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Daily network digest

Friday, March 22, 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 4.96× the influence of an average node across 332 assets.

assets
332
Density
0.197
Clustering
0.404
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 0.01494 4.96× 67.7% 40.2% LSKUSD, RADUSD, DEXTUSD, EWTUSD, GLMRUSD
DVFUSD 2 0.01432 4.75× 69.5% 19.0% 1INCHUSD, HIGHUSD, IMXUSD, OPUSD, NEXOUSD
RPLUSD 3 0.01159 3.85× 60.4% 9.7% BTRSTUSD, ASTUSD, SCRTUSD, ELAUSD, AUCTIONUSD
DNTUSD 4 0.00829 2.75× 45.9% 18.1% RPLUSD, DVFUSD, LOKAUSD, BTRSTUSD, XDCUSD
DESOUSD 5 0.00782 2.60× 47.1% 29.3% ETHUSD, CBETHUSD, LSETHUSD, EOSUSD, ETHBTC
XRPBTC 6 0.00663 2.20× 40.8% 13.9% MCUSD, XDCUSD, KARUSD, ALEPHUSD, PONDUSD
GARIUSD 7 0.00652 2.17× 41.7% 33.2% CTSIUSD, EWTUSD, UNIUSD, KP3RUSD, XDCUSD
ABTUSD 8 0.00622 2.07× 42.0% 33.2% FARMUSD, BOBAUSD, QTFUSD, BSXUSD, QNTUSD
INVUSD 9 0.00616 2.05× 41.1% 17.8% TRXUSD, PONDUSD, INTRUSD, ORCAEUR, PUNDIXUSD
AVTUSD 10 0.00603 2.00× 45.0% 23.3% EOSUSD, XLMUSD, DVFUSD, BNTUSD, AXSUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-03-21

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BTRSTUSD 0.014940.00399 +0.01095
RPLUSD 0.011590.00403 +0.00756
DVFUSD 0.014320.00740 +0.00692
DNTUSD 0.008290.00332 +0.00497
POWRUSD 0.005600.00190 +0.00370

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XRDUSD 0.003850.00891 -0.00506
TIMEUSD 0.005280.00934 -0.00406
NANOUSD 0.003120.00684 -0.00372
RAREUSD 0.002280.00581 -0.00353
SUKUUSD 0.002620.00606 -0.00344

Foreign exchange

INRTHB was the most central name, carrying 5.36× the influence of an average node across 678 pairs.

pairs
678
Density
0.014
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
INRTHB 1 0.00791 5.36× 1.0% 1.8% HKDZAR, USDUGX, CHFZAR, EURZAR, NZDZAR
ZARTWD 2 0.00741 5.03× 6.6% 2.2% XAGTRY, XAGSAR, XAGZAR, XAGRUB, DKKJPY
ZAREUR 3 0.00738 5.01× 2.2% 1.3% ZARKRW, ZARUSD, ZARAED, ZARSEK, ILSZAR
XAUMXN 4 0.00706 4.79× 4.4% 2.5% XAGJPY, AUDTRY, XAURUB, JPYCLP, XAGBRL
CLPAUD 5 0.00682 4.62× 3.5% 0.3% ZAREUR, USDSEK
NZDNOK 6 0.00657 4.46× 3.0% 1.0% NZDTWD, ZARTWD, ZARMYR, XAUMXN, NOKPLN
ZARIDR 7 0.00629 4.27× 5.6% 3.0% XAGTRY, ZARMYR, INRMYR, HKDMYR, PLNCZK
JPYGBP 8 0.00571 3.87× 3.0% 2.2% HKDJPY, NZDNOK, NOKCHF, CZKNOK, NOKDKK
TWDTHB 9 0.00547 3.71× 3.5% 0.0%
USDALL 10 0.00542 3.68× 7.8% 6.6% LKRGBP, NZDAED, ZARMAD, MADZAR, NZDCNY

Rising influence vs 2024-03-21

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
INRTHB 0.007910.00064 +0.00726
NZDNOK 0.006570.00027 +0.00631
ZAREUR 0.007380.00155 +0.00583
XAUMXN 0.007060.00155 +0.00551
CLPAUD 0.006820.00172 +0.00509

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CNYAUD 0.000280.00757 -0.00728
AUDPKR 0.000280.00755 -0.00727
NZDTHB 0.001920.00858 -0.00665
TNDZAR 0.001050.00672 -0.00567
AUDTRY 0.002560.00814 -0.00558

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.