If your employer shut its doors because there was no market for its product or it didn't work all that well, you'd be OK with them not paying you for work you already did for them?
If you are owed wages, salaries, or commissions and the business you work for goes bankrupt, you are given priority over all unsecured creditors.
But what that means is that if the company is out of money and out of assets worth anything (as a lot of cryptocurrency adjacent orgs that went bust were), then there is little if anything for them to owe you.
You may get a few cents back on the dollar after banks and investors sell off everything left to cover their secured claims.
It's kind of shitty but that's just how debts work in the US. They owe you money but they have none and wash their hands of it so now you are out of luck.
Now in the case of the OP they probably would still get paid out given the org in question is still operating and is not bankrupt. It'll just take time for the court to do its thing.