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Daily network digest

Wednesday, February 5, 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 6.87× the influence of an average node across 211 assets.

assets
211
Density
0.089
Clustering
0.341
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 0.03257 6.87× 57.1% 11.0% KRLUSD, TUSD, XRDUSD, GHSTUSD, TRACUSD
REPUSD 2 0.03050 6.44× 50.5% 18.1% XAUTUSD, TRXUSD, PAXGUSD, VETUSD, FOXUSD
KRLUSD 3 0.02973 6.27× 51.4% 7.6% TRXUSD, LTCBTC, USTUSD, TIAUSD, BADGERUSD
PAXGUSD 4 0.02708 5.71× 57.6% 30.0% API3USD, CTSIUSD, SKLUSD, TIAUSD, IMXUSD
LTCBTC 5 0.02267 4.78× 35.2% 11.9% TRACUSD, FOXUSD, PRIMEUSD, TRXUSD, CVCUSD
XAUTUSD 6 0.02233 4.71× 50.0% 29.5% API3USD, SKLUSD, CTSIUSD, IMXUSD, ELAUSD
XMRUSD 7 0.02049 4.32× 43.3% 16.7% MDTUSD, FOXUSD, SANDUSD, STORJUSD, JUPUSD
PNKUSD 8 0.01694 3.57× 37.1% 12.9% REPUSD, FXUSD, LTCBTC, NANOUSD, TRUUSD
TRXUSD 9 0.01611 3.40× 23.8% 11.9% DOGEUSD, ABTUSD, FOXUSD, KEEPUSD, ALCXUSD
GYENUSD 10 0.01590 3.35× 34.8% 24.8% PNKUSD, GRTUSD, JUPUSD, BTCAUD, LTCEUR

Rising influence vs 2025-02-04

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
REPUSD 0.030500.00848 +0.02203
KRLUSD 0.029730.01105 +0.01868
XRPBTC 0.032570.01458 +0.01799
LTCBTC 0.022670.00957 +0.01310
XMRUSD 0.020490.00769 +0.01280

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
TSDUSD 0.001780.01968 -0.01791
BTCJPY 0.005660.02210 -0.01645
HNTUSD 0.005470.01770 -0.01223
UOSUSD 0.002410.01403 -0.01162
ORNUSD 0.002300.01059 -0.00830

Foreign exchange

RUBPLN was the most central name, carrying 4.75× the influence of an average node across 574 pairs.

pairs
574
Density
0.033
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
RUBPLN 1 0.00828 4.75× 3.7% 3.8% PLNILS, MXNBRL, AUDBRL, NOKRUB, RUBUSD
ARSBRL 2 0.00769 4.41× 4.4% 3.1% KZTUSD, USDKZT, GBPSZL, GBPLSL, KZTGBP
USDALL 3 0.00700 4.02× 4.7% 1.7% AMDGBP, TZSUSD, GBPAMD, EURBHD, MXNCLP
COPCLP 4 0.00700 4.02× 6.6% 2.3% NGNUSD, ZMWUSD, RUBEUR, EURRUB, LRDGBP
RUBCHF 5 0.00691 3.96× 4.0% 2.3% KRWEUR, GBPBRL, BRLCHF, BRLMXN, CHFMYR
RUBUSD 6 0.00686 3.93× 5.1% 1.9% RUBPLN, PLNILS, MXNBRL, JODILS, EURILS
PLNILS 7 0.00684 3.93× 4.7% 4.7% MXNBRL, BRLZAR, ZARBRL, RUBDKK, ILSPLN
CHFRUB 8 0.00669 3.84× 3.8% 3.1% GBPBRL, KRWEUR, BRLCHF, BRLMXN, JPYMYR
DKKRUB 9 0.00660 3.79× 6.8% 7.7% ILSSEK, TWDSEK, HUFZAR, ZARMXN, XAUGBP
NGNUSD 10 0.00655 3.76× 6.6% 3.5% USDZMW, SCRGBP, USDALL, ZMWUSD, GBPCOP

Rising influence vs 2025-02-04

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ARSBRL 0.007690.00126 +0.00642
PLNILS 0.006840.00095 +0.00589
RUBPLN 0.008280.00290 +0.00538
RUBCHF 0.006910.00177 +0.00514
EURRUB 0.005740.00064 +0.00510

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CADRUB 0.002100.02041 -0.01831
SGDJPY 0.002210.01022 -0.00801
ZARHKD 0.000380.00811 -0.00773
SGDZAR 0.001300.00845 -0.00715
BRLJPY 0.001480.00807 -0.00660

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.