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Daily network digest

Wednesday, March 13, 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 4.72× the influence of an average node across 330 assets.

assets
330
Density
0.202
Clustering
0.405
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 0.01431 4.72× 66.6% 35.3% DEXTUSD, LSKUSD, CBETHUSD, RADUSD, EWTUSD
RPLUSD 2 0.01152 3.80× 60.2% 14.6% BTRSTUSD, ZENUSD, NCTUSD, REQUSD, ASTUSD
DVFUSD 3 0.00986 3.25× 53.8% 25.8% HIGHUSD, 1INCHUSD, MXCUSD, ACAUSD, RAREUSD
DNTUSD 4 0.00818 2.70× 48.0% 22.8% LOKAUSD, RPLUSD, BTRSTUSD, XDCUSD, DOTUSD
AIRUSD 5 0.00746 2.46× 39.2% 25.8% RADUSD, CVXUSD, ETHAUD, LTCAUD, APEUSD
AURORAUSD 6 0.00690 2.28× 39.5% 9.4% SRMUSD, MULTIUSD, SYNUSD, 00USD, ALPHAUSD
LTCBTC 7 0.00683 2.25× 45.6% 21.6% LPTUSD, XRDUSD, SBRUSD, IOTXUSD, CLVUSD
ERNUSD 8 0.00655 2.16× 37.4% 15.5% ARPAUSD, DYDXEUR, RUNEUSD, BLZUSD, ROOKUSD
XRPBTC 9 0.00649 2.14× 40.7% 16.1% ALEPHUSD, XLMUSD, SBRUSD, AVTUSD, ADAUSD
DESOUSD 10 0.00604 1.99× 38.9% 37.7% ETHUSD, LSETHUSD, CBETHUSD, OXTUSD, NKNUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-03-12

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BTRSTUSD 0.014310.00385 +0.01045
RPLUSD 0.011520.00393 +0.00759
DNTUSD 0.008180.00343 +0.00475
AIRUSD 0.007460.00364 +0.00382
ARPAUSD 0.005610.00221 +0.00341

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
SUKUUSD 0.003120.00871 -0.00559
TIMEUSD 0.005110.00936 -0.00424
KRLUSD 0.002750.00614 -0.00339
KILTUSD 0.002250.00562 -0.00337
BTCJPY 0.002250.00557 -0.00332

Foreign exchange

CNYAUD was the most central name, carrying 4.79× the influence of an average node across 687 pairs.

pairs
687
Density
0.015
Clustering
0.344
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
CNYAUD 1 0.00697 4.79× 1.6% 0.3% HKDSEK, TWDSEK
AUDILS 2 0.00676 4.64× 1.3% 0.7% USDNZD, THBUSD, DKKPLN, PLNDKK, USDTHB
CHFKRW 3 0.00628 4.32× 2.0% 0.3% MDLUSD, USDZAR
MDLUSD 4 0.00623 4.28× 1.3% 0.9% USDNOK, SEKINR, EGPZAR, OMRZAR, SGDZAR
TRYPLN 5 0.00602 4.13× 3.2% 1.6% JPYCLP, XAUZAR, ILSCAD, XAURUB, MXNPLN
ILSCAD 6 0.00597 4.10× 2.0% 1.5% MYRTWD, NZDPLN, DKKMYR, MYRIDR, ZARNZD
AUDTRY 7 0.00570 3.91× 4.1% 0.9% TRYPLN, XAUZAR, JPYNOK, GBPHUF, ILSCAD
RUBPLN 8 0.00569 3.91× 6.7% 3.8% RUBEUR, USDSZL, SCRGBP, GBPSCR, EURRUB
COPUSD 9 0.00557 3.83× 2.3% 0.6% DKKRUB, ZARIDR, NOKJPY, ZARILS
JPYNOK 10 0.00519 3.56× 3.6% 1.2% MXNPLN, NZDMXN, ZARPLN, USDNGN, XAGRUB

Rising influence vs 2024-03-12

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CNYAUD 0.006970.00026 +0.00671
JPYNOK 0.005190.00040 +0.00479
MXNPLN 0.005100.00096 +0.00414
PLNMXN 0.004740.00070 +0.00404
CHFKRW 0.006280.00245 +0.00383

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUMXN 0.003800.00970 -0.00590
ZARCZK 0.000600.00623 -0.00562
NZDNOK 0.001010.00581 -0.00480
BRLEUR 0.001250.00595 -0.00470
PKREUR 0.001340.00601 -0.00467

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.