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Daily network digest

Monday, April 28, 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 7.77× the influence of an average node across 219 assets.

assets
219
Density
0.091
Clustering
0.304
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 0.03546 7.77× 64.2% 13.3% OXTUSD, UOSUSD, OMGUSD, RLCUSD, ACHUSD
HNTUSD 2 0.01978 4.33× 35.8% 6.4% TRXUSD, LCXUSD, USTUSD, XAUTUSD, XRDUSD
ETHBTC 3 0.01890 4.14× 47.7% 22.9% WUSD, WBTCUSD, AUCTIONUSD, MLNUSD, BOBAUSD
XAUTUSD 4 0.01852 4.06× 35.8% 15.1% WBTCUSD, ACHUSD, RLCUSD, BTCEUR, APEUSD
LCXUSD 5 0.01806 3.95× 31.2% 14.7% PNKUSD, ELAUSD, FARMUSD, BTTUSD, TRACUSD
PNKUSD 6 0.01445 3.16× 26.1% 10.6% XAUTUSD, TIAUSD, ASMUSD, ARPAUSD, WUSD
BONDUSD 7 0.01428 3.13× 30.7% 29.4% DASHUSD, IMXUSD, PERPUSD, ALCXUSD, FARMUSD
GYENUSD 8 0.01254 2.75× 29.8% 28.9% APEUSD, LUNAUSD, LINKUSD, VELOUSD, DYDXUSD
VELOUSD 9 0.01195 2.62× 27.5% 9.6% MIRUSD, BTTUSD, FILUSD, ETHUSD, FARMUSD
BTRSTUSD 10 0.01178 2.58× 23.4% 16.1% XRPUSD, DIAUSD, LTCAUD, RARIUSD, MIRUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-04-27

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
PAXGUSD 0.035460.00633 +0.02914
HNTUSD 0.019780.00402 +0.01576
XAUTUSD 0.018520.00493 +0.01359
LCXUSD 0.018060.00847 +0.00959
SRMUSD 0.011580.00296 +0.00863

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
REPUSD 0.009320.02770 -0.01838
XRPBTC 0.010210.02590 -0.01569
XDCUSD 0.004260.01776 -0.01350
TRXUSD 0.010850.02167 -0.01082
KRLUSD 0.008980.01931 -0.01033

Foreign exchange

GBPXPF was the most central name, carrying 7.97× the influence of an average node across 883 pairs.

pairs
883
Density
0.067
Clustering
0.364
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 0.00902 7.97× 4.6% 6.0% TWDSEK, XAGBRL, AUDMYR, JPYKRW, MYRGBP
ARSEUR 2 0.00880 7.77× 30.8% 1.0% NOKZAR, GBPXPF, CADNOK, CHFPKR, SEKILS
GBPLBP 3 0.00852 7.52× 3.1% 0.7% CNYHKD, GBPLYD, CLPARS, COPARS, GHSEUR
SEKILS 4 0.00846 7.47× 7.9% 8.7% BRLKRW, KRWBRL, JPYBRL, VNDCAD, SEKUSD
MXNARS 5 0.00763 6.74× 30.8% 6.0% HUFZAR, SCRGBP, ZARHUF, BRLSEK, AEDNOK
MYRZAR 6 0.00719 6.35× 27.4% 8.5% MYRUSD, VNDJPY, MXNARS, INRMYR, MXNCZK
CNYSGD 7 0.00712 6.29× 28.0% 2.6% USDCOP, GBPCAD, PKRZAR, BRLSEK, GBPBRL
CNYINR 8 0.00711 6.27× 25.6% 1.7% BRLSEK, KRWBRL, TWDSEK, GBPXPF, SEKILS
CNYCAD 9 0.00710 6.27× 25.6% 1.7% BRLSEK, TWDSEK, KRWBRL, SEKILS, GBPXPF
ARSSGD 10 0.00709 6.26× 25.6% 1.7% BRLSEK, KRWBRL, GBPXPF, TWDSEK, SEKILS

Rising influence vs 2025-04-25

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPXPF 0.009020.00053 +0.00849
ARSEUR 0.008800.00154 +0.00725
MYRZAR 0.007190.00034 +0.00685
GBPMUR 0.007040.00031 +0.00673
USDDOP 0.007080.00043 +0.00665

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUBRL 0.003050.01747 -0.01442
JPYARS 0.000750.01387 -0.01312
AUDBRL 0.001790.00776 -0.00597
RUBJPY 0.001110.00707 -0.00597
EURNGN 0.001220.00571 -0.00449

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.