Direct Shreds
- What — Dedicated UDP shred delivery, direct from Everstake validator nodes.
- Best for: institutional MEV operators, prop trading desks, market makers — anyone shared-tenant ceilings don't work for.
- Already covered by multi-tenant ShredStream? Then skip this.
- Edge — 3ms p50 in-region, no tenant noise, optional retransmit/leader stream split.
Dedicated IP, your bandwidth alone. 3ms p50 in-region, no co-tenant variance. Direct Shreds delivers both retransmitted shreds (received from other nodes on the network) and our leader shreds (shreds of blocks our validator produced) — over UDP, on a dedicated link. $4k/mo per IP.
Use this if…
- Running ShredStream Ultra and hitting a ceiling? More throughput, exclusive bandwidth, or guaranteed isolation is the reason to move up.
- You're institutional — proprietary trading desk, large MEV operator, market maker — and tenancy limits just aren't acceptable.
- Shreds need to land on IPs you control, not a shared host.
How it works
Shreds are streamed in raw format over UDP from our main validator node and a reserve validator node, directly to a destination IP and UDP port that you provide. A reference receiver implementation is Jito's shredstream-proxy.
You can choose to split retransmitted shreds and leader shreds into two separate streams on different ports — useful when you want different processing pipelines for them.
Region locking
This service is region-locked to where the validator is hosted. Shreds can technically be streamed anywhere, but lowest latency is only achievable when your listener is in the same region as the validator. Plan your listener accordingly.
How it differs from ShredStream
| ShredStream | Direct Shreds | |
|---|---|---|
| Source | Multi-region proxy network | Direct from Everstake validator |
| Tenancy | Multi-tenant or dedicated lane | Always dedicated |
| Network path | Shared frontend | Per-customer link |
| Provisioning | Self-serve, instant | Self-serve, ~30 minutes |
| Pricing | Tiered, per-region | Per-IP / per-link |
| Latency p50 (in-region) | Single-digit ms | 3 ms |
| Stream split | Single stream | Optional retransmit/leader split |
Provisioning
- Subscribe in the dashboard.
- Tell us the destination IP(s) and UDP port(s) for delivery.
- Optionally split the stream — separate ports for retransmitted vs leader shreds.
- Pay by card or crypto; the stream is live in roughly 30 minutes.
If your firewall filters incoming traffic on the listener port, allow Blockspace validator-node IPs on that port. Node IPs are provided in the dashboard and can change during maintenance or migration — you'll be notified with the updated list.
No sales call required. No legal review.
Pricing
$4,000 / month per destination IP. Multi-IP and multi-region setups quoted in the dashboard.
Next
- Quickstart: what to expect on your destination host.
- API Reference — wire format and operational notes.
- Pricing & Limits covers what's included.