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Daily network digest

Thursday, February 8, 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

TIMEUSD was the most central name, carrying 2.84× the influence of an average node across 341 assets.

assets
341
Density
0.199
Clustering
0.421
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
TIMEUSD 1 0.00833 2.84× 48.5% 35.0% LINKUSD, ORNUSD, GNOUSD, ELAUSD, FORTUSD
NANOUSD 2 0.00809 2.76× 48.8% 17.4% ANTUSD, XRPAUD, FXSUSD, ETCUSD, GALUSD
ABTUSD 3 0.00808 2.76× 45.6% 17.9% PLUUSD, EOSUSD, EULUSD, RPLUSD, VETUSD
XRDUSD 4 0.00794 2.71× 47.6% 34.4% OPUSD, APTUSD, RARIEUR, DEXTUSD, MKRUSD
MVUSD 5 0.00790 2.69× 50.0% 23.8% LCXUSD, OXTUSD, UNIUSD, SGBUSD, KARUSD
LTCBTC 6 0.00787 2.68× 45.3% 25.6% SUKUUSD, ELAUSD, BNTUSD, PROUSD, AIRUSD
RARIUSD 7 0.00770 2.62× 45.6% 12.4% NANOUSD, ETHAUD, BITUSD, GNOUSD, ETHBTC
CTXUSD 8 0.00721 2.46× 42.6% 24.1% XTZUSD, SCRTUSD, BLZUSD, REQUSD, EULUSD
EULUSD 9 0.00700 2.39× 42.4% 20.9% CHRUSD, ATOMUSD, CHEXUSD, TEERUSD, CQTUSD
ASMUSD 10 0.00699 2.38× 44.1% 26.5% ARPAUSD, IDEXUSD, MASKUSD, TRUUSD, HBARUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-02-07

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
NANOUSD 0.008090.00288 +0.00521
XRDUSD 0.007940.00301 +0.00493
RARIUSD 0.007700.00325 +0.00445
ASMUSD 0.006990.00258 +0.00441
CTXUSD 0.007210.00367 +0.00354

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ASTUSD 0.004270.01100 -0.00673
ZILUSD 0.006070.01206 -0.00599
ROOKUSD 0.004920.01072 -0.00579
KRLUSD 0.004620.00989 -0.00527
MDTUSD 0.001940.00701 -0.00507

Foreign exchange

ZARIDR was the most central name, carrying 11.75× the influence of an average node across 697 pairs.

pairs
697
Density
0.012
Clustering
0.347
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 0.01686 11.75× 3.2% 1.1% DKKRUB, INRMYR, THBMYR, CADMYR, HKDMYR
PKRJPY 2 0.00938 6.54× 1.6% 0.1% NZDPKR
NZDPKR 3 0.00857 5.98× 0.3% 0.1% PKRJPY
USDPGK 4 0.00655 4.56× 6.0% 1.0% GBPSCR, AEDSEK, DKKAED, GBPZMW, USDRWF
XAUMXN 5 0.00602 4.20× 3.3% 2.4% XAUEUR, XAGZAR, XAUKRW, XAGAUD, XAGKRW
QARZAR 6 0.00579 4.03× 1.6% 1.3% XPFGBP, AUDILS, MYRZAR, SEKRUB, KRWUSD
KWDGBP 7 0.00540 3.76× 3.6% 1.3% GBPBHD, GBPOMR, ILSJOD, RUBNOK, SGDNOK
XAGARS 8 0.00532 3.71× 2.7% 1.0% XAUMXN, XAURUB, XAUZAR, XAUSAR, XAUINR
USDKZT 9 0.00502 3.50× 3.0% 1.7% CADTHB, MWKGBP, BDTJPY, CADCOP, MWKUSD
EURZMW 10 0.00488 3.40× 0.9% 0.7% USDRUB, GHSEUR, EURMDL, MDLEUR, EURGHS

Rising influence vs 2024-02-07

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
PKRJPY 0.009380.00085 +0.00852
USDPGK 0.006550.00077 +0.00578
QARZAR 0.005790.00092 +0.00487
EURZMW 0.004880.00047 +0.00441
XAUMXN 0.006020.00180 +0.00422

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
HUFPLN 0.001360.00726 -0.00590
EUROMR 0.003260.00831 -0.00505
MXNUSD 0.001470.00650 -0.00503
TRYPLN 0.001730.00652 -0.00479
ZARNZD 0.000600.00485 -0.00425

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.