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Daily network digest

Wednesday, March 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

JSTUSD was the most central name, carrying 7.61× the influence of an average node across 215 assets.

assets
215
Density
0.089
Clustering
0.318
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 0.03541 7.61× 54.2% 5.6% LTCBTC, TIAUSD, ZENUSD, LTCUSD, LTCEUR
LTCBTC 2 0.02821 6.06× 40.2% 21.5% TRBUSD, BTCAUD, JSTUSD, ARPAUSD, DARUSD
XRPBTC 3 0.02737 5.88× 49.5% 9.3% XMRUSD, JSTUSD, TUSD, AERGOUSD, XRDUSD
PNKUSD 4 0.01889 4.06× 42.5% 9.8% REPUSD, TUSD, FXUSD, QIUSD, XRPUSD
REPUSD 5 0.01854 3.99× 31.3% 18.2% ABTUSD, NEXOUSD, CROUSD, RLCUSD, ENJUSD
KRLUSD 6 0.01681 3.61× 35.0% 5.1% TRXUSD, LTCBTC, TIAUSD, KSMUSD, XRPBTC
TRXUSD 7 0.01607 3.46× 21.0% 15.4% ABTUSD, FOXUSD, KEEPUSD, LCXUSD, BADGERUSD
TRACUSD 8 0.01525 3.28× 33.2% 12.1% WBTCUSD, LTCBTC, MKRUSD, REPUSD, BTCUSD
ETHBTC 9 0.01490 3.20× 33.2% 19.6% UOSUSD, APEUSD, ALICEUSD, REPUSD, MIRUSD
GYENUSD 10 0.01434 3.08× 35.5% 29.0% ETHUSD, ENJUSD, GRTUSD, MASKUSD, SCUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-03-18

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
LTCBTC 0.028210.00636 +0.02185
XRPBTC 0.027370.01081 +0.01656
PNKUSD 0.018890.00488 +0.01401
TIAUSD 0.012850.00228 +0.01057
TRACUSD 0.015250.00492 +0.01032

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
JSTUSD 0.035410.05844 -0.02303
TSDUSD 0.002290.01771 -0.01542
GYENUSD 0.014340.02954 -0.01520
BTCJPY 0.008320.02291 -0.01459
GNOUSD 0.002390.01635 -0.01396

Foreign exchange

EURCOP was the most central name, carrying 6.97× the influence of an average node across 661 pairs.

pairs
661
Density
0.030
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
EURCOP 1 0.01055 6.97× 1.5% 0.3% EURGHS, GHSEUR
GBPRUB 2 0.01050 6.94× 2.4% 2.1% EURCRC, EURLRD, EURHNL, EURMWK, EURBMD
DKKRUB 3 0.01031 6.81× 7.4% 4.5% KRWEUR, HUFZAR, ILSSEK, ZARMXN, TWDSEK
COPARS 4 0.00986 6.52× 0.8% 0.2% EURCOP
TRYZAR 5 0.00904 5.98× 5.8% 6.8% ILSCAD, ZARKRW, CADILS, KRWZAR, ZARNZD
ZMWZAR 6 0.00692 4.58× 16.2% 8.2% NZDUSD, ZARKRW, ZARNZD, KRWZAR, ILSCAD
RUBPLN 7 0.00589 3.89× 7.7% 7.9% MXNBRL, EURRUB, PLNILS, RUBEUR, USDMAD
MXNARS 8 0.00583 3.85× 12.3% 3.8% HUFZAR, ZARHUF, SEKCZK, ZARMXN, SEKEUR
EURGHS 9 0.00568 3.75× 0.9% 0.2% COPARS
RUBKRW 10 0.00550 3.63× 2.1% 0.2% GBPRUB

Rising influence vs 2025-03-18

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPRUB 0.010500.00077 +0.00974
DKKRUB 0.010310.00272 +0.00758
COPARS 0.009860.00292 +0.00694
TRYZAR 0.009040.00258 +0.00646
MXNARS 0.005830.00140 +0.00443

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDETB 0.000630.01827 -0.01764
CHFPKR 0.003710.01739 -0.01368
TWDSEK 0.003680.01580 -0.01212
AUDSEK 0.002040.01322 -0.01119
RUBUSD 0.005320.01142 -0.00610

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.