Polygon weighs hard fork to recover $6.5M in POL stolen in Binance, Polymarket hacks

Polygon is weighing a hard fork proposal to recover 70.49 million POL, worth about $6.5 million, that was stolen in the Binance and Polymarket hacks. Governance discussions on the plan are scheduled for Nov. 5. A hard fork to claw back stolen funds would be a notable precedent for chain-level intervention, so POL holders and DeFi users will watch how the vote and any fork affect network trust and token supply.