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Daily network digest

Monday, January 29, 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 4.58× the influence of an average node across 339 assets.

assets
339
Density
0.183
Clustering
0.400
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 0.01350 4.58× 59.5% 10.9% INVUSD, EWTUSD, MVUSD, LTCBTC, SHPINGUSD
ASTUSD 2 0.01077 3.65× 51.2% 20.1% KARUSD, BSXUSD, WBTCUSD, KILTUSD, DVFUSD
KRLUSD 3 0.00940 3.19× 55.9% 21.0% ACAUSD, HOPRUSD, ANKRUSD, PHAUSD, PONDUSD
XDCUSD 4 0.00892 3.02× 47.0% 21.0% IDEXUSD, INTRUSD, LTCBTC, NKNUSD, SUKUUSD
LTCBTC 5 0.00865 2.93× 45.9% 18.0% PONDUSD, RBCUSD, MTLUSD, RPLUSD, CHEXUSD
ROOKUSD 6 0.00861 2.92× 51.8% 46.4% MOVRUSD, DASHUSD, JUNOUSD, DSHUSD, DUSKUSD
BTRSTUSD 7 0.00816 2.77× 45.3% 30.2% MASKUSD, KNCUSD, DASHUSD, FXSUSD, XRPBTC
ALEPHUSD 8 0.00797 2.70× 42.9% 12.4% IDEXUSD, ETHBTC, GNOUSD, MDTUSD, BLZUSD
XRPBTC 9 0.00792 2.69× 46.4% 23.4% AURORAUSD, AIRUSD, AKTUSD, DOGEUSD, DNTUSD
PROUSD 10 0.00781 2.65× 39.9% 18.9% MVUSD, PUNDIXUSD, GFIUSD, ARPAUSD, XRPBTC

Rising influence vs 2024-01-28

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZILUSD 0.013500.00596 +0.00755
KRLUSD 0.009400.00262 +0.00678
ASTUSD 0.010770.00402 +0.00676
XDCUSD 0.008920.00315 +0.00577
ROOKUSD 0.008610.00376 +0.00485

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AIRUSD 0.002420.00801 -0.00558
ASMUSD 0.002510.00753 -0.00502
SWEATUSD 0.002620.00715 -0.00453
INVUSD 0.003450.00717 -0.00372
DESOUSD 0.002550.00576 -0.00321

Foreign exchange

ZARIDR was the most central name, carrying 11.97× the influence of an average node across 700 pairs.

pairs
700
Density
0.014
Clustering
0.331
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
ZARIDR 1 0.01710 11.97× 3.1% 1.1% DKKRUB, CADMYR, THBMYR, HKDMYR, INRMYR
CADRUB 2 0.00742 5.19× 4.1% 0.3% ZARTWD, USDILS
USDPGK 3 0.00706 4.94× 7.9% 2.4% GBPSCR, PENUSD, CADPEN, AEDSEK, DKKAED
EUROMR 4 0.00627 4.39× 2.4% 1.7% ZARDKK, ILSJPY, ZAREGP, OMRZAR, ZARNOK
SEKRUB 5 0.00569 3.98× 1.1% 1.3% ZAREUR, QARZAR, JPYILS, RUBUSD, CZKZAR
ALLGBP 6 0.00567 3.97× 5.2% 4.0% MGAGBP, BWPUSD, GBPMGA, MDLGBP, ALLUSD
PHPJPY 7 0.00555 3.88× 1.3% 0.3% GBPPHP, AUDPHP
USDNOK 8 0.00514 3.60× 2.7% 0.1% PHPJPY
USDSCR 9 0.00503 3.52× 3.9% 3.1% GBPOMR, GBPKWD, USDCOP, GBPBHD, HUFZAR
QARZAR 10 0.00500 3.50× 1.7% 0.9% AUDILS, SEKRUB, KRWUSD, MYRZAR, ILSAUD

Rising influence vs 2024-01-26

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZARIDR 0.017100.00631 +0.01079
CADRUB 0.007420.00068 +0.00674
PHPJPY 0.005550.00027 +0.00528
ZARTWD 0.004990.00052 +0.00447
ALLGBP 0.005670.00171 +0.00396

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
IDRZAR 0.002350.01018 -0.00783
DKKRUB 0.002660.00843 -0.00578
ZARPHP 0.001050.00642 -0.00537
USDNZD 0.001200.00637 -0.00517
CHFCLP 0.001190.00585 -0.00467

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.