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Daily network digest

Tuesday, March 18, 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 12.56× the influence of an average node across 215 assets.

assets
215
Density
0.089
Clustering
0.335
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 0.05844 12.56× 78.5% 5.1% XRDUSD, LTCEUR, GNOUSD, BOBAUSD, ORCAUSD
GYENUSD 2 0.02954 6.35× 58.9% 32.7% REQUSD, LCXUSD, BOBAUSD, SEIEUR, NCTUSD
BTCJPY 3 0.02291 4.92× 41.6% 33.6% ICPUSD, ETHAUD, LTCUSD, BTTUSD, QNTUSD
TSDUSD 4 0.01771 3.81× 55.1% 38.3% LINKUSD, BNTUSD, ALGOUSD, HBARUSD, EGLDUSD
GNOUSD 5 0.01635 3.52× 20.6% 14.0% BCHGBP, DNTUSD, BCHUSD, XMRUSD, LTCAUD
REPUSD 6 0.01631 3.51× 29.0% 12.1% BTRSTUSD, RENUSD, 1INCHUSD, API3USD, PERPUSD
HNTUSD 7 0.01488 3.20× 30.4% 9.8% BADGERUSD, AUCTIONUSD, RUNEUSD, SUKUUSD, SPELLUSD
XAUTUSD 8 0.01470 3.16× 36.0% 22.4% ETHUSD, ETHAUD, PUNDIXUSD, UNIUSD, XRPAUD
XDCUSD 9 0.01451 3.12× 25.2% 10.3% REPUSD, MASKUSD, STORJUSD, GYENUSD, FETUSD
KRLUSD 10 0.01415 3.04× 31.3% 5.1% TRXUSD, SOLUSD, JSTUSD, GYENUSD, XRDUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-03-17

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GYENUSD 0.029540.01011 +0.01943
BTCJPY 0.022910.00597 +0.01694
TSDUSD 0.017710.00231 +0.01540
XDCUSD 0.014510.00305 +0.01147
GNOUSD 0.016350.00538 +0.01097

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
PAXGUSD 0.011150.03234 -0.02119
BTRSTUSD 0.008050.02603 -0.01799
ETHBTC 0.005350.02086 -0.01551
LCXUSD 0.003250.01465 -0.01139
RUNEUSD 0.003630.01264 -0.00901

Foreign exchange

USDETB was the most central name, carrying 12.24× the influence of an average node across 670 pairs.

pairs
670
Density
0.031
Clustering
0.341
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
USDETB 1 0.01827 12.24× 10.3% 4.2% MXNPEN, IDRZAR, USDPGK, BWPCHF, CLPMXN
CHFPKR 2 0.01739 11.65× 17.0% 2.7% BRLPEN, GBPBRL, KRWBRL, KRWMYR, ILSSEK
TWDSEK 3 0.01580 10.59× 22.0% 15.5% BRLCOP, ZMWZAR, ZARMXN, LKRZAR, CHFPKR
AUDSEK 4 0.01322 8.86× 15.4% 3.6% NOKSEK, ZMWZAR, USDCNH, ILSJPY, NOKILS
RUBUSD 5 0.01142 7.65× 12.7% 5.1% RUBEUR, EURRUB, RUBDKK, SEKRUB, USDPKR
EURCOP 6 0.00969 6.49× 4.2% 0.9% COPARS, EURGHS, GHSEUR, SZLEUR, EURPYG
BRLPEN 7 0.00842 5.64× 16.1% 10.9% HUFCAD, CZKCAD, ZARAED, USDHUF, DKKMYR
SGDJPY 8 0.00750 5.03× 24.8% 7.5% NOKZAR, PHPJPY, EURSEK, NZDJPY, BRLARS
GBPBRL 9 0.00730 4.89× 14.2% 9.6% HUFCAD, CZKCAD, KRWSEK, ZMWZAR, AUDSEK
RUBDKK 10 0.00679 4.55× 5.8% 10.2% GBPAMD, CHFBRL, GBPSCR, USDKZT, AMDGBP

Rising influence vs 2025-03-17

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CHFPKR 0.017390.00476 +0.01263
USDETB 0.018270.00679 +0.01148
AUDSEK 0.013220.00297 +0.01025
TWDSEK 0.015800.00627 +0.00953
RUBUSD 0.011420.00301 +0.00841

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
EURCRC 0.000260.00718 -0.00692
EURLRD 0.000480.00678 -0.00630
AUDBRL 0.000520.00656 -0.00604
JPYRUB 0.001430.00742 -0.00600
COPUSD 0.003200.00849 -0.00529

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.