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Daily network digest

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

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

ELAUSD was the most central name, carrying 6.41× the influence of an average node across 406 assets.

assets
406
Density
0.118
Clustering
0.364
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
ELAUSD 1 0.01578 6.41× 61.0% 36.0% XCNUSD, PLUUSD, SAMOUSD, MLNUSD, COMPUSD
REQUSD 2 0.01452 5.89× 55.1% 16.5% MXCUSD, NEONUSD, WAXLUSD, ATOMUSD, DEXTUSD
MOONUSD 3 0.01303 5.29× 58.0% 11.9% BANDUSD, SEAMUSD, ALGOUSD, KRLUSD, HOPRUSD
GOMININGUSD 4 0.01074 4.36× 46.9% 20.0% XYOUSD, EOSUSD, CFGUSD, CTXUSD, QIUSD
BNCUSD 5 0.00983 3.99× 46.9% 17.5% ASTUSD, SEAMUSD, AURORAUSD, SGBUSD, REZUSD
REPUSD 6 0.00943 3.83× 44.0% 20.7% WAXLUSD, RENUSD, AXLUSD, GHSTUSD, PLUUSD
PNKUSD 7 0.00918 3.73× 45.9% 26.9% BLZUSD, YFIUSD, QTUMUSD, ASTUSD, SHPINGUSD
NEXOUSD 8 0.00911 3.70× 41.7% 19.0% XRPAUD, QNTUSD, NKNUSD, BITUSD, ZROUSD
SWEATUSD 9 0.00905 3.67× 41.7% 11.9% NCTUSD, MSOLUSD, SOLUSD, UNFIUSD, MIRUSD
BSXUSD 10 0.00897 3.64× 46.9% 8.4% PAXGUSD, REPUSD, SGBUSD, XAUTUSD, SEAMUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-03-16

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ELAUSD 0.015780.00395 +0.01182
REQUSD 0.014520.00467 +0.00984
MOONUSD 0.013030.00319 +0.00984
BNCUSD 0.009830.00218 +0.00764
GARIUSD 0.008860.00299 +0.00587

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
SRMUSD 0.001560.01017 -0.00862
MVUSD 0.005500.01397 -0.00847
EURRUSD 0.002340.01012 -0.00778
TRXUSD 0.003460.00931 -0.00586
CTXUSD 0.003010.00868 -0.00567

Foreign exchange

ZARIDR was the most central name, carrying 7.51× the influence of an average node across 769 pairs.

pairs
769
Density
0.053
Clustering
0.436
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
ZARIDR 1 0.00977 7.51× 22.9% 6.0% AUDBRL, IDRUSD, BRLAUD, AUDPHP, CLPAUD
PENCAD 2 0.00937 7.21× 29.9% 7.6% USDRUB, CZKUSD, DKKINR, HKDTHB, DKKHKD
COPMXN 3 0.00918 7.06× 29.3% 10.3% USDRUB, USDISK, THBHKD, NZDSEK, EURHKD
CLPGBP 4 0.00894 6.87× 28.8% 9.4% HKDTHB, USDCHF, DKKINR, USDEUR, USDDKK
COPUSD 5 0.00890 6.85× 28.8% 9.1% HKDEUR, HKDDKK, NZDSEK, USDCHF, USDEUR
COPBRL 6 0.00881 6.78× 28.8% 10.4% USDRUB, EURHKD, THBHKD, USDCHF, USDEUR
CHFTHB 7 0.00803 6.17× 31.8% 7.4% DKKPKR, USDCHF, USDEUR, DKKUSD, THBHKD
TRYCHF 8 0.00741 5.70× 33.1% 9.4% ZARTHB, THBNZD, THBAUD, DKKPKR, EURUSD
AUDBRL 9 0.00710 5.46× 31.6% 8.7% NZDIDR, EURHKD, DKKUSD, THBHKD, USDISK
CADARS 10 0.00709 5.45× 15.5% 6.1% BRLJPY, JPYBRL, ZMWZAR, SGDBRL, EURBRL

Rising influence vs 2026-03-16

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZARIDR 0.009770.00113 +0.00864
CLPGBP 0.008940.00130 +0.00764
CHFTHB 0.008030.00043 +0.00759
COPUSD 0.008900.00155 +0.00735
TRYCHF 0.007410.00070 +0.00671

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GBPXPF 0.000360.01157 -0.01121
TWDSEK 0.002070.01171 -0.00964
MYRZAR 0.000360.00695 -0.00659
USDUYU 0.000840.00593 -0.00510
PENMXN 0.002090.00695 -0.00485

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.