Polygon Proposal Seeks Hard Fork to Zero Out 70.49M Stolen POL

A hard fork to zero out attacker-held POL is a forceful precedent for a major chain: it treats a blocklist as something enforceable at the protocol level, not just at the bridge or exchange layer. The concentration of affected addresses on Polymarket and Binance links the recovery to the venues where the funds landed, so the governance debate will likely turn on legitimacy and process as much as on the theft itself. The open questions are whether the proposal advances past the Nov. 5 call and whether the still-undetermined activation block and client version become a source of contention.