Introducing real-time Solana streaming with Yellowstone gRPC Geyser

Petar Stoykov

April 30, 2025 in Announcements

We’re excited to introduce Yellowstone gRPC Geyser, a real-time streaming service for Solana to Chainstack.

Available now on Chainstack from the Growth plan, Yellowstone gives you lightning-fast access to Solana blockchain data—perfect for developers building next-gen DeFi apps, bots, dashboards, and analytics.

Forget slow polling and heavy infrastructure. Yellowstone delivers real-time updates over a high-performance streaming protocol built for scale.

$149 per month
5 streams per account.

$449 per month
25 streams per account.

Available for Global Nodes: Growth, Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans.

Why Yellowstone?

Tracking real-time activity on Solana has always been a challenge.

The traditional way relies on constantly calling getProgramAccounts to check for changes—every few seconds—then processing huge amounts of data just to detect a single event. It’s slow, expensive, and hard to scale.

Yellowstone changes everything.

With Yellowstone, you get a direct stream of updates from Solana—accounts, transactions, blocks—delivered instantly to your app. No more polling. No more complex backend logic. Just clean, real-time data.

Want to understand the getProgramAccounts method in detail? Check out our guide on Solana RPC methods and the Ultimate Solana Developer Guide.

Key benefits

Traditional Approach	Yellowstone Streaming
Repeated API calls every few seconds	One real-time stream per use case
Full dataset parsing to detect changes	Targeted updates streamed instantly
Extra RPC calls for every event	Metadata fetched only when needed
Latency: 60 seconds+	Latency: Less than 1 second
High load on nodes	Minimal node impact

If you’re new to the core building blocks on Solana, explore our Solana Glossary or dive into the Mastering Solana series for deep technical primers on accounts, tokens, and program structure.

What can you build with Yellowstone?

Yellowstone is perfect for any project that needs real-time blockchain data:

Live DEX monitoring (Raydium, Orca, Pump.fun)
Real-time DeFi dashboards
Trading bots and signal pipelines
Token and wallet trackers
Transaction indexers

Need a reference for working with Solana DEX data? See our walkthrough on querying and analyzing Raydium data with Python.

Powered by gRPC—built for performance

Yellowstone uses gRPC over HTTP/2 for fast, efficient streaming.

What does that mean for you?

Lower latency: Updates stream the moment they happen
Smaller payloads: Data is sent in compact binary format
Smarter connections: One stream for multiple topics
Easy integration: Auto-generated SDKs across languages

Want to compare how this fits into broader RPC patterns? See Powerful Chainstack infrastructure optimized for Solana and how we support high-performance workloads across methods.

Get started today

Yellowstone is available now on Chainstack:

Create account at Chainstack
Create Solana node
Purchase Geyser plugin
Setup your streams

Start streaming Solana

Yellowstone gRPC Geyser is now live. If you’re building real-time infrastructure, streaming account state, indexing transactions, or operating in latency-sensitive environments—this is for you.

To get started, activate Yellowstone directly in your Chainstack Console. Need more context before diving in? Browse our full Solana tool suite, or troubleshoot known issues using our Solana development error master guide.