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Daily network digest

Friday, March 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

ROOKUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.32× the influence of an average node across 330 assets.

assets
330
Density
0.191
Clustering
0.403
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
ROOKUSD 1 0.01309 4.32× 67.5% 39.5% MOVRUSD, MKRUSD, KSMUSD, ORNUSD, TRADEUSD
ASTUSD 2 0.01218 4.02× 54.7% 15.2% WBTCUSD, BTCUSD, BTCAUD, BTCGBP, CTXUSD
KRLUSD 3 0.00931 3.07× 54.1% 21.6% XRPBTC, MNAUSD, RADUSD, AVTUSD, ACAUSD
BTRSTUSD 4 0.00866 2.86× 44.1% 32.5% ICXUSD, DASHUSD, STGUSD, BATUSD, DSHUSD
AERGOUSD 5 0.00804 2.65× 44.7% 12.8% RLCUSD, MXCUSD, MOVRUSD, REPV2USD, FETUSD
XDCUSD 6 0.00777 2.56× 41.6% 22.2% INTRUSD, OXTUSD, PROUSD, GSTUSD, IDEXUSD
LTCBTC 7 0.00757 2.50× 41.0% 13.4% KARUSD, RBCUSD, PONDUSD, NEOUSD, PRIMEUSD
REPUSD 8 0.00728 2.40× 38.6% 20.7% KP3RUSD, IDEXUSD, GNOUSD, POLISUSD, WAXLUSD
DVFUSD 9 0.00719 2.37× 39.5% 24.3% XTZUSD, MUSEUSD, KAVAUSD, BTRSTUSD, KEEPUSD
CVCUSD 10 0.00687 2.27× 38.0% 9.7% PNKUSD, XMRUSD, BTCJPY, XLMUSD, KRLUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-03-07

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ROOKUSD 0.013090.00451 +0.00858
ASTUSD 0.012180.00431 +0.00788
KRLUSD 0.009310.00262 +0.00668
AERGOUSD 0.008040.00351 +0.00453
CVCUSD 0.006870.00240 +0.00447

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
RPLUSD 0.003190.00939 -0.00620
AIRUSD 0.001540.00724 -0.00571
BTRSTUSD 0.008660.01357 -0.00491
ERNUSD 0.002380.00681 -0.00443
ASMUSD 0.001460.00544 -0.00398

Foreign exchange

XAUMXN was the most central name, carrying 7.69× the influence of an average node across 704 pairs.

pairs
704
Density
0.013
Clustering
0.323
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 0.01092 7.69× 4.1% 1.1% AUDTRY, XAUKRW, XAGJPY, NZDEUR, HNLGBP
AEDNZD 2 0.01029 7.24× 4.7% 0.9% SGDTRY, TRYSGD, CADTRY, AUDMAD, MADAUD
GBPNGN 3 0.00925 6.51× 3.1% 1.1% ZMWZAR, ZARTRY, AEDZAR, USDTHB, TZSZAR
JODILS 4 0.00922 6.49× 2.3% 1.0% CADTRY, MADAUD, THBNZD, SGDTRY, NZDHKD
CADTRY 5 0.00659 4.64× 1.1% 0.6% JODILS, ZARSGD, ZARHKD, HUFZAR
HNLGBP 6 0.00569 4.01× 4.0% 0.3% JPYNOK, XAUJPY
THBNZD 7 0.00562 3.96× 1.1% 0.1% AEDNZD
USDNZD 8 0.00548 3.86× 3.1% 0.9% NOKILS, NOKUSD, RONZAR, MXNZAR, ZARRON
USDGHS 9 0.00542 3.81× 4.0% 1.4% ZARTHB, USDZMW, LKRUSD, USDLKR, AUDBRL
XAURUB 10 0.00531 3.74× 4.1% 1.7% TRYJPY, XAGBRL, XAGSAR, XAGJPY, XAGKRW

Rising influence vs 2024-03-07

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUMXN 0.010920.00431 +0.00661
GBPNGN 0.009250.00303 +0.00622
CADTRY 0.006590.00082 +0.00578
JODILS 0.009220.00356 +0.00566
HNLGBP 0.005690.00027 +0.00542

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZARIDR 0.002180.01058 -0.00839
KESUSD 0.000360.00759 -0.00722
COPUSD 0.001760.00769 -0.00593
PLNMXN 0.000470.00612 -0.00565
AUDTRY 0.002300.00734 -0.00504

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.