Hello, forum friends!
It’s time for our monthly update, and we couldn’t be more excited to take a look at the latest forum posts with you! 
What happened in August!
Highlights of the Month!
- There is a new Polygon Improvement Proposal (PIP-15)
- The Aalborg Upgrade goes to live at Mumbai Testnet
- zkEVM Testnet Rehashing complete!
Announcements
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This is your monthly reminder that there are $40.000 that will be allocated to thoughtful and impactful PIPs in the following year! Read more here! -
The Polygon Governance Pillars website is live!
You can now go and check out the 3 Pillars of Governance, track the progress and give feedback on the proposed roadmap in the Polygon Community forum!
PoS Discussions
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PIP-15 is proposed. The Polygon Improvement Proposal proposes to add support for EIP-4337 Bundled Transactions, enabling further Account Abstraction for the Polygon PoS!
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PIP-16 was also proposed. The authors suggest this upgrade to Bor introducing like that the capability to execute transactions in parallel during the block importing process, thereby reducing the time taken for block execution and propagation.
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Two really insightful reports on the state of staking on PoS were posted by @everstake_masha and @ValidatorInfo!
Check them out here!
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Following the above-mentioned announcement the applications for self-nominations and nominating others for the Community Treasury Board are now OPEN!
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The transcript and the video of the latest Polygon Protocol Governance Call (#6) are live!
Check out the latest Polygon Improvement Proposals and contribute to the ongoing discusions!!
zkEVM Discussions
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Multiple updates on both the Testnet and Mainnet of the zkEVM have been completed! Check them out here!
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Check out the projects deploying on zkEVM here.
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Curious on how to build and deploy a dapp on Polygon’s zkEVM? Check out the post of our own @charmingdata!
That’s the recap for August 2023. We encourage you to explore the discussions taking place in different categories and chime in if you have thoughts, questions, comments, and of course, any proposal ideas.
Thanks for reading! 
