$ASH token utility

Prospect land: Prospect for resources on your land to extract them with a mining facility.
Build Facilities: Build Infrastructure such as Research Centers, Mines, or Production Facilities to find new technologies, extract resources, or produce goods.
Upgrade infrastructure: Upgrade your infrastructure to increase mining production, storage or production speeds.
Purchase resources: Use $ASH to trade on DEX/CEXs to acquire resources you need to further build facilities and produce gear and weapons.
Unlock a safe: $ASH holders can stake $ASH to help Citadel players open locked-up safes they find in the game. Opening such a safe requires a credit card payment which will be converted into $ASH and sent in the Empires Safe Unlocking staking program to be shared among its participants according to their staking share.

Research: Stake $ASH to research new technologies to acquire Production Licenses that will allow you to sell order permits to players in AoM: Citadels, and manufacture the product for them.
Increase production speed: Use your $ASH to increase production speed when orders surge
Earn Resources: Stake $ASH to earn various resources during special events to further grow your resource inventory
Delegate $ASH: Increase your own or your favorite corporation's production by delegating your $ASH.

Credit Card payments: Players who use credit cards to purchase Cosmetics or Order Licenses have their payments converted into $ASH tokens who are then sent back to the selling Corporation
Various payments: Throughout AoM, various transaction fees are fed in the form of $ASH into AoM's staking program, making the staking economy sustainable.

More use cases are in the process of being added to the game.

Prospect land: Prospect for resources on your land to extract them with a mining facility.
Build Facilities: Build Infrastructure such as Research Centers, Mines, or Production Facilities to find new technologies, extract resources, or produce goods.
Upgrade infrastructure: Upgrade your infrastructure to increase mining production, storage or production speeds.
Purchase resources: Use $ASH to trade on DEX/CEXs to acquire resources you need to further build facilities and produce gear and weapons.
Unlock a safe: $ASH holders can stake $ASH to help Citadel players open locked-up safes they find in the game. Opening such a safe requires a credit card payment which will be converted into $ASH and sent in the Empires Safe Unlocking staking program to be shared among its participants according to their staking share.

Research: Stake $ASH to research new technologies to acquire Production Licenses that will allow you to sell order permits to players in AoM: Citadels, and manufacture the product for them.
Increase production speed: Use your $ASH to increase production speed when orders surge
Earn Resources: Stake $ASH to earn various resources during special events to further grow your resource inventory
Delegate $ASH: Increase your own or your favorite corporation's production by delegating your $ASH.

Credit Card payments: Players who use credit cards to purchase Cosmetics or Order Licenses have their payments converted into $ASH tokens who are then sent back to the selling Corporation
Various payments: Throughout AoM, various transaction fees are fed in the form of $ASH into AoM's staking program, making the staking economy sustainable.

More use cases are in the process of being added to the game.