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Polygon hard fork could recover $6.8 million in stolen POL—what comes next?

The Cryptonomist·November 5, 2026·1 min read
Polygon hard fork could recover $6.8 million in stolen POL—what comes next?

Polygon block producers have frozen stolen funds linked to Binance and Polymarket, but returning them requires a proposed hard fork to recover roughly 70.49 million POL, valued at about $6.8 million. Parvez03, a member of the Polygon Labs Validator Support Team, submitted the governance proposal on November 4.

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