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Daily network digest

Monday, April 21, 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 7.41× the influence of an average node across 214 assets.

assets
214
Density
0.096
Clustering
0.334
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 0.03462 7.41× 59.6% 5.2% AERGOUSD, XMRUSD, TUSD, ORCAUSD, GHSTUSD
REPUSD 2 0.02197 4.70× 33.3% 22.1% ABTUSD, TRXUSD, LPTUSD, XAUTUSD, RLCUSD
KRLUSD 3 0.02037 4.36× 43.2% 5.6% TRXUSD, XRPBTC, LTCBTC, NEARUSD, TIAUSD
TRXUSD 4 0.01952 4.18× 31.5% 8.9% FOXUSD, LCXUSD, BTCJPY, ABTUSD, KEEPUSD
LTCBTC 5 0.01886 4.04× 34.3% 24.9% NEARUSD, TRBUSD, FOXUSD, ARPAUSD, TRXUSD
ETHBTC 6 0.01812 3.88× 41.8% 14.6% MIRUSD, TRXUSD, APEUSD, REPUSD, UOSUSD
PNKUSD 7 0.01730 3.70× 42.3% 12.2% REPUSD, TUSD, RNDRUSD, LTCBTC, DIAUSD
XDCUSD 8 0.01670 3.57× 40.8% 12.7% CHZUSD, ALPHAUSD, ABTUSD, ROSEUSD, PERPUSD
XMRUSD 9 0.01648 3.53× 26.8% 17.4% RNDRUSD, JUPUSD, AKTEUR, MIRUSD, GTCUSD
TRACUSD 10 0.01638 3.51× 38.0% 14.1% REPUSD, LTCBTC, MKRUSD, BTCUSD, WBTCUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-04-20

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XRPBTC 0.034620.01175 +0.02288
REPUSD 0.021970.00775 +0.01422
LTCBTC 0.018860.00523 +0.01363
PNKUSD 0.017300.00583 +0.01148
ETHBTC 0.018120.00810 +0.01001

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GYENUSD 0.014800.03757 -0.02277
XAUTUSD 0.005000.02656 -0.02155
PAXGUSD 0.006420.02070 -0.01428
BTCJPY 0.008230.02160 -0.01337
UOSUSD 0.002360.01103 -0.00867

Foreign exchange

GBPXPF was the most central name, carrying 24.08× the influence of an average node across 894 pairs.

pairs
894
Density
0.063
Clustering
0.371
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
GBPXPF 1 0.02693 24.08× 3.8% 6.7% XAGBRL, MYRAUD, KRWJPY, GBPMYR, CADILS
SEKILS 2 0.02300 20.56× 6.4% 7.6% VNDCAD, BRLMXN, SEKUSD, MXNBRL, MURUSD
MXNARS 3 0.00820 7.33× 30.7% 5.7% HUFZAR, SEKCZK, RUBSEK, CZKZAR, ZARHUF
MYRZAR 4 0.00820 7.33× 26.7% 8.4% CZKZAR, INRMYR, MYRUSD, MXNGBP, MXNEUR
CNYSGD 5 0.00787 7.04× 27.5% 1.7% USDCOP, GBPCAD, GBPXPF, PKRZAR, DKKPKR
ARSUSD 6 0.00779 6.96× 25.1% 0.2% GBPXPF, SEKILS
CNYINR 7 0.00778 6.96× 25.1% 0.2% GBPXPF, SEKILS
CNYCAD 8 0.00778 6.96× 25.1% 0.2% GBPXPF, SEKILS
GBPMUR 9 0.00777 6.94× 25.1% 0.2% GBPXPF, SEKILS
USDARS 10 0.00775 6.93× 25.1% 0.2% GBPXPF, SEKILS

Rising influence vs 2025-04-18

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPXPF 0.026930.00076 +0.02617
SEKILS 0.023000.00066 +0.02234
MYRZAR 0.008200.00036 +0.00784
GBPMUR 0.007770.00036 +0.00741
CNYINR 0.007780.00161 +0.00617

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
CNYHKD 0.005520.01564 -0.01012
AUDBRL 0.001370.00831 -0.00694
EURMUR 0.001460.00832 -0.00687
JPYARS 0.000700.00735 -0.00665
CHFINR 0.000300.00595 -0.00565

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.