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Daily network digest

Thursday, February 20, 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

REPUSD was the most central name, carrying 7.30× the influence of an average node across 214 assets.

assets
214
Density
0.090
Clustering
0.321
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
REPUSD 1 0.03412 7.30× 51.6% 17.4% PAXGUSD, XAUTUSD, FOXUSD, RLCUSD, FXUSD
PAXGUSD 2 0.03200 6.85× 64.3% 29.6% CTSIUSD, IMXUSD, API3USD, HIGHUSD, RNDRUSD
XRPBTC 3 0.02369 5.07× 40.8% 11.3% KRLUSD, XMRUSD, TUSD, DIAUSD, FOXUSD
XMRUSD 4 0.02221 4.75× 37.1% 20.2% JUPUSD, FARMUSD, MDTUSD, MASKUSD, SANDUSD
KRLUSD 5 0.02024 4.33× 39.4% 6.6% TRXUSD, LTCBTC, TIAUSD, PYRUSD, REPUSD
XAUTUSD 6 0.01992 4.26× 49.3% 33.3% C98USD, CTSIUSD, CHZUSD, HNTUSD, AUCTIONUSD
LTCBTC 7 0.01961 4.20× 29.6% 13.1% TRACUSD, CVCUSD, ELAUSD, FOXUSD, TRBUSD
PNKUSD 8 0.01821 3.90× 39.9% 8.9% REPUSD, LTCBTC, XRPAUD, FXUSD, XRPUSD
GYENUSD 9 0.01537 3.29× 39.0% 26.3% PNKUSD, GRTUSD, ETHUSD, ENJUSD, JUPUSD
USTUSD 10 0.01507 3.23× 34.3% 26.8% ELAUSD, BTCAUD, XMRUSD, API3USD, SRMUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-02-19

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
REPUSD 0.034120.00704 +0.02708
PNKUSD 0.018210.00492 +0.01329
XMRUSD 0.022210.00985 +0.01236
PAXGUSD 0.032000.02058 +0.01142
LTCBTC 0.019610.00834 +0.01127

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GYENUSD 0.015370.03780 -0.02243
BTCJPY 0.004870.02284 -0.01797
TSDUSD 0.002310.01493 -0.01263
HNTUSD 0.006760.01525 -0.00849
XDCUSD 0.005690.01416 -0.00847

Foreign exchange

EURUZS was the most central name, carrying 5.44× the influence of an average node across 595 pairs.

pairs
595
Density
0.035
Clustering
0.367
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
EURUZS 1 0.00914 5.44× 1.0% 0.3% RUBJPY, JPYRUB
COPMXN 2 0.00821 4.88× 16.3% 5.1% COPUSD, ZARMXN, XAGAUD, SEKUSD, THBUSD
ZARMXN 3 0.00747 4.44× 23.7% 8.8% XAGUSD, COPUSD, TWDSEK, INRSEK, JPYNOK
ZAREGP 4 0.00703 4.18× 21.2% 7.4% XAGUSD, THBSGD, ZMWZAR, CNYSGD, XAUBRL
COPUSD 5 0.00701 4.17× 17.2% 6.9% GBPILS, ZAREGP, ZARDKK, CHFILS, ZARJPY
ZMWZAR 6 0.00684 4.07× 20.0% 4.2% XAGCAD, XAGCNY, ZARNZD, THBSGD, CNYSGD
USDZMW 7 0.00626 3.72× 6.2% 3.2% PENCLP, CLPPEN, CLPBRL, ARSCLP, CNYCLP
RUBJPY 8 0.00624 3.71× 0.3% 0.2% EURUZS
COPBRL 9 0.00622 3.70× 4.2% 2.9% BRLHKD, CHFBRL, SEKRUB, HKDBRL, SGDBRL
RUBDKK 10 0.00620 3.69× 4.5% 2.0% EURILS, CHFBRL, BRLSGD, MXNBRL, KRWTHB

Rising influence vs 2025-02-19

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
EURUZS 0.009140.00033 +0.00882
JPYTHB 0.005650.00048 +0.00517
COPMXN 0.008210.00305 +0.00515
BRLRSD 0.005850.00093 +0.00492
AUDSEK 0.005220.00063 +0.00459

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
RUBPLN 0.002660.00807 -0.00541
CZKZAR 0.000300.00491 -0.00461
ZARCZK 0.000300.00486 -0.00456
ARSBRL 0.003510.00784 -0.00433
XAGRUB 0.002480.00652 -0.00404

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.