Seed and private investors in ETH, SOL, OP, and STRK have seen significantly higher returns compared to public market investors, with some losing money post-launch.
"eth Soul op and St strk so those who invested in the ethereum Ico enjoyed returns 1.5x higher than those available on the public market salana seed investors saw returns 10x higher than those of public market buyers for optimism the seed round returns were 30X higher than those available on the public market while for stocket seed round investors are up 1338x while almost all public market buyers have lost money St strk is down about 40% since launch day"