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most citedMultiscale characteristics of the emerging global cryptocurrency market

240 citations · 1k across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

cs.SI2026

Some Twitch chats exhibit multifractal characteristics resembling stream-of-consciousness narrative

Marcin Ból, Stanisław Drożdż, Robert Kluszczyński +2

Live-streaming platforms generate high-frequency records of collective human activity in which many loosely coordinated users react in real time to shared external stimuli and to o…

q-fin.TR2026

Detecting unusual trading patterns on cryptocurrency exchanges by means of complexity measures

Jakub Zwydak, Marcin Wątorek, Jarosław Kwapień +1

Artificial transaction generation remains an important source of potential market manipulation on cryptocurrency exchanges, as it may distort reported liquidity and reduce market t…

q-fin.ST2025★ 1 cited

Detrended cross-correlations and their random matrix limit: an example from the cryptocurrency market

Stanisław Drożdż, Paweł Jarosz, Jarosław Kwapień +2

Correlations in complex systems are often obscured by nonstationarity, long-range memory, and heavy-tailed fluctuations, which limit the usefulness of traditional covariance-based…

q-fin.ST2025★ 3 cited

Filtering amplitude dependence of correlation dynamics in complex systems: application to the cryptocurrency market

Marcin Wątorek, Marija Bezbradica, Martin Crane +2

Based on the cryptocurrency market dynamics, this study presents a general methodology for analyzing evolving correlation structures in complex systems using the -dependent detr…

q-fin.ST2025★ 6 cited

Multifractality and its sources in the digital currency market

Stanisław Drożdż, Robert Kluszczyński, Jarosław Kwapień +1

Multifractality in time series analysis characterizes the presence of multiple scaling exponents, indicating heterogeneous temporal structures and complex dynamical behaviors beyon…

physics.data-an2025★ 18 cited

Disentangling sources of multifractality in time series

Robert Kluszczyński, Stanisław Drożdż, Jarosław Kwapień +2

This contribution addresses the question commonly asked in scientific literature about the sources of multifractality in time series. Two primary sources are typically considered.…

q-fin.ST2024★ 12 cited

Approaching multifractal complexity in decentralized cryptocurrency trading

Marcin Wątorek, Marcin Królczyk, Jarosław Kwapień +2

Multifractality is a concept that helps compactly grasping the most essential features of the financial dynamics. In its fully developed form, this concept applies to essentially a…

q-fin.ST2024★ 9 cited

Correlations versus noise in the NFT market

Marcin Wątorek, Paweł Szydło, Jarosław Kwapień +1

The non-fungible token (NFT) market emerges as a recent trading innovation leveraging blockchain technology, mirroring the dynamics of the cryptocurrency market. The current study…

q-bio.NC2024★ 16 cited

Multifractal organization of EEG signals in Multiple Sclerosis

Marcin Wątorek, Wojciech Tomczyk, Magda Gawłowska +9

Quantifying the complex/multifractal organization of the brain signals is crucial to fully understanding the brain processes and structure. In this contribution, we performed the m…

q-fin.CP2023★ 13 cited

Characteristics of price related fluctuations in Non-Fungible Token (NFT) market

Paweł Szydło, Marcin Wątorek, Jarosław Kwapień +1

A non-fungible token (NFT) market is a new trading invention based on the blockchain technology which parallels the cryptocurrency market. In the present work we study capitalizati…

q-fin.TR2023★ 11 cited

Decomposing cryptocurrency high-frequency price dynamics into recurring and noisy components

Marcin Wątorek, Maria Skupień, Jarosław Kwapień +1

This paper investigates the temporal patterns of activity in the cryptocurrency market with a focus on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, and WINkLink from January 2020 to December 2022.…

q-fin.ST2023★ 29 cited

What is mature and what is still emerging in the cryptocurrency market?

