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Daily network digest

Thursday, January 23, 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

GYENUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.87× the influence of an average node across 211 assets.

assets
211
Density
0.090
Clustering
0.335
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
GYENUSD 1 0.02309 4.87× 43.3% 32.4% PNKUSD, REQUSD, APEUSD, RARIUSD, FOXUSD
XAUTUSD 2 0.02016 4.25× 38.1% 21.4% ETHUSD, MKRUSD, ALPHAUSD, ABTUSD, TRACUSD
TSDUSD 3 0.01900 4.01× 42.4% 42.9% LINKUSD, CGLDUSD, ETCUSD, BNTUSD, HBARUSD
XDCUSD 4 0.01857 3.92× 34.3% 12.4% TUSD, STORJUSD, GYENUSD, BTRSTUSD, FORTHUSD
PAXGUSD 5 0.01844 3.89× 34.8% 9.0% MKRUSD, MAGICUSD, CHREUR, BANDUSD, ASTUSD
GNOUSD 6 0.01704 3.60× 29.0% 19.0% BCHGBP, DNTUSD, RARIUSD, AUCTIONUSD, UOSUSD
BTCJPY 7 0.01689 3.56× 26.7% 31.9% LTCUSD, QNTUSD, LTCAUD, ICPUSD, NEOUSD
TRXUSD 8 0.01630 3.44× 28.1% 18.6% DASHUSD, DSHUSD, AERGOUSD, ARPAUSD, BTCAUD
HNTUSD 9 0.01581 3.34× 29.0% 10.0% MLNUSD, GNOUSD, BTCEUR, AUCTIONUSD, RUNEUSD
AUCTIONUSD 10 0.01307 2.76× 24.3% 13.8% UOSUSD, XDCUSD, TSDUSD, GYENUSD, BTCJPY

Rising influence vs 2025-01-22

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GYENUSD 0.023090.00563 +0.01746
TSDUSD 0.019000.00410 +0.01490
XDCUSD 0.018570.00526 +0.01331
BTCJPY 0.016890.00569 +0.01120
GNOUSD 0.017040.00946 +0.00759

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BTRSTUSD 0.011820.04064 -0.02881
KRLUSD 0.009560.02758 -0.01802
LTCBTC 0.006790.02129 -0.01450
HNTUSD 0.015810.02754 -0.01173
ETHBTC 0.008630.01902 -0.01039

Foreign exchange

COPMXN was the most central name, carrying 4.79× the influence of an average node across 588 pairs.

pairs
588
Density
0.036
Clustering
0.371
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
COPMXN 1 0.00814 4.79× 15.8% 5.3% COPUSD, ZARMXN, DKKRUB, CNYZAR, XAUCNY
ZARMXN 2 0.00771 4.54× 24.9% 9.2% ZARDKK, COPUSD, NOKJPY, TWDSEK, XAGGBP
EURUZS 3 0.00769 4.52× 1.0% 0.3% RUBJPY, JPYRUB
BRLRSD 4 0.00756 4.45× 4.9% 3.2% COPDKK, GBPCOP, COPCAD, DKKCOP, EURRUB
ZAREGP 5 0.00723 4.25× 22.5% 6.8% ZMWZAR, THBSGD, XAGUSD, CNYSGD, CNYAUD
COPUSD 6 0.00717 4.22× 17.7% 7.5% GBPILS, ZARDKK, CHFILS, XAUMXN, PENCAD
XAUARS 7 0.00696 4.09× 5.5% 9.2% CZKSEK, ZARILS, AUDJPY, PENGBP, GBPPEN
BRLCLP 8 0.00669 3.93× 2.7% 1.9% KRWMYR, BRLMXN, MYRKRW, USDMUR, PHPUSD
COPBRL 9 0.00627 3.69× 4.8% 3.1% CHFBRL, BRLHKD, SEKRUB, HKDBRL, SGDBRL
IDRZAR 10 0.00624 3.67× 2.9% 0.5% JPYGBP, CHFMYR, JPYMYR

Rising influence vs 2025-01-22

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
EURUZS 0.007690.00034 +0.00735
BRLRSD 0.007560.00179 +0.00577
IDRZAR 0.006240.00086 +0.00537
EURCRC 0.006020.00071 +0.00532
KRWMYR 0.005810.00050 +0.00531

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ARSBRL 0.003010.01347 -0.01047
USDALL 0.001870.00762 -0.00575
RUBPLN 0.003080.00837 -0.00529
GBPAMD 0.001100.00573 -0.00463
CZKZAR 0.000410.00495 -0.00454

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.