Rakuten's 44M-user XRP integration pushes sentiment to a 2-year high — but price still can't crack $1.50.

Rakuten Wallet's full-scale XRP deployment is now live in Japan: 44 million users can convert Rakuten Points into XRP, trade in-app, and spend at over 5 million merchant locations. The $23 billion loyalty ecosystem represents one of the largest retail-level XRP integrations to date, and Santiment data reflects it — the positive-to-negative comment ratio hit 4.8, near a two-year high for the token.

The technical picture complicates the bullish read. XRP is consolidating around $1.40, below both its 60-day and 200-day moving averages, after a leverage flush followed a rejection at $1.44. Aggregate indicators show a "Strong Buy" reading across six signals, yet the token is down roughly 55% over nine months — a reminder that sentiment spikes tend to precede stabilisation rather than immediate breakouts.

Volume confirmation remains the missing ingredient. The Rakuten narrative gives XRP a…