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Daily network digest

Tuesday, April 2, 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

LTCBTC was the most central name, carrying 3.34× the influence of an average node across 333 assets.

assets
333
Density
0.189
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
LTCBTC 1 0.01004 3.34× 50.6% 27.1% BNTUSD, RNDRUSD, REPUSD, ELAUSD, SUKUUSD
TIMEUSD 2 0.00937 3.12× 49.7% 26.2% DOTUSD, XCNUSD, ADAUSD, STGUSD, SCRTUSD
XRDUSD 3 0.00902 3.00× 50.0% 23.2% ENJUSD, BITUSD, APTUSD, EWTUSD, INVUSD
ABTUSD 4 0.00881 2.94× 45.8% 24.1% DEXTUSD, PLUUSD, GSTUSD, ICXUSD, ROSEUSD
DVFUSD 5 0.00828 2.76× 48.5% 22.3% NYMUSD, CBETHUSD, MANAUSD, ETHUSD, ETCUSD
MVUSD 6 0.00749 2.49× 43.7% 24.1% LCXUSD, DUSKUSD, OXTUSD, ERNUSD, DENTUSD
REPUSD 7 0.00714 2.38× 38.0% 24.4% DESOUSD, POLSUSD, CRVUSD, POWRUSD, RNDRUSD
SHPINGUSD 8 0.00709 2.36× 43.1% 16.0% XRPAUD, LTCBTC, TRUUSD, BOBAUSD, TRXUSD
DESOUSD 9 0.00667 2.22× 40.7% 33.4% ETH2XUSD, AXSUSD, RAREUSD, XRTUSD, GLMUSD
PAXGUSD 10 0.00654 2.18× 43.7% 13.9% PYRUSD, KRLUSD, PROUSD, IMXUSD, MINAUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-04-01

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TIMEUSD 0.009370.00391 +0.00545
NANOUSD 0.006440.00214 +0.00430
MVUSD 0.007490.00333 +0.00416
XRDUSD 0.009020.00486 +0.00416
EULUSD 0.006260.00258 +0.00368

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AERGOUSD 0.001760.00876 -0.00700
ROOKUSD 0.005010.01097 -0.00596
CQTUSD 0.001680.00739 -0.00571
POWRUSD 0.002060.00712 -0.00506
ASTUSD 0.002950.00696 -0.00401

Foreign exchange

EURKWD was the most central name, carrying 5.02× the influence of an average node across 700 pairs.

pairs
700
Density
0.013
Clustering
0.338
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
EURKWD 1 0.00717 5.02× 2.1% 3.6% KWDEUR, BHDEUR, NGNUSD, NZDZAR, AEDEUR
USDSEK 2 0.00696 4.87× 1.7% 1.1% ZAREUR, ZARKRW, AUDKRW, JPYMXN, ZARINR
EURCDF 3 0.00692 4.84× 0.7% 0.1% EURHTG
CLPAUD 4 0.00669 4.69× 3.3% 0.3% USDSEK, ZAREUR
EURHTG 5 0.00614 4.30× 0.1% 0.6% GHSEUR, EURGHS, PKREUR, RUBKRW
NZDNOK 6 0.00606 4.24× 2.7% 1.7% ZARTWD, NZDTWD, ZARMYR, NOKSEK, MXNPLN
PLNMXN 7 0.00596 4.17× 5.6% 0.6% TRYPLN, ILSCAD, AUDTRY, XAGBRL
ILSSEK 8 0.00590 4.13× 3.4% 1.0% THBNZD, NZDSGD, EURNZD, CNYNZD, SEKCZK
ZAREUR 9 0.00577 4.04× 1.7% 1.4% ZARKRW, ZARNOK, ZARAED, ILSZAR, ZARUSD
ZARPLN 10 0.00575 4.02× 5.6% 2.1% XAGEUR, XAGJPY, XAGGBP, XAGSAR, XAGCNY

Rising influence vs 2024-04-01

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
EURKWD 0.007170.00091 +0.00626
USDSEK 0.006960.00166 +0.00530
ZAREUR 0.005770.00047 +0.00529
XAGJPY 0.005610.00064 +0.00497
TRYPLN 0.005350.00040 +0.00495

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDDJF 0.000440.00962 -0.00918
SGDZAR 0.000650.00850 -0.00785
JODILS 0.001510.00757 -0.00606
XAUJPY 0.000490.00596 -0.00547
COPBRL 0.001800.00661 -0.00481

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.