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What is riba, and where does it hide in crypto?
Answered by the ShariaQuant team
Riba is a guaranteed increase on a loan of money, and crypto puts it in at least nine places that do not use the word interest. Lending products, borrow markets, funding rates on perpetuals, and most things labelled Earn are the common ones. The tell is simple, if you were promised a return for parting with your coins and getting them back later, you are looking at a loan with an increase.
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