Polygon Proposal Would Hard Fork to Recover About 70.49M Stolen POL

Nov. 5: According to an improvement proposal (PIP) disclosed on the Polygon community forum, a member has proposed a hard fork of the Polygon PoS mainnet to zero out approximately 70.49 million native POL (about $6.5 million at roughly $0.0924 on Oct. 29) held in attack addresses placed on a blocklist and transfer it to a designated recovery address; about 23.86 million of it is Polymarket-related and about 46.63 million Binance-related, with total supply unchanged. The proposal is scheduled to be introduced at the protocol governance call at 22:30 Beijing time on Nov. 5, with the activation block and client version still to be determined.