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Daily network digest

Thursday, August 1, 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

DESOUSD was the most central name, carrying 3.96× the influence of an average node across 335 assets.

assets
335
Density
0.174
Clustering
0.376
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
DESOUSD 1 0.01183 3.96× 61.1% 17.7% RBCUSD, BLZUSD, NKNUSD, XYOUSD, SDNUSD
DVFUSD 2 0.01181 3.96× 57.8% 19.5% LCXUSD, CVCUSD, API3USD, SWFTCUSD, REPUSD
TEERUSD 3 0.01166 3.91× 52.7% 21.3% SHPINGUSD, UNIUSD, LITUSD, DEXTUSD, ENJUSD
BTRSTUSD 4 0.01120 3.75× 48.5% 33.2% EWTUSD, GHSTUSD, ILVUSD, ORNUSD, APEUSD
EULUSD 5 0.00940 3.15× 49.7% 19.2% BOBAUSD, DESOUSD, GARIUSD, AERGOUSD, MAGICUSD
LTCBTC 6 0.00864 2.89× 44.9% 16.8% BALUSD, TVKUSD, KILTUSD, GNOUSD, MASKUSD
REPUSD 7 0.00798 2.67× 41.9% 16.2% TONUSD, KILTUSD, AMPUSD, CQTUSD, LCXUSD
XRPBTC 8 0.00760 2.55× 41.6% 13.5% DVFUSD, XDCUSD, UMAUSD, RUNEUSD, FXUSD
KINUSD 9 0.00747 2.50× 34.7% 44.3% KSMUSD, SCRTUSD, FLOWUSD, BCHUSD, ALCXUSD
GALUSD 10 0.00663 2.22× 40.4% 9.6% TEERUSD, AKTEUR, JUNOUSD, ZENUSD, KINUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-07-31

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TEERUSD 0.011660.00277 +0.00889
EULUSD 0.009400.00334 +0.00606
DVFUSD 0.011810.00694 +0.00486
GALUSD 0.006630.00243 +0.00420
BTRSTUSD 0.011200.00719 +0.00401

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
DIMOUSD 0.003940.01383 -0.00989
INTRUSD 0.003540.00986 -0.00632
PAXGUSD 0.004520.01055 -0.00603
TIMEUSD 0.004640.01047 -0.00583
XRDUSD 0.003050.00773 -0.00468

Foreign exchange

COPMXN was the most central name, carrying 5.03× the influence of an average node across 603 pairs.

pairs
603
Density
0.016
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
COPMXN 1 0.00834 5.03× 2.5% 1.0% ZARSGD, CZKJPY, JPYCZK, SGDNOK, ZARAUD
SEKNOK 2 0.00809 4.88× 6.8% 4.7% XAUUSD, XAUSAR, XAUZAR, XAUCNY, XAUINR
MXNPLN 3 0.00805 4.86× 7.8% 2.3% MXNJPY, MXNSGD, MXNGBP, SGDMXN, JPYMXN
EURRUB 4 0.00776 4.68× 4.8% 2.5% GBPSCR, SGDARS, USDRWF, HKDBRL, KWDAED
DKKZAR 5 0.00758 4.57× 5.6% 1.7% KRWUSD, RONZAR, ZARTWD, ZARINR, ZARRON
THBUSD 6 0.00673 4.06× 1.3% 3.0% CADSEK, SEKINR, DKKPKR, SEKJPY, MXNUSD
CLPGBP 7 0.00650 3.92× 1.0% 0.3% CLPCHF, CHFCLP
USDPGK 8 0.00617 3.72× 6.5% 2.3% GBPBWP, BWPGBP, GBPMWK, MWKGBP, SZLGBP
NZDAED 9 0.00616 3.71× 6.3% 5.5% EURAED, AEDNZD, EURTHB, USDPKR, EURBHD
USDKES 10 0.00583 3.52× 0.7% 0.2% CLPGBP

Rising influence vs 2024-07-31

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
DKKZAR 0.007580.00104 +0.00655
MXNPLN 0.008050.00235 +0.00571
USDKES 0.005830.00052 +0.00531
EURRUB 0.007760.00249 +0.00527
CLPGBP 0.006500.00154 +0.00496

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUZAR 0.003360.01052 -0.00716
ZARPLN 0.005650.01184 -0.00619
ARSAUD 0.000600.00534 -0.00474
MURGBP 0.000350.00494 -0.00459
BRLMXN 0.000670.00509 -0.00442

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.