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Daily network digest

Friday, January 24, 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 7.69× the influence of an average node across 211 assets.

assets
211
Density
0.101
Clustering
0.369
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 0.03646 7.69× 70.5% 10.5% KRLUSD, TRACUSD, SRMUSD, FOXUSD, TUSD
LTCBTC 2 0.02968 6.26× 47.6% 21.9% FOXUSD, CVCUSD, DIAUSD, XLMUSD, PRIMEUSD
KRLUSD 3 0.02912 6.14× 52.9% 8.1% LTCBTC, TRXUSD, TIAUSD, USTUSD, XRPAUD
REPUSD 4 0.02575 5.43× 51.4% 19.0% VETUSD, QTUMUSD, TRXUSD, XAUTUSD, PAXGUSD
PAXGUSD 5 0.02367 4.99× 55.2% 29.5% CTSIUSD, HIGHUSD, API3USD, IMXUSD, SKLUSD
XMRUSD 6 0.02085 4.40× 46.7% 21.4% FARMUSD, SANDUSD, ALGOUSD, BTCJPY, MDTUSD
XAUTUSD 7 0.01862 3.93× 51.9% 33.8% IMXUSD, CTSIUSD, API3USD, BNTUSD, HIGHUSD
TRXUSD 8 0.01801 3.80× 31.0% 15.7% DOGEUSD, KEEPUSD, ABTUSD, ALCXUSD, XMRUSD
PNKUSD 9 0.01571 3.31× 38.1% 15.2% REPUSD, FXUSD, FARMUSD, LTCBTC, XAUTUSD
TRACUSD 10 0.01535 3.24× 35.7% 14.8% DYDXEUR, DYDXUSD, REPUSD, WBTCUSD, LQTYUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-01-23

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XRPBTC 0.036460.01142 +0.02504
LTCBTC 0.029680.00679 +0.02289
KRLUSD 0.029120.00956 +0.01956
REPUSD 0.025750.00758 +0.01818
XMRUSD 0.020850.00952 +0.01133

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TSDUSD 0.001640.01900 -0.01736
GNOUSD 0.004510.01704 -0.01253
BTCJPY 0.005290.01689 -0.01161
HNTUSD 0.004640.01581 -0.01117
XDCUSD 0.008340.01857 -0.01023

Foreign exchange

SGDJPY was the most central name, carrying 6.43× the influence of an average node across 555 pairs.

pairs
555
Density
0.039
Clustering
0.366
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
SGDJPY 1 0.01158 6.43× 28.0% 8.5% NOKZAR, DKKRUB, NZDMXN, USDNOK, MXNAUD
LKRZAR 2 0.01084 6.01× 16.4% 4.9% CADTHB, NZDUSD, XAGARS, JPYHKD, COPMXN
CNYZAR 3 0.00974 5.41× 18.6% 6.0% NZDUSD, CADTHB, MXNAUD, AUDMXN, MXNDKK
COPBRL 4 0.00915 5.08× 4.7% 2.7% RUBDKK, RUBNOK, SEKRUB, ZARCNY, RUBSEK
SGDZAR 5 0.00907 5.03× 15.0% 6.1% XAGMXN, ZARSEK, CADTHB, NZDUSD, XAGJPY
ZARHKD 6 0.00881 4.89× 20.2% 4.3% EURGBP, COPMXN, LKRZAR, DKKRUB, CHFJPY
ZARUSD 7 0.00810 4.50× 21.1% 7.0% LKRZAR, XAUARS, EURGBP, DKKRUB, XAGARS
COPMXN 8 0.00809 4.49× 14.1% 13.9% AUDMXN, MXNAUD, XAGAUD, NZDMXN, ZARPHP
XAGMXN 9 0.00808 4.48× 16.4% 9.7% MXNJPY, JPYMXN, PENMXN, USDSEK, ZARNGN
EURGBP 10 0.00775 4.30× 8.1% 5.2% DKKRUB, ZARGBP, ZARNZD, XAGMXN, XAUMXN

Rising influence vs 2025-01-23

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
LKRZAR 0.010840.00201 +0.00883
ZARHKD 0.008810.00171 +0.00710
SGDJPY 0.011580.00491 +0.00667
XAGMXN 0.008080.00174 +0.00634
SGDZAR 0.009070.00274 +0.00633

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BRLRSD 0.001030.00756 -0.00654
BRLCLP 0.000530.00669 -0.00616
KRWMYR 0.000400.00581 -0.00541
EURCLP 0.000880.00552 -0.00464
RUBJPY 0.000360.00457 -0.00422

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.