And then there are the likes of Matthew Morgan and Sean Kelly, two investors who say they pooled their money into NBA Top Shot, only to be frozen out of their joint account as their potential $100,000 profit was wiped out by the declining value of their tokens.
'We're basically out like $350,000 at this point,' Morgan told DailyMail.com.
Kelly and Morgan say they repeatedly reached out Dapper Labs, but only received infrequent responses from the company, and they're still unable to withdraw their funds.
Now they're planning legal action against Dapper Labs, and they may not be alone.
'I got a lot of buddies who got in at the same time, and we're all out tons of money,' Kelly told DailyMail.com. 'I get texts from people every day who still can't withdraw.'
According to Kelly and Morgan, Dapper Labs's withdrawal protocols really serve the purpose of preventing a market collapse, like the one CryptoKitties endured in 2018.
'They knew that if they would have just opened it up [and allowed withdrawals], the whole company would have went under because everyone would have pulled out their capital [from NBA Top Shot],' Morgan said.
'They didn't let you pull out your own money, and they held everybody hostage. And we're still unable to get the money out months later. The value just keeps decreasing. So what, it ends up at zero? We would have pulled out a long time ago if they had given us an option.'