XRP FUD Peaks as Ripple Announces ‘One-Stop Shop’ for Crypto Infrastructure

After a 31% XRP price drop over the past two months, on-chain analytics platform Santiment reported that the crowd sentiment has fallen into its most intense fear, uncertainty and doubt phase since October.

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Santiment Data: The Contrarian Signal

Analytics firm Santiment released data confirming the sentiment washout. Their “Weighted Social Sentiment” chart flashed multiple green circles; markers indicating days where bearish commentary overwhelmingly drowned out bullish theses, pushing the asset deep into the “Fear Zone.”

Such levels of fear were seen last on November 21st which preceded a sharp 22% within three days. Shortly after that rally, excessive optimism hit the market, and XRP prices stalled as greed replaced fear.

XRP Sentiment Returns To Deep Fear Zone

Notably, the red circles on Santiment’s chart coincided with market tops and overheated signals. Today, social sentiment has again collapsed to the same level of extreme negativity, creating conditions that some traders view as a contrarian entry zone.

This creates strong opportunities for traders who prefer to act against crowd emotions.

Ripple’s ‘One-Stop Shop for Digital Asset Infrastructure’

As per an announcement, Ripple, the firm behind XRP, has invested a whopping $4 billion into the broader digital asset ecosystem. However, 2025 stands out as a turning point for fintech with four major acquisitions, each aimed at building a unified, end-to-end crypto infrastructure stack.

Ripple wants to create a complete operating system for global value movement, including liquidity, custody, payments, treasury, prime brokerage and settlement, delivered under one roof.

GTreasury integrates enterprise-level treasury intelligence directly into Ripple’s rails. Palisade expands Ripple Custody into high-speed wallet provisioning for rapid, high-frequency asset movement.

Meanwhile, Rail adds virtual accounts, stablecoin payments and automated back-office functions and Ripple Prime completes the equation with institutional-grade execution and financing for dozens of assets, including XRP and RLUSD.

XRP Price Analysis: Criticals Levels Ahead

The XRP daily chart shows that the token is trading within a descending channel structure that has governed price action through November and December. Price continues to compress between the two parallel lines.

Fibonacci retracement levels now create a tightly packed cluster around the $2 zone, a level XRP repeatedly attempts to reclaim.

For bullish traders, a decisive break above the descending channel resistance and a daily close above $2.1 is the first confirmation signal. If momentum builds, the next major barrier sits near $3.

On the other hand, failure to hold above the $1.9 support area increases the probability of a deeper move toward the $1.5 and $1.

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