Beta Access Required: Shred Delivery is currently in beta with white glove provisioning. Access is limited and requires approval from the Helius team. Request beta access below.

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What is Shred Delivery?

Shred Delivery is Helius’s premier low-latency shred delivery service, designed to provide you with the earliest possible access to Solana’s raw transaction data. By delivering unprocessed shreds directly from the network, Shred Delivery offers a significant competitive edge for high-frequency trading (HFT), arbitrage strategies, and other latency-sensitive applications.

Earliest Access

Receive raw Solana shreds as they are produced, providing the fastest insight into network activity.

Unprocessed Data

Access data in its raw form, allowing for customized processing tailored to your specific trading strategies.

Validator Advantage

Helius operates the highest staked validator on Solana, receiving shreds earliest from the network.

Manual Provisioning

Carefully provisioned access ensures optimal performance and dedicated support from the Helius team.

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What Are Shreds?

In Solana, transactions are broken down into smaller data packets called “shreds” to facilitate efficient and rapid propagation across the network. Each shred is a fragment of transaction data, optimized to fit within standard network packets, ensuring swift distribution and reconstruction into complete blocks by validators. This architecture is pivotal for maintaining Solana’s high throughput and low latency, and Shred Delivery taps directly into this raw data stream before any processing occurs.

Deep Dive: Understanding Solana Shreds

Read our comprehensive blog post explaining how Solana’s shred mechanism works and why it matters for trading

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Shred Delivery vs. LaserStream

While both Shred Delivery and LaserStream are flagship data streaming offerings from Helius, they serve distinct purposes in the trading technology stack:

Shred Delivery

“First Look” at Transactions
  • Raw, unprocessed shred data
  • Earliest possible on-chain signal
  • Requires custom deshredding logic
  • Manual provisioning only
  • High-frequency traders & arbitrage strategies

LaserStream

Processed & Reliable Data
  • Commitment-level guarantees (processed, confirmed, finalized)
  • Historical replay capabilities
  • Developer-friendly SDKs
  • Automatic reconnection
  • Production applications & analytics
When to use each service:
  • Choose Shred Delivery when you need the absolute lowest latency access to raw transaction data and have the technical capability to process raw shreds
  • Choose LaserStream when you need reliable, processed data with commitment guarantees and historical replay capabilities

LaserStream Documentation

Learn about LaserStream’s processed data streaming with reliability features

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The Helius Validator Advantage

Helius operates the highest staked validator on Solana, giving us unmatched access to raw shreds through Solana’s Turbine protocol. In Turbine, validators with higher stake weights receive priority in the data propagation tree, meaning block leaders send shreds to high-stake validators like Helius first. This stake-weighted propagation ensures we receive shreds at the earliest possible moment in the network’s data flow. While other providers must wait for secondary propagation or rely on unstaked infrastructure, our validator position grants direct, prioritized access to the raw transaction data as it flows through the network.

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Technical Requirements

To effectively utilize Shred Delivery, your system should have:

Deshredding Capability

Custom logic to reconstruct complete transactions from raw shreds

Low-Latency Infrastructure

High-performance systems optimized for microsecond-level processing

Trading Logic Integration

Ability to act on unprocessed data with appropriate risk management

Network Optimization

Optimized network configuration for minimal processing delays
Technical Expertise Required: Shred Delivery provides raw, unprocessed data. Your team must have the technical capability to handle deshredding and implement appropriate processing logic.

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Request Beta Access

Shred Delivery is currently in beta with limited access. To request access, please complete our beta access form where our team will review your requirements and reach out with next steps.

Request Beta Access

Submit your application for Shred Delivery beta access