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Daily network digest

Thursday, September 10, 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 6.17× the influence of an average node across 350 assets.

assets
350
Density
0.149
Clustering
0.383
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 0.01763 6.17× 75.9% 25.8% BADGERUSD, GUSD, RARIEUR, HIGHUSD, DOTUSD
PAXGUSD 2 0.01588 5.56× 73.4% 25.2% GUSD, BADGERUSD, DOTUSD, ACAUSD, SWFTCUSD
SUKUUSD 3 0.01427 5.00× 62.2% 22.1% LRCUSD, CHRUSD, NANOUSD, SBRUSD, SHIBUSD
FISUSD 4 0.01149 4.02× 55.9% 13.5% HIGHUSD, NKNUSD, BADGERUSD, ARKMUSD, MOVRUSD
UNFIUSD 5 0.01036 3.62× 49.3% 36.7% STRKUSD, CROUSD, BLURUSD, ICPUSD, ETHAUD
ELAUSD 6 0.00969 3.39× 51.6% 35.8% 1INCHUSD, RENUSD, FILUSD, BONKEUR, CGLDUSD
GOMININGUSD 7 0.00962 3.37× 49.9% 24.6% GALAUSD, GOATUSD, SPAUSD, DEGENUSD, SUKUUSD
AURORAUSD 8 0.00908 3.18× 41.0% 13.8% BATUSD, UNFIUSD, CGLDUSD, SEIEUR, ATOMUSD
JUNOUSD 9 0.00905 3.17× 46.4% 24.9% ALTUSD, DYMUSD, BANDUSD, ROSEUSD, AURORAUSD
REQUSD 10 0.00806 2.82× 41.5% 20.9% MOGUSD, ZEUSUSD, RUNEUSD, UNFIUSD, BCHEUR

Rising influence vs 2026-09-09

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
XAUTUSD 0.017630.00578 +0.01184
PAXGUSD 0.015880.00801 +0.00788
JUNOUSD 0.009050.00131 +0.00773
UNFIUSD 0.010360.00359 +0.00676
GOMININGUSD 0.009620.00445 +0.00517

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
OCEANUSD 0.002280.01241 -0.01013
TRACUSD 0.002290.01050 -0.00821
HOPRUSD 0.005370.01351 -0.00814
ACAUSD 0.004590.01162 -0.00703
POLSUSD 0.002370.00698 -0.00461

Foreign exchange

ZMWZAR was the most central name, carrying 6.98× the influence of an average node across 557 pairs.

pairs
557
Density
0.040
Clustering
0.412
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 0.01252 6.98× 15.3% 9.5% DOPGBP, USDEGP, XAUBRL, THBMYR, INRMYR
ZARNGN 2 0.00742 4.14× 9.5% 7.6% SGDZAR, MXNZAR, USDRUB, NOKRUB, LKRZAR
EGPZAR 3 0.00735 4.09× 9.5% 8.6% SGDZAR, MXNZAR, ZARSGD, BRLRUB, LKRZAR
ARSAUD 4 0.00690 3.84× 14.2% 8.6% JPYMYR, XAGUSD, XAGMXN, XAUCAD, MYRIDR
USDMUR 5 0.00681 3.80× 3.4% 2.9% COPMXN, CADZAR, KWDEUR, HUFUSD, ZARARS
UYUEUR 6 0.00659 3.67× 4.0% 1.1% GBPBTN, GBPNPR, EURMUR, MXNCLP, USDQAR
XAUAUD 7 0.00632 3.52× 13.7% 7.4% AUDIDR, RUBJPY, CZKNOK, PLNNOK, BRLARS
RUBCHF 8 0.00572 3.18× 24.8% 9.4% ZMWZAR, OMRZAR, AEDZAR, EGPZAR, ZARJPY
ZARJPY 9 0.00530 2.95× 4.9% 10.8% HKDBRL, XAUBRL, CADBRL, BRLCLP, NOKRUB
XAUMXN 10 0.00508 2.83× 11.9% 5.0% ARSCHF, RUBCAD, BRLPEN, GBPKWD, SCRGBP

Rising influence vs 2026-09-09

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZARJPY 0.005300.00123 +0.00407
USDUYU 0.004630.00101 +0.00362
EGPZAR 0.007350.00380 +0.00355
RUBCHF 0.005720.00219 +0.00353
CHFTHB 0.004410.00107 +0.00333

Falling influence

SymbolPageRank PreviousChange
ZARINR 0.002080.01001 -0.00793
USDEGP 0.003650.01053 -0.00688
KRWRUB 0.003010.00936 -0.00635
ZARUSD 0.001270.00584 -0.00458
XAUGBP 0.003160.00749 -0.00433

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.