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Daily network digest

Tuesday, January 28, 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 9.38× the influence of an average node across 211 assets.

assets
211
Density
0.090
Clustering
0.319
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 0.04446 9.38× 64.8% 16.2% RNDRUSD, ALCXUSD, AXSUSD, XRPUSD, INJUSD
XAUTUSD 2 0.02384 5.03× 44.3% 15.2% ACHUSD, GHSTUSD, FXUSD, OXTUSD, BTCEUR
PAXGUSD 3 0.02349 4.96× 44.8% 13.3% GHSTUSD, OXTUSD, ACHUSD, FXUSD, AVAXUSD
KRLUSD 4 0.02304 4.86× 38.6% 5.7% TRXUSD, BANDUSD, PAXUSD, BOBAUSD, DYDXEUR
HNTUSD 5 0.02247 4.74× 43.3% 13.3% TRXUSD, YFIUSD, NEXOUSD, XRDUSD, KRLUSD
ETHBTC 6 0.02112 4.46× 49.0% 20.0% LUNAUSD, DSHUSD, XDCUSD, DASHUSD, CVCUSD
LTCBTC 7 0.01901 4.01× 39.0% 7.6% PAXGUSD, GNOUSD, XAUTUSD, DIAUSD, HBARUSD
BONDUSD 8 0.01481 3.12× 30.5% 16.7% HBARUSD, IMXUSD, AUCTIONUSD, CHREUR, ALCXUSD
REPUSD 9 0.01230 2.60× 17.6% 13.3% AUCTIONUSD, XAUTUSD, LPTUSD, LTCBTC, BANDUSD
TRXUSD 10 0.01188 2.51× 10.0% 32.4% ETHBTC, BADGERUSD, CLVUSD, LUNAUSD, NKNUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-01-27

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BTRSTUSD 0.044460.00891 +0.03556
HNTUSD 0.022470.00537 +0.01709
ETHBTC 0.021120.01135 +0.00977
CHRUSD 0.009590.00125 +0.00834
BONDUSD 0.014810.00771 +0.00710

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XRPBTC 0.010440.03476 -0.02432
XMRUSD 0.004750.02306 -0.01831
XYOUSD 0.002500.01384 -0.01134
TRXUSD 0.011880.02298 -0.01110
REPUSD 0.012300.02296 -0.01066

Foreign exchange

SGDJPY was the most central name, carrying 5.99× the influence of an average node across 558 pairs.

pairs
558
Density
0.038
Clustering
0.363
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 0.01073 5.99× 26.8% 8.3% NOKZAR, DKKRUB, USDNOK, NZDJPY, MXNAUD
LKRZAR 2 0.01055 5.88× 17.4% 4.5% GBPCAD, NZDUSD, CADTHB, XAGARS, JPYHKD
USDCOP 3 0.00974 5.44× 2.3% 0.7% ZARTWD, ARSMXN, ZARINR, BRLCOP
CNYZAR 4 0.00972 5.42× 18.9% 5.9% NZDUSD, ZARNGN, CADTHB, COPMXN, MXNCZK
SGDZAR 5 0.00903 5.04× 15.4% 5.0% XAGMXN, ZARSEK, CADTHB, XAGJPY, XAGGBP
COPBRL 6 0.00861 4.81× 4.7% 2.9% RUBDKK, SEKRUB, RUBNOK, ZARCNY, RUBPLN
ZARHKD 7 0.00833 4.65× 20.3% 4.1% COPMXN, LKRZAR, CHFJPY, EURGBP, DKKRUB
XAGMXN 8 0.00804 4.49× 17.2% 9.5% MXNJPY, JPYMXN, PENMXN, USDSEK, MXNPLN
COPMXN 9 0.00788 4.40× 13.5% 12.7% MXNAUD, AUDMXN, XAGAUD, NZDMXN, ZARPHP
ZARUSD 10 0.00753 4.20× 21.0% 6.8% LKRZAR, XAUARS, EURGBP, DKKRUB, XAGARS

Rising influence vs 2025-01-27

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
LKRZAR 0.010550.00220 +0.00835
USDCOP 0.009740.00175 +0.00800
XAGMXN 0.008040.00119 +0.00686
ZARHKD 0.008330.00208 +0.00626
SGDJPY 0.010730.00464 +0.00609

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
EURUZS 0.000340.00879 -0.00846
MXNBRL 0.002910.00994 -0.00704
BRLCLP 0.000540.00718 -0.00664
ZAREGP 0.003360.00911 -0.00575
BRLRSD 0.001460.00654 -0.00508

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.