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Daily network digest

Saturday, February 15, 2025

Directed information-flow networks for this session, covering Cryptocurrency. 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.

Cryptocurrency

PAXGUSD was the most central name, carrying 6.77× the influence of an average node across 213 assets.

assets
213
Density
0.087
Clustering
0.324
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
PAXGUSD 1 0.03177 6.77× 50.9% 13.2% AVAXUSD, ACHUSD, MKRUSD, GHSTUSD, OXTUSD
XAUTUSD 2 0.02633 5.61× 45.8% 14.6% GHSTUSD, MKRUSD, ACHUSD, SOLUSD, BTCAUD
BTRSTUSD 3 0.02532 5.39× 46.7% 15.1% AXSUSD, TRACUSD, ALCXUSD, EOSUSD, PRIMEUSD
KRLUSD 4 0.02514 5.35× 40.1% 5.2% TRXUSD, PAXUSD, HIGHUSD, TIAUSD, TRACUSD
HNTUSD 5 0.02090 4.45× 39.6% 10.8% TRXUSD, AERGOUSD, MATICUSD, KRLUSD, YFIUSD
ETHBTC 6 0.01728 3.68× 43.9% 19.8% DSHUSD, LUNAUSD, DASHUSD, XDCUSD, CVCUSD
BONDUSD 7 0.01672 3.56× 34.9% 19.3% IMXUSD, HBARUSD, CHREUR, AUCTIONUSD, BTTUSD
LTCBTC 8 0.01666 3.55× 35.8% 4.7% PAXGUSD, TRXUSD, XAUTUSD, GNOUSD, FOXUSD
TRXUSD 9 0.01657 3.53× 11.8% 28.3% EGLDUSD, LCXUSD, HIGHUSD, 1INCHUSD, GHSTUSD
LCXUSD 10 0.01483 3.16× 23.6% 14.6% BTCGBP, BTCJPY, MKRUSD, LTCEUR, USTUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-02-14

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BTRSTUSD 0.025320.00644 +0.01888
HNTUSD 0.020900.00715 +0.01375
CHRUSD 0.010580.00136 +0.00923
BONDUSD 0.016720.00765 +0.00907
SRMUSD 0.012990.00407 +0.00892

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XRPBTC 0.009940.03225 -0.02231
REPUSD 0.010460.02826 -0.01781
XMRUSD 0.003790.01865 -0.01486
XYOUSD 0.002950.01302 -0.01007
PNKUSD 0.009170.01595 -0.00679

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.