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Daily network digest

Monday, May 6, 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

XRPBTC was the most central name, carrying 3.85× the influence of an average node across 333 assets.

assets
333
Density
0.185
Clustering
0.388
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
XRPBTC 1 0.01157 3.85× 56.0% 23.8% XDCUSD, LCXUSD, UMAUSD, MCUSD, WAVESUSD
BTRSTUSD 2 0.01071 3.56× 50.9% 44.0% RADUSD, LSKUSD, EWTUSD, RPLUSD, STGUSD
DESOUSD 3 0.01027 3.42× 56.9% 25.6% LSETHUSD, ETHUSD, CBETHUSD, BOBAUSD, DASHUSD
DVFUSD 4 0.01008 3.36× 51.2% 18.4% CTXUSD, LRCUSD, PNKUSD, BOBAUSD, LCXUSD
FORTUSD 5 0.00991 3.30× 41.3% 9.3% GODSUSD, ERNUSD, KINUSD, XRPBTC, BNCUSD
MVUSD 6 0.00956 3.18× 56.9% 29.8% NMRUSD, IOTUSD, KINUSD, ARBUSD, HBARUSD
TEERUSD 7 0.00904 3.01× 44.3% 28.3% NANOUSD, SUSHIUSD, ELAUSD, BNTUSD, SUIUSD
RPLUSD 8 0.00689 2.30× 41.6% 6.0% TEERUSD, PNKUSD, FORTUSD, BTRSTUSD, DESOUSD
INVUSD 9 0.00675 2.25× 39.5% 16.9% TRXUSD, XCADUSD, VOXELUSD, THETAUSD, MTLUSD
LTCBTC 10 0.00662 2.21× 38.0% 16.3% LPTUSD, MASKUSD, ZRXUSD, PAXGUSD, ETHAUD

Rising influence vs 2024-05-05

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
FORTUSD 0.009910.00299 +0.00692
XRPBTC 0.011570.00540 +0.00617
BTRSTUSD 0.010710.00481 +0.00589
TEERUSD 0.009040.00434 +0.00470
RPLUSD 0.006890.00258 +0.00431

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
DIMOUSD 0.002060.01047 -0.00841
KILTUSD 0.002100.00808 -0.00598
PAXGUSD 0.004710.01058 -0.00587
XRDUSD 0.003240.00811 -0.00487
RAIUSD 0.001130.00568 -0.00455

Foreign exchange

EURPKR was the most central name, carrying 5.72× the influence of an average node across 671 pairs.

pairs
671
Density
0.012
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
EURPKR 1 0.00853 5.72× 2.4% 3.1% DKKPKR, USDNOK, NOKINR, ZARNOK, USDZAR
JODILS 2 0.00691 4.64× 2.5% 1.0% ILSJOD, GBPHTG, BRLCHF, JPYARS, JPYBRL
BHDEUR 3 0.00627 4.21× 1.2% 0.6% EURRUB, PKRUSD, PKRZAR, COPCAD
XAGCAD 4 0.00612 4.11× 4.6% 1.3% XAUSAR, XAUMXN, XAUUSD, XAUKRW, XAUJPY
SEKRUB 5 0.00587 3.94× 3.1% 4.0% RUBUSD, TRYJPY, NZDTRY, AUDTRY, CADSEK
COPARS 6 0.00571 3.83× 3.6% 3.9% ARSCLP, ZARTRY, SGDPLN, PLNJPY, DKKPKR
KESUSD 7 0.00563 3.78× 4.3% 1.9% USDZMW, USDGHS, MGAGBP, GBPMGA, GBPALL
XAUMXN 8 0.00552 3.71× 2.4% 1.3% XAGCAD, XAUJPY, XAGINR, KRWTWD, XAGBRL
PKRUSD 9 0.00551 3.70× 2.4% 1.0% TWDZAR, USDMDL, ZARPKR, KWDEUR, ZARPHP
XAURUB 10 0.00547 3.67× 4.2% 0.9% XAGKRW, XAGJPY, XAGCAD, THBMYR, AUDMYR

Rising influence vs 2024-05-03

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
EURPKR 0.008530.00098 +0.00755
JODILS 0.006910.00147 +0.00544
KESUSD 0.005630.00053 +0.00510
XAUJPY 0.005360.00041 +0.00496
BHDEUR 0.006270.00176 +0.00451

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
PKRJPY 0.002110.00840 -0.00630
TRYPLN 0.000740.00605 -0.00532
ILSSEK 0.001230.00640 -0.00517
NZDPKR 0.000480.00558 -0.00510
ARSPEN 0.001840.00621 -0.00437

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.