The main issue is that most seed investors aren’t investing in the ecosystem at the moment and seems pretty upset about the way the launch / listing was done.
There might have been errors and miscommunications that happened with DFINITY regarding seeds investors (Seed Round Access).
We would all win a lot if some form of contact with seed investors was reestablished and all of us together could probably find a smart solution for the ecosystem.
I know that Arthur Falls was working on this at some point. This could probably be done by someone (or some group) who has a lot of respect in the community, some early people that are more likely to have contact with seed investors.
Brutally locking them for 8-years doesn’t seem like the best solution if we want to attract them back in the ecosystem. Those people are early believer of the IC and we need to convince them to come back.
Also there is the issue of DFINITY’s neurons that are tagged seeds neurons so we would loose almost all source of funding in the ecosystem…