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Daily network digest

Friday, January 26, 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 4.50× the influence of an average node across 339 assets.

assets
339
Density
0.190
Clustering
0.404
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 0.01328 4.50× 59.8% 11.5% INVUSD, EWTUSD, RBNUSD, LTCBTC, MVUSD
ASTUSD 2 0.01055 3.58× 52.1% 21.3% CFGUSD, DVFUSD, KARUSD, KILTUSD, IOTUSD
KRLUSD 3 0.00917 3.11× 55.9% 18.9% ANKRUSD, ACAUSD, HOPRUSD, DVFUSD, RNDRUSD
ROOKUSD 4 0.00889 3.01× 53.6% 45.6% MOVRUSD, DSHUSD, RPLUSD, GNOUSD, DASHUSD
XDCUSD 5 0.00850 2.88× 46.7% 24.6% INTRUSD, IDEXUSD, CRVUSD, NKNUSD, PLAUSD
ALEPHUSD 6 0.00808 2.74× 44.4% 11.2% IDEXUSD, C98USD, ETHBTC, CTSIUSD, ABTUSD
LTCBTC 7 0.00798 2.70× 45.0% 14.2% PONDUSD, RBCUSD, KEYUSD, RPLUSD, CHEXUSD
PROUSD 8 0.00789 2.67× 43.2% 21.9% GFIUSD, PUNDIXUSD, ARPAUSD, CHRUSD, MVUSD
BTRSTUSD 9 0.00783 2.66× 47.0% 29.9% FXSUSD, MASKUSD, DASHUSD, KNCUSD, DSHUSD
EWTUSD 10 0.00740 2.51× 42.6% 21.9% FARMUSD, MDTUSD, OMGUSD, ZILUSD, SOLUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-01-25

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
KRLUSD 0.009170.00255 +0.00663
ASTUSD 0.010550.00408 +0.00647
ZILUSD 0.013280.00682 +0.00647
XDCUSD 0.008500.00291 +0.00559
ROOKUSD 0.008890.00463 +0.00426

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AIRUSD 0.002450.00846 -0.00601
ASMUSD 0.002430.00768 -0.00525
SWEATUSD 0.002730.00754 -0.00481
INVUSD 0.003440.00677 -0.00333
CHEXUSD 0.002920.00608 -0.00316

Foreign exchange

IDRZAR was the most central name, carrying 7.16× the influence of an average node across 703 pairs.

pairs
703
Density
0.012
Clustering
0.308
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 0.01018 7.16× 4.8% 2.0% NZDTHB, DKKAED, SGDTHB, GBPBHD, PLNILS
DKKRUB 2 0.00843 5.93× 2.0% 0.4% JPYRUB, RUBJPY, GBPIDR
XAGARS 3 0.00777 5.46× 3.7% 0.6% XAGBRL, XAUGBP, XAUBRL, XAUZAR
XAUGBP 4 0.00686 4.83× 2.4% 0.9% XAGAUD, XAGKRW, XAGARS, XAURUB, XAGUSD
ZARPHP 5 0.00642 4.51× 1.6% 0.9% ZARINR, ARSEUR, ZARNOK, ZAREGP, COPBRL
USDNZD 6 0.00637 4.48× 3.0% 0.6% NOKILS, RONZAR, NOKUSD, RUBSEK
ZARIDR 7 0.00631 4.43× 2.0% 0.1% DKKRUB
ILSSEK 8 0.00629 4.42× 2.1% 1.4% NZDSGD, CNYNZD, SEKCZK, THBNZD, JPYNZD
ILSPLN 9 0.00591 4.16× 6.1% 1.9% GBPKWD, HUFEUR, GBPLRD, BRLCOP, GBPOMR
CHFCLP 10 0.00585 4.12× 2.3% 2.4% SGDSEK, HKDSEK, AUDHKD, SEKEUR, SEKAUD

Rising influence vs 2024-01-25

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
IDRZAR 0.010180.00366 +0.00652
ZARPHP 0.006420.00057 +0.00585
USDNZD 0.006370.00097 +0.00539
DKKRUB 0.008430.00314 +0.00529
CHFCLP 0.005850.00091 +0.00494

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZARIDR 0.006310.01360 -0.00730
XAUMXN 0.001880.00792 -0.00604
ARSUSD 0.001240.00493 -0.00368
AUDAED 0.000810.00448 -0.00367
ZARNGN 0.002390.00588 -0.00349

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.