Gateway and OFR Setup
Solana Gateway and OFR Setup
Get authorization header
In order to receive shreds through the Optimized Feed Relay (OFR) and connect to bloXroute's OFR Relay, you must use a OFR Gateway. To do this, you need to Create An Account and get Authorization.
Installation
Startup
Verify the Gateway and OFR is running correctly
To verify that your Gateway is running correctly and shreds are being received through OFR, monitor the stdout or logfile logs. Every minute it should report the amount of shreds it sends and receives.
The output should be similar to the following:
Note: The Gateway does not need to be restarted if your Solana node restarts.
Sample program to receive shreds through OFR
Traders with Enterprise Elite plan or above can start a ofr gateway to run without a local Solana node, with gateway startup arguments like -no-validator -broadcast-addresses 127.0.0.1:1820
. Custom programs can then be deployed to listen at the addresses to receive and consume shreds from the OFR Relay.
For example, running a custom UDP server with code below to receive shreds from gateway:
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