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Happy Monday everyone. Here are the three charts that we asked you to identify last week:
This is the first time I’ve done a charts quiz. It turns out that charts 2 and 3 were pretty easy, with most people correctly identifying them as US net interest costs (realised and projected), and the number of Mexican pesos bought by a US dollar.
Chart 1 was more challenging. I grabbed the data from the first chapter of the BIS Annual Economic Report on stablecoins, and it shows how average gas fees varied with the number of daily transactions. I left the three different date ranges (pre-London hard fork, post-fork, and post-merge) as clues, but failing to label the x-axis as “transactions per day” threw some of you off.
“Gas fees”, or “validator rewards” was what we were looking for. We received eight (unambiguously) correct entries.
Our wheel of fortune — tastefully repainted using the official FT palette — has chosen . . .
. . . Conor Murtagh from Davy as the winner!
Many congratulations — a FTAV FCQ winner’s T-shirt will wing its way to you over the next few weeks. In the meantime, you’ll have to make do with updating your LinkedIn Honors & awards section.
