Moving Curate to xDai as-is would at least spare the grant creator and/or challenger the non-retrievable gas fees which are already close >$100 at a gas price of 150 gwei.
I understand the need to lower the initial bond but our experience and user research on “The Challenger’s Dillemma” shows that if the challenger bounty too low, and it would be too low starting with bond escalation , incorrect submissions will not be flagged for dispute.
We’re diving more into this dilemma in the “The Submission Challenge Bounty” section of this post and here.
We are of course currently working on selecting which L2 we would deploy our Court V2 on this year but it’s more likely to be a rollup than xDAI. So, in the meantime, the hybrid solution of Curate on xDai and Court on mainnet seems the most appropriate in the short term.
Let’s set up a quick call this week to discuss this more deeply if needed.