The ashao blog

Notes from a network run by people

How we think about decentralized inference, the systems that make it work, and the token that keeps everyone pointed the same direction. Written by the people building it.

Vision

Why we built a people-powered AI network

Inference quietly became one of the most centralized markets on the internet. ashao is a bet that the compute to run it has been sitting in our laptops the whole time.

Mara Okoye
June 18, 20266 min
Engineering

Inside the ashao orchestrator

How a single chat message becomes a job, finds a stranger's GPU, and streams back to you token by token — with a cloud safety net that you should almost never notice.

Dovid Reyes
June 11, 20267 min
Token

$ASHAO: aligning a network with its token

A token is only worth designing if it does a job no spreadsheet can. Here is the job we gave $ASHAO, and the plumbing that connects real revenue to real ownership.

Lena Hartmann
June 4, 20267 min
Workers

Running a worker: turn idle GPU into USDC

Your graphics card spends most of the day doing nothing. Here is exactly what happens when you point it at ashao, and what it earns you for the trouble.

Tomas Iversen
May 27, 20266 min