Research, not commentary.
Markets, fiqh, and the discipline between them.
Halal crypto analysis, market trends and trading psychology from the team that trades, screens and teaches.
Crypto Inheritance in Islam: A Plan Your Heirs Can Use
Crypto inheritance in Islam: how faraid splits Bitcoin, what your wasiyyah should say, and four ways heirs can reach your coins without getting them early.
Halal Remittances: Sending Money Home Without Riba
Banks charge 9.5% to send $200. The fee itself is permissible, which surprises people. Three places riba and gharar actually enter a transfer.
Is Crypto Lending and Borrowing Halal? Aave to Nexo
Lending crypto for a yield is riba. So is borrowing at interest. But a loan itself is a good deed in Islam, and that distinction changes what you can do.
Is Staking Halal? Yes, and Four Things That Are Not
Native proof-of-stake staking is halal, and we will say so plainly. Four other products wear the word staking and pay you riba. Here is how to tell.
What Is Binance Earn, and Is It Halal? Product by Product
Binance Earn is not one product. It is about a dozen, and most of them pay you interest. Here is which ones fail, which pass, and what to do about it.
Are NFTs Halal? What the Token Actually Points At
An NFT is a pointer, not a picture. What it points at decides whether NFTs are halal, and most of what sold in 2021 was never a clearly defined sale.
Are Privacy Coins Halal? Monero, Zcash and the Law
Monero and Zcash both pass our screen. Privacy is not a Shariah problem, and the real objection to privacy coins turns out to be a legal one, not a fiqh one.
Are Memecoins Halal? Dogecoin Passes, Pepe Does Not
Our own verdicts split. Dogecoin passes, Shiba Inu passes, Pepe does not, and the reason memecoins fail is almost never the joke. It is gharar in the supply.
Are Real World Asset Coins Halal? It Depends What
RWA is not one category. Tokenized gold passes, tokenized Treasuries fail on riba, and the best-built product in the sector is one you cannot own.
Is Agentic Finance Halal? When AI Agents Hold Money
AI agents now hold wallets and pay each other in stablecoins. Agentic finance is halal in structure and broken in plumbing. Here is exactly where.
A Fatwa Is One Scholar's Opinion, Not the Final Word on Crypto
Mufti Taqi Usmani has ruled cryptocurrency impermissible. With full respect for the Shaykh, here is why many Muslims after doing their own research, see spot in...
Bitcoin's Place in Islamic Finance, and Its Limits
Bitcoin has the strongest jurisprudential case of any digital asset. It also fails at something Islamic finance cares about more than sound money.
How to Purify Non-Compliant Crypto Income
Almost every halal asset carries a small purification duty, and almost nobody pays it. The rates, the arithmetic, and the cases purification cannot fix.
The Malaysian Ruling That Changed Halal Crypto
In two meetings in 2020, Malaysia classified digital assets as commodities rather than currency. That single word resolved the hardest problem in the field.
Every Major Crypto Fatwa, Side by Side
Six scholarly positions on cryptocurrency, with dates, citations and the exact point each one turns on. They disagree less than you would think.
Is Crypto Legal and Halal in Your Country?
One respected scholar made the ruling depend partly on your regulator. That framework, applied to the 2026 map, gives different answers in different countries.
Is Crypto Mal? The Question Behind Every Verdict
Mufti Taqi Usmani ruled crypto impermissible on one point: it is not wealth. Every other argument in halal crypto is downstream of that question.
Maysir: The Line Between Investing and Gambling
Every Muslim in crypto has been asked whether it is just gambling. There is a precise answer, and it has nothing to do with how risky the trade feels.
Riba in Plain Language, and Where It Hides in Crypto
Most Muslims can define riba and still miss it in nine places crypto puts it. A reference for what it is, what it is not, and how to spot the wrapper.
Every Stablecoin Ranked by Shariah Compliance
Ten dollar-pegged tokens screened. USDT and USDC now pass after our September rule change. What still decides the ranking is where the yield ends up.
Halal Crypto List 2026: Every Coin We Screened
Ninety-one assets screened against AAOIFI standards. 41 pass, 29 are doubtful, 21 fail. Every verdict with the reasoning behind it, not just a green tick.
Why We Use AI to Screen Coins, and Where It Fails
A machine does not issue fatwas. It reads three thousand pages of documentation so a human can reason about what it found. Here is where that breaks.
Every Haram Coin on Our List, and What Breaks It
Twenty-one assets failed our screen. They fail in only five distinct ways. Learn the five and you can screen a new token yourself in about ten minutes.
Are Stablecoins Halal? The Freeze Nobody Mentions
Most stablecoins pay you no interest, so Muslims assume they are safe. The problem is not riba. It is that someone else can switch off your balance.
Are Prediction Markets Halal? Polymarket and Kalshi
Trading on Kalshi or Polymarket is haram because every contract is a wager. The stock-market objection, and what to do if you have already used them.
Gharar: The Risk That Fails More Coins Than Riba
Riba gets all the attention in halal crypto. But across the assets we have screened, gharar disqualifies more of them. Here is what it actually means.
Halal Crypto Screener - ShariaQuant Beta 4
Screening what you actually own Every version of our engine has asked two questions: is this project's business permissible, and is the money that reaches t...
Shariah Crypto Screening Framework: Modern Islamic Finance
Understanding the qualitative and quantitative criteria used to identify whether modern utility tokens, Layer-1 chains, and DeFi products qualify as Shariah-compliant digital assets...
DeFi Staking & Yield Farming: Identifying Hidden Riba
DeFi protocols have exploded, offering double-digit APYs. But which of these yield mechanics are Shariah-compliant and which are interest-bearing traps?...