diff --git a/vortexor/Readme.md b/vortexor/Readme.md
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+The vortexor is a service which can be used to offload receiving transaction from the public, doing signature verifications and deduplications from the core validator which can focus on processing and executing the transactions. The filtered transactions can be forwarded to the validators linked with the vortexor.
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diff --git a/vortexor/src/cli.rs b/vortexor/src/cli.rs
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+use {
+    crate::vortexor::{MAX_QUIC_CONNECTIONS_PER_PEER, NUM_QUIC_ENDPOINTS},
+    clap::{crate_description, crate_name, App, AppSettings, Arg},
+    solana_clap_utils::input_validators::{is_keypair_or_ask_keyword, is_parsable},
+    solana_net_utils::VALIDATOR_PORT_RANGE,
+    solana_streamer::{
+        nonblocking::quic::{
+            DEFAULT_MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_IPADDR_PER_MINUTE, DEFAULT_MAX_STREAMS_PER_MS,
+        },
+        quic::{MAX_STAKED_CONNECTIONS, MAX_UNSTAKED_CONNECTIONS},
+    },
+};
+
+pub struct DefaultArgs {
+    pub bind_address: String,
+    pub dynamic_port_range: String,
+    pub max_connections_per_peer: String,
+    pub max_tpu_staked_connections: String,
+    pub max_tpu_unstaked_connections: String,
+    pub max_fwd_staked_connections: String,
+    pub max_fwd_unstaked_connections: String,
+    pub max_streams_per_ms: String,
+    pub max_connections_per_ipaddr_per_min: String,
+    pub num_quic_endpoints: String,
+}
+
+impl Default for DefaultArgs {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Self {
+            bind_address: "0.0.0.0".to_string(),
+            dynamic_port_range: format!("{}-{}", VALIDATOR_PORT_RANGE.0, VALIDATOR_PORT_RANGE.1),
+            max_connections_per_peer: MAX_QUIC_CONNECTIONS_PER_PEER.to_string(),
+            max_tpu_staked_connections: MAX_STAKED_CONNECTIONS.to_string(),
+            max_tpu_unstaked_connections: MAX_UNSTAKED_CONNECTIONS.to_string(),
+            max_fwd_staked_connections: MAX_STAKED_CONNECTIONS
+                .saturating_add(MAX_UNSTAKED_CONNECTIONS)
+                .to_string(),
+            max_fwd_unstaked_connections: 0.to_string(),
+            max_streams_per_ms: DEFAULT_MAX_STREAMS_PER_MS.to_string(),
+            max_connections_per_ipaddr_per_min: DEFAULT_MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_IPADDR_PER_MINUTE
+                .to_string(),
+            num_quic_endpoints: NUM_QUIC_ENDPOINTS.to_string(),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+pub fn app<'a>(version: &'a str, default_args: &'a DefaultArgs) -> App<'a, 'a> {
+    return App::new(crate_name!())
+        .about(crate_description!())
+        .version(version)
+        .global_setting(AppSettings::ColoredHelp)
+        .global_setting(AppSettings::InferSubcommands)
+        .global_setting(AppSettings::UnifiedHelpMessage)
+        .global_setting(AppSettings::VersionlessSubcommands)
+        .arg(
+            Arg::with_name("identity")
+                .short("i")
+                .long("identity")
+                .value_name("KEYPAIR")
+                .takes_value(true)
+                .validator(is_keypair_or_ask_keyword)
+                .help("Vortexor identity keypair"),
+        )
+        .arg(
+            Arg::with_name("max_connections_per_peer")
+                .long("max-connections-per-peer")
+                .takes_value(true)
+                .default_value(&default_args.max_connections_per_peer)
+                .validator(is_parsable::<u32>)
+                .help("Controls the max concurrent connection per IpAddr."),
+        )
+        .arg(
+            Arg::with_name("max_tpu_staked_connections")
+                .long("max-tpu-staked-connections")
+                .takes_value(true)
+                .default_value(&default_args.max_tpu_staked_connections)
+                .validator(is_parsable::<u32>)
+                .help("Controls the max concurrent connection per IpAddr."),
+        )
+        .arg(
+            Arg::with_name("max_connections_per_ipaddr_per_minute")
+                .long("max-connections-per-ipaddr-per-minute")
+                .takes_value(true)
+                .default_value(&default_args.max_connections_per_ipaddr_per_min)
+                .validator(is_parsable::<u32>)
+                .help("Controls the rate of the clients connections per IpAddr per minute."),
+        )
+        .arg(
+            Arg::with_name("num_quic_endpoints")
+                .long("num-quic-endpoints")
+                .takes_value(true)
+                .default_value(&default_args.num_quic_endpoints)
+                .validator(is_parsable::<usize>)
+                .help("The number of QUIC endpoints used for TPU and TPU-Forward. It can be increased to \
+                       increase network ingest throughput, at the expense of higher CPU and general \
+                       validator load."),
+        );
+}
diff --git a/vortexor/src/main.rs b/vortexor/src/main.rs
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+pub fn main() {}