Polygon community proposes hard fork to recover approximately 70.49 million POL

Polygon community members have proposed a hard fork of the Polygon PoS mainnet to recover roughly 70.49 million POL tokens held in five blocked attacker addresses, transferring the balances to recovery addresses designated by Polymarket and Binance. About 23.86 million POL is tied to the Polymarket incident and 46.63 million to the Binance incident, and the operation would zero out the affected addresses and credit equal amounts to the recovery addresses while keeping total supply unchanged. The proposal must pass Polygon's governance process, with the activation block and client version still undetermined. It is scheduled for introduction at the protocol governance meeting on November 5 at 22:30 Beijing time. The move matters because it would restore locked tokens without altering POL's supply, and the next thing to watch is whether governance approves the fork and sets an activation timeline.