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Daily network digest

Friday, August 9, 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

PAXGUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.01× the influence of an average node across 336 assets.

assets
336
Density
0.148
Clustering
0.351
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
PAXGUSD 1 0.01194 4.01× 52.8% 19.1% HNTUSD, IMXUSD, SDNUSD, LPTUSD, SKLUSD
DIMOUSD 2 0.01094 3.67× 51.3% 16.1% ACHUSD, BNTUSD, NODLUSD, MKRUSD, QNTUSD
XRPBTC 3 0.01050 3.53× 53.4% 14.3% XDCUSD, HMTUSD, BOBAUSD, RBNUSD, TONUSD
TIMEUSD 4 0.01002 3.37× 45.1% 20.3% CHRUSD, STGUSD, REPV2USD, FOXUSD, APEUSD
NYMUSD 5 0.00979 3.29× 43.0% 14.6% DARUSD, NMRUSD, INDEXUSD, XRDUSD, CVXUSD
DVFUSD 6 0.00955 3.21× 48.7% 17.6% NYMUSD, ZECUSD, GSTUSD, REPUSD, UNIUSD
INTRUSD 7 0.00943 3.17× 49.6% 23.9% KAVAUSD, GNOUSD, NKNUSD, FXUSD, TUSD
MULTIUSD 8 0.00919 3.09× 38.2% 34.0% DNTUSD, MKRUSD, SCRTUSD, GODSUSD, RNDRUSD
LTCBTC 9 0.00903 3.03× 40.6% 17.3% BNTUSD, AERGOUSD, ELAUSD, MNDEUSD, UMAUSD
REPUSD 10 0.00873 2.93× 37.6% 19.4% IMXUSD, MLNUSD, CRVUSD, EWTUSD, REQUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-08-08

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
INTRUSD 0.009430.00330 +0.00613
PAXGUSD 0.011940.00584 +0.00610
KILTUSD 0.008030.00323 +0.00480
NYMUSD 0.009790.00566 +0.00413
INVUSD 0.005700.00176 +0.00394

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TSDUSD 0.000790.00899 -0.00821
TRBUSD 0.004400.01122 -0.00681
TLOSUSD 0.002260.00871 -0.00645
REPUSD 0.008730.01439 -0.00566
BLZUSD 0.004860.00928 -0.00442

Foreign exchange

ZARTRY was the most central name, carrying 10.84× the influence of an average node across 663 pairs.

pairs
663
Density
0.016
Clustering
0.312
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 0.01635 10.84× 11.9% 5.6% SGDJPY, CLPAUD, XAUAUD, XAUCAD, XAGAUD
NOKAED 2 0.01055 6.99× 5.6% 6.5% AUDPGK, PGKGBP, GBPPGK, PGKAUD, GBPSZL
CHFPKR 3 0.00929 6.16× 0.6% 2.4% GBPARS, EURNOK, AUDNOK, NOKEUR, NOKGBP
SEKZAR 4 0.00782 5.19× 2.7% 0.6% CHFJPY, NOKGBP, GBPNOK, ILSNOK
KWDEUR 5 0.00711 4.71× 2.4% 1.4% CDFUSD, EURBHD, CADPEN, MWKUSD, USDDJF
NZDHUF 6 0.00667 4.42× 3.6% 0.2% ZARTRY
RUBNOK 7 0.00640 4.25× 5.7% 3.9% KWDUSD, ZARPKR, EURZAR, PKRZAR, RUBPLN
AUDZAR 8 0.00639 4.23× 7.6% 1.4% USDIQD, KWDUSD, USDKHR, THBGBP, RUBNOK
ZARIDR 9 0.00621 4.12× 9.1% 1.4% NZDIDR, CZKPLN, PLNGBP, GBPPLN, PLNEUR
BRLCLP 10 0.00586 3.89× 6.2% 2.1% ARSCLP, MXNPLN, MDLUSD, TWDKRW, KRWUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-08-08

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZARTRY 0.016350.00152 +0.01483
NOKAED 0.010550.00241 +0.00813
CHFPKR 0.009290.00133 +0.00796
SEKZAR 0.007820.00085 +0.00698
THBPKR 0.005630.00055 +0.00508

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BRLUSD 0.004190.01422 -0.01003
ARSZAR 0.001300.00864 -0.00734
XAGCAD 0.001090.00815 -0.00706
MXNBRL 0.000690.00763 -0.00694
USDCLP 0.000300.00596 -0.00566

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.