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Daily network digest

Tuesday, August 20, 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 5.35× the influence of an average node across 339 assets.

assets
339
Density
0.163
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
REPUSD 1 0.01579 5.35× 58.9% 23.7% RBCUSD, PNKUSD, FIDAUSD, WAXLUSD, FXUSD
DVFUSD 2 0.01369 4.64× 63.0% 5.0% QTFUSD, LTCBTC, FLRUSD, CELRUSD, BOBAUSD
KRLUSD 3 0.01083 3.67× 46.4% 10.7% RADUSD, BONDUSD, EWTUSD, XDCUSD, PAXUSD
SHPINGUSD 4 0.00966 3.27× 45.6% 27.8% SOLUSD, EWTUSD, DOTUSD, NYMUSD, DVFUSD
TRBUSD 5 0.00884 3.00× 51.5% 18.0% SCUSD, GSTUSD, PHAUSD, REPUSD, AMPUSD
BLZUSD 6 0.00882 2.99× 45.9% 25.1% DIMOUSD, PUNDIXUSD, SUSHIUSD, GALUSD, FILUSD
XDCUSD 7 0.00845 2.87× 40.5% 8.9% GNOUSD, STORJUSD, FLRUSD, CVCUSD, SHPINGUSD
TSDUSD 8 0.00844 2.86× 50.3% 38.2% POLISUSD, CGLDUSD, AUDIOUSD, ARBUSD, ETCUSD
XRPBTC 9 0.00812 2.75× 39.6% 19.5% RADUSD, ATOMUSD, ACAUSD, JSTUSD, CVCUSD
AERGOUSD 10 0.00743 2.52× 38.8% 8.3% NYMUSD, PLUUSD, REPUSD, TLOSUSD, DSHUSD

Rising influence vs 2024-08-19

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
REPUSD 0.015790.00964 +0.00616
KRLUSD 0.010830.00495 +0.00588
TRBUSD 0.008840.00363 +0.00521
BLZUSD 0.008820.00411 +0.00471
XDCUSD 0.008450.00408 +0.00437

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TEERUSD 0.002330.01181 -0.00949
EULUSD 0.002340.01089 -0.00855
DESOUSD 0.002910.01094 -0.00803
BTRSTUSD 0.004960.01139 -0.00644
NODLUSD 0.003110.00942 -0.00631

Foreign exchange

ZARTRY was the most central name, carrying 8.59× the influence of an average node across 666 pairs.

pairs
666
Density
0.018
Clustering
0.328
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 0.01290 8.59× 11.9% 5.3% XAUAUD, CLPAUD, SGDJPY, ARSEUR, JPYMYR
KWDEUR 2 0.01178 7.84× 6.0% 2.6% EURBHD, CDFUSD, MWKUSD, PENUSD, CADPEN
CHFPKR 3 0.00877 5.84× 0.6% 2.7% GBPARS, CHFTHB, CADTHB, ZARSGD, GBPNOK
ZARTND 4 0.00766 5.10× 2.0% 0.2% NZDPKR
THBEUR 5 0.00737 4.91× 3.8% 1.7% GBPCDF, CDFGBP, CDFUSD, JPYRSD, ISKCHF
RUBNOK 6 0.00696 4.64× 4.1% 2.1% ZARPKR, RUBPLN, PKRZAR, EURILS, GBPOMR
NZDPKR 7 0.00677 4.51× 0.2% 0.3% GBPMVR, ZARTND
NOKAED 8 0.00672 4.48× 3.8% 3.5% SARJPY, RUBPLN, CNYJPY, CNYZAR, INRZAR
EUROMR 9 0.00647 4.31× 5.7% 6.6% KWDEUR, ARSZAR, EURBHD, BHDEUR, USDSZL
DKKRUB 10 0.00627 4.17× 5.3% 0.9% CHFMYR, ARSEUR, ZARNGN, JPYMYR, USDSEK

Rising influence vs 2024-08-19

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZARTRY 0.012900.00122 +0.01168
KWDEUR 0.011780.00242 +0.00936
CHFPKR 0.008770.00117 +0.00759
ZARTND 0.007660.00031 +0.00735
THBEUR 0.007370.00061 +0.00676

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDPGK 0.001210.00906 -0.00786
CLPGBP 0.000280.00808 -0.00780
EURRUB 0.002280.00852 -0.00623
SEKNOK 0.002190.00830 -0.00611
COPARS 0.000860.00606 -0.00519

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.