Transaction costs are a hindrance in the design of a dapp. All recdao applications so far, content-voting, tipping and stake based content curation, would be affected in their design. There are certainly solutions, like Vitalik's solution to use an initial off-chain signed stake for the curator, and various forms of batching for tipping, voting, and stake withdrawal. These of course all have some affect on UX, and also limit opportunities. For instance, the initial staker for a curation market cannot be rewarded (on-chain) if their signed stake tx never gets there. Solutions for tx costs also add design complexity and I am not smart and also lazy.

A sidechain would have it's own UX and complexity drawbacks. Additionally I'm not really sure how to do it! Anyway, I'm putting this post up in case anyone has any bright ideas, feedback, or additional references.

Potentially relevant side-chain tech:

• Parity Bridge
• POA Network
• Loom Network
• A nice summary of scaling solutions