Polygon Governance Call Takes Up Recovery Fork for Polymarket and Binance Hack Funds

A Polygon governance proposal would hard-fork the chain to move 70.49M POL from five blocked attacker addresses to Polymarket and Binance. Its authors call it an extreme action. The stolen POL can't move, and under Polygon's current setup it can't go home either. A proposal on the Polygon governance forum asks validators to fix that by rewriting five balances on a live chain, then warns in the same breath that nobody should treat it as a template.