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Daily network digest

Monday, February 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

XRDUSD was the most central name, carrying 3.01× the influence of an average node across 341 assets.

assets
341
Density
0.195
Clustering
0.409
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
XRDUSD 1 0.00884 3.01× 49.4% 33.2% RARIEUR, DEXTUSD, OPUSD, ENJUSD, APTUSD
NANOUSD 2 0.00779 2.66× 47.4% 19.7% XRPAUD, PLAUSD, ANTUSD, XRPUSD, BOBAUSD
EULUSD 3 0.00727 2.48× 39.1% 18.2% PLUUSD, MNGOUSD, INDEXUSD, CHEXUSD, CHRUSD
TIMEUSD 4 0.00693 2.36× 39.4% 28.8% DOTUSD, LINKUSD, ORNUSD, GNOUSD, STGUSD
PNKUSD 5 0.00668 2.28× 37.4% 14.7% XRDUSD, TIMEUSD, RPLUSD, DESOUSD, BOSONUSD
ZILUSD 6 0.00658 2.24× 36.5% 7.4% EWTUSD, CFGUSD, WCFGUSD, RBNUSD, PLUUSD
LTCBTC 7 0.00653 2.23× 37.4% 30.0% SUKUUSD, ELAUSD, BNTUSD, AIRUSD, ANKRUSD
SUKUUSD 8 0.00640 2.18× 41.8% 15.9% ZILUSD, EULUSD, QNTUSD, XRDUSD, EWTUSD
DVFUSD 9 0.00635 2.16× 38.5% 29.4% NYMUSD, TRUUSD, ELAUSD, ETHBTC, SCRTUSD
ABTUSD 10 0.00602 2.05× 36.8% 18.2% PLUUSD, MATHUSD, GSTUSD, DEXTUSD, CHEXUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-02-25

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
NANOUSD 0.007790.00237 +0.00542
EULUSD 0.007270.00296 +0.00431
XRDUSD 0.008840.00473 +0.00411
ASMUSD 0.005550.00150 +0.00405
TIMEUSD 0.006930.00301 +0.00393

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ASTUSD 0.004810.01043 -0.00562
BTRSTUSD 0.003040.00751 -0.00446
ROOKUSD 0.004950.00914 -0.00419
AERGOUSD 0.001340.00550 -0.00415
MDTUSD 0.002330.00642 -0.00409

Foreign exchange

ZARIDR was the most central name, carrying 11.79× the influence of an average node across 700 pairs.

pairs
700
Density
0.014
Clustering
0.313
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 0.01685 11.79× 3.1% 1.1% DKKRUB, CADMYR, HKDMYR, THBMYR, INRMYR
USDPGK 2 0.00817 5.72× 8.4% 1.9% CADPEN, PENUSD, USDRWF, USDALL, USDDOP
ZARINR 3 0.00730 5.11× 1.3% 0.4% ARSCLP, CLPARS, PENCOP
PKRUSD 4 0.00580 4.06× 7.2% 3.1% USDLYD, BRLHKD, ZARMAD, BRLSEK, USDGHS
USDSCR 5 0.00573 4.01× 4.9% 3.6% GBPKWD, GBPBHD, USDCOP, GBPOMR, DKKAED
XAUGBP 6 0.00552 3.87× 4.4% 1.6% PLNMXN, NZDMXN, MXNPLN, PLNNOK, GBPCZK
NZDZAR 7 0.00504 3.53× 1.6% 0.6% ZARCAD, PENBRL, TWDZAR, MYRTHB
BRLEUR 8 0.00491 3.44× 3.1% 1.4% GBPCDF, ALLGBP, CDFUSD, USDOMR, CDFGBP
ILSEUR 9 0.00481 3.37× 5.2% 3.0% PLNILS, USDSCR, AEDSEK, RUBNOK, AEDNOK
RUBCHF 10 0.00477 3.34× 1.0% 0.4% RONUSD, USDNZD, HUFCAD

Rising influence vs 2024-02-23

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZARIDR 0.016850.00128 +0.01557
ZARINR 0.007300.00097 +0.00633
USDPGK 0.008170.00334 +0.00483
PKRUSD 0.005800.00181 +0.00399
BRLEUR 0.004910.00097 +0.00394

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AEDNZD 0.002350.00953 -0.00718
USDNZD 0.001640.00723 -0.00559
CADTRY 0.000260.00567 -0.00541
JODILS 0.003160.00840 -0.00524
THBNZD 0.000390.00553 -0.00514

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.