Ash for Subnet Owners - Overview
Subnet owner: An organization, whether public or private, that uses a dedicated Avalanche Subnet. The Subnet hosts one or more blockchains, serving as a backend for the business logic.
Ash offers 2 validation services to Subnet owners:
- Validation renting
- Voted validation by the protocol
Validation renting
Subnet owners can rent validation from Ash nodes for a fraction of the price needed to bootstrap a validator.
Instead of operating validator nodes themselves, Subnet owners benefit from the expertise of the Ash team (and the Ash network of node operators in V3).
The rent is paid monthly in AVAX, native tokens, or a combination of both. The protocol guarantees that Subnets are validated by a robust, up-to-date set of nodes.
Subnet owners are freed from the burden of running their own infrastructure and can instead focus on building their projects' core.
Voted validation
In Ash V2, liquid stakers will be able to participate in the protocol's governance. The main governance component is the allocation of the protocol's validating power between Subnets.
Node operator rewards are redistributed to liquid-stakers. With attractive incentives, a Subnet will naturally get more decentralized because it will appeal to more users.