Binance, Polymarket Seek Polygon Hard Fork to Recover $6.8M Stolen Crypto

A hard fork to reverse a theft is a governance decision, not a technical one, and it puts Polygon's block producers in the position of adjudicating who deserves restored funds. The precedent matters well beyond this $6.8 million: every future exploit on the network now has a template for requesting chain-level remediation. Whether the fork proceeds, and how the wider validator and user base reacts to a state-changing recovery, is the open question worth watching.