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Daily network digest

Thursday, March 7, 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 4.48× the influence of an average node across 330 assets.

assets
330
Density
0.191
Clustering
0.392
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 0.01357 4.48× 62.0% 30.7% DEXTUSD, RADUSD, LSKUSD, KP3RUSD, ETHUSD
DVFUSD 2 0.00943 3.11× 51.4% 28.6% MXCUSD, RAREUSD, HIGHUSD, 1INCHUSD, ACAUSD
RPLUSD 3 0.00939 3.10× 49.8% 11.9% BTRSTUSD, SDNUSD, ASTUSD, NCTUSD, ZENUSD
DNTUSD 4 0.00862 2.85× 47.4% 30.4% LOKAUSD, BTRSTUSD, XDCUSD, ASTRUSD, RPLUSD
LTCBTC 5 0.00749 2.47× 46.5% 14.3% LPTUSD, XRDUSD, CLVUSD, IOTXUSD, PNKUSD
AIRUSD 6 0.00724 2.39× 37.7% 24.9% RADUSD, CVXUSD, ETHAUD, LTCAUD, BALUSD
XLMUSD 7 0.00693 2.29× 41.3% 20.4% ALEPHUSD, RBCUSD, LSKUSD, PONDUSD, ORNUSD
ERNUSD 8 0.00681 2.25× 37.1% 15.8% ARPAUSD, RUNEUSD, DYDXEUR, MAGICUSD, FTMUSD
XRPBTC 9 0.00669 2.21× 42.2% 14.0% ALEPHUSD, XLMUSD, XDCUSD, AVTUSD, MCUSD
INVUSD 10 0.00662 2.18× 38.3% 15.8% TRXUSD, GSTUSD, PONDUSD, CTSIUSD, XRPBTC

Rising influence vs 2024-03-06

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BTRSTUSD 0.013570.00329 +0.01028
RPLUSD 0.009390.00379 +0.00559
DNTUSD 0.008620.00375 +0.00488
XLMUSD 0.006930.00225 +0.00467
RAYUSD 0.005240.00119 +0.00405

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
RAREUSD 0.002990.00671 -0.00371
TSDUSD 0.000980.00468 -0.00369
TIMEUSD 0.006150.00982 -0.00367
NANOUSD 0.003740.00721 -0.00347
SUKUUSD 0.003510.00676 -0.00324

Foreign exchange

ZARIDR was the most central name, carrying 7.15× the influence of an average node across 676 pairs.

pairs
676
Density
0.014
Clustering
0.316
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 0.01058 7.15× 3.4% 1.2% DKKRUB, THBMYR, CADMYR, HKDMYR, INRMYR
USDILS 2 0.00783 5.29× 4.0% 1.5% NZDPLN, XAUCAD, XAUBRL, XAUZAR, XAGZAR
COPUSD 3 0.00769 5.20× 2.7% 0.7% DKKRUB, ZARILS, AUDMYR, ZARMYR, JPYCLP
KESUSD 4 0.00759 5.13× 5.8% 2.2% USDGHS, THBCNY, GBPMGA, USDZMW, GBPUGX
AUDTRY 5 0.00734 4.96× 3.0% 2.5% USDILS, JPYNOK, NZDHUF, GBPHUF, ILSCAD
AEDNZD 6 0.00710 4.80× 3.7% 1.6% KRWSEK, ILSNOK, MADAUD, AUDMAD, BRLPEN
EURRUB 7 0.00618 4.18× 3.9% 2.4% GHSZAR, ZARGHS, EURAED, CHFSZL, SZLCHF
PLNMXN 8 0.00612 4.14× 4.3% 0.6% TRYPLN, TRYJPY, NZDTRY, AUDTRY
NZDTRY 9 0.00576 3.89× 2.4% 2.1% ILSCAD, USDILS, GBPHUF, JPYNOK, XAGCNY
ARSUSD 10 0.00561 3.79× 2.1% 0.9% EURARS, KZTUSD, USDKZT, AUDZAR, BRLKRW

Rising influence vs 2024-03-06

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
KESUSD 0.007590.00033 +0.00725
NZDTRY 0.005760.00102 +0.00474
USDILS 0.007830.00315 +0.00468
USDNOK 0.004840.00067 +0.00417
ARSUSD 0.005610.00148 +0.00413

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AUDMAD 0.001980.00890 -0.00692
USDPLN 0.000560.00674 -0.00618
JPYRSD 0.001340.00669 -0.00535
EURKWD 0.000510.00450 -0.00399
EURPLN 0.000560.00443 -0.00387

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.