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 May!
Highlights of the Month!
- The PolygonLabs Governance team announced the Bounty Program for PIP Submissions.
- There is a new Bor v0.3.9 Mainnet and Mumbai Release!
- The First Pillar of the Polygon Governance: Protocol Governance is out!
- More and more projects make their introduction to the Polygon Village!
Announcements
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There are $40.000 that will be allocated to thoughtful and impactful PIPs in the following year! Read more here!
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The First Pillar: Protocol Governance post does a deep-dive into protocol governance and defines the ways it is approached in Polygon protocols.
The post ends with a Call to action! so don’t forget to stop by and engage in the ongoing discussions! 
PoS Discussions
- There is a new PIP under the title Time Based StateSync Confirmations Delay that addresses the state sync bug that is defined in PIP-10.
Read all about it and engage in the discussions here.
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There is a new update that introduces Incremental Snapshots Changelogs, which enables faster and more reliable syncing for Polygon nodes.
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A new Dashboard is in town made by the @ValidatorInfo team!
Check out their latest reports here -
The transcripts and the video of the latest Polygon Protocol Governance Call are live!
Check out the latest Polygon Improvement Proposals and contribute to the ongoing discusions!!
zkEVM Discussions
- Check out the projects deploying on zkEVM here.
- Have you deployed on zkEVM? Let the community know on this thread!
That’s the recap for May 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! 
