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Daily network digest

Thursday, April 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

GYENUSD was the most central name, carrying 8.03× the influence of an average node across 214 assets.

assets
214
Density
0.084
Clustering
0.297
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 0.03754 8.03× 57.3% 19.2% LCXUSD, BOBAUSD, SEIEUR, ASMUSD, SWFTCUSD
XAUTUSD 2 0.02704 5.79× 51.2% 17.4% UNIUSD, XRPAUD, BOBAUSD, XDCUSD, ETHUSD
PAXGUSD 3 0.02197 4.70× 36.6% 3.8% ABTUSD, UNIUSD, BOBAUSD, HNTUSD, DYDXUSD
BTCJPY 4 0.02155 4.61× 35.7% 43.2% LTCUSD, BTTUSD, WBTCUSD, ETHAUD, CROUSD
XDCUSD 5 0.01910 4.09× 35.7% 7.0% SOLUSD, GYENUSD, STXUSD, PAXGUSD, ALPHAUSD
TRXUSD 6 0.01874 4.01× 31.0% 15.0% BTCAUD, QNTUSD, RARIUSD, DSHUSD, GYENUSD
KRLUSD 7 0.01403 3.00× 27.2% 3.8% XRDUSD, SOLUSD, TRXUSD, GYENUSD, HNTUSD
ORNUSD 8 0.01244 2.66× 24.9% 10.8% DOTUSD, PERPUSD, IOTXUSD, RENUSD, ABTUSD
HNTUSD 9 0.01220 2.61× 21.6% 12.7% MLNUSD, XRPBTC, AUCTIONUSD, BADGERUSD, ATOMUSD
USTUSD 10 0.01206 2.58× 27.7% 14.1% BTCAUD, ASTUSD, CLVUSD, AMPUSD, ATOMUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-04-16

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GYENUSD 0.037540.01368 +0.02386
BTCJPY 0.021550.00499 +0.01655
XDCUSD 0.019100.00360 +0.01550
TRXUSD 0.018740.01003 +0.00871
XRPUSD 0.010980.00407 +0.00691

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
LCXUSD 0.004430.01960 -0.01518
PAXGUSD 0.021970.03683 -0.01486
ETHBTC 0.006950.02131 -0.01435
HNTUSD 0.012200.02445 -0.01225
VELOUSD 0.004570.01451 -0.00994

Foreign exchange

JPYARS was the most central name, carrying 20.00× the influence of an average node across 881 pairs.

pairs
881
Density
0.045
Clustering
0.412
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
JPYARS 1 0.02270 20.00× 13.5% 2.3% XAGZAR, XAGGBP, CRCGBP, XAGCAD, GBPCRC
ARSJPY 2 0.01308 11.53× 4.7% 0.5% USDMYR, EURMYR, EURUYU, CLPPEN
COPMXN 3 0.01170 10.31× 26.0% 5.8% COPUSD, THBUSD, BRLCOP, XAGAUD, ZARMXN
COPUSD 4 0.00912 8.03× 28.5% 7.0% CHFILS, ILSCHF, THBUSD, GBPILS, ZAREGP
CLPARS 5 0.00851 7.50× 0.7% 1.9% EURARS, PENARS, EURMWK, EURHNL, EURKES
GBPLBP 6 0.00727 6.40× 2.0% 0.1% CLPARS
XAUBRL 7 0.00721 6.35× 29.9% 7.0% ZMWZAR, BRLUSD, JPYTHB, GBPBRL, OMRZAR
EURCRC 8 0.00703 6.20× 2.7% 0.5% GBPLBP, CLPARS, COPARS, JPYRUB
CHFTHB 9 0.00679 5.98× 24.2% 7.7% AUDNZD, CNYKRW, PENMXN, USDZAR, THBHKD
EURMUR 10 0.00670 5.90× 18.3% 2.4% CHFIDR, EURBRL, USDSZL, LRDGBP, PENCOP

Rising influence vs 2025-04-16

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
JPYARS 0.022700.00083 +0.02187
ARSJPY 0.013080.00068 +0.01240
GBPLBP 0.007270.00027 +0.00700
CHFTHB 0.006790.00032 +0.00647
EURCRC 0.007030.00070 +0.00633

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
MYRZAR 0.000340.00796 -0.00762
CNYCAD 0.001660.00815 -0.00648
ARSUSD 0.001650.00813 -0.00648
ARSSGD 0.001700.00815 -0.00645
USDARS 0.001700.00814 -0.00644

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.