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Daily network digest

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Directed information-flow networks for this session, covering Cryptocurrency, Foreign exchange. 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.

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Cryptocurrency

ZILUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.52× the influence of an average node across 339 assets.

assets
339
Density
0.189
Clustering
0.403
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
ZILUSD 1 0.01333 4.52× 58.6% 12.7% INVUSD, EWTUSD, RBNUSD, LTCBTC, COVALUSD
ASTUSD 2 0.01096 3.72× 52.7% 20.4% DVFUSD, WCFGUSD, IOTUSD, BSXUSD, WBTCUSD
ROOKUSD 3 0.00925 3.14× 56.5% 48.5% DSHUSD, DASHUSD, JUNOUSD, MOVRUSD, ZRXUSD
KRLUSD 4 0.00920 3.12× 56.5% 17.2% ACAUSD, HOPRUSD, ANKRUSD, DVFUSD, LTCBTC
XDCUSD 5 0.00862 2.92× 47.3% 26.0% IDEXUSD, INTRUSD, BICOUSD, NKNUSD, CRVUSD
BTRSTUSD 6 0.00800 2.71× 45.9% 28.7% MASKUSD, DASHUSD, BTTUSD, KNCUSD, ALPHAUSD
ALEPHUSD 7 0.00775 2.63× 41.7% 13.3% IDEXUSD, ETHBTC, C98USD, HBARUSD, BSXUSD
PROUSD 8 0.00775 2.63× 42.0% 19.2% MVUSD, GFIUSD, PUNDIXUSD, ARPAUSD, CHRUSD
OXYUSD 9 0.00751 2.55× 44.4% 28.7% FIDAUSD, LUNAUSD, PROUSD, IDEXUSD, RAREUSD
LTCBTC 10 0.00751 2.55× 40.2% 14.2% RBCUSD, PONDUSD, KEYUSD, VSYUSD, RPLUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-01-22

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ASTUSD 0.010960.00391 +0.00705
KRLUSD 0.009200.00249 +0.00672
ZILUSD 0.013330.00708 +0.00624
XDCUSD 0.008620.00352 +0.00510
ROOKUSD 0.009250.00476 +0.00450

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AIRUSD 0.002420.00972 -0.00730
SWEATUSD 0.002680.00752 -0.00484
ASMUSD 0.002520.00733 -0.00481
CFGUSD 0.002050.00562 -0.00357
CHEXUSD 0.002780.00628 -0.00350

Foreign exchange

IDRZAR was the most central name, carrying 6.95× the influence of an average node across 720 pairs.

pairs
720
Density
0.012
Clustering
0.310
Diameter

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
IDRZAR 1 0.00966 6.95× 4.6% 1.9% NZDTHB, DKKAED, SGDTHB, GBPBHD, GBPMDL
DKKRUB 2 0.00821 5.91× 1.9% 0.4% JPYRUB, RUBJPY, GBPIDR
XAGARS 3 0.00660 4.75× 3.8% 0.6% XAUGBP, XAUBRL, XAUMXN, XAUZAR
USDNZD 4 0.00647 4.66× 2.9% 0.7% NOKILS, ZARRON, RONZAR, NOKUSD, MXNZAR
ILSSEK 5 0.00641 4.62× 2.1% 1.3% NZDSGD, CNYNZD, THBNZD, SEKCZK, JPYNZD
XAUGBP 6 0.00612 4.40× 2.2% 0.8% XAGUSD, XAGAUD, XAURUB, XAGARS, XAGKRW
ZARIDR 7 0.00609 4.39× 1.9% 0.1% DKKRUB
CHFCLP 8 0.00587 4.23× 2.2% 2.5% SGDSEK, HKDSEK, ILSSEK, AUDHKD, SEKAUD
RUBSEK 9 0.00568 4.09× 2.6% 2.2% SEKILS, NZDCAD, NOKUSD, CADHUF, GBPXPF
ARSZAR 10 0.00558 4.02× 8.5% 2.5% CNYZAR, ZARGHS, GHSZAR, GHSGBP, GBPGHS

Rising influence vs 2024-01-22

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
IDRZAR 0.009660.00361 +0.00605
USDNZD 0.006470.00101 +0.00546
CHFCLP 0.005870.00088 +0.00499
DKKRUB 0.008210.00341 +0.00480
ILSSEK 0.006410.00215 +0.00426

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZARIDR 0.006090.01381 -0.00772
CNYAUD 0.000270.00494 -0.00467
XAGZAR 0.000600.00451 -0.00390
SGDARS 0.001570.00536 -0.00379
AUDAED 0.000870.00456 -0.00369

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.