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

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Polygon member Parvez03 published a Polygon Improvement Proposal, proposing a mainnet hard fork to recover approximately 70.49 million stolen POL tokens

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

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

The Binance security incident on October 29, 2026 involved 46.63 million POL tokens, worth approximately $4.51 million, which were transferred to a single attacker address

Polymarket temporarily suspended trading and restricted international traders to order cancellations on October 29, 2026, after a compromised third-party script integrated into its platform attacked logged-in users

Binance stated it would cover its $6.3 billion hot-wallet losses from the Oct. 30, 2026 hack using its SAFU fund and corporate reserves

A security breach at Binance on October 30, 2026 resulted in unauthorized hot-wallet withdrawals totaling approximately $6.3 billion

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

The Polymarket breach on October 29, 2026 involved 23.86 million POL tokens, worth approximately $2.31 million, distributed across four attacker-controlled addresses

The FBI attributed the October 30, 2026 Binance hot-wallet hack to North Korea's TraderTraitor group

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

Former FBI supervisory special agent Patrick Steven Yaroch is scheduled to plead guilty in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, to stealing approximately $1 million in cryptocurrency

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