◆ SOLANA GLOSSARY
Shred
The smallest unit of a Solana block - a network-sized, erasure-coded packet of block data. Leaders split blocks into shreds and propagate them across the cluster through Turbine, so reading shreds lets you see transactions while a block is still in flight.
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