Is the LAB Airdrop Airdrop Halal or Haram?
The LAB airdrop is not permissible to participate in or hold. While a halal path exists to earn points via spot trading and social tasks, the underlying platform natively integrates and profits from perpetual futures (margin/leverage trading). Consequently, the project's core business activity and its token are considered impermissible.
Airdrop Tasks
Link Wallet
RequiredConnecting a compatible crypto wallet is a neutral, permissible action.
Spot Trading
OptionalBuying and selling supported tokens on the spot market is permissible.
Trade Perpetual Futures
OptionalTrading perpetual contracts involves leverage and margin, which are impermissible and must be avoided.
Refer Users
OptionalEarning a percentage of referral trading fees is doubtful here, as those fees may be generated from impermissible perpetual trades.
Hold LAB Token
OptionalHolding the native token of a platform heavily involved in perpetual futures is impermissible.
Social Engagement
OptionalFollowing the project on social media is a permissible task.
Why This Verdict
The LAB token and its associated airdrop campaign are rated Haram. Buying and holding the native LAB token is impermissible because the underlying platform natively integrates and profits from perpetual futures (margin and leverage trading), and the token's primary utility is providing fee discounts for these non-compliant activities. Regarding the campaign's specific opt-in mechanisms, connecting a wallet, engaging on social media, and executing spot trades are permissible actions. However, the campaign explicitly incentivizes trading perpetual contracts, which involves impermissible leverage and margin and must be avoided. Furthermore, the referral program is considered Doubtful, as the trading fees earned from invited users may be generated from their impermissible perpetual trades. While a user could theoretically stick only to spot trading to earn points, the core business of the platform and the token itself remain non-compliant.
Points of Caution
- !The platform natively offers perpetual futures and margin trading, which are impermissible under Islamic finance principles.
- !The referral program pays out up to 41% of invited users' trading fees, which may include fees generated from haram perpetual trades.
- !Holding the LAB token to receive a 0.5% trading fee discount directly ties the user to a platform heavily involved in leverage and margin trading.
- !Participation requires capital to trade and network gas fees, meaning users risk their own funds.
- !Users must be cautious of phishing scams and fake airdrop links impersonating the official lab.pro domain.
Purification Note
Because the LAB token and its underlying platform are deemed impermissible due to their reliance on perpetual futures, Muslims should avoid holding the asset entirely. If a user has already participated and earned referral fees from invited users who traded perpetual futures, those specific earnings are impure and must be entirely purified (donated to charity without the expectation of spiritual reward). Final religious authority rests with a qualified Islamic scholar.
Bottom Line
The LAB airdrop and its native token are impermissible for Muslim investors because the platform's core business heavily features perpetual futures and margin trading. Although users can technically earn points through permissible spot trading and social media tasks, the token's utility and the platform's revenue are deeply tied to haram leverage activities. Investors should avoid holding the token or participating in the margin-based aspects of the campaign.
How this verdict was reached
This is not an opinion issued by ShariaQuant. It is the output of a documented screening methodology applied to researched facts about LAB Airdrop, and every row above states the specific evidence that drove it — so the reasoning can be examined rather than taken on trust.
An airdrop raises two separate questions, and both are answered: whether the reward token is permissible to receive and hold, and whether the tasks required to qualify are themselves permissible. Every eligibility task is ruled individually, so a campaign can be usable by completing only the permissible tasks.
Lending and borrowing tasks are assessed as riba, perpetual and margin trading as excessive uncertainty (gharar), and prediction markets or chance-based games as gambling (maisir).
The framework follows published scholarship rather than in-house opinion. Treating a digital asset as a right (ḥaqq) that becomes recognised property (māl) only on stated conditions follows “Is Crypto Halal? The Definitive Shariah Guide to Crypto and Digital Assets” by Mufti Faraz Adam (Amanah Advisors, 2026), which reproduces the conditions identified by Mufti Taqi Usmani. Financial thresholds follow the AAOIFI screening standard. The rulings we track are collected in the fatwa library.
AAOIFI has not reviewed, approved or endorsed this report or ShariaQuant, and no scholar named in our methodology has reviewed this individual verdict. This is analysis, not a fatwa — final religious authority rests with a qualified scholar.
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