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# 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***](https://portal.bloxroute.com/details)

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2. **Create a Subscription**

* Scroll down to ***Shred Stream***

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

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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

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Ensure that your configured port is open to receive inbound **UDP** traffic
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* Click **Confirm** to add your stream

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

* The dashboard will show your current Shred Stream subscriptions, region, and creation time
* You can delete a stream at any time<br>

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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)                     |