwhile, based on CoinGecko figures at the time of writing, XRP had risen by about 2% to $1.15 within a period of 24 hours.

Nevertheless, the cryptocurrency remained 22% lower than where it was in the previous month and almost 69% away from its all-time high of $3.65 recorded in July 2025.

But some analysts think the worst could be over, with Ali Martinez recently flagging a Tom DeMark Sequential buy signal, even though he’s previously said a drop to $0.90 would be an even better entry.

The Bigger Picture for XRP

There’s also some on-chain activity worth noting. For example, earlier today, CryptoQuant said that between June 3 and June 11, around 465 million XRP were withdrawn from Binance, all in transactions larger than 1 million tokens.

Such movements could decrease the total supply of XRP available on the exchange, which might reduce selling pressure if the trend keeps up.

At the same time, data shared by Arab Chain shows that XRP whale inflows on the same exchange increased to about 1.33 billion over the last 30 days, the highest level in two months.

That kind of number does not automatically signal that the megaholders are looking to sell, but it indicates that the segment is becoming increasingly active as they respond to prevailing market conditions.

On the macro side, Trump’s recent announcement that he’d called off planned strikes on Iran sent a wave of optimism through stocks, gold, and silver, but according to Santiment, crypto’s reaction, including that of XRP, has so far been muted.