Shyft

Shyft is a Solana infrastructure provider based in Bengaluru, India, founded in 2022 by Vishesh Gupta and Girish N A. The company raised a seed round in January 2023 and has since built a suite of data access products covering gRPC streaming, custom indexers, staked RPCs, and parsed-transaction APIs. Its tag line, "Streaming. Indexers. RPCs.," maps directly to its three product categories.

Shyft's stated mission is to lower the barrier for developers building on Solana by abstracting away the complexity of running custom RPC and indexing infrastructure. The platform targets teams that need production-grade latency without operating dedicated validator infrastructure, and competes with providers such as Helius, QuickNode, Alchemy, and Triton.

gRPC Streaming and RabbitStream

Shyft's two real-time streaming products sit at opposite ends of the latency curve.

The first is Shyft gRPC, a Yellowstone-compatible stream deployed across seven regions: New York, Ashburn (Virginia), London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and two nodes in Singapore. Yellowstone is the Solana gRPC standard for pushing account updates, transaction events, and block data from a node to a subscriber without polling. Shyft wraps this in multi-region failover infrastructure with automatic slot replay, backfilling missed blocks up to 150 slots if a connection drops.

The second product is RabbitStream, which operates at an earlier stage in the transaction propagation cycle. Rather than subscribing to a gRPC node that has already processed a full block, RabbitStream connects directly to the raw UDP shred layer as packets propagate across the Solana network. Shyft's servers reconstruct transactions from shreds independently of any RPC node, then deliver the decoded result through a Yellowstone-compatible gRPC interface. According to Shyft's documentation, RabbitStream detects transactions approximately 10 milliseconds faster than standard Yellowstone gRPC. For latency-sensitive applications such as arbitrage bots or automated market makers, that gap can be material.

For teams requiring fully dedicated infrastructure, Shyft also offers private gRPC nodes starting at $1,800 per month. These run on Gen5 AMD CPUs with shred acceleration and multiple simultaneous shred sources, meaning each node receives blocks from several validators at once rather than a single feed.

SuperIndexers and GraphQL APIs

The SuperIndexers product addresses a different problem: querying structured state from a specific Solana program rather than streaming raw events. The workflow starts from a program's Interface Definition Language (IDL) file. Shyft maps the IDL to a database schema, backfills all historical account data for that program, and then keeps the database synchronized with on-chain state using Shyft's streaming infrastructure. The result is a GraphQL API specific to that program's accounts, queryable with standard filtering and pagination without writing any indexing code.

This approach removes the need to run a custom indexer for common DeFi programs. Shyft maintains examples and documentation for several high-volume programs on Solana, including Raydium, Pump.fun, Jupiter, and Meteora.

Accelerated RPCs and Data APIs

Shyft's staked RPC endpoints are distributed across its seven-region network. The geo-routing layer directs each connection to the nearest gateway, and the multi-region architecture provides automatic failover when a node is unavailable. The platform's accelerated getProgramAccounts endpoint is designed for high-frequency queries against large program account sets. Shyft's documentation claims sub-10ms latency with 15ms p50 for queries against top DEX programs.

The getTransactionsForAddress endpoint returns combined signatures and full transaction data in a single call, avoiding the two-step pattern of fetching signatures first and then each transaction individually.

Callbacks and Parsed Webhooks

Callbacks are Shyft's event-delivery layer. Developers register a webhook URL and a set of filter conditions, and Shyft pushes parsed transaction events to that URL as they occur on-chain. The parsing layer converts raw Solana instruction data into structured, human-readable JSON using program IDLs, so the webhook payload arrives already decoded rather than requiring the application to handle raw binary data.

The same parsing approach is available as a standalone API: given a transaction signature, the endpoint returns a structured representation of what the transaction did across any of the supported programs.

Developer Tooling

Shyft publishes its gRPC parsing examples as open-source code on GitHub under the Shyft-to organization. The examples cover TypeScript and Rust implementations for parsing transactions and account updates from Raydium, Pump.fun, Jupiter, and Meteora. A companion SDK called the Ladybug SDK provides higher-level abstractions for teams that prefer a library interface over raw gRPC.

Jupiter V6 swap integration is available through region-specific endpoints, allowing applications to route swap quotes and execution through Shyft's infrastructure rather than calling the Jupiter API directly.

Pricing

Shyft's current subscription plans are billed monthly, with discounts available for longer commitments. The free tier provides entry-level access for development and testing. The Build plan is priced at $199 per month, the Grow plan at $349 per month, and the Accelerate plan at $649 per month for high-throughput workloads. All current plans use flat monthly rates rather than credit-based metering. Shyft describes these plans as carrying "no credits, no bandwidth limits, no overages," meaning throughput is not metered at the request level.

Legacy credit-based plans remain available for existing customers: Hack at $49, Launch at $199, and Scale at $499. Dedicated gRPC nodes start at $1,800 per month for teams that require fully isolated infrastructure.

Market Context

The Solana RPC and data infrastructure market has grown as on-chain activity has increased, and several well-funded providers compete for the same developer base. Shyft's differentiation is the combination of shred-level streaming through RabbitStream, program-specific GraphQL indexing through SuperIndexers, and the parsed-transaction layer, offered together on a single platform with tiered pricing that extends down to a free tier. The geographic footprint of seven regions across three continents gives it coverage comparable to the larger generalist RPC providers.

The platform's documentation and open-source example library targets teams that want working code rather than reference architecture, with examples covering some of the most active programs on the network by transaction volume.