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Daily network digest

Monday, August 31, 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

SUKUUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.80× the influence of an average node across 353 assets.

assets
353
Density
0.147
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
SUKUUSD 1 0.01360 4.80× 59.4% 27.0% SCUSD, YFIUSD, CPOOLUSD, FORTHUSD, BCHUSD
HOPRUSD 2 0.01336 4.72× 58.8% 30.1% NCTUSD, XRPAUD, GFIUSD, QTUMUSD, XRPUSD
OCEANUSD 3 0.01238 4.37× 61.4% 34.7% BTCJPY, DENTUSD, WHBTUSD, HOPRUSD, SNXUSD
ACAUSD 4 0.01227 4.33× 60.2% 20.7% CHZUSD, ENJUSD, DRVUSD, GHSTUSD, ASTUSD
TRACUSD 5 0.01209 4.27× 57.1% 34.4% FLRUSD, PONDUSD, ARKMUSD, SPELLUSD, XDCUSD
FISUSD 6 0.00989 3.49× 52.3% 25.3% SWELLUSD, BTCEUR, ETCUSD, WUSD, ZROUSD
XMRUSD 7 0.00849 3.00× 35.8% 19.3% MORPHOUSD, TRACUSD, DNTUSD, NYMUSD, BLASTUSD
NYMUSD 8 0.00832 2.94× 36.4% 18.8% AMPUSD, GTCUSD, ACAUSD, DOTUSD, RENDERUSD
PAXGUSD 9 0.00818 2.89× 49.1% 28.7% SAGAUSD, SPELLUSD, SAMOUSD, STORJUSD, AKTUSD
SHPINGUSD 10 0.00792 2.80× 38.9% 14.5% FLOKIUSD, XMRUSD, LINKUSD, ACAUSD, XRPAUD

Rising influence vs 2026-08-30

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
OCEANUSD 0.012380.00303 +0.00935
TRACUSD 0.012090.00350 +0.00859
ACAUSD 0.012270.00569 +0.00658
HOPRUSD 0.013360.00770 +0.00566
SHPINGUSD 0.007920.00303 +0.00489

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUTUSD 0.005940.02293 -0.01699
AERGOUSD 0.002830.01317 -0.01035
PAXGUSD 0.008180.01714 -0.00895
LRCUSD 0.001890.00671 -0.00482
UNFIUSD 0.003710.00834 -0.00463

Foreign exchange

ZMWZAR was the most central name, carrying 7.18× the influence of an average node across 553 pairs.

pairs
553
Density
0.041
Clustering
0.402
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
ZMWZAR 1 0.01299 7.18× 15.0% 10.3% XAUBRL, DOPGBP, XAUZAR, USDEGP, THBMYR
ZARNGN 2 0.00770 4.26× 9.2% 8.3% SGDZAR, USDRUB, XAUBRL, MXNZAR, ZARTRY
EGPZAR 3 0.00762 4.21× 9.6% 8.3% SGDZAR, ZARSGD, MXNZAR, ARSHKD, ARSUSD
UYUEUR 4 0.00689 3.81× 4.2% 1.1% GBPBTN, EURMUR, GBPNPR, MXNCLP, USDQAR
USDMUR 5 0.00676 3.74× 4.0% 3.1% COPMXN, CADZAR, JPYRSD, KWDEUR, ZARARS
ARSAUD 6 0.00668 3.69× 13.0% 8.2% XAGGBP, XAGMXN, XAGCAD, XAGJPY, USDJPY
XAUAUD 7 0.00587 3.25× 15.0% 6.5% AUDIDR, CZKNOK, PLNNOK, BRLARS, RUBJPY
ZARHKD 8 0.00544 3.01× 9.2% 5.4% OMRZAR, KRWINR, CHFZAR, GBPINR, ZARCHF
RUBCHF 9 0.00542 3.00× 24.8% 9.4% AEDZAR, ZMWZAR, XAUAUD, EGPZAR, OMRZAR
ZARJPY 10 0.00537 2.97× 4.9% 11.1% NOKRUB, HKDBRL, CADBRL, BRLCLP, ZMWZAR

Rising influence vs 2026-08-28

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZMWZAR 0.012990.00385 +0.00914
EGPZAR 0.007620.00190 +0.00572
ARSAUD 0.006680.00168 +0.00500
ZARNGN 0.007700.00291 +0.00480
USDMUR 0.006760.00198 +0.00478

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDEGP 0.003630.01827 -0.01464
RUBUSD 0.002710.00911 -0.00640
ARSCOP 0.002220.00845 -0.00623
COPCAD 0.003890.00907 -0.00518
KRWTHB 0.002610.00777 -0.00516

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.