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Daily network digest

Thursday, February 1, 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 4.34× the influence of an average node across 339 assets.

assets
339
Density
0.189
Clustering
0.405
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 0.01279 4.34× 58.9% 10.1% INVUSD, EWTUSD, LTCBTC, FLRUSD, MVUSD
ASTUSD 2 0.01000 3.39× 49.1% 20.7% KARUSD, CFGUSD, WBTCUSD, QIUSD, CTXUSD
KRLUSD 3 0.00934 3.16× 56.8% 18.6% ACAUSD, ANKRUSD, HOPRUSD, RNDRUSD, PONDUSD
BTRSTUSD 4 0.00922 3.12× 50.9% 29.6% MASKUSD, DASHUSD, ZILUSD, KNCUSD, XRPBTC
ROOKUSD 5 0.00809 2.74× 52.1% 50.3% MKRUSD, DASHUSD, MOVRUSD, DSHUSD, JUNOUSD
XDCUSD 6 0.00805 2.73× 45.9% 19.2% INTRUSD, NKNUSD, API3USD, LTCBTC, OXTUSD
ALEPHUSD 7 0.00797 2.70× 44.1% 12.4% ETHBTC, BTCJPY, IDEXUSD, BLZUSD, GNOUSD
PROUSD 8 0.00797 2.70× 42.9% 19.5% MVUSD, GFIUSD, ARPAUSD, PUNDIXUSD, XRPBTC
MVUSD 9 0.00794 2.69× 42.9% 34.0% FXSUSD, SWFTCUSD, HMTUSD, ANTUSD, ALPHAUSD
LTCBTC 10 0.00741 2.51× 42.9% 19.5% PONDUSD, RBCUSD, KEYUSD, CHEXUSD, RPLUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-01-31

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
KRLUSD 0.009340.00254 +0.00680
ZILUSD 0.012790.00629 +0.00650
ASTUSD 0.010000.00361 +0.00638
XDCUSD 0.008050.00307 +0.00499
BSXUSD 0.006440.00186 +0.00459

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AIRUSD 0.002310.00737 -0.00505
INVUSD 0.003020.00797 -0.00495
SWEATUSD 0.002940.00733 -0.00439
ASMUSD 0.002560.00692 -0.00435
ERNUSD 0.002300.00551 -0.00321

Foreign exchange

ZARIDR was the most central name, carrying 11.10× the influence of an average node across 696 pairs.

pairs
696
Density
0.013
Clustering
0.332
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 0.01595 11.10× 3.0% 1.2% DKKRUB, INRMYR, THBMYR, HKDMYR, CADMYR
USDPGK 2 0.00918 6.39× 8.5% 1.4% CADPEN, PENUSD, USDDOP, USDALL, USDRWF
XAUMXN 3 0.00638 4.44× 3.6% 2.0% XAUEUR, XAGZAR, XAGAUD, XAUKRW, XAGKRW
EURLKR 4 0.00620 4.32× 1.2% 1.3% IDRJPY, IDRCHF, IDRAUD, IDRCNY, IDRSGD
SEKRUB 5 0.00529 3.68× 1.2% 1.4% CHFRUB, ZAREUR, RUBCHF, JPYILS, CZKZAR
XAGARS 6 0.00529 3.68× 2.6% 1.0% XAUMXN, XAURUB, XAUZAR, XAUSAR, XAUINR
BRLEUR 7 0.00503 3.50× 3.5% 1.4% GBPCDF, USDOMR, ALLGBP, CDFGBP, CDFUSD
XAGZAR 8 0.00497 3.46× 3.2% 1.2% XAGARS, USDILS, XAGEUR, XAGCNY, XAGTRY
XAUGBP 9 0.00491 3.42× 3.7% 0.3% XAUMXN, XAGZAR
USDSCR 10 0.00478 3.32× 3.9% 3.9% GBPKWD, GBPBHD, GBPOMR, DKKAED, USDCOP

Rising influence vs 2024-01-31

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDPGK 0.009180.00158 +0.00760
XAUMXN 0.006380.00223 +0.00415
BRLEUR 0.005030.00164 +0.00339
SEKRUB 0.005290.00200 +0.00330
ZARCAD 0.003710.00069 +0.00302

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
JPYRSD 0.000620.00473 -0.00411
EURTHB 0.000690.00447 -0.00378
XAUGBP 0.004910.00861 -0.00370
ZARNZD 0.000560.00419 -0.00363
TRYPLN 0.001810.00521 -0.00340

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.