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Daily network digest

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

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

BTRSTUSD was the most central name, carrying 6.58× the influence of an average node across 210 assets.

assets
210
Density
0.090
Clustering
0.322
Diameter
3

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
BTRSTUSD 1 0.03133 6.58× 51.2% 19.1% AXSUSD, HBARUSD, FETUSD, MDTUSD, DNTUSD
XAUTUSD 2 0.02662 5.59× 43.5% 13.4% GHSTUSD, FXUSD, ACHUSD, SOLUSD, OXTUSD
HNTUSD 3 0.02554 5.36× 44.0% 9.6% TRXUSD, YFIUSD, NEXOUSD, KRLUSD, XRDUSD
PAXGUSD 4 0.02547 5.35× 45.0% 15.8% OXTUSD, FXUSD, GHSTUSD, AVAXUSD, ACHUSD
KRLUSD 5 0.02433 5.11× 41.6% 7.2% TRXUSD, DYDXEUR, BANDUSD, BOBAUSD, PAXUSD
ETHBTC 6 0.02049 4.30× 49.3% 15.8% DASHUSD, DSHUSD, LUNAUSD, XDCUSD, DIAUSD
LTCBTC 7 0.01946 4.09× 37.3% 5.3% PAXGUSD, XAUTUSD, DIAUSD, YFIUSD, BALUSD
REPUSD 8 0.01597 3.35× 27.3% 7.7% AUCTIONUSD, LTCBTC, XAUTUSD, LPTUSD, FXUSD
AUCTIONUSD 9 0.01488 3.12× 21.1% 14.4% BTCJPY, KRLUSD, MIRUSD, ZECUSD, METISUSD
ORCAUSD 10 0.01355 2.84× 29.2% 10.0% AERGOUSD, EGLDUSD, ABTUSD, TRXUSD, AUCTIONUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-01-06

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BTRSTUSD 0.031330.00664 +0.02469
HNTUSD 0.025540.00453 +0.02101
ORCAUSD 0.013550.00366 +0.00989
CHRUSD 0.011300.00155 +0.00975
ZENUSD 0.011500.00256 +0.00894

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XRPBTC 0.013240.03035 -0.01711
LTCBTC 0.019460.03250 -0.01303
REPUSD 0.015970.02894 -0.01296
XYOUSD 0.002310.01518 -0.01287
XMRUSD 0.007700.01859 -0.01090

Foreign exchange

USDCOP was the most central name, carrying 6.57× the influence of an average node across 536 pairs.

pairs
536
Density
0.042
Clustering
0.376
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
USDCOP 1 0.01226 6.57× 2.4% 0.9% ZARTWD, ZARINR, BRLCOP, ARSMXN, USDCLP
SGDJPY 2 0.01186 6.36× 29.3% 9.3% NOKZAR, DKKRUB, NZDMXN, XAUBRL, USDNOK
IDRSGD 3 0.01099 5.89× 1.1% 0.6% IDRCHF, IDRHKD, CLPARS
CNYZAR 4 0.00974 5.22× 17.0% 8.2% NZDUSD, COPMXN, CADTHB, MXNAUD, DKKMXN
COPBRL 5 0.00940 5.04× 5.0% 2.8% RUBDKK, SEKRUB, ZARCNY, RUBNOK, RUBSEK
SGDZAR 6 0.00921 4.94× 12.5% 6.4% ZARSEK, XAGJPY, CADTHB, ZARNOK, XAGMXN
ZARHKD 7 0.00848 4.55× 20.6% 4.9% COPMXN, EURGBP, USDZAR, DKKRUB, CHFJPY
LKRZAR 8 0.00847 4.54× 13.6% 4.1% XAGJPY, CADTHB, JPYHKD, NZDUSD, COPMXN
ZARUSD 9 0.00801 4.29× 22.2% 7.1% XAUARS, EURGBP, LKRZAR, DKKRUB, XAGARS
COPMXN 10 0.00798 4.28× 14.8% 14.2% AUDMXN, MXNAUD, XAGAUD, NZDMXN, ZARPHP

Rising influence vs 2025-01-06

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
IDRSGD 0.010990.00033 +0.01066
USDCOP 0.012260.00181 +0.01044
ZARHKD 0.008480.00096 +0.00753
LKRZAR 0.008470.00130 +0.00716
SGDJPY 0.011860.00527 +0.00659

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
SEKUSD 0.000410.00865 -0.00824
ZAREGP 0.002730.00967 -0.00695
BRLRSD 0.001210.00790 -0.00669
BRLCLP 0.000700.00685 -0.00615
EURNGN 0.000640.00617 -0.00554

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.