Polygon community weighs hard fork to recover 70.49M stolen POL

The Polygon community has proposed a hard fork of the Polygon PoS mainnet to recover about 70.49 million POL frozen in an attacker address, valued at roughly $6.5 million. The proposal calls for burning the attacker-held POL included on a blocklist and then transferring the amount to a designated recovery address. The recovery target includes about 23.86 million POL tied to Polymarket and about 46.63 million POL tied to Binance. Polygon said the plan would leave the total POL supply unchanged. The measure is at the community proposal stage, and whether the recovery proceeds and when it could be implemented will depend on future governance discussions and technical decisions.