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Daily network digest

Tuesday, February 27, 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

BTRSTUSD was the most central name, carrying 3.82× the influence of an average node across 341 assets.

assets
341
Density
0.194
Clustering
0.398
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
BTRSTUSD 1 0.01121 3.82× 60.6% 34.7% DEXTUSD, KP3RUSD, LSKUSD, RADUSD, MNAUSD
RPLUSD 2 0.00844 2.88× 49.4% 9.7% BTRSTUSD, FLRUSD, SGBUSD, MNGOUSD, FORTUSD
DNTUSD 3 0.00837 2.86× 45.9% 27.1% LOKAUSD, RPLUSD, MXCUSD, ALPHAUSD, NCTUSD
INVUSD 4 0.00781 2.66× 45.3% 18.2% TRXUSD, BTRSTUSD, FORTUSD, PONDUSD, CTSIUSD
DVFUSD 5 0.00762 2.60× 46.8% 27.1% MXCUSD, IDEXUSD, 1INCHUSD, HIGHUSD, RARIEUR
CHEXUSD 6 0.00754 2.57× 46.2% 28.8% THETAUSD, NCTUSD, ORNUSD, PLAUSD, IOTUSD
AIRUSD 7 0.00739 2.52× 40.6% 30.0% RADUSD, CVXUSD, ETHAUD, APEUSD, BICOUSD
XLMUSD 8 0.00709 2.42× 41.8% 22.6% ALEPHUSD, RBCUSD, XRTUSD, LSKUSD, ORNUSD
SRMUSD 9 0.00706 2.41× 38.8% 17.4% ICPUSD, ZENUSD, KSMUSD, ZRXUSD, AUDIOUSD
KINUSD 10 0.00689 2.35× 43.2% 42.6% THETAUSD, DOTUSD, LTCEUR, MATICUSD, KNCUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-02-26

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BTRSTUSD 0.011210.00304 +0.00817
XLMUSD 0.007090.00168 +0.00540
DNTUSD 0.008370.00316 +0.00521
INVUSD 0.007810.00285 +0.00496
SRMUSD 0.007060.00279 +0.00427

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XRDUSD 0.004120.00884 -0.00472
SUKUUSD 0.003270.00640 -0.00313
KRLUSD 0.002700.00582 -0.00312
KARUSD 0.001490.00456 -0.00307
BTCJPY 0.002400.00540 -0.00300

Foreign exchange

XAUMXN was the most central name, carrying 6.00× the influence of an average node across 714 pairs.

pairs
714
Density
0.014
Clustering
0.325
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
XAUMXN 1 0.00840 6.00× 4.5% 2.4% AUDCZK, XAURUB, GBPCZK, AUDHUF, NZDCZK
THBNZD 2 0.00788 5.62× 1.5% 0.7% NZDTHB, AEDNZD, CRCGBP, DKKAED, RUBPLN
XAURUB 3 0.00737 5.26× 5.2% 2.7% RUBGBP, TRYJPY, XAGMXN, AUDHUF, RUBJPY
CHFKRW 4 0.00681 4.86× 2.4% 0.3% MDLUSD, RUBSEK
MDLUSD 5 0.00649 4.63× 1.7% 1.1% USDSEK, JPYUSD, USDZAR, SEKINR, EGPZAR
SEKILS 6 0.00625 4.46× 4.2% 1.3% DKKNZD, NOKUSD, MXNJPY, ZARNGN, MXNZAR
ARSPEN 7 0.00543 3.88× 0.6% 0.6% THBEUR, COPBRL, CLPPEN, PENCLP
ILSPLN 8 0.00535 3.82× 5.0% 2.2% GBPKWD, HUFEUR, GBPSCR, GBPOMR, USDBHD
NZDTHB 9 0.00517 3.69× 2.9% 1.4% GBPBHD, SGDTRY, DKKTRY, AUDMAD, EURTRY
USDGHS 10 0.00515 3.68× 5.0% 3.1% AUDBRL, USDZMW, BRLSEK, LKRUSD, USDLKR

Rising influence vs 2024-02-26

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
THBNZD 0.007880.00039 +0.00749
CHFKRW 0.006810.00026 +0.00655
XAURUB 0.007370.00248 +0.00489
RUBDKK 0.005130.00044 +0.00468
ZARPHP 0.004780.00029 +0.00450

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZARIDR 0.002210.01685 -0.01464
ZARINR 0.002700.00730 -0.00460
USDSCR 0.001430.00573 -0.00430
BRLEUR 0.000690.00491 -0.00422
PLNMXN 0.000530.00451 -0.00398

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.