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Daily network digest

Wednesday, September 9, 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

HOPRUSD was the most central name, carrying 4.73× the influence of an average node across 350 assets.

assets
350
Density
0.152
Clustering
0.386
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
HOPRUSD 1 0.01351 4.73× 61.3% 28.1% NCTUSD, POLUSD, QTUMUSD, XRPAUD, XRPUSD
OCEANUSD 2 0.01241 4.34× 59.9% 33.5% ACSUSD, SNXUSD, KASUSD, DENTUSD, BTCJPY
SUKUUSD 3 0.01185 4.15× 54.7% 24.4% FORTHUSD, SCUSD, NANOUSD, QNTUSD, BCHUSD
ACAUSD 4 0.01162 4.07× 59.9% 20.1% ENJUSD, DRVUSD, BLURUSD, DRIFTUSD, CHZUSD
TRACUSD 5 0.01050 3.67× 55.0% 33.5% ARKMUSD, SPELLUSD, LRDSUSD, FLRUSD, XDCUSD
FISUSD 6 0.00897 3.14× 48.4% 23.5% ETCUSD, WUSD, SWELLUSD, BTCEUR, EGLDUSD
XMRUSD 7 0.00886 3.10× 40.1% 23.2% DNTUSD, 1INCHUSD, TRACUSD, NYMUSD, COWUSD
SWFTCUSD 8 0.00835 2.92× 45.0% 10.3% CTXUSD, NYMUSD, ZETAUSD, ZETACHAINUSD, BTRSTUSD
PAXGUSD 9 0.00801 2.80× 48.7% 30.4% SAGAUSD, SPELLUSD, CVCUSD, DIAUSD, SAMOUSD
NYMUSD 10 0.00798 2.79× 36.7% 16.0% DOTUSD, AMPUSD, ACAUSD, ENJUSD, GTCUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-09-08

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
OCEANUSD 0.012410.00330 +0.00911
TRACUSD 0.010500.00293 +0.00757
HOPRUSD 0.013510.00762 +0.00588
ACAUSD 0.011620.00585 +0.00577
OXTUSD 0.007540.00207 +0.00547

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUTUSD 0.005780.02214 -0.01635
AERGOUSD 0.002430.01461 -0.01218
PAXGUSD 0.008010.01704 -0.00903
UNFIUSD 0.003590.00912 -0.00553
JTOUSD 0.001920.00718 -0.00526

Foreign exchange

USDEGP was the most central name, carrying 5.73× the influence of an average node across 544 pairs.

pairs
544
Density
0.034
Clustering
0.383
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 0.01053 5.73× 13.4% 9.6% HUFEUR, SEKINR, GBPHUF, CHFHUF, HUFCHF
ZARINR 2 0.01001 5.45× 2.9% 0.4% XAUGBP, ZMWZAR
KRWRUB 3 0.00936 5.09× 18.6% 12.9% XAUKRW, XAUAUD, JPYEUR, DKKJPY, XAUUSD
ZMWZAR 4 0.00932 5.07× 12.9% 8.7% ZARTRY, ZARNGN, CHFARS, KRWMYR, MYRNZD
XAUGBP 5 0.00749 4.08× 7.0% 13.3% XAURUB, XAUBRL, AUDIDR, XAUAUD, KRWRUB
USDMUR 6 0.00620 3.37× 8.1% 1.7% MUREUR, ARSCHF, AUDFJD, AEDSEK, ARSJPY
XAUJPY 7 0.00615 3.35× 10.1% 4.4% GBPNGN, ILSZAR, USDMUR, USDDOP, GBPSCR
ZARUSD 8 0.00584 3.18× 6.8% 4.6% USDMUR, GBPTHB, HKDARS, ILSZAR, DKKHUF
MADAUD 9 0.00575 3.13× 4.8% 2.6% ZARCNY, ZARIDR, ZARTRY, JPYARS, ZARNGN
ILSZAR 10 0.00573 3.12× 10.3% 5.2% ZARUSD, PENCAD, USDSAR, CLPGBP, EGPUSD

Rising influence vs 2026-09-08

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
KRWRUB 0.009360.00248 +0.00688
ZARINR 0.010010.00401 +0.00600
ZMWZAR 0.009320.00403 +0.00529
ILSZAR 0.005730.00072 +0.00500
XAUGBP 0.007490.00252 +0.00498

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
USDEGP 0.010530.01884 -0.00831
RUBUSD 0.000970.00872 -0.00774
ARSCOP 0.001110.00798 -0.00688
COPCAD 0.002120.00882 -0.00670
XAGARS 0.000740.00736 -0.00662

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.