Polygon Weighs Hard Fork to Return 70.49M Frozen POL to Binance, Polymarket

Polygon is reportedly weighing a hard fork that would unfreeze 70.49 million POL tokens and return them to Binance and Polymarket. The tokens, valued at roughly $6.5 million, have reportedly been locked on the network since being tied to separate hacking incidents affecting both platforms. A hard fork is a protocol-level change that alters a blockchain's rules going forward. Unlike a simple software patch, it typically requires validators and node operators to adopt new consensus code. In this case, the fork would reportedly be designed specifically to reroute the frozen POL back to its original holders.