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Daily network digest

Friday, April 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

XRPBTC was the most central name, carrying 6.63× the influence of an average node across 214 assets.

assets
214
Density
0.097
Clustering
0.319
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
XRPBTC 1 0.03099 6.63× 58.7% 6.6% AERGOUSD, XMRUSD, ENJUSD, FOXUSD, CGLDUSD
KRLUSD 2 0.02405 5.15× 46.9% 8.5% TRXUSD, LTCBTC, XRPBTC, TIAUSD, ETHAUD
REPUSD 3 0.02268 4.85× 36.6% 27.2% TRXUSD, ABTUSD, RLCUSD, CROUSD, UMAUSD
XMRUSD 4 0.01938 4.15× 32.9% 20.7% RNDRUSD, JUPUSD, AKTEUR, MIRUSD, RUNEUSD
TRXUSD 5 0.01921 4.11× 32.4% 11.3% LCXUSD, ABTUSD, BTCJPY, KEEPUSD, BADGERUSD
ETHBTC 6 0.01787 3.82× 38.0% 19.2% MIRUSD, TRXUSD, UOSUSD, APEUSD, SCUSD
LTCBTC 7 0.01641 3.51× 29.6% 21.1% ARPAUSD, FOXUSD, TRBUSD, NEARUSD, TRXUSD
PNKUSD 8 0.01632 3.49× 39.9% 13.6% REPUSD, TUSD, RNDRUSD, LTCBTC, METISUSD
XDCUSD 9 0.01596 3.42× 39.0% 14.1% ALPHAUSD, ROSEUSD, MATICUSD, PERPUSD, TRXUSD
GYENUSD 10 0.01518 3.25× 38.0% 21.1% ETHUSD, GRTUSD, PNKUSD, ENJUSD, MANAUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-04-17

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XRPBTC 0.030990.01029 +0.02070
REPUSD 0.022680.00751 +0.01516
XMRUSD 0.019380.00803 +0.01135
ETHBTC 0.017870.00695 +0.01092
LTCBTC 0.016410.00635 +0.01006

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUTUSD 0.004550.02704 -0.02249
GYENUSD 0.015180.03754 -0.02235
PAXGUSD 0.005970.02197 -0.01601
BTCJPY 0.010780.02155 -0.01077
UOSUSD 0.002930.01147 -0.00854

Foreign exchange

CNYHKD was the most central name, carrying 13.72× the influence of an average node across 877 pairs.

pairs
877
Density
0.057
Clustering
0.408
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
CNYHKD 1 0.01564 13.72× 17.6% 0.0%
COPMXN 2 0.00864 7.58× 29.5% 8.4% COPUSD, THBUSD, BRLCOP, ILSPLN, ZARMXN
EURMUR 3 0.00832 7.30× 14.7% 1.4% EURSZL, SZLEUR, USDSZL, IDRZAR, PENCOP
AUDBRL 4 0.00831 7.29× 34.2% 8.7% BRLKRW, BRLJPY, JPYBRL, SGDBRL, CHFBRL
USDUYU 5 0.00776 6.81× 13.9% 0.0%
ARSPEN 6 0.00773 6.78× 13.9% 0.0%
GBPLBP 7 0.00755 6.62× 3.0% 0.3% GBPLYD, ZARARS, CLPARS
USDETB 8 0.00737 6.46× 13.9% 4.6% CLPMXN, MXNCLP, USDPGK, MXNPEN, MUREUR
JPYARS 9 0.00735 6.45× 17.6% 2.5% XAGAUD, CNYHKD, XAGZAR, CRCGBP, GBPCRC
ILSPLN 10 0.00695 6.09× 19.7% 8.7% PLNILS, XAUBRL, TZSZAR, KRWMYR, CADJPY

Rising influence vs 2025-04-17

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CNYHKD 0.015640.00586 +0.00978
AEDCHF 0.005980.00144 +0.00454
CADINR 0.005970.00143 +0.00453
CHFINR 0.005950.00143 +0.00451
AUDBRL 0.008310.00383 +0.00448

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
JPYARS 0.007350.02270 -0.01535
ARSJPY 0.003970.01308 -0.00911
CLPARS 0.003720.00851 -0.00479
USDMYR 0.001090.00461 -0.00353
EURMYR 0.001060.00419 -0.00313

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.