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Daily network digest

Thursday, January 18, 2024

Directed information-flow networks for this session, covering Cryptocurrency. Each class is estimated independently over a trailing one-year window; the tables below rank the assets carrying the most influence within their own network.

Cryptocurrency

ABTUSD was the most central name, carrying 3.55× the influence of an average node across 339 assets.

assets
339
Density
0.193
Clustering
0.412
Diameter
2

Most central

Ranked by PageRank within the session's directed network. “vs average” shows influence relative to a node with no advantage — 1.00× would mean perfectly ordinary.

Symbol#PageRank vs averageReceives fromSends toStrongest outgoing
ABTUSD 1 0.01047 3.55× 56.2% 13.9% EOSUSD, CHZUSD, RPLUSD, PYRUSD, EULUSD
TIMEUSD 2 0.00914 3.10× 52.4% 33.4% LINKUSD, UMAUSD, GNOUSD, FORTUSD, STGUSD
LTCBTC 3 0.00878 2.98× 47.9% 23.7% ELAUSD, AIRUSD, RARIUSD, PROUSD, GFIUSD
SHPINGUSD 4 0.00805 2.73× 44.1% 22.5% TIMEUSD, CHREUR, MASKUSD, TRXUSD, XTZUSD
NANOUSD 5 0.00779 2.64× 45.6% 16.0% ORNUSD, ORCAEUR, PNKUSD, ETHUSD, ANTUSD
MVUSD 6 0.00750 2.54× 45.0% 20.4% PRQUSD, ALEPHUSD, UNIUSD, LCXUSD, WAXLUSD
XRDUSD 7 0.00735 2.49× 44.7% 26.3% YFIUSD, QTUMUSD, REPUSD, OPUSD, DEXTUSD
RARIUSD 8 0.00671 2.27× 42.0% 17.2% ZILUSD, ABTUSD, NANOUSD, GNOUSD, LTCAUD
ROOKUSD 9 0.00651 2.21× 43.2% 39.9% ERNUSD, RPLUSD, MCUSD, GALUSD, MNAUSD
DVFUSD 10 0.00617 2.09× 42.9% 24.9% ETHBTC, BATUSD, ETHUSD, ETCUSD, ELAUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-01-17

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
NANOUSD 0.007790.00273 +0.00506
ABTUSD 0.010470.00554 +0.00493
XRDUSD 0.007350.00282 +0.00453
TIMEUSD 0.009140.00529 +0.00385
FOXUSD 0.005700.00207 +0.00363

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZILUSD 0.005510.01390 -0.00839
ASTUSD 0.004890.01206 -0.00717
KRLUSD 0.004620.01007 -0.00544
BTRSTUSD 0.003310.00873 -0.00542
DNTUSD 0.002640.00783 -0.00518

How these numbers are produced

Transfer entropy measures how much knowing one asset's past reduces uncertainty about another's future, beyond what that asset's own past already explains. Unlike correlation it is directional, so an edge from A to B means A's moves carry information about B's next move — not merely that they move together.

Each night we estimate transfer entropy across three universes — roughly 1,500 US common stocks, 350 cryptocurrencies and 550 currency pairs — over a trailing one-year window, conditioning on a broad market series so that shared market-wide movement is discounted rather than counted as a link. Edges surviving the significance filter form that session's directed network, from which the centrality figures on this page are computed. Coverage differs by class: crypto reaches back to January 2024, equities to August 2025, so older digests may cover fewer classes.

PageRank ranks an asset by how much influence flows into it from other influential assets. In-degree and out-degree are the share of the network sending information to it and receiving information from it. Betweenness captures how often an asset sits on the shortest path between two others.

The volatility watch score is a model estimate of the probability that an asset sees elevated volatility in the coming sessions. It is a research output, not a forecast of price direction, and nothing on this page is investment advice.