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Daily network digest

Friday, August 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

KRLUSD was the most central name, carrying 3.74× the influence of an average node across 335 assets.

assets
335
Density
0.158
Clustering
0.367
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
KRLUSD 1 0.01116 3.74× 46.7% 10.2% LTCBTC, TRXUSD, XRPBTC, EWTUSD, RADUSD
REPUSD 2 0.01082 3.62× 46.1% 23.4% RBCUSD, XYOUSD, PNKUSD, WAXLUSD, IMXUSD
TRBUSD 3 0.01063 3.56× 52.7% 19.2% GSTUSD, RADUSD, PHAUSD, TEERUSD, AMPUSD
TSDUSD 4 0.01062 3.56× 55.7% 35.9% POLISUSD, EGLDUSD, ARBUSD, SDNUSD, SYNUSD
BLZUSD 5 0.01021 3.42× 48.2% 38.0% PUNDIXUSD, QTUMUSD, GALUSD, ROSEUSD, DIMOUSD
TLOSUSD 6 0.00947 3.17× 39.5% 8.1% MUSEUSD, DEXTUSD, QNTUSD, LSETHUSD, KILTUSD
MULTIUSD 7 0.00901 3.02× 39.8% 33.8% DOGEUSD, TLOSUSD, AERGOUSD, LTCEUR, PNKUSD
BTRSTUSD 8 0.00893 2.99× 40.4% 26.0% ALPHAUSD, XRPBTC, ROOKUSD, PNGUSD, WBTCUSD
SHPINGUSD 9 0.00846 2.83× 38.6% 26.6% NYMUSD, BTCJPY, SOLUSD, SCRTUSD, REPUSD
XDCUSD 10 0.00811 2.72× 39.5% 10.5% GNOUSD, IMXUSD, BNTUSD, STORJUSD, SHPINGUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-08-01

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TSDUSD 0.010620.00231 +0.00831
KRLUSD 0.011160.00289 +0.00827
TRBUSD 0.010630.00412 +0.00652
MULTIUSD 0.009010.00360 +0.00540
SHPINGUSD 0.008460.00311 +0.00534

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TEERUSD 0.004310.01166 -0.00735
DESOUSD 0.004860.01183 -0.00698
EULUSD 0.002700.00940 -0.00669
NODLUSD 0.001620.00570 -0.00408
DVFUSD 0.007800.01181 -0.00401

Foreign exchange

ZARTRY was the most central name, carrying 12.38× the influence of an average node across 635 pairs.

pairs
635
Density
0.013
Clustering
0.289
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
ZARTRY 1 0.01949 12.38× 8.7% 5.2% XAGAUD, XAUAUD, XAUCAD, CLPAUD, XAUGBP
ARSCLP 2 0.00987 6.27× 7.6% 4.1% USDKRW, GBPZAR, PLNCHF, PENARS, EURARS
CHFPKR 3 0.00922 5.85× 0.6% 2.8% GBPARS, CHFTHB, AUDNOK, NOKEUR, EURNOK
RUBNOK 4 0.00899 5.71× 3.9% 1.9% EURZAR, ZARPKR, PKRZAR, HKDARS, EURILS
NOKAED 5 0.00766 4.86× 3.8% 3.3% GBPKWD, GBPOMR, AEDNOK, AEDSEK, HKDZAR
NZDTHB 6 0.00762 4.84× 3.6% 0.8% NOKZAR, CHFTHB, SEKZAR, JPYTHB, KRWSEK
NZDHUF 7 0.00716 4.55× 3.9% 0.2% ZARTRY
SEKZAR 8 0.00691 4.39× 3.5% 0.6% ILSNOK, CHFJPY, NOKGBP, GBPNOK
BRLCLP 9 0.00683 4.34× 6.2% 1.4% KRWUSD, XAGTRY, TWDKRW, MXNPLN, ARSCLP
NOKSEK 10 0.00676 4.29× 9.1% 5.5% XAUUSD, XAUCNY, XAUGBP, XAUINR, XAUZAR

Rising influence vs 2024-08-01

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZARTRY 0.019490.00179 +0.01770
ARSCLP 0.009870.00133 +0.00854
CHFPKR 0.009220.00137 +0.00784
NOKZAR 0.006660.00045 +0.00621
NZDHUF 0.007160.00157 +0.00559

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
SEKNOK 0.001960.00809 -0.00613
EURRUB 0.001740.00776 -0.00602
COPMXN 0.002350.00834 -0.00599
CLPGBP 0.000540.00650 -0.00596
NOKRUB 0.000330.00515 -0.00482

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.