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Daily network digest

Wednesday, January 29, 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 5.26× 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
GYENUSD 1 0.02492 5.26× 46.7% 20.0% REQUSD, PNKUSD, SWFTCUSD, SEIEUR, DNTUSD
XDCUSD 2 0.02023 4.27× 36.2% 13.3% TUSD, STORJUSD, ORNUSD, CVCUSD, GYENUSD
XAUTUSD 3 0.01960 4.14× 39.0% 21.4% ETHUSD, ALPHAUSD, MKRUSD, TRACUSD, XDCUSD
TSDUSD 4 0.01746 3.68× 40.5% 43.3% CGLDUSD, BNTUSD, SCUSD, ETCUSD, MAGICUSD
BTCJPY 5 0.01719 3.63× 25.7% 32.9% LTCUSD, QNTUSD, ETHAUD, ICPUSD, CROUSD
PAXGUSD 6 0.01697 3.58× 32.4% 15.2% UOSUSD, BANDUSD, AVTUSD, MKRUSD, CVXUSD
HNTUSD 7 0.01627 3.43× 30.0% 16.7% AUCTIONUSD, MLNUSD, BADGERUSD, ALCXUSD, SUSHIUSD
GNOUSD 8 0.01346 2.84× 21.4% 15.7% BCHGBP, UOSUSD, DNTUSD, AUCTIONUSD, XMRUSD
UOSUSD 9 0.01303 2.75× 19.0% 5.7% JTOUSD, MAGICUSD, OXYUSD, MDTUSD, FISUSD
TRXUSD 10 0.01268 2.68× 21.0% 15.7% DASHUSD, BTCAUD, FLOWUSD, DSHUSD, RARIUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-01-28

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GYENUSD 0.024920.00784 +0.01708
XDCUSD 0.020230.00531 +0.01492
BTCJPY 0.017190.00343 +0.01376
TSDUSD 0.017460.00410 +0.01335
JTOUSD 0.012000.00369 +0.00830

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BTRSTUSD 0.008780.04446 -0.03568
ETHBTC 0.009700.02112 -0.01142
KRLUSD 0.012020.02304 -0.01102
LTCBTC 0.008140.01901 -0.01087
ZENUSD 0.002310.00989 -0.00758

Foreign exchange

ARSBRL was the most central name, carrying 6.85× the influence of an average node across 566 pairs.

pairs
566
Density
0.033
Clustering
0.372
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
ARSBRL 1 0.01210 6.85× 4.4% 2.8% CHFRUB, USDKZT, KZTGBP, GBPKZT, KZTUSD
RUBPLN 2 0.00780 4.42× 3.7% 4.2% MXNBRL, PLNILS, BRLSEK, ILSPLN, NOKRUB
RUBEUR 3 0.00716 4.05× 5.1% 4.4% UYUGBP, GBPUYU, USDALL, USDPEN, SCRGBP
ZMWZAR 4 0.00691 3.91× 16.5% 6.7% XAGUSD, XAGCAD, XAGINR, XAGSAR, ZARSEK
EURRUB 5 0.00653 3.70× 4.6% 4.6% GBPUYU, UYUGBP, USDMAD, ETBGBP, USDKZT
USDALL 6 0.00650 3.68× 4.6% 1.8% CHFRUB, EURBHD, TZSUSD, GBPAMD, AMDGBP
RUBUSD 7 0.00649 3.67× 5.1% 2.1% RUBPLN, MXNBRL, JODILS, EURILS, USDNGN
CHFRUB 8 0.00585 3.31× 4.1% 3.9% RUBEUR, EURRUB, USDPEN, USDMAD, GBPUYU
LKRZAR 9 0.00584 3.31× 15.8% 11.7% XAUMXN, NZDUSD, XAUUSD, XAGRUB, ILSCAD
RUBSEK 10 0.00568 3.22× 4.4% 2.1% RUBPLN, PLNILS, EURILS, MXNBRL, ILSEUR

Rising influence vs 2025-01-28

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ARSBRL 0.012100.00115 +0.01095
RUBEUR 0.007160.00201 +0.00514
EURRUB 0.006530.00147 +0.00506
PLNILS 0.005520.00084 +0.00468
RUBPLN 0.007800.00322 +0.00459

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDCOP 0.000330.00974 -0.00941
SGDJPY 0.002340.01073 -0.00838
ZARHKD 0.000370.00833 -0.00797
SGDZAR 0.001410.00903 -0.00762
COPBRL 0.001780.00861 -0.00683

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.