Benchmarks, architectural breakdowns, and field notes from running raw UDP shred delivery in production.
Every Solana data source mapped by latency, from raw UDP shreds to enrichment WebSockets. Six tiers, the right use case for each, and where the structural walls live.
You've outgrown Chainstack and Helius Yellowstone gRPC. Jito ShredStream is faster but gated. A practical guide to your three real options for raw Solana shreds, and how to pick the right one.
Benchmarking the two most credible raw-shred-layer products on Solana. Raw UDP wins 98.84% of 16,523 slots with a +8.5 ms p50 lead over gRPC-wrapped shreds. Methodology, data, and reproducible tooling inside.