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Daily network digest

Sunday, January 4, 2026

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

REQUSD was the most central name, carrying 5.18× the influence of an average node across 378 assets.

assets
378
Density
0.114
Clustering
0.353
Diameter
2

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
REQUSD 1 0.01371 5.18× 52.0% 12.2% ELAUSD, TUSD, BODENUSD, TBTCUSD, QIUSD
BSXUSD 2 0.01156 4.37× 47.2% 10.9% SGBUSD, PAXGUSD, SUSHIUSD, FLOKIUSD, XRTUSD
LCXUSD 3 0.01153 4.36× 46.4% 10.6% LSKUSD, TOKEUSD, PIRATEUSD, LQTYUSD, AEROUSD
INVUSD 4 0.01093 4.13× 48.0% 15.1% BSXUSD, TUSD, SUKUUSD, BATUSD, HDXUSD
ASMUSD 5 0.01071 4.05× 43.0% 6.6% XMRUSD, MDTUSD, BITUSD, BADGERUSD, DEXTUSD
PROUSD 6 0.01047 3.96× 48.5% 17.8% HNTUSD, ATOMUSD, PNKUSD, ASMUSD, AVTUSD
REPUSD 7 0.01010 3.82× 39.8% 10.9% RAREUSD, ALEPHUSD, MASKUSD, RARIEUR, L3USD
GARIUSD 8 0.01005 3.80× 48.3% 24.1% INVUSD, ONDOUSD, STRKUSD, NEARUSD, DSHUSD
MNGOUSD 9 0.00965 3.65× 41.6% 32.1% SCUSD, EGLDUSD, CELRUSD, TUSD, GLMUSD
BNCUSD 10 0.00821 3.10× 33.7% 39.0% ETHBTC, LCXUSD, MLNUSD, FORTHUSD, ARKMUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-01-03

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ASMUSD 0.010710.00306 +0.00765
INVUSD 0.010930.00374 +0.00719
LCXUSD 0.011530.00486 +0.00667
PROUSD 0.010470.00395 +0.00651
BSXUSD 0.011560.00610 +0.00546

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
MVUSD 0.003170.01432 -0.01115
CQTUSD 0.003220.01392 -0.01070
KAVAUSD 0.004720.01263 -0.00790
SRMUSD 0.002620.00969 -0.00708
DNTUSD 0.002900.00717 -0.00428

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.