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Daily network digest

Saturday, August 23, 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

PNKUSD was the most central name, carrying 13.14× the influence of an average node across 219 assets.

assets
219
Density
0.073
Clustering
0.311
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 0.06001 13.14× 72.0% 12.4% XRPBTC, XDCUSD, DNTUSD, NEARUSD, SWFTCUSD
KRLUSD 2 0.02569 5.63× 43.6% 4.1% PNKUSD, XMRUSD, QNTUSD, SRMUSD, FISUSD
KAVAUSD 3 0.02326 5.09× 42.7% 8.3% XDCUSD, ELAUSD, PNKUSD, FISUSD, SWFTCUSD
TRXUSD 4 0.02061 4.51× 33.0% 17.0% KEEPUSD, LSKUSD, TNSRUSD, UMAUSD, PUNDIXUSD
ELAUSD 5 0.01963 4.30× 30.3% 13.8% PUNDIXUSD, CVCUSD, DOGEUSD, FLOWUSD, TIAUSD
XRPBTC 6 0.01606 3.52× 24.8% 11.9% ASTUSD, WBTCUSD, IMXUSD, GHSTUSD, CVCUSD
SRMUSD 7 0.01539 3.37× 25.2% 21.6% OXTUSD, DIAUSD, CROUSD, FOXUSD, DNTUSD
AERGOUSD 8 0.01492 3.27× 29.4% 22.5% YFIUSD, ELAUSD, XDCUSD, UNIUSD, CRVUSD
BTRSTUSD 9 0.01369 3.00× 27.1% 20.2% ELAUSD, XRPAUD, BTCGBP, BTCAUD, BTCEUR
XMRUSD 10 0.01319 2.89× 13.3% 15.1% HNTUSD, DSHUSD, FORTHUSD, DIAUSD, AERGOUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-08-22

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
PNKUSD 0.060010.00764 +0.05237
ELAUSD 0.019630.00465 +0.01498
KAVAUSD 0.023260.00953 +0.01374
KRLUSD 0.025690.01507 +0.01062
UOSUSD 0.011690.00205 +0.00964

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
LTCBTC 0.003620.03202 -0.02840
LCXUSD 0.006710.01966 -0.01295
KEEPUSD 0.010190.02249 -0.01230
TRXUSD 0.020610.03242 -0.01181
BTCJPY 0.006430.01459 -0.00816

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.