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Daily network digest

Tuesday, January 21, 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

XRPBTC was the most central name, carrying 8.03× the influence of an average node across 211 assets.

assets
211
Density
0.095
Clustering
0.372
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
XRPBTC 1 0.03806 8.03× 72.4% 8.6% KRLUSD, TUSD, FOXUSD, SRMUSD, TRBUSD
LTCBTC 2 0.03233 6.82× 48.1% 18.6% DIAUSD, FOXUSD, CVCUSD, ELAUSD, LOKAUSD
KRLUSD 3 0.03184 6.72× 54.3% 6.7% LTCBTC, TRXUSD, TIAUSD, USTUSD, XRPAUD
PAXGUSD 4 0.02457 5.18× 54.3% 29.5% SKLUSD, CTSIUSD, API3USD, RARIUSD, HIGHUSD
REPUSD 5 0.02446 5.16× 49.5% 17.6% QTUMUSD, VETUSD, XAUTUSD, CVCUSD, PAXGUSD
XMRUSD 6 0.02264 4.78× 45.7% 18.1% ALGOUSD, FARMUSD, SANDUSD, NANOUSD, BTCJPY
XAUTUSD 7 0.01956 4.13× 50.0% 33.8% SKLUSD, API3USD, BNTUSD, IMXUSD, CTSIUSD
TRXUSD 8 0.01899 4.01× 30.0% 17.6% KEEPUSD, ABTUSD, DOGEUSD, LCXUSD, XMRUSD
XYOUSD 9 0.01549 3.27× 33.8% 6.2% DOTUSD, ORNUSD, BTCAUD, LINKUSD, USTUSD
TRACUSD 10 0.01538 3.25× 36.7% 14.8% UNIUSD, TRBUSD, MKRUSD, DYDXEUR, DYDXUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-01-20

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XRPBTC 0.038060.01260 +0.02546
LTCBTC 0.032330.00801 +0.02432
KRLUSD 0.031840.01076 +0.02108
REPUSD 0.024460.00854 +0.01591
XMRUSD 0.022640.00962 +0.01303

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BTCJPY 0.004280.01887 -0.01459
GNOUSD 0.002700.01633 -0.01362
GYENUSD 0.014090.02385 -0.00976
XDCUSD 0.009620.01857 -0.00895
HNTUSD 0.005490.01443 -0.00894

Foreign exchange

IDRSGD was the most central name, carrying 8.10× the influence of an average node across 556 pairs.

pairs
556
Density
0.039
Clustering
0.370
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
IDRSGD 1 0.01457 8.10× 1.3% 0.4% IDRCHF, IDRHKD
SGDJPY 2 0.01116 6.20× 27.9% 9.2% DKKRUB, NOKZAR, USDNOK, MXNAUD, XAUBRL
LKRZAR 3 0.01044 5.80× 17.5% 4.3% XAGJPY, XAGINR, XAGARS, NZDUSD, CADTHB
USDCOP 4 0.01033 5.74× 2.3% 0.9% ZARTWD, ZARINR, ARSMXN, BRLCOP, USDCLP
CNYZAR 5 0.01007 5.60× 19.1% 6.5% NZDUSD, CADTHB, ZARNGN, MXNAUD, SEKNOK
SGDZAR 6 0.00906 5.04× 15.1% 6.1% XAGMXN, ZARSEK, XAGJPY, CADTHB, XAGINR
COPBRL 7 0.00903 5.02× 4.7% 2.7% RUBDKK, SEKRUB, ZARCNY, RUBNOK, RUBSEK
ZARHKD 8 0.00869 4.83× 20.7% 4.7% EURGBP, COPMXN, DKKRUB, LKRZAR, CHFJPY
IDRCHF 9 0.00807 4.49× 1.4% 0.2% IDRSGD
COPMXN 10 0.00802 4.46× 13.3% 14.1% MXNAUD, AUDMXN, NZDMXN, XAGAUD, ZARPHP

Rising influence vs 2025-01-20

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
IDRSGD 0.014570.00034 +0.01423
USDCOP 0.010330.00184 +0.00849
LKRZAR 0.010440.00218 +0.00825
IDRCHF 0.008070.00052 +0.00756
IDRHKD 0.007590.00050 +0.00709

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
SEKUSD 0.000350.00785 -0.00750
MXNBRL 0.002410.00850 -0.00609
BRLCLP 0.000570.00661 -0.00604
ZAREGP 0.003150.00904 -0.00590
BRLRSD 0.001410.00725 -0.00585

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.