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Daily network digest

Friday, April 19, 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

REPUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.02× the influence of an average node across 335 assets.

assets
335
Density
0.189
Clustering
0.407
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
REPUSD 1 0.01200 4.02× 57.2% 33.2% MUSEUSD, UMAUSD, GRTUSD, ICPUSD, ROSEUSD
LTCBTC 2 0.00984 3.30× 53.3% 18.6% BTCUSD, PRIMEUSD, BNTUSD, WBTCUSD, CROUSD
TSDUSD 3 0.00943 3.16× 62.6% 10.8% EGLDUSD, PAXGUSD, HOPRUSD, XAUTUSD, MINAUSD
ROOKUSD 4 0.00923 3.09× 55.1% 36.5% MOVRUSD, HOPRUSD, NKNUSD, MLNUSD, POWRUSD
KRLUSD 5 0.00810 2.71× 48.5% 17.1% MKRUSD, XRPBTC, LINKUSD, LTCBTC, FXSUSD
XRPBTC 6 0.00750 2.51× 41.3% 20.4% DNTUSD, ACAUSD, LTCEUR, YGGEUR, TONUSD
DVFUSD 7 0.00743 2.49× 44.6% 19.8% QTFUSD, ALCXUSD, APTUSD, CELRUSD, CFGUSD
PNKUSD 8 0.00737 2.47× 40.4% 27.2% FXUSD, PERPUSD, QTUMUSD, EOSUSD, LINKUSD
NEXOUSD 9 0.00727 2.44× 42.8% 14.4% REPUSD, GHSTUSD, GNOUSD, KSMUSD, PAXGUSD
WBTCUSD 10 0.00695 2.33× 43.7% 27.2% DVFUSD, REPV2USD, NEXOUSD, BTTUSD, ADAUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-04-18

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TSDUSD 0.009430.00286 +0.00657
REPUSD 0.012000.00629 +0.00571
ROOKUSD 0.009230.00377 +0.00546
KRLUSD 0.008100.00296 +0.00514
WBTCUSD 0.006950.00247 +0.00449

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BTRSTUSD 0.006150.01354 -0.00740
TEERUSD 0.005070.01162 -0.00655
RPLUSD 0.003000.00881 -0.00581
FORTUSD 0.003460.00914 -0.00568
DESOUSD 0.003310.00872 -0.00542

Foreign exchange

PLNMXN was the most central name, carrying 4.83× the influence of an average node across 684 pairs.

pairs
684
Density
0.013
Clustering
0.349
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
PLNMXN 1 0.00706 4.83× 6.1% 1.2% TRYPLN, ILSCAD, RUBUSD, AUDTRY, XAGBRL
EURCDF 2 0.00655 4.48× 0.4% 0.6% EURBIF, EURHTG, EURCOP, RUBKRW
NZDNOK 3 0.00651 4.45× 2.9% 1.5% NZDTWD, ZARTWD, ZARMYR, NOKSEK, PLNMXN
USDKRW 4 0.00608 4.16× 1.0% 0.3% USDZAR, EGPZAR
ZARPLN 5 0.00580 3.97× 5.4% 2.3% XAGEUR, XAGJPY, XAGSAR, PLNMXN, XAGTRY
BRLAUD 6 0.00527 3.60× 1.3% 0.0%
RUBEUR 7 0.00514 3.52× 4.7% 2.6% MWKUSD, USDPKR, GBPMWK, MWKGBP, EURRUB
SEKRUB 8 0.00508 3.47× 0.7% 0.6% CHFRUB, IDRNZD, ZARILS, RUBCHF
CHFSZL 9 0.00506 3.46× 4.8% 3.5% LKRGBP, GHSZAR, ZARGHS, ZARCOP, COPZAR
XAGJPY 10 0.00486 3.33× 6.3% 2.3% NZDNOK, XAUMXN, XAUAUD, XAUEUR, ZARPLN

Rising influence vs 2024-04-18

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
NZDNOK 0.006510.00028 +0.00623
EURCDF 0.006550.00145 +0.00511
EURTHB 0.004330.00038 +0.00395
SEKRUB 0.005080.00115 +0.00393
NZDTHB 0.004790.00087 +0.00392

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
NOKJPY 0.001010.00599 -0.00497
USDIQD 0.000540.00530 -0.00476
ZARRON 0.000830.00519 -0.00436
COPMXN 0.002810.00660 -0.00380
AUDHUF 0.001130.00492 -0.00379

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.