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Daily network digest

Saturday, August 22, 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

ACAUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.77× the influence of an average node across 353 assets.

assets
353
Density
0.136
Clustering
0.362
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
ACAUSD 1 0.01350 4.77× 55.7% 19.3% CHZUSD, ENJUSD, DRVUSD, RARIEUR, ALICEUSD
SUKUUSD 2 0.01300 4.59× 50.9% 20.5% CPOOLUSD, BCHNUSD, SCUSD, YFIUSD, PYRUSD
OCEANUSD 3 0.01241 4.38× 56.3% 31.0% AMPUSD, SPAUSD, BTCJPY, SNXUSD, DENTUSD
FISUSD 4 0.01226 4.33× 54.8% 21.6% WUSD, BTCEUR, EGLDUSD, BTCAUD, ETCUSD
TRACUSD 5 0.01118 3.95× 50.3% 34.7% FLRUSD, SPELLUSD, GFIUSD, XDCUSD, ROSEUSD
SWFTCUSD 6 0.00961 3.39× 45.2% 9.7% ZETAUSD, ZETACHAINUSD, CTXUSD, POLSUSD, NYMUSD
HOPRUSD 7 0.00943 3.33× 39.5% 28.1% NCTUSD, GFIUSD, FLOKIUSD, ALCXUSD, BTCEUR
SHPINGUSD 8 0.00859 3.03× 38.6% 11.6% FLOKIUSD, XMRUSD, LINKUSD, AVAXUSD, ETHUSD
OXTUSD 9 0.00855 3.02× 31.5% 27.6% GFIUSD, AXSUSD, HOPRUSD, RAYUSD, AEVOUSD
PAXGUSD 10 0.00788 2.78× 44.6% 20.2% SAGAUSD, CVCUSD, SAMOUSD, DENTUSD, AKTUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-08-21

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
OCEANUSD 0.012410.00345 +0.00897
TRACUSD 0.011180.00258 +0.00860
ACAUSD 0.013500.00696 +0.00654
OXTUSD 0.008550.00306 +0.00548
SUKUUSD 0.013000.00778 +0.00522

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUTUSD 0.006390.02216 -0.01577
PAXGUSD 0.007880.02008 -0.01220
AERGOUSD 0.002910.01092 -0.00801
SBRUSD 0.005490.01099 -0.00550
UNFIUSD 0.003450.00827 -0.00483

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.