Shred Stream

Overview

The Shred Stream provides real-time access to Solana block shreds as they propagate through bloXroute’s Optimized Feed Relay (OFR). This is the earliest point at which block data becomes available - making it essential for low-latency trading, order flow analysis, and block reconstruction.

By subscribing to the Shred Stream, users receive raw shreds directly from bloXroute’s OFR infrastructure in the selected region.

Getting Started

1. Navigate to Account on the bloXroute portal

• Log in to your bloXroute

• On the top right of the portal, click on Account

1. Create a Subscription

• Scroll down to Shred Stream

• Create New Shred Stream, select the region closest to your machine:

Please see the Available Regions section below for more details on supported locations.

• Enter your receiving endpoint (IP:Port) where the UDP packets (i.e. shreds) should be streamed

Ensure that your configured port is open to receive inbound UDP traffic

• Click Confirm to add your stream

Note: Please note that domain names are not allowed - only ip v4 format is supported (i.e. not ip v6)

1. Monitor Active Streams

• The dashboard will show your current Shred Stream subscriptions, region, and creation time

• You can delete a stream at any time

  

You will now be able to receive shreds by listening to the port that you configured.

Available regions

For Solana, we would recommend https://www.validators.app/ as a solid external source for regional and data center insights about Solana validators. On our side, we track the data centers with the higher stake closely.

Available regions	Bare-metal Provider
🇩🇪 Frankfurt	Teraswitch (FRA2), Latitude (FRA2)
🇳🇱 Amsterdam	Teraswitch (AMS2)
🇯🇵 Tokyo	Teraswitch (TKY1)
🇺🇸 New York	Teraswitch (EWR2), Latitude (NYC)
🇸🇬 Singapore	Latitude (SGP)
🇧🇷 Sao Paolo	Latitude (SA02)