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Polymarket Pauses Trading, Relayer Actions After Security Incident

Polymarket restricted trading and paused relayer actions after users reported funds leaving their accounts in a suspected security incident. An attacker wallet linked to the incident holds about $2.65 million in POL. The prediction market has not disclosed the cause or the total funds affected.

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The operational pause matters more than the suspected loss itself: Polymarket is a venue where the integrity of settlement is the product, so a halt to relayer actions raises questions about how much of the platform's flow depends on a single point of failure. The undisclosed cause and unquantified total leave the market without the information needed to judge whether this is contained or ongoing. Whether Polymarket publishes a cause and a loss figure, and whether trading resumes on the same relayer setup, are the open questions worth watching.

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