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Daily network digest

Tuesday, August 5, 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

PNKUSD was the most central name, carrying 12.86× the influence of an average node across 220 assets.

assets
220
Density
0.078
Clustering
0.313
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
PNKUSD 1 0.05844 12.86× 73.5% 10.0% FXUSD, XRPBTC, XDCUSD, BCHEUR, METISUSD
FXUSD 2 0.02343 5.16× 36.5% 8.7% PNKUSD, ZRXUSD, ORCAUSD, TUSD, BTTUSD
SRMUSD 3 0.01883 4.14× 32.4% 22.4% OXTUSD, KRLUSD, ALCXUSD, NEXOUSD, DIAUSD
TRXUSD 4 0.01871 4.12× 30.6% 17.8% PUNDIXUSD, EGLDUSD, UMAUSD, NKNUSD, XTZUSD
KAVAUSD 5 0.01742 3.83× 30.6% 7.8% CVXUSD, RUNEUSD, REQUSD, ASMUSD, FXUSD
KRLUSD 6 0.01729 3.80× 32.0% 3.7% PNKUSD, SRMUSD, ETHBTC, FISUSD, XMRUSD
XRPBTC 7 0.01716 3.77× 32.4% 9.6% WBTCUSD, ASTUSD, BTCUSD, FARMUSD, PAXGUSD
AERGOUSD 8 0.01613 3.55× 26.5% 20.5% YFIUSD, AMPUSD, UNIUSD, LITUSD, XDCUSD
ELAUSD 9 0.01592 3.50× 26.9% 16.9% PUNDIXUSD, FXUSD, CVCUSD, FLOWUSD, DIAUSD
UOSUSD 10 0.01284 2.83× 18.7% 6.8% HBARUSD, RARIUSD, SRMUSD, RENUSD, ARKMUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-08-04

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
PNKUSD 0.058440.00860 +0.04984
SRMUSD 0.018830.00672 +0.01211
UOSUSD 0.012840.00186 +0.01098
ELAUSD 0.015920.00501 +0.01091
KAVAUSD 0.017420.00760 +0.00982

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
LTCBTC 0.009450.03324 -0.02379
KEEPUSD 0.004320.01857 -0.01425
BONDUSD 0.007010.01686 -0.00985
BTCJPY 0.006240.01577 -0.00953
ETHAUD 0.002210.01128 -0.00908

Foreign exchange

XAUBRL was the most central name, carrying 6.68× the influence of an average node across 863 pairs.

pairs
863
Density
0.061
Clustering
0.375
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 0.00774 6.68× 27.6% 7.7% XAURUB, SEKZAR, IDRTHB, SCRUSD, CADBRL
AUDBRL 2 0.00770 6.65× 36.3% 7.1% BRLKRW, XAUBRL, USDRUB, CHFUSD, AEDGBP
CNYHKD 3 0.00730 6.30× 2.8% 0.2% EURGHS, GHSEUR
BRLJPY 4 0.00727 6.27× 18.3% 5.1% XAUJPY, COPBRL, BRLKRW, CHFTHB, CLPGBP
CHFBRL 5 0.00711 6.14× 32.8% 8.0% XAUJPY, BRLKRW, COPBRL, PENCAD, XAUBRL
BRLCHF 6 0.00658 5.68× 16.5% 8.8% BRLKRW, XAUJPY, COPBRL, PENCAD, XAUBRL
JPYBRL 7 0.00617 5.32× 18.8% 5.1% XAUJPY, COPBRL, BRLKRW, CHFTHB, RUBGBP
COPMXN 8 0.00600 5.18× 28.0% 10.2% THBUSD, BRLCAD, SCRGBP, INRTHB, XAUARS
COPBRL 9 0.00595 5.14× 31.7% 15.3% NZDSEK, USDEUR, DKKAED, USDISK, USDCZK
XAUINR 10 0.00570 4.92× 29.9% 10.7% KRWIDR, KRWHKD, KRWUSD, KRWINR, ARSMXN

Rising influence vs 2025-08-04

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AUDBRL 0.007700.00213 +0.00557
XAUBRL 0.007740.00296 +0.00479
AEDCHF 0.004900.00032 +0.00458
CHFINR 0.004840.00033 +0.00451
XAUAUD 0.005230.00122 +0.00401

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPXPF 0.000360.01351 -0.01315
SEKILS 0.002400.01315 -0.01075
GBPMUR 0.000350.00616 -0.00581
MYRZAR 0.000430.00619 -0.00576
TWDSEK 0.001760.00744 -0.00568

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.