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Daily network digest

Tuesday, April 22, 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

PAXGUSD was the most central name, carrying 7.76× the influence of an average node across 214 assets.

assets
214
Density
0.085
Clustering
0.302
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
PAXGUSD 1 0.03628 7.76× 62.9% 15.0% UOSUSD, OXTUSD, OMGUSD, ACHUSD, RLCUSD
HNTUSD 2 0.02355 5.04× 39.4% 5.6% TRXUSD, XRDUSD, LCXUSD, MATICUSD, USTUSD
LCXUSD 3 0.02133 4.56× 31.9% 9.9% PNKUSD, FARMUSD, TRACUSD, ELAUSD, BOBAUSD
ETHBTC 4 0.02068 4.42× 48.8% 21.6% MLNUSD, WBTCUSD, LUNAUSD, OXYUSD, BOBAUSD
XAUTUSD 5 0.02037 4.36× 38.5% 13.1% WBTCUSD, ACHUSD, RLCUSD, APEUSD, BTCEUR
BONDUSD 6 0.01699 3.64× 31.9% 27.2% ALCXUSD, IMXUSD, DOTUSD, DASHUSD, BTRSTUSD
BTCEUR 7 0.01409 3.02× 23.9% 11.7% DOTUSD, PUNDIXUSD, SHIBUSD, HNTUSD, BTRSTUSD
VELOUSD 8 0.01294 2.77× 26.3% 9.4% MIRUSD, FILUSD, BTTUSD, SGBUSD, ETHUSD
LTCBTC 9 0.01289 2.76× 23.5% 7.5% TRXUSD, XMRUSD, RENUSD, CGLDUSD, VELOUSD
XRDUSD 10 0.01255 2.69× 18.8% 14.1% BTRSTUSD, YFIUSD, CGLDUSD, INJUSD, OXTUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-04-21

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
PAXGUSD 0.036280.00642 +0.02986
HNTUSD 0.023550.00490 +0.01865
XAUTUSD 0.020370.00500 +0.01537
LCXUSD 0.021330.00863 +0.01270
BONDUSD 0.016990.00827 +0.00871

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XRPBTC 0.008880.03462 -0.02574
REPUSD 0.007770.02197 -0.01420
XDCUSD 0.004900.01670 -0.01180
KRLUSD 0.009440.02037 -0.01094
XMRUSD 0.006880.01648 -0.00960

Foreign exchange

XAUBRL was the most central name, carrying 17.26× the influence of an average node across 820 pairs.

pairs
820
Density
0.063
Clustering
0.391
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
XAUBRL 1 0.02105 17.26× 27.6% 8.1% XAURUB, CADBRL, BRLARS, JPYBRL, TWDSEK
JPYARS 2 0.01686 13.83× 18.2% 1.7% GBPCRC, GBPKWD, CRCGBP, GBPBHD, CHFPKR
AUDBRL 3 0.00824 6.75× 36.5% 9.8% BRLKRW, BRLJPY, XAUBRL, BRLSGD, JPYBRL
COPMXN 4 0.00747 6.12× 28.7% 8.5% COPUSD, XAUMXN, THBUSD, RUBSEK, ZARMXN
COPBRL 5 0.00621 5.09× 36.1% 19.4% CHFBRL, BRLCHF, BRLKRW, NZDSEK, HKDBRL
RUBJPY 6 0.00619 5.08× 2.9% 0.2% CLPARS, EURCNY
COPUSD 7 0.00613 5.03× 34.6% 10.4% SCRGBP, ILSCHF, CHFILS, THBUSD, ZARIDR
XAUARS 8 0.00609 4.99× 34.6% 12.1% THBUSD, KRWMYR, JPYCLP, JPYMYR, JPYBRL
USDCLP 9 0.00589 4.83× 31.3% 9.6% DKKPKR, GBPHTG, AEDGBP, GBPJOD, ARSHKD
XAUEUR 10 0.00575 4.71× 34.9% 11.0% THBUSD, ZAREGP, TRYZAR, MXNARS, USDTRY

Rising influence vs 2025-04-21

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUBRL 0.021050.00202 +0.01903
JPYARS 0.016860.00070 +0.01616
AUDBRL 0.008240.00137 +0.00687
RUBJPY 0.006190.00129 +0.00490
CHFINR 0.004930.00030 +0.00464

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPXPF 0.000620.02693 -0.02632
SEKILS 0.001220.02300 -0.02178
MYRZAR 0.000340.00820 -0.00785
GBPMUR 0.000340.00777 -0.00742
PENMXN 0.001680.00758 -0.00591

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.