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Daily network digest

Sunday, August 24, 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

XAUTUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.85× the influence of an average node across 219 assets.

assets
219
Density
0.082
Clustering
0.276
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 0.02215 4.85× 38.5% 23.9% QIUSD, AUCTIONUSD, C98USD, CGLDUSD, MATICUSD
MKRUSD 2 0.01968 4.31× 31.2% 11.5% MLNUSD, GALAUSD, BADGERUSD, FISUSD, PNKUSD
PAXGUSD 3 0.01838 4.03× 31.2% 21.1% C98USD, NEARUSD, QIUSD, SNXUSD, REPUSD
XRPBTC 4 0.01655 3.63× 31.2% 8.7% FARMUSD, AAVEUSD, OXYUSD, JUPUSD, BTTUSD
XDCUSD 5 0.01500 3.28× 27.5% 17.0% REQUSD, KAVAUSD, ELAUSD, SOLUSD, NEXOUSD
USTUSD 6 0.01477 3.24× 30.3% 13.8% ASTUSD, FARMUSD, JUPUSD, OXTUSD, BTCEUR
PNKUSD 7 0.01399 3.06× 24.8% 11.5% MSOLUSD, NEXOUSD, BONKEUR, XRPBTC, CLVUSD
BONDUSD 8 0.01378 3.02× 27.1% 16.1% OCEANUSD, AVTUSD, RARIEUR, RARIUSD, AIOZUSD
KRLUSD 9 0.01372 3.01× 27.1% 10.1% TRXUSD, MSOLUSD, BONDUSD, ZECUSD, ALCXUSD
OXYUSD 10 0.01359 2.98× 24.3% 24.3% TRBUSD, ABTUSD, NMRUSD, SHIBUSD, PERPUSD

Rising influence vs 2025-08-23

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
MKRUSD 0.019680.00415 +0.01553
XAUTUSD 0.022150.00995 +0.01219
XRPUSD 0.012530.00459 +0.00794
PAXGUSD 0.018380.01050 +0.00788
TUSD 0.009880.00220 +0.00768

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
PNKUSD 0.013990.06001 -0.04602
ELAUSD 0.006000.01963 -0.01364
KAVAUSD 0.010690.02326 -0.01257
KRLUSD 0.013720.02569 -0.01196
AERGOUSD 0.005960.01492 -0.00896

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.