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Daily network digest

Wednesday, March 6, 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 3.23× the influence of an average node across 329 assets.

assets
329
Density
0.187
Clustering
0.399
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 0.00982 3.23× 49.4% 17.4% STGUSD, DOTUSD, LINKUSD, FORTUSD, ORNUSD
LTCBTC 2 0.00964 3.17× 52.7% 22.9% SUKUUSD, YFIUSD, BNTUSD, ELAUSD, REPUSD
REPUSD 3 0.00788 2.59× 42.1% 23.8% POLSUSD, TUSD, DESOUSD, CTXUSD, POWRUSD
CTXUSD 4 0.00760 2.50× 40.9% 14.3% SCRTUSD, BLZUSD, API3USD, XCADUSD, HOPRUSD
XRDUSD 5 0.00746 2.46× 41.2% 31.4% RARIEUR, ENJUSD, OPUSD, APTUSD, DEXTUSD
NANOUSD 6 0.00721 2.37× 40.9% 16.2% XRPAUD, ETCUSD, FXSUSD, XRPUSD, GSTUSD
EULUSD 7 0.00678 2.23× 36.9% 14.6% CHRUSD, DARUSD, WAXLUSD, LUNAUSD, PLUUSD
SUKUUSD 8 0.00676 2.22× 37.8% 19.2% EULUSD, QNTUSD, DOGEUSD, XRDUSD, RARIEUR
HOPRUSD 9 0.00675 2.22× 39.9% 21.3% ETH2XUSD, ETHBTC, API3USD, IOTUSD, CBETHUSD
RAREUSD 10 0.00671 2.21× 32.3% 11.0% NYMUSD, ASTUSD, ETHBTC, DVFUSD, EWTUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-03-05

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TIMEUSD 0.009820.00437 +0.00544
RAREUSD 0.006710.00187 +0.00484
NANOUSD 0.007210.00255 +0.00466
ASMUSD 0.006080.00160 +0.00448
EULUSD 0.006780.00245 +0.00433

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ASTUSD 0.004530.01316 -0.00863
AERGOUSD 0.001620.00883 -0.00721
BTRSTUSD 0.003290.00936 -0.00607
MDTUSD 0.001920.00748 -0.00557
POWRUSD 0.001660.00642 -0.00476

Foreign exchange

ZARIDR was the most central name, carrying 9.85× the influence of an average node across 693 pairs.

pairs
693
Density
0.014
Clustering
0.315
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 0.01422 9.85× 2.7% 0.7% INRMYR, HKDMYR, ZARMYR, DKKRUB, COPUSD
AUDMAD 2 0.00890 6.17× 2.9% 1.7% HUFZAR, ILSJOD, BRLAUD, CHFPKR, ILSNOK
AEDNZD 3 0.00753 5.22× 4.2% 1.7% THBNZD, GBPTHB, GBPSAR, NZDHKD, NZDINR
USDPLN 4 0.00674 4.67× 1.9% 0.4% EURILS, CHFPKR, GBPMUR
JPYRSD 5 0.00669 4.64× 4.3% 1.4% GBPOMR, AUDAED, USDLYD, JPYSAR, GBPZMW
CHFSZL 6 0.00596 4.13× 7.4% 3.8% SGDARS, ARSSGD, LKRGBP, ZARGHS, GHSZAR
ILSJOD 7 0.00515 3.57× 2.6% 2.3% HUFZAR, AEDNZD, JODILS, USDARS, EURILS
INRMYR 8 0.00512 3.55× 1.0% 0.1% ZARIDR
HKDMYR 9 0.00507 3.51× 1.0% 0.1% ZARIDR
AUDTRY 10 0.00488 3.38× 3.0% 1.2% TRYPLN, JPYNOK, USDILS, XAUZAR, CZKNOK

Rising influence vs 2024-03-05

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZARIDR 0.014220.00232 +0.01190
USDPLN 0.006740.00046 +0.00628
AUDMAD 0.008900.00298 +0.00592
JPYRSD 0.006690.00137 +0.00532
INRMYR 0.005120.00031 +0.00481

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUMXN 0.003720.01204 -0.00832
JODILS 0.002110.00963 -0.00752
GBPNGN 0.003980.00862 -0.00465
NZDNOK 0.000720.00512 -0.00440
CADTRY 0.001790.00609 -0.00430

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.