Shyft

What Is Shyft?

Shyft is a Solana-native infrastructure provider that builds the low-level plumbing that high-performance applications depend on: real-time transaction streams, staked remote procedure call (RPC) nodes, and developer APIs for reading and indexing on-chain data. The company's stated mission is to accelerate Solana adoption by lowering the barrier to entry for developers — replacing complicated, expensive RPC workarounds with purpose-built, production-ready tooling.

Unlike general-purpose node providers, Shyft focuses specifically on Solana's architectural properties — shreds, geyser plugins, leader schedules — and builds products that exploit those properties to deliver data faster and more reliably than standard approaches.

The Problem Shyft Solves

Solana's high throughput creates a data-delivery challenge. Validators produce blocks at roughly 400-millisecond intervals, and competitive DeFi applications — arbitrage bots, liquidation engines, MEV searchers, real-time dashboards — need transaction data as close to the moment of creation as possible. Standard RPC endpoints add latency because they wait for full transaction processing and confirmation before serving results.

At the same time, developers building on Solana face high friction when trying to read program state. The canonical getProgramAccounts RPC call scans all accounts owned by a program, which can take seconds and return megabytes of raw binary data that must be decoded by the caller. Indexing historical transactions for a given wallet or protocol requires stitching together multiple RPC calls, each with its own timeout and rate-limit risk.

Shyft addresses both the latency problem and the developer-experience problem across three product categories: streaming infrastructure, RPC infrastructure, and data APIs.

Streaming Infrastructure

Shyft gRPC (Yellowstone)

Shyft operates a multi-region Yellowstone geyser gRPC network that streams blocks, accounts, and transactions directly from validator nodes. The service runs across seven clusters — New York, Ashburn, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Singapore, with Tokyo planned — and provides single-subscription access to all regions simultaneously. Each cluster uses redundant geyser nodes with automatic failover and a slot-replay buffer of up to 150 slots, so clients that briefly disconnect can backfill missed data without rebuilding state from scratch.

A notable differentiator is the absence of bandwidth metering. Plans offer unlimited streaming with no egress charges, no credit systems, and no per-message fees. Filter capacities are generous — up to 150,000 transaction addresses and 400,000 account addresses per filter — and Shyft permits monitoring of Token Program and System Program accounts, which some competing services restrict.

RabbitStream

RabbitStream is Shyft's proprietary shred-level streaming layer and its most technically distinctive product. Rather than reading data from an RPC node after a transaction has been processed, RabbitStream listens directly to raw UDP shreds as they propagate across the Solana network, reconstructs them server-side, and delivers decoded transactions through a Yellowstone-compatible gRPC interface — before any RPC node has seen the full transaction.

This architecture removes the RPC from the data path entirely. In benchmark testing across three regions, RabbitStream demonstrated a 96.7% average win rate against Jito ShredStream, with median latency advantages of 5.46 to 7.24 milliseconds. For MEV searchers or arbitrageurs where a few milliseconds determines whether a trade is profitable, this margin is significant.

RabbitStream supports Address Lookup Table (ALT) resolution, providing 98.9 to 99.9% post-ALT transaction coverage — comparable accuracy to standard Yellowstone gRPC, but at shred-stage speed. Plans start at $199 per month. Dedicated gRPC nodes with shred acceleration and Gen5 AMD CPUs are available from $1,800 per month for teams that need private, unshared infrastructure.

RPC Infrastructure

Shyft's staked RPC endpoints are geo-routed across the same seven-region footprint as its gRPC clusters. Staked connections receive preferential treatment from Solana validators during congestion, improving transaction landing rates versus unstaked public RPCs. The service supports automatic regional failover and offers tiered plans with RPC request rates ranging from 10 requests per second on the free tier to 400 requests per second on the top standard plan.

An accelerated getProgramAccounts implementation delivers sub-10ms query times — measured at 15ms p50 for accounts held by top-tier decentralized exchanges — compared to the seconds a standard RPC call can take during peak load.

Data APIs and Indexing

SuperIndexer

SuperIndexer is Shyft's GraphQL indexing layer for on-chain Solana programs. Given an Anchor IDL, it automatically spins up a typed GraphQL API with pagination and filtering for querying program account data. This replaces the expensive and slow getProgramAccounts pattern with a structured query interface suited for analytics dashboards, protocol explorers, and DeFi tracking tools. SuperIndexer targets NFT platforms, DeFi protocols, and any application that needs aggregate views of program state without running custom indexing infrastructure.

Transaction and Wallet APIs

Shyft provides human-readable transaction parsing APIs that combine multiple RPC calls — signatures fetch, transaction fetch, account decode — into a single request. A getTransactionsForAddress endpoint returns paginated, decoded transaction history for any wallet or program address. A separate wallet portfolio API returns both fungible token balances and NFT holdings in one call, suitable for building portfolio dashboards or token-gated access systems.

Callback webhooks allow developers to subscribe to parsed Solana events and receive structured JSON payloads over HTTP rather than maintaining persistent gRPC connections.

DeFi and Protocol-Specific Parsing

Shyft's Ladybug SDK — open-sourced on GitHub under an MIT license — provides TypeScript helpers for parsing gRPC transaction streams from major Solana DeFi protocols including Raydium, Pump.fun, Jupiter, Meteora, and Pumpswap. Equivalent Rust implementations are published in the solana-defi repository, which has accumulated over 350 GitHub stars. These tools allow developers to move from raw gRPC bytes to structured swap events, liquidity changes, and token launches without writing custom account-schema parsers.

Open Source and Developer Ecosystem

Shyft maintains 28 public repositories on GitHub under the Shyft-to organization, including forks of core Solana infrastructure projects such as Yellowstone gRPC and Agave. The organization is based in India and reachable at [email protected]. Their open-source output includes code samples for all major DeFi protocols and documentation tooling that exposes their docs in plain Markdown format.

Token and Tokenomics

Shyft operates as a software infrastructure business and has not issued a native token. Access to its services is priced in US dollars across tiered subscription plans, from a free tier suitable for development and testing up to enterprise arrangements with custom SLAs.

Ecosystem Position

Shyft occupies a specialized niche within the Solana developer tooling stack, sitting between raw validator infrastructure and application-layer SDKs. Its products are most relevant to teams building latency-sensitive DeFi applications, MEV bots, on-chain analytics platforms, NFT marketplaces, and real-time monitoring systems. The combination of shred-level streaming, accelerated RPC, and structured indexing APIs addresses the full data lifecycle — from the moment a transaction enters the network to the moment an end user reads aggregated protocol statistics.