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Daily network digest

Tuesday, May 20, 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

BTCJPY was the most central name, carrying 6.64× the influence of an average node across 221 assets.

assets
221
Density
0.091
Clustering
0.299
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
BTCJPY 1 0.03002 6.64× 43.2% 39.1% WBTCUSD, BTTUSD, LTCUSD, ASMUSD, BTCAUD
XDCUSD 2 0.02000 4.42× 41.4% 9.1% STXUSD, STORJUSD, NEXOUSD, CVCUSD, UOSUSD
TRXUSD 3 0.01947 4.30× 36.8% 16.8% AXLUSD, TUSD, XDCUSD, JTOUSD, ZECUSD
KRLUSD 4 0.01860 4.11× 34.1% 7.3% MSOLUSD, SOLUSD, HNTUSD, XRDUSD, ZECUSD
XAUTUSD 5 0.01728 3.82× 40.0% 33.2% NEOUSD, BOBAUSD, QIUSD, CROUSD, XDCUSD
PAXGUSD 6 0.01576 3.48× 31.4% 19.1% BOBAUSD, LUNAUSD, QIUSD, NEOUSD, BONDUSD
OXYUSD 7 0.01510 3.34× 28.6% 26.8% CTSIUSD, TRBUSD, SNXUSD, SHIBUSD, ABTUSD
XRPUSD 8 0.01493 3.30× 28.2% 9.5% XRDUSD, BTCAUD, XDCUSD, SEIUSD, AUCTIONUSD
XRPAUD 9 0.01430 3.16× 27.7% 6.4% CHREUR, SEIUSD, XRDUSD, AAVEUSD, XAUTUSD
BTRSTUSD 10 0.01424 3.15× 28.2% 21.4% RARIUSD, ELAUSD, DOGEUSD, ARPAUSD, FISUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-05-19

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BTCJPY 0.030020.00454 +0.02548
XDCUSD 0.020000.00435 +0.01565
XRPUSD 0.014930.00500 +0.00993
XRPAUD 0.014300.00474 +0.00956
KRLUSD 0.018600.00920 +0.00939

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
LCXUSD 0.003580.02102 -0.01744
HNTUSD 0.008070.02223 -0.01416
ETHBTC 0.004570.01484 -0.01027
OMNIUSD 0.004720.01497 -0.01025
ELAUSD 0.005750.01519 -0.00944

Foreign exchange

XAUBRL was the most central name, carrying 8.02× the influence of an average node across 858 pairs.

pairs
858
Density
0.063
Clustering
0.381
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 0.00935 8.02× 29.5% 6.5% CADBRL, BRLARS, XAURUB, SCRUSD, IDRTHB
JPYARS 2 0.00819 7.03× 23.6% 3.7% JPYBRL, BRLJPY, BRLSEK, BRLCHF, EURBRL
AUDBRL 3 0.00764 6.55× 35.9% 9.0% BRLKRW, JPYBRL, BRLJPY, BRLARS, XAUBRL
ARSJPY 4 0.00744 6.38× 24.3% 3.0% JPYBRL, BRLJPY, BRLSEK, BRLKRW, EURBRL
JPYBRL 5 0.00668 5.73× 23.3% 6.4% CHFTHB, XAUJPY, RUBDKK, COPBRL, KRWMYR
USDSOS 6 0.00617 5.29× 3.0% 0.5% EURJMD, EURKZT, EURETB, EURBIF
BRLCHF 7 0.00616 5.29× 31.2% 8.9% XAUJPY, XAURUB, BRLKRW, XAUEUR, XAUSAR
BRLJPY 8 0.00612 5.25× 21.5% 6.1% CHFTHB, COPBRL, MXNBRL, BRLKRW, KRWMYR
BRLEUR 9 0.00599 5.14× 0.9% 1.1% EURKYD, EURNGN, EURSVC, EURBWP, KYDEUR
COPBRL 10 0.00596 5.11× 35.2% 18.4% ARSBRL, RUBCHF, BRLKRW, HKDBRL, NZDSEK

Rising influence vs 2025-05-19

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ARSJPY 0.007440.00087 +0.00656
JPYARS 0.008190.00163 +0.00656
XAUBRL 0.009350.00282 +0.00653
AUDBRL 0.007640.00171 +0.00593
USDSOS 0.006170.00148 +0.00468

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPMUR 0.000310.00618 -0.00587
GBPXPF 0.000470.00628 -0.00581
MYRZAR 0.000370.00610 -0.00573
SEKILS 0.002590.00826 -0.00567
ARSEUR 0.002000.00759 -0.00558

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.