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Daily network digest

Wednesday, May 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 7.80× the influence of an average node across 221 assets.

assets
221
Density
0.100
Clustering
0.328
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 0.03529 7.80× 65.0% 10.0% AERGOUSD, ASTUSD, GHSTUSD, STORJUSD, ORCAUSD
REPUSD 2 0.02404 5.31× 42.7% 18.6% ABTUSD, TRXUSD, CROUSD, BANDUSD, UMAUSD
KRLUSD 3 0.02323 5.13× 47.7% 13.6% TRXUSD, XRPBTC, NEARUSD, ETHAUD, COTIUSD
TRXUSD 4 0.02127 4.70× 41.4% 15.5% FOXUSD, LCXUSD, BADGERUSD, BTCJPY, ABTUSD
BTRSTUSD 5 0.01868 4.13× 33.2% 22.3% IOTXUSD, XMRUSD, KRLUSD, CROUSD, NCTUSD
LTCBTC 6 0.01553 3.43× 30.9% 30.9% NEARUSD, TRBUSD, TUSD, RNDRUSD, LRCUSD
ETHBTC 7 0.01474 3.26× 33.2% 13.6% XTZUSD, MIRUSD, AERGOUSD, TRXUSD, XRDUSD
XMRUSD 8 0.01393 3.08× 25.9% 15.5% FORTHUSD, MIRUSD, API3USD, RUNEUSD, OMNIUSD
XDCUSD 9 0.01354 2.99× 34.5% 17.3% PERPUSD, ABTUSD, ALPHAUSD, WUSD, CHZUSD
PNKUSD 10 0.01354 2.99× 36.8% 12.7% REPUSD, LOKAUSD, TUSD, VOXELUSD, TRXUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-05-20

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XRPBTC 0.035290.01282 +0.02247
REPUSD 0.024040.00676 +0.01728
LTCBTC 0.015530.00468 +0.01085
ETHBTC 0.014740.00457 +0.01016
PNKUSD 0.013540.00464 +0.00889

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BTCJPY 0.005500.03002 -0.02452
XAUTUSD 0.004990.01728 -0.01229
UOSUSD 0.001980.01360 -0.01162
CVCUSD 0.003000.01167 -0.00867
PAXGUSD 0.008450.01576 -0.00731

Foreign exchange

GBPXPF was the most central name, carrying 15.23× the influence of an average node across 858 pairs.

pairs
858
Density
0.084
Clustering
0.389
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 0.01775 15.23× 7.4% 7.7% JPYIDR, ILSJPY, JPYILS, INRJPY, TWDGBP
XAUGBP 2 0.00781 6.70× 25.2% 14.2% GBPCRC, CADCNY, ILSSEK, CNYCAD, TRYJPY
RUBCHF 3 0.00762 6.54× 24.0% 18.4% CADBRL, USDNGN, XAGTRY, XAGEUR, HKDBRL
CNYHKD 4 0.00695 5.96× 0.8% 0.7% EURRSD, EURGHS, GHSEUR, EURMYR, USDQAR
EURJMD 5 0.00677 5.81× 3.0% 0.1% CNYHKD
CHFRUB 6 0.00663 5.69× 21.7% 18.9% CADBRL, XAGEUR, XAGAUD, BRLSGD, ARSBRL
DOPUSD 7 0.00650 5.57× 3.7% 1.1% RSDGBP, GBPRSD, CHFRSD, GHSUSD, JPYRSD
COPMXN 8 0.00627 5.38× 28.7% 17.2% XAGKRW, MXNAUD, AUDMXN, MXNCHF, CHFMXN
XAUSAR 9 0.00592 5.08× 25.8% 17.9% TRYPLN, COPBRL, CZKUSD, EURUSD, PHPDKK
RUBDKK 10 0.00584 5.01× 7.7% 10.2% USDNOK, KRWSEK, TZSZAR, ZMWZAR, GBPSCR

Rising influence vs 2025-05-20

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPXPF 0.017750.00047 +0.01728
RUBCHF 0.007620.00296 +0.00466
CNYINR 0.005830.00177 +0.00406
CADARS 0.005800.00177 +0.00403
SGDARS 0.005830.00180 +0.00403

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
JPYARS 0.001380.00819 -0.00681
AUDBRL 0.001200.00764 -0.00644
ARSJPY 0.001300.00744 -0.00614
USDSOS 0.000520.00617 -0.00565
JPYBRL 0.001440.00668 -0.00524

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.