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Daily network digest

Monday, July 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

XAUTUSD was the most central name, carrying 5.20× the influence of an average node across 220 assets.

assets
220
Density
0.081
Clustering
0.274
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
XAUTUSD 1 0.02362 5.20× 40.6% 20.1% QIUSD, C98USD, BTRSTUSD, ETHBTC, AUCTIONUSD
PNKUSD 2 0.02062 4.54× 35.2% 5.9% XAUTUSD, ASTUSD, RENUSD, KAVAUSD, BONKEUR
TRXUSD 3 0.02021 4.45× 36.1% 14.6% CVCUSD, STXUSD, KSMUSD, TRBUSD, APEUSD
PAXGUSD 4 0.01755 3.86× 32.0% 20.1% NEARUSD, UOSUSD, QIUSD, BTRSTUSD, DYDXEUR
KRLUSD 5 0.01612 3.55× 32.4% 8.2% XRDUSD, LTCBTC, TRXUSD, MSOLUSD, RENUSD
XDCUSD 6 0.01525 3.36× 26.5% 9.1% REQUSD, APEUSD, PAXGUSD, FXUSD, OMGUSD
XRPBTC 7 0.01433 3.15× 26.0% 10.0% FXUSD, CVCUSD, AAVEUSD, TRBUSD, CHREUR
JTOUSD 8 0.01395 3.07× 21.0% 14.6% BTRSTUSD, BTCAUD, WBTCUSD, BTCUSD, INJUSD
MKRUSD 9 0.01385 3.05× 26.9% 11.0% XLMUSD, UOSUSD, XYOUSD, FISUSD, PNKUSD
BTCAUD 10 0.01366 3.00× 21.9% 11.4% EGLDUSD, TUSD, BTRSTUSD, XMRUSD, XRDUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-07-27

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUTUSD 0.023620.01072 +0.01289
JTOUSD 0.013950.00293 +0.01102
MKRUSD 0.013850.00326 +0.01058
XDCUSD 0.015250.00649 +0.00876
LTCBTC 0.013480.00556 +0.00791

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
PNKUSD 0.020620.05805 -0.03743
SRMUSD 0.005070.02020 -0.01514
AERGOUSD 0.008650.02287 -0.01422
ELAUSD 0.004120.01802 -0.01390
FXUSD 0.011390.02342 -0.01203

Foreign exchange

GBPXPF was the most central name, carrying 13.60× the influence of an average node across 897 pairs.

pairs
897
Density
0.066
Clustering
0.353
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 0.01516 13.60× 6.3% 8.3% NZDTRY, KRWBRL, XAGZAR, CADKRW, GBPTHB
SEKILS 2 0.01382 12.39× 9.0% 6.3% ARSEUR, BRLARS, GBPBRL, CADRUB, KRWBRL
BRLEUR 3 0.00916 8.21× 1.8% 1.1% EURLRD, BWPEUR, EURHNL, EURGYD, EURBWP
ARSEUR 4 0.00785 7.04× 30.0% 2.5% XAUBRL, SEKILS, KRWTWD, GBPXPF, XAUARS
TWDSEK 5 0.00697 6.25× 15.5% 9.0% KRWRUB, AUDMXN, XAGEUR, XAGBRL, KRWBRL
PENMXN 6 0.00651 5.84× 27.1% 0.3% GBPXPF, SEKILS, AUDSEK
GBPMUR 7 0.00643 5.77× 25.6% 0.3% GBPXPF, SEKILS, TWDSEK
CNYCAD 8 0.00641 5.75× 25.6% 1.2% GBPXPF, BRLSEK, KRWBRL, SEKILS, GBPBRL
CNYINR 9 0.00639 5.73× 25.6% 1.2% SEKILS, GBPXPF, BRLSEK, KRWBRL, TWDSEK
MYRZAR 10 0.00637 5.72× 25.6% 0.3% GBPXPF, SEKILS, TWDSEK

Rising influence vs 2025-07-25

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPXPF 0.015160.00036 +0.01480
SEKILS 0.013820.00228 +0.01154
GBPMUR 0.006430.00031 +0.00612
MYRZAR 0.006370.00042 +0.00596
EURNGN 0.005950.00033 +0.00561

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUBRL 0.003390.01157 -0.00818
AUDBRL 0.002080.00841 -0.00633
JPYARS 0.003660.00975 -0.00610
USDCLP 0.002020.00688 -0.00486
AEDCHF 0.000320.00469 -0.00437

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.