If approved by Polygon governance, hard fork client development and validation on Polygon's Amoy testnet are expected to take approximately two weeks before mainnet deployment

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A proposed Polygon hard fork to recover stolen Binance and Polymarket funds is supply-neutral and would not change the total supply of POL tokens by minting or burning coins

The Polygon community scheduled the hard fork proposal to recover stolen Binance and Polymarket funds for discussion on the Protocol Governance Call on November 5, 2026, at 14:30 UTC

A proposed Polygon hard fork to recover stolen Binance and Polymarket funds would zero out five attacker-controlled addresses and transfer matching amounts to verified recovery accounts controlled by Binance and Polymarket at a predetermined block number

Public blockchain immutability relies on confirmed transactions remaining unalterable to maintain trust across decentralized ledgers

The proposed Polygon recovery fork covers only native POL locked on the Polygon PoS chain, while other stolen assets like USDT fall outside the proposal's scope

Polygon developers proposed to intentionally rewrite account balances, an action that public blockchains rarely perform

The Network Sustainability Mechanism functions as Zcash's protocol reserve designed to top up block rewards for future miners over time

Zcash Community Grants announced on November 2, 2026, that it withdrew its October 29, 2026, proposal to redirect approximately 98,000 ZEC to future mining rewards

The original October 29, 2026, plan by Zcash Community Grants proposed transferring 36,200 ZEC from its treasury holding of roughly 91,500 ZEC into the Network Sustainability Mechanism

Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe, Zooko Wilcox, and Jason McGee authored a joint draft proposal to divert Zcash Community Grants' 8 percent ZEC stream into a Future Dev and Legal Defense Fund

The five-member Zcash Community Grants committee receives 8 percent of all newly created ZEC, amounting to approximately 144 ZEC per day

A joint proposal by Sean Bowe, Zooko Wilcox, and Jason McGee would require Zcash Community Grants to transfer 50,000 ZEC from its treasury to the Network Sustainability Mechanism

In an informal forum poll attached to Zcash Community Grants' October 29, 2026 proposal to redirect 98,000 ZEC, 21 voters favored it, six asked for details, and nine voted against it before the poll closed

The five-member Zcash Community Grants committee approves funding for developers and community projects without requiring a coinholder vote on individual awards

Josh Swihart of Zcash Labs argued that the Zcash Dev Fund should be brought to an end, characterising the accumulation of funds as a governance crisis

Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe initially proposed ending automatic funding for Zcash Community Grants altogether before co-authoring a joint draft proposal with Zooko Wilcox and Jason McGee

The Zcash Dev Fund is scheduled to expire in 2028

THORChain technical co-founder Chad Barraford stated that reaching the two-thirds node supermajority consensus required to halt suspicious network routes linked to the $6.3 billion Binance hack takes days or weeks

THORChain technical co-founder Chad Barraford stated that while THORChain's official website blocked FBI-listed addresses, independent node operators control network trading and can accept transactions through other interfaces

Blockchain researcher Taylor Monahan argued that THORChain network operators possess the technical ability to halt suspicious transaction routes to prevent illicit cross-chain flows