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Daily network digest

Monday, January 27, 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 7.30× the influence of an average node across 210 assets.

assets
210
Density
0.100
Clustering
0.363
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 0.03476 7.30× 67.9% 11.0% KRLUSD, SRMUSD, TUSD, TRBUSD, TRACUSD
LTCBTC 2 0.02924 6.14× 45.0% 17.2% CVCUSD, DIAUSD, FOXUSD, ELAUSD, PRIMEUSD
KRLUSD 3 0.02859 6.00× 53.6% 5.3% TRXUSD, LTCBTC, TIAUSD, USTUSD, XRPAUD
PAXGUSD 4 0.02389 5.02× 56.0% 28.7% CTSIUSD, SKLUSD, IMXUSD, C98USD, API3USD
XMRUSD 5 0.02306 4.84× 49.3% 22.5% SANDUSD, MDTUSD, ALGOUSD, FARMUSD, KEEPUSD
TRXUSD 6 0.02298 4.83× 36.4% 21.1% KEEPUSD, ABTUSD, DOGEUSD, LCXUSD, ZRXUSD
REPUSD 7 0.02296 4.82× 49.8% 15.3% XAUTUSD, QTUMUSD, PAXGUSD, TRXUSD, VETUSD
XAUTUSD 8 0.01940 4.07× 49.8% 30.1% BNTUSD, CTSIUSD, IMXUSD, HIGHUSD, API3USD
GYENUSD 9 0.01547 3.25× 39.2% 36.4% SCUSD, ENJUSD, MANAUSD, BTCAUD, ICXUSD
PNKUSD 10 0.01530 3.21× 37.8% 16.3% REPUSD, FXUSD, LTCBTC, FARMUSD, KRLUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-01-26

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XRPBTC 0.034760.01232 +0.02244
LTCBTC 0.029240.00726 +0.02199
KRLUSD 0.028590.00984 +0.01875
REPUSD 0.022960.00715 +0.01581
XMRUSD 0.023060.00790 +0.01517

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BTCJPY 0.004980.01935 -0.01437
UOSUSD 0.002590.01544 -0.01285
GNOUSD 0.003410.01520 -0.01179
HNTUSD 0.005370.01607 -0.01069
JTOUSD 0.002500.01127 -0.00877

Foreign exchange

MXNBRL was the most central name, carrying 5.86× the influence of an average node across 589 pairs.

pairs
589
Density
0.031
Clustering
0.356
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
MXNBRL 1 0.00994 5.86× 3.2% 1.7% BRLCAD, CADBRL, HKDBRL, SGDBRL, BRLHKD
ZAREGP 2 0.00911 5.36× 21.1% 5.1% ZMWZAR, THBSGD, CNYSGD, HKDSEK, CNYAUD
COPMXN 3 0.00885 5.22× 12.4% 2.9% COPUSD, ZARMXN, DKKRUB, CNYZAR, SEKUSD
EURUZS 4 0.00879 5.18× 1.0% 0.5% RUBJPY, JPYRUB, RUBGBP
COPUSD 5 0.00860 5.06× 15.5% 4.9% GBPILS, ZARDKK, PENCAD, CHFILS, ZAREGP
COPBRL 6 0.00851 5.01× 5.8% 5.3% BRLRSD, BRLKRW, SEKRUB, GBPKZT, GBPLSL
ZARMXN 7 0.00848 4.99× 19.9% 8.2% COPUSD, ZARDKK, INRSEK, JPYNOK, ZARNOK
SEKUSD 8 0.00818 4.82× 18.2% 2.9% TWDCHF, CRCGBP, GBPCRC, CHFJPY, AUDNZD
DKKRUB 9 0.00782 4.60× 11.2% 6.0% CNYZAR, TZSZAR, TRYZAR, SGDZAR, USDNOK
CNYZAR 10 0.00766 4.51× 18.9% 5.4% NZDUSD, THBSGD, CNYSGD, PENMXN, KYDCAD

Rising influence vs 2025-01-24

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
MXNBRL 0.009940.00303 +0.00691
BRLCLP 0.007180.00053 +0.00664
ZAREGP 0.009110.00339 +0.00572
BRLRSD 0.006540.00103 +0.00552
JPYTHB 0.007400.00284 +0.00456

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
LKRZAR 0.002200.01084 -0.00864
SGDJPY 0.004640.01158 -0.00694
XAGMXN 0.001190.00808 -0.00689
ZARHKD 0.002080.00881 -0.00673
XAGGBP 0.000950.00700 -0.00605

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.