Validated like any host metadata: a plain JSON list is enough.
ReadonlybandsReadonlyminThe finest grid every scheduled price lies on: the greatest common divisor of the ticks. It is the smallest tick whenever the ticks nest, and finer when they do not, because 20.05 on a 0.05 band is no multiple of 0.02.
A validated, ordered tick schedule: the increment an instrument trades in at each price. Every boundary must be a multiple of the ticks on both of its sides, so the boundary is itself a valid price, rounding within a band is also the nearest valid price overall, and no step ever skips a boundary.