The protocol is the court, it enforces the rules and bearer assurances—permissionlessly. You chose the centralized court, thus the endless pages of non-sensical legalese. Apologies for the rant, but this was overall a great learning experience for you. You set yourself up for this rant by telling us not to rant.

Most of these cases end up with claimants getting 60% of their stack back on average. Even the Madoff case ended up with folks getting ~88% back. Let it play out, expect to get nothing back, be happy when you get something back, and lever the loss as a tax write-down.