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Daily network digest

Wednesday, May 20, 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

MVUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.60× the influence of an average node across 377 assets.

assets
377
Density
0.142
Clustering
0.382
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
MVUSD 1 0.01220 4.60× 59.8% 35.4% DIAUSD, MNTUSD, MLNUSD, KNCUSD, LSETHUSD
XAUTUSD 2 0.01197 4.51× 64.4% 24.5% KEYUSD, RAREUSD, HFTUSD, JASMYUSD, EWTUSD
SBRUSD 3 0.01137 4.29× 51.6% 18.4% LTCEUR, RARIEUR, SANDUSD, TRXUSD, ENJUSD
PAXGUSD 4 0.01071 4.04× 58.2% 22.9% KEYUSD, GLMRUSD, AEVOUSD, RAREUSD, ORCAUSD
PIRATEUSD 5 0.00964 3.63× 56.4% 12.8% AVTUSD, BLZUSD, ZROUSD, BTRSTUSD, LRCUSD
KEYUSD 6 0.00943 3.56× 50.5% 32.2% AURORAUSD, HOPRUSD, LQTYUSD, YFIUSD, AERGOUSD
SKYUSD 7 0.00868 3.27× 45.7% 31.9% GMTUSD, OCEANUSD, FLOWUSD, WEUR, SOLUSD
SWFTCUSD 8 0.00860 3.24× 48.1% 12.8% QNTUSD, MVUSD, JUNOUSD, SUKUUSD, XAUTUSD
NCTUSD 9 0.00851 3.21× 51.6% 21.5% CPOOLUSD, SUIUSD, LQTYUSD, EGLDUSD, FLRUSD
XRTUSD 10 0.00814 3.07× 47.3% 32.2% NCTUSD, VELOUSD, XMRUSD, WIFEUR, WOOUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-05-19

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
NCTUSD 0.008510.00281 +0.00570
CXTUSD 0.007710.00223 +0.00547
PIRATEUSD 0.009640.00440 +0.00524
SBRUSD 0.011370.00650 +0.00487
SWFTCUSD 0.008600.00424 +0.00436

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
GOMININGUSD 0.005300.01642 -0.01112
REQUSD 0.002880.01146 -0.00858
ELAUSD 0.002230.00878 -0.00655
BSXUSD 0.002930.00903 -0.00610
MOONUSD 0.003720.00980 -0.00608

Foreign exchange

ZARINR was the most central name, carrying 6.11× the influence of an average node across 540 pairs.

pairs
540
Density
0.036
Clustering
0.387
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
ZARINR 1 0.01132 6.11× 3.0% 0.4% BWPZAR, XAUGBP
ZARARS 2 0.00913 4.93× 12.6% 6.5% SCRUSD, XAGEUR, XAGCNY, USDMUR, XAUMXN
BWPZAR 3 0.00907 4.90× 5.0% 11.5% IDRJPY, JPYUSD, USDJPY, AUDJPY, JPYAUD
USDMUR 4 0.00823 4.44× 10.2% 2.4% ARSCHF, MUREUR, ZARCNY, AEDSEK, ILSZAR
XAURUB 5 0.00799 4.32× 11.1% 6.3% ARSAUD, NOKRUB, ARSMXN, ARSCAD, BWPZAR
ZMWZAR 6 0.00791 4.27× 19.1% 9.6% ARSMXN, RUBKRW, MYRIDR, IDREUR, CHFARS
ILSZAR 7 0.00764 4.12× 12.8% 3.0% JPYTWD, NZDTWD, CHFTWD, ZARARS, PENCAD
ARSCLP 8 0.00675 3.65× 3.0% 3.3% EGPEUR, USDGHS, RUBDKK, EURMUR, USDBIF
GBPSCR 9 0.00668 3.60× 8.9% 5.4% RUBCAD, DKKRUB, XAGRUB, XAUMXN, CHFRUB
XAUGBP 10 0.00596 3.22× 8.7% 15.2% XAURUB, XAUAUD, XAUKRW, KRWRUB, XAUZAR

Rising influence vs 2026-05-19

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
BWPZAR 0.009070.00135 +0.00773
USDMUR 0.008230.00207 +0.00617
PENCAD 0.005900.00106 +0.00484
ZARARS 0.009130.00469 +0.00444
ILSZAR 0.007640.00320 +0.00443

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDEGP 0.001120.02064 -0.01952
ARSCOP 0.001120.00763 -0.00651
KRWTHB 0.001080.00648 -0.00540
XAUEUR 0.001460.00676 -0.00530
ZARMYR 0.001410.00659 -0.00518

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.