Stanisław Drożdż, Jarosław Kwapień, Marcin Wątorek

In relation to the traditional financial markets, the cryptocurrency market is a recent invention and the trading dynamics of all its components are readily recorded and stored. Th…

q-fin.ST2023★ 55 cited

Cryptocurrencies Are Becoming Part of the World Global Financial Market

Marcin Wątorek, Jarosław Kwapień, Stanisław Drożdż

In this study the cross-correlations between the cryptocurrency market represented by the two most liquid and highest-capitalized cryptocurrencies: bitcoin and ethereum, on the one…

q-fin.ST2022★ 32 cited

Multifractal cross-correlations of bitcoin and ether trading characteristics in the post-COVID-19 time

Marcin Wątorek, Jarosław Kwapień, Stanisław Drożdż

Unlike price fluctuations, the temporal structure of cryptocurrency trading has seldom been a subject of systematic study. In order to fill this gap, we analyse detrended correlati…

q-fin.ST2022

Analysis of inter-transaction time fluctuations in the cryptocurrency market

Jarosław Kwapień, Marcin Wątorek, Marija Bezbradica +3

We analyse tick-by-tick data representing major cryptocurrencies traded on some different cryptocurrency trading platforms. We focus on such quantities like the inter-transaction t…

q-fin.ST2021★ 55 cited

Cryptocurrency Market Consolidation in 2020--2021

Jarosław Kwapień, Marcin Wątorek, Stanisław Drożdż

Time series of price returns for 80 of the most liquid cryptocurrencies listed on Binance are investigated for the presence of detrended cross-correlations. A spectral analysis of…

q-fin.ST2021★ 42 cited

Financial Return Distributions: Past, Present, and COVID-19

Marcin Wątorek, Jarosław Kwapień, Stanisław Drożdż

We analyze the price return distributions of currency exchange rates, cryptocurrencies, and contracts for differences (CFDs) representing stock indices, stock shares, and commoditi…

q-fin.ST2020★ 240 cited

Multiscale characteristics of the emerging global cryptocurrency market

Marcin Wątorek, Stanisław Drożdż, Jarosław Kwapień +3

The review introduces the history of cryptocurrencies, offering a description of the blockchain technology behind them. Differences between cryptocurrencies and the exchanges on wh…

q-fin.ST2020★ 93 cited

Complexity in economic and social systems: cryptocurrency market at around COVID-19

Stanisław Drożdż, Jarosław Kwapień, Paweł Oświęcimka +2

Social systems are characterized by an enormous network of connections and factors that can influence the structure and dynamics of these systems. All financial markets, including…

q-fin.ST2019★ 49 cited

Competition of noise and collectivity in global cryptocurrency trading: route to a self-contained market

Stanisław Drożdż, Ludovico Minati, Paweł Oświęcimka +2

Cross-correlations in fluctuations of the daily exchange rates within the basket of the 100 highest-capitalization cryptocurrencies over the period October 1, 2015, through March 3…

physics.geo-ph2019

Multifractal Description of Streamflow and Suspended Sediment Concentration Data from Indian River Basins

Adarsh Sankaran, Drisya Sasi Dharan, Anand Vishnu Babykuttan +3

This study investigates the multifractality of streamflow data of 192 stations located in 13 river basins in India using the Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (MF-DFA). T…

q-fin.ST2019★ 71 cited

Signatures of crypto-currency market decoupling from the Forex

Stanisław Drożdż, Ludovico Minati, Paweł Oświęcimka +2

Based on the high-frequency recordings from Kraken, a cryptocurrency exchange and professional trading platform that aims to bring Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies into the mains…

q-fin.ST2019★ 44 cited

Detecting correlations and triangular arbitrage opportunities in the Forex by means of multifractal detrended cross-correlations analysis

Robert Gębarowski, Paweł Oświęcimka, Marcin Wątorek +1

Multifractal detrended cross-correlation methodology is described and applied to Foreign exchange (Forex) market time series. Fluctuations of high frequency exchange rates of eight…

q-fin.ST2018★ 87 cited

Multifractal cross-correlations between the World Oil and other Financial Markets in 2012-2017

Marcin Wątorek, Stanisław Drożdż, Paweł Oświȩcimka +1

Statistical and multiscaling characteristics of WTI Crude Oil prices expressed in US dollar in relation to the most traded currencies as well as to gold futures and to the E-mini S…