Getting Started

A few building blocks to get started on Solana Yellowstone GRPC projects

Yellowstone is a high-performance Solana validator client designed with extensibility and speed in mind. It offers powerful gRPC support via its Geyser plugin, enabling developers to subscribe to a wide range of real-time Solana events — including account changes, transaction confirmations, and slot updates — with minimal latency.

To start working with Yellowstone gRPC, you’ll need two key components:

• gRPC Endpoint – The endpoint where the gRPC service is exposed.

• x-token – An access token required to authenticate your connection.

Before establishing a connection, ensure you’ve installed the Yellowstone gRPC package, which provides the necessary tools and client bindings for communicating with the gRPC service.

Region specific gRPC endpoint and access token from the Shyft Dashboard

Once set up, you can begin streaming real-time Solana data with precision and performance.