XRP is trading at $1.40 after a 1.2% gain over the last 24 hours. The move comes as institutional inflows pick up and a new retail integration launches in Japan.
Spot XRP ETFs recorded inflows on 11 of the last 13 days, totaling $82.42 million, according to SoSoValue data. April’s net inflows reached $83.9 million, a sharp turnaround from March’s $31.16 million outflow.
Analyst Xfinancebull noted on X that this makes April the strongest monthly inflow since December 2025. He added that while it doesn’t guarantee immediate price gains, “the bid for regulated $XRP exposure is still alive and building.”
Global XRP exchange-traded products also saw $25 million in inflows in the week ending last Friday. Total 2026 net inflows now stand at $148 million, with assets under management at roughly $2.6 billion.
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse reposted an image of the Las Vegas Sphere lit up with the XRP logo, telling followers simply: “Lock in.” The XRP Las Vegas 2026 conference runs Thursday and Friday, covering the XRP Ledger ecosystem and next-generation applications.
Ripple has placed large “Raise the Standard” billboards across the Las Vegas Strip, running alongside the Bitcoin 2026 conference. Past events have shown mixed price results — XRP gained 16% after Swell 2025, but then dropped 30% in the ten days that followed.
On the sentiment side, analytics firm Santiment flagged that XRP is seeing its second-highest bullish social media sentiment in two years, driven in part by the Rakuten news. Santiment noted that these events “don’t often instantly lead to major price outbreaks,” and that the real price impact from key integrations tends to come after initial excitement settles.
In part due to the new integration of XRP with Rakuten, allowing points to being converted into $XRP, the asset is seeing its 2nd highest bullish sentiment across social media in the past 2 years!
Traders are showing excitement over the fact that the #4 market cap in crypto… https://t.co/9JqJV2leBE pic.twitter.com/CXvfJ2KZW9
— Santiment Intelligence (@SantimentData) April 30, 2026
RippleX confirmed that Rakuten Wallet users in Japan can now convert Rakuten Points directly into XRP. Users can trade spot within the app and spend via Rakuten Pay at more than 5 million merchants.
JUST IN:
Rakuten Wallet users can now turn loyalty points into XRP and spend them at over 5 million merchants in Japan. pic.twitter.com/W33QOujPgs
— Coin Bureau (@coinbureau) April 30, 2026
XRP has been consolidating inside a symmetrical triangle for nearly three months. A daily close above $1.45 would target $2.15 — roughly 53% higher. Bulls still face resistance at the 100-day EMA of $1.52 and the 200-day EMA at $1.75.
Support at $1.40 is the critical level, aligning with both the 200-week and 20-day EMAs. A close below $1.38–$1.40 could push XRP toward $1.12 in the near term, with $0.98 as the wider triangle breakdown target.
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