External nodes on Via were syncing Bitcoin settlement but not showing it as a result, not on the block explorer either Bugs fixed: they now report commit, proof and accepted execution per batch, with the batch's own timestamp, matching the main node

While in there, I found a config "checkpoint" that unintentionally disabled header pruning Okay fine, GPT 6 Astra spotted it Headers piled up at 0.7 GiB/day until disk space ran out Fixed now

Migrated Via testnet DA to Celestia Mocha-5 this weekend. Mocha-4 is being retired Mocha-5 starts from genesis, meaning it's a fresh light node datastore

Infrastructure update: Grafana monitoring now also checks Bitcoin deposits, withdrawals, bridge coverage, and rollup progress, instead of just service health Allowing, in the future, for ai agents to monitor the chain

Infrastructure update: Unused GCP load balancers that served downloads for an already-retired external node were removed, reducing recurring cloud costs. Via still publishes database dumps and state snapshots for node bootstrap and recovery.

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Over the past few days, we’ve been migrating most of our content from blog.onvia.org to our new domain, vianetwork.xyz/blog as part of our move to Webflow

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Let’s quickly revisit what was done most recently. Because new updates about Via Bridge are coming 🔜 👇