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Daily network digest

Tuesday, February 25, 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 9.70× the influence of an average node across 214 assets.

assets
214
Density
0.078
Clustering
0.298
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 0.04532 9.70× 58.7% 32.4% LCXUSD, REQUSD, SEIEUR, CVCUSD, BOBAUSD
BTCJPY 2 0.02553 5.46× 33.3% 25.4% ICPUSD, LTCUSD, BTTUSD, HIGHUSD, ETHAUD
XAUTUSD 3 0.01966 4.21× 34.3% 33.8% ETHUSD, ETHAUD, JTOUSD, ALPHAUSD, XRPAUD
HNTUSD 4 0.01764 3.77× 30.0% 12.7% BADGERUSD, MLNUSD, AUCTIONUSD, API3USD, RUNEUSD
XDCUSD 5 0.01651 3.53× 26.3% 8.0% GYENUSD, CVCUSD, TUSD, REPUSD, BTRSTUSD
TSDUSD 6 0.01607 3.44× 31.9% 39.9% CGLDUSD, ALGOUSD, BNTUSD, LINKUSD, BTRSTUSD
PAXGUSD 7 0.01439 3.08× 23.9% 12.2% UOSUSD, ETHUSD, REPUSD, LINKUSD, MKRUSD
XRPBTC 8 0.01316 2.82× 18.8% 16.9% GYENUSD, AUCTIONUSD, MKRUSD, JUPUSD, VTHOUSD
TRXUSD 9 0.01256 2.69× 20.2% 18.3% BTCAUD, ETHUSD, FLOWUSD, RARIUSD, AERGOUSD
USTUSD 10 0.01215 2.60× 24.4% 16.0% ASTUSD, XMRUSD, CLVUSD, MASKUSD, BTCAUD

Rising influence vs 2025-02-24

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GYENUSD 0.045320.00989 +0.03543
BTCJPY 0.025530.00597 +0.01956
XDCUSD 0.016510.00402 +0.01249
TSDUSD 0.016070.00396 +0.01211
XRPUSD 0.011270.00393 +0.00734

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BTRSTUSD 0.008680.03130 -0.02262
KRLUSD 0.009790.02897 -0.01918
PAXGUSD 0.014390.02989 -0.01551
ETHBTC 0.004700.02006 -0.01536
LCXUSD 0.005600.01584 -0.01024

Foreign exchange

CADRUB was the most central name, carrying 10.12× the influence of an average node across 553 pairs.

pairs
553
Density
0.039
Clustering
0.366
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
CADRUB 1 0.01829 10.12× 3.3% 0.7% BRLJPY, JPYBRL, BRLCHF, BRLPEN
SGDJPY 2 0.00969 5.36× 27.9% 8.7% NOKZAR, DKKRUB, NZDJPY, NZDMXN, MXNSGD
BRLJPY 3 0.00934 5.17× 1.4% 2.9% CADRUB, MYRGBP, GBPMYR, INRMYR, CHFTWD
LKRZAR 4 0.00918 5.07× 16.7% 5.4% NZDUSD, XAGARS, GBPCAD, CADTHB, XAGINR
XAGMXN 5 0.00834 4.61× 19.9% 10.7% JPYMXN, MXNJPY, PENMXN, MXNAUD, MXNPLN
CNYZAR 6 0.00822 4.54× 17.0% 6.2% NZDUSD, CADTHB, ZARNGN, AUDMXN, SEKNOK
SGDZAR 7 0.00770 4.26× 15.2% 6.5% XAGMXN, XAGJPY, ZARSEK, CADTHB, XAGGBP
RUBDKK 8 0.00766 4.23× 4.2% 1.3% CHFBRL, KRWTHB, ILSPLN, CADBRL, USDNGN
CHFBRL 9 0.00736 4.07× 2.7% 3.1% RUBDKK, RUBNOK, RUBUSD, ILSEUR, ILSPLN
ZARHKD 10 0.00727 4.02× 20.7% 5.4% LKRZAR, USDZAR, EURGBP, COPMXN, TZSZAR

Rising influence vs 2025-02-24

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CADRUB 0.018290.00719 +0.01111
XAGMXN 0.008340.00052 +0.00782
LKRZAR 0.009180.00205 +0.00713
ZARHKD 0.007270.00198 +0.00528
SGDJPY 0.009690.00461 +0.00509

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BRLCLP 0.000770.00810 -0.00733
MXNBRL 0.002490.00886 -0.00637
ZAREGP 0.002600.00867 -0.00607
RUBCHF 0.001660.00707 -0.00541
BRLRSD 0.001030.00609 -0.00505

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.