At TransferWise we recently migrated to TimescaleDB for all our FX rates data.
So, there's two use cases for us:
1. We use it to ingest tick-by-tick FX rates
2. We use it to query historical rates e.g. whenever a users opens our homepage we query it directly from TimescaleDB
We've battled tested it pretty hard now & haven't run into any scaling issues - been very much plug & play.