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Daily network digest

Tuesday, September 8, 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

XAUTUSD was the most central name, carrying 7.73× the influence of an average node across 349 assets.

assets
349
Density
0.137
Clustering
0.367
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
XAUTUSD 1 0.02214 7.73× 78.4% 19.3% BONKEUR, SAGAUSD, MLNUSD, LSKUSD, BONKUSD
PAXGUSD 2 0.01704 5.95× 70.7% 19.5% ZRXUSD, BONKEUR, BONKUSD, SAGAUSD, LSKUSD
AERGOUSD 3 0.01461 5.10× 63.5% 13.5% XAUTUSD, RSRUSD, PAXGUSD, CXTUSD, DENTUSD
CQTUSD 4 0.00915 3.19× 46.0% 22.1% GUSD, TRACUSD, IDEXUSD, SAFEUSD, OSMOUSD
UNFIUSD 5 0.00912 3.18× 42.2% 26.7% POLUSD, GALAUSD, PEPEUSD, JASMYUSD, SHIBUSD
LTCBTC 6 0.00906 3.16× 45.7% 7.5% ELAUSD, PRIMEUSD, UNFIUSD, AVTUSD, RENUSD
STGUSD 7 0.00840 2.93× 43.4% 21.8% CGLDUSD, PROUSD, BNTUSD, IMXUSD, CPOOLUSD
SUKUUSD 8 0.00824 2.88× 41.1% 16.4% EWTUSD, CELRUSD, CXTUSD, XMRUSD, 1INCHUSD
FISUSD 9 0.00817 2.85× 42.8% 13.8% XAUTUSD, DRVUSD, PAXGUSD, LTCBTC, SWELLUSD
BLZUSD 10 0.00811 2.83× 43.1% 38.5% FISUSD, ALEOUSD, WEUR, XMRUSD, ZETAUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-09-07

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AERGOUSD 0.014610.00470 +0.00990
CQTUSD 0.009150.00281 +0.00634
LTCBTC 0.009060.00359 +0.00547
STGUSD 0.008400.00344 +0.00497
BLZUSD 0.008110.00362 +0.00449

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
AURORAUSD 0.004480.01050 -0.00602
ELAUSD 0.004670.01047 -0.00580
JUNOUSD 0.003570.00919 -0.00562
SUKUUSD 0.008240.01370 -0.00546
REQUSD 0.003670.00892 -0.00525

Foreign exchange

USDEGP was the most central name, carrying 10.44× the influence of an average node across 554 pairs.

pairs
554
Density
0.035
Clustering
0.375
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
USDEGP 1 0.01884 10.44× 9.0% 1.8% SEKINR, ZARINR, ZARTRY, NOKINR, INRSEK
COPCAD 2 0.00882 4.89× 6.1% 4.5% USDUGX, PENCLP, USDUYU, ZARMWK, GBPUGX
RUBUSD 3 0.00872 4.83× 9.2% 6.9% XAURUB, XAUBRL, HUFZAR, DKKINR, JPYBRL
ARSCOP 4 0.00798 4.42× 3.8% 2.7% LRDGBP, ARSPEN, BOBUSD, CDFGBP, GBPCDF
RUBCAD 5 0.00764 4.23× 11.4% 4.5% XAUJPY, PENCAD, PENGBP, AUDMAD, GBPPEN
KRWTHB 6 0.00749 4.15× 6.0% 1.4% THBINR, XAUMXN, XAUINR, XAUEUR, CHFINR
XAGARS 7 0.00736 4.08× 10.3% 6.7% LKRZAR, AEDZAR, OMRZAR, TZSZAR, EGPZAR
XAUJPY 8 0.00720 3.99× 8.1% 8.5% RUBCAD, BRLCAD, KRWTHB, ARSCHF, PHPGBP
LKRZAR 9 0.00709 3.93× 16.5% 9.0% ZARAED, ZARTRY, ZARNGN, KRWINR, SEKINR
XAUEUR 10 0.00672 3.72× 10.7% 5.8% USDSCR, DKKRUB, KRWTHB, GBPRUB, RUBCAD

Rising influence vs 2026-09-07

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDEGP 0.018840.00346 +0.01538
COPCAD 0.008820.00294 +0.00588
ARSCOP 0.007980.00223 +0.00575
RUBUSD 0.008720.00320 +0.00552
XAGARS 0.007360.00226 +0.00511

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZMWZAR 0.004030.01252 -0.00850
ARSAUD 0.001680.00718 -0.00549
EGPZAR 0.002120.00751 -0.00540
USDMUR 0.002030.00719 -0.00516
ZARNGN 0.002840.00760 -0.00476

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.