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Daily network digest

Monday, March 17, 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

JSTUSD was the most central name, carrying 12.74× the influence of an average node across 215 assets.

assets
215
Density
0.084
Clustering
0.339
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
JSTUSD 1 0.05927 12.74× 79.9% 9.3% RUNEUSD, MKRUSD, DYDXEUR, DYDXUSD, PNKUSD
PAXGUSD 2 0.03234 6.95× 58.9% 8.4% BOBAUSD, AVAXUSD, RLCUSD, NEXOUSD, ACHUSD
BTRSTUSD 3 0.02603 5.60× 49.5% 16.4% AXSUSD, INJUSD, FETUSD, XRPUSD, RNDRUSD
ETHBTC 4 0.02086 4.49× 50.0% 27.1% GTCUSD, LUNAUSD, DSHUSD, CVCUSD, MAGICUSD
HNTUSD 5 0.01749 3.76× 35.5% 6.5% TRXUSD, JSTUSD, MATICUSD, LCXUSD, KRLUSD
XAUTUSD 6 0.01655 3.56× 34.1% 9.8% WBTCUSD, RLCUSD, BTCGBP, GYENUSD, ACHUSD
LCXUSD 7 0.01465 3.15× 25.2% 11.7% BTCJPY, PNKUSD, ORCAUSD, TRACUSD, JSTUSD
TRXUSD 8 0.01387 2.98× 9.8% 33.2% EGLDUSD, CHRUSD, GHSTUSD, JSTUSD, PYTHUSD
BONDUSD 9 0.01363 2.93× 25.2% 22.4% IMXUSD, BTTUSD, STORJUSD, ALCXUSD, DOTUSD
KRLUSD 10 0.01355 2.91× 26.6% 6.5% TRXUSD, TVKEUR, RLCUSD, BANDUSD, BADGERUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-03-16

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
JSTUSD 0.059270.03385 +0.02541
PAXGUSD 0.032340.01282 +0.01952
BTRSTUSD 0.026030.01121 +0.01483
HNTUSD 0.017490.00446 +0.01303
LCXUSD 0.014650.00409 +0.01056

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XRPBTC 0.008880.02740 -0.01852
LTCBTC 0.009770.02507 -0.01530
XYOUSD 0.001750.01487 -0.01312
XMRUSD 0.004220.01669 -0.01247
TRACUSD 0.005050.01687 -0.01182

Foreign exchange

COPUSD was the most central name, carrying 6.06× the influence of an average node across 713 pairs.

pairs
713
Density
0.021
Clustering
0.356
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
COPUSD 1 0.00849 6.06× 13.8% 3.7% ZAREGP, GBPILS, ZARDKK, PENCAD, ZMWZAR
ZARMXN 2 0.00835 5.96× 16.9% 5.9% COPUSD, NOKJPY, TWDSEK, JPYNOK, USDMXN
JPYRUB 3 0.00742 5.29× 0.7% 0.1% EURLRD
COPMXN 4 0.00734 5.24× 10.4% 1.8% COPUSD, ZARMXN, THBUSD, USDCNH, DKKRUB
EURCRC 5 0.00718 5.12× 2.7% 0.1% JPYRUB
JPYTHB 6 0.00713 5.08× 14.7% 3.5% TWDCHF, BWPZAR, ZARBWP, CHFJPY, AUDNZD
USDETB 7 0.00679 4.84× 6.7% 6.0% MXNCLP, MXNPEN, CLPMXN, ARSBRL, USDPGK
EURLRD 8 0.00678 4.83× 0.3% 1.0% GBPRUB, RUBKRW, JPYRUB, KRWRUB, EURCRC
BRLCLP 9 0.00670 4.78× 5.9% 1.4% XAUMXN, KRWMYR, XAGBRL, BRLMXN, MYRKRW
XAUMXN 10 0.00657 4.68× 3.9% 1.4% BRLCLP, JPYGBP, BRLJPY, XAGGBP, XAGZAR

Rising influence vs 2025-03-14

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
EURCRC 0.007180.00027 +0.00691
EURLRD 0.006780.00040 +0.00638
AUDBRL 0.006560.00035 +0.00621
JPYRUB 0.007420.00221 +0.00521
XAUMXN 0.006570.00145 +0.00512

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
RUBUSD 0.003010.01798 -0.01497
EURCOP 0.002140.01234 -0.01020
LKRZAR 0.002180.00819 -0.00601
USDETB 0.006790.01213 -0.00534
SGDJPY 0.004710.00971 -0.00500

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.