XRP Price Muted as Negative Sentiment Signals Potential Rebound

Key Highlights

Flare, Upshift, and Clearstar launched earnXRP, a vault that allows users to earn yield on their holdings without selling.
Despite the new utility, the price of XRP remains stable due to low holiday liquidity and thin trading volume.
Analysts suggest that historically high levels of negative social sentiment may actually signal an upcoming price recovery.

The value of cryptocurrency XRP has remained stagnant at around $1.86 despite the launch of earnXRP, a new financial service designed to allow XRP stakeholders to earn passive income. The initiative was developed by Upshift, Clearstar, and Flare.

This service allows users to earn rewards in terms of XRP, allowing participation in decentralized finance strategies without selling existing assets. This service can be termed a technical achievement within the XRP community at a time of low holiday activity.

The underlying infrastructure is a collaborative effort among multiple parties, bringing together traditional holdings of XRP as well as decentralized finance. Upshift is the toolkit offering creation services within the vault, while Clearstar is the risk manager, guaranteeing institutional-level quality.

The product uses Flare, a data-heavy layer 1 blockchain network that requires users to lock up FXRP. This is an ERC-20 compliant, over-collateralized variant of standard XRP. In this way, by staking these assets in the earnXRP vault, users receive receipt tokens, which, in turn, reflect their ownership of the vault’s performance and yield.

XRP’s muted price movement comes about during a season when the liquidity, as well as the level of participation in markets, tends to be low. However, a lack of direct support from the product launch toward an increase in the price value has not gone without hope of a possible future change from some analysts.

According to the analytics tool Santiment, the sentiment toward the token has become more pessimistic. “XRP is seeing far more negative social media commentary than average. Historically, this setup leads to price rises. When retail has doubts about a coin’s ability to rise, the rise becomes significantly more likely,” Santimant wrote.

As for the coming year, the success of earnXRP as an additional secondary utilization for the token is contingent on how well the secondary market utilizes this additional income source for its token.

With the contrarian indicators pointing in the right direction, the bearish sentiment with an additional income source could result in a year-end bounce if these findings are accurate. Currently, there is market apathy in December, which tends to last up to the end of the year.