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Daily network digest

Thursday, January 30, 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 6.74× the influence of an average node across 212 assets.

assets
212
Density
0.099
Clustering
0.362
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 0.03179 6.74× 64.9% 14.7% KRLUSD, TUSD, TRACUSD, FOXUSD, SRMUSD
LTCBTC 2 0.02979 6.32× 45.5% 20.9% CVCUSD, PRIMEUSD, TRACUSD, SOLUSD, BTCAUD
KRLUSD 3 0.02876 6.10× 54.0% 6.6% LTCBTC, TRXUSD, TIAUSD, USTUSD, XRPAUD
REPUSD 4 0.02573 5.45× 50.2% 18.0% XAUTUSD, QTUMUSD, VETUSD, CVCUSD, TRXUSD
PAXGUSD 5 0.02391 5.07× 57.3% 33.2% SKLUSD, CTSIUSD, C98USD, API3USD, HIGHUSD
XMRUSD 6 0.02379 5.04× 47.4% 15.2% SANDUSD, MDTUSD, ALGOUSD, AKTEUR, LITUSD
XAUTUSD 7 0.01872 3.97× 48.8% 32.7% IMXUSD, BNTUSD, SKLUSD, API3USD, C98USD
TRXUSD 8 0.01828 3.88× 30.3% 13.3% ABTUSD, KEEPUSD, DOGEUSD, FOXUSD, BTCJPY
PNKUSD 9 0.01669 3.54× 37.9% 17.5% REPUSD, FXUSD, ETCUSD, KRLUSD, LTCBTC
GYENUSD 10 0.01497 3.17× 38.9% 22.7% PNKUSD, GRTUSD, LTCEUR, ETHUSD, LTCUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-01-29

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
LTCBTC 0.029790.00814 +0.02166
XRPBTC 0.031790.01118 +0.02060
REPUSD 0.025730.00820 +0.01753
KRLUSD 0.028760.01202 +0.01674
XMRUSD 0.023790.00913 +0.01466

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TSDUSD 0.001750.01746 -0.01571
XDCUSD 0.008280.02023 -0.01196
BTCJPY 0.005420.01719 -0.01177
UOSUSD 0.002680.01303 -0.01034
GYENUSD 0.014970.02492 -0.00995

Foreign exchange

COPMXN was the most central name, carrying 4.67× the influence of an average node across 589 pairs.

pairs
589
Density
0.036
Clustering
0.369
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 0.00794 4.67× 15.5% 4.8% COPUSD, DKKRUB, ZARMXN, SEKUSD, USDCNH
ZARMXN 2 0.00753 4.44× 23.1% 9.5% ZARDKK, COPUSD, XAGUSD, CNYZAR, TWDSEK
IDRZAR 3 0.00709 4.18× 3.1% 0.5% JPYGBP, CHFMYR, JPYMYR
COPUSD 4 0.00706 4.16× 17.7% 7.1% GBPILS, ZARDKK, ZAREGP, CHFILS, PENCAD
ZAREGP 5 0.00689 4.06× 21.6% 6.8% ZMWZAR, CNYSGD, THBSGD, CNYAUD, XAGUSD
EURUZS 6 0.00653 3.85× 1.0% 0.5% RUBJPY, JPYRUB, RUBGBP
COPBRL 7 0.00650 3.83× 5.4% 3.6% CHFBRL, BRLHKD, SEKRUB, HKDBRL, SGDBRL
ZMWZAR 8 0.00624 3.68× 13.1% 6.1% ZARNZD, THBSGD, CNYSGD, XAGKRW, NZDUSD
DKKRUB 9 0.00623 3.67× 11.9% 8.0% CNYZAR, XAGINR, TZSZAR, XAGUSD, TRYZAR
CNYZAR 10 0.00597 3.51× 20.1% 7.3% NZDUSD, THBSGD, CNYSGD, PENMXN, KYDCAD

Rising influence vs 2025-01-29

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
IDRZAR 0.007090.00078 +0.00631
EURUZS 0.006530.00033 +0.00620
KRWMYR 0.005870.00050 +0.00537
JPYTHB 0.005670.00047 +0.00520
COPBRL 0.006500.00178 +0.00471

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ARSBRL 0.003290.01210 -0.00881
CZKZAR 0.000450.00502 -0.00457
RUBPLN 0.003240.00780 -0.00456
GBPAMD 0.000680.00517 -0.00449
ZARCZK 0.000450.00491 -0.00445

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.