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Daily network digest

Wednesday, February 19, 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 8.09× the influence of an average node across 214 assets.

assets
214
Density
0.083
Clustering
0.308
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 0.03780 8.09× 58.7% 20.7% LCXUSD, PNKUSD, DNTUSD, ALGOUSD, UNIUSD
BTCJPY 2 0.02284 4.89× 33.3% 29.1% ETHAUD, ICPUSD, QNTUSD, BALUSD, LTCUSD
PAXGUSD 3 0.02058 4.40× 37.6% 17.4% UOSUSD, AVTUSD, MKRUSD, CVXUSD, CHREUR
XAUTUSD 4 0.01966 4.21× 35.7% 35.2% ETHUSD, ETHAUD, YFIUSD, CROUSD, JTOUSD
HNTUSD 5 0.01525 3.26× 28.2% 14.6% BADGERUSD, MLNUSD, AUCTIONUSD, RUNEUSD, HIGHUSD
TSDUSD 6 0.01493 3.20× 30.5% 41.8% CGLDUSD, ALGOUSD, BNTUSD, LINKUSD, LRCUSD
XRPBTC 7 0.01479 3.16× 24.4% 14.1% GYENUSD, AUCTIONUSD, CLVUSD, MLNUSD, FXUSD
XDCUSD 8 0.01416 3.03× 23.9% 8.5% TUSD, GYENUSD, REPUSD, BTRSTUSD, CVCUSD
TRXUSD 9 0.01231 2.64× 20.2% 17.4% BTCAUD, ETHUSD, AERGOUSD, RARIUSD, RARIEUR
GNOUSD 10 0.01168 2.50× 16.9% 11.7% BCHGBP, LTCUSD, ELAUSD, AUCTIONUSD, UOSUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-02-18

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GYENUSD 0.037800.01075 +0.02706
BTCJPY 0.022840.00566 +0.01718
TSDUSD 0.014930.00322 +0.01172
XDCUSD 0.014160.00519 +0.00897
JTOUSD 0.010020.00273 +0.00730

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BTRSTUSD 0.006960.02614 -0.01918
KRLUSD 0.010590.02450 -0.01391
LTCBTC 0.008340.01870 -0.01036
LCXUSD 0.004610.01481 -0.01020
ETHBTC 0.007060.01687 -0.00981

Foreign exchange

RUBPLN was the most central name, carrying 4.51× the influence of an average node across 559 pairs.

pairs
559
Density
0.034
Clustering
0.374
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 0.00807 4.51× 3.4% 3.9% MXNBRL, PLNILS, ILSEUR, NOKRUB, AUDBRL
ARSBRL 2 0.00784 4.38× 4.5% 3.0% USDKZT, KZTUSD, GBPKZT, AUDMAD, GBPLSL
RUBCHF 3 0.00680 3.80× 3.6% 2.2% KRWEUR, BRLCLP, BRLCHF, GBPBRL, BRLMXN
CHFRUB 4 0.00657 3.67× 3.9% 3.0% KRWEUR, GBPBRL, BRLCHF, BRLMXN, BRLCLP
RUBUSD 5 0.00654 3.66× 5.4% 1.6% JODILS, RUBPLN, EURILS, MXNBRL, BRLCAD
XAGRUB 6 0.00652 3.65× 5.9% 7.7% HUFZAR, NZDMXN, TWDSEK, ZARHUF, CZKMXN
GBPZMW 7 0.00650 3.64× 6.8% 3.9% USDPGK, NGNUSD, USDALL, CLPMXN, PENCLP
ZMWZAR 8 0.00646 3.61× 16.7% 8.8% XAGCAD, XAGSAR, XAGUSD, XAGRUB, XAGINR
ZMWUSD 9 0.00641 3.58× 5.7% 2.5% ARSCLP, PENCLP, CLPCNY, CNYCLP, USDALL
DKKRUB 10 0.00634 3.54× 5.7% 7.0% ILSSEK, HUFZAR, XAUGBP, XAGUSD, XAGTRY

Rising influence vs 2025-02-18

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ARSBRL 0.007840.00104 +0.00681
RUBPLN 0.008070.00248 +0.00559
RUBCHF 0.006800.00179 +0.00500
ZMWUSD 0.006410.00146 +0.00495
PLNILS 0.005650.00088 +0.00477

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CADRUB 0.002150.01791 -0.01575
BRLJPY 0.001440.01027 -0.00883
SGDJPY 0.002240.01011 -0.00787
ZARHKD 0.000350.00780 -0.00745
SGDZAR 0.001290.00857 -0.00728

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.