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Daily network digest

Sunday, May 18, 2025

Directed information-flow networks for this session, covering Cryptocurrency. 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.

Cryptocurrency

XRPBTC was the most central name, carrying 8.33× the influence of an average node across 223 assets.

assets
223
Density
0.100
Clustering
0.331
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 0.03734 8.33× 68.0% 9.9% ASTUSD, AERGOUSD, AAVEUSD, GHSTUSD, XMRUSD
REPUSD 2 0.02215 4.94× 42.8% 18.9% TRXUSD, ABTUSD, BANDUSD, MASKUSD, UMAUSD
TRXUSD 3 0.02079 4.64× 36.9% 13.5% FOXUSD, LCXUSD, BADGERUSD, BTCJPY, ABTUSD
KRLUSD 4 0.02047 4.56× 43.7% 11.7% TRXUSD, XRPBTC, COTIUSD, NEARUSD, LTCBTC
BTRSTUSD 5 0.01869 4.17× 34.2% 21.2% IOTXUSD, WBTCUSD, KRLUSD, BTCUSD, CROUSD
LTCBTC 6 0.01674 3.73× 34.7% 31.1% NEARUSD, TRXUSD, TUSD, RNDRUSD, TRBUSD
XDCUSD 7 0.01643 3.66× 40.5% 17.6% PERPUSD, ALPHAUSD, WUSD, WEUR, GHSTUSD
ETHBTC 8 0.01451 3.24× 32.4% 9.9% XTZUSD, AERGOUSD, MIRUSD, XRDUSD, TRXUSD
XMRUSD 9 0.01402 3.13× 24.3% 19.8% MIRUSD, RUNEUSD, API3USD, FORTHUSD, RNDRUSD
PNKUSD 10 0.01287 2.87× 35.1% 11.7% REPUSD, TUSD, LOKAUSD, METISUSD, CHREUR

Rising influence vs 2025-05-17

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XRPBTC 0.037340.01321 +0.02412
REPUSD 0.022150.00494 +0.01721
LTCBTC 0.016740.00470 +0.01204
ETHBTC 0.014510.00572 +0.00879
PNKUSD 0.012870.00518 +0.00769

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BTCJPY 0.005330.03315 -0.02782
XAUTUSD 0.005390.02327 -0.01788
PAXGUSD 0.007780.02061 -0.01283
UOSUSD 0.001780.01274 -0.01096
CVCUSD 0.002790.01364 -0.01084

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.