Not available to buy here. We rate this Doubtful rather than Halal — scholars differ on it — so we don't offer it as a destination. You can still read the full verdict and the evidence behind it.
Is Jimothy The Raccoon (JIMOTHY) Halal or Haram?
SUMMARY
The token operates on neutral infrastructure and qualifies as a digital asset with no inherent interest or gambling mechanics. However, it is flagged as a high-risk potential pump-and-dump meme coin with no underlying business, resulting in a Doubtful overall status.
Verdict by Activity
How you can hold and use JIMOTHY
Buy & Hold
Holding is Doubtful because the asset is a highly speculative meme coin with no fundamental business model, relying entirely on fleeting social media hype.
Shariah Component Breakdown
Shariah Analysis
Infrastructure — where it runs
PassedThe token is deployed on the Solana blockchain via the Pump.fun platform, which serves as neutral, general-purpose infrastructure.
Application — what it does
CautionThe project has no underlying business, product, or revenue model, and is categorized as a high-risk potential pump-and-dump driven entirely by social media hype.
Asset — what you own
PassedThe token's utility is limited to speculative trading and community engagement, with no yield mechanisms or interest-bearing features present.
Property Status (Māl)
PassedThe token exists on-chain as a native protocol position with an ascertainable supply capped at 1 billion, self-custody transferability, and no discretionary freeze or mint authorities.
Revenue Purity
PassedThe project does not generate any revenue, so there is no non-compliant revenue share identified.
Legitimacy & Security
project audits
CautionThere is no evidence of completed independent security audits for the token contracts.
whitepaper
CautionThere is no official whitepaper provided, although basic tokenomics regarding the maximum supply are available.
social presence
PassedThe project has demonstrated high cultural resonance and virality, successfully capturing internet attention and generating significant short-term liquidity.
Team & Ecosystem
team background
CautionThe developers are anonymous and there is no official team, roadmap, or operating company behind the token.
Detailed Shariah Report
Overview
"Jimothy The Raccoon" is a meme coin created on the Solana blockchain to celebrate a viral, short-spined raccoon from Seattle named Jimothy. The token has no functional utility, underlying business, or revenue model, serving entirely as a vehicle for speculative trading and community engagement.
Why This Verdict
The overall Shariah status for Jimothy The Raccoon is Doubtful. When evaluating a digital asset, analysts look at three distinct layers: the underlying infrastructure, the application it serves, and the asset itself. A failure at any one layer compromises the whole asset. At the infrastructure layer, the token passes, as it is deployed on the Solana blockchain via the Pump.fun platform, which serves as a neutral, general-purpose base network. At the asset layer, the token qualifies as recognized digital property (Mal). A digital asset becomes recognized property when it is an exclusive, protocol-recognized right of control that presently exists, is ascertainable, transferable, can be held and preserved, and carries a lawful use. Jimothy The Raccoon meets these criteria because it exists on-chain as a native protocol position with a capped supply of 1 billion, self-custody transferability, and revoked discretionary freeze or mint authorities. However, the asset fails at the application layer. Buying and holding the token is considered Doubtful because the project has no fundamental business model, product, or revenue. It is a highly speculative meme coin relying entirely on fleeting social media hype, presenting a high risk of operating as a pump-and-dump scheme. There are no secondary opt-in mechanisms, such as staking or lending, to evaluate.
Permissible Aspects
- The token operates on the Solana blockchain via Pump.fun, which serves as neutral, general-purpose infrastructure.
- The asset qualifies as recognized digital property with a fixed maximum supply of 1 billion, self-custody transferability, and revoked mint and freeze authorities.
- The protocol does not contain any inherent interest-bearing (Riba) or gambling (Maisir) mechanics.
- There is no exposure to impermissible industries or non-compliant revenue streams, as the project generates no revenue.
Points of Caution
- !The project is categorized as a high-risk potential pump-and-dump scheme driven entirely by social media hype, with no fundamental business model or product.
- !The token's utility is strictly limited to speculative trading, meaning holders benefit only from potential price appreciation rather than any economic value creation.
- !The development team is completely anonymous, and there is no official operating company, roadmap, or whitepaper to guide the project's future.
- !There is no evidence of completed independent security audits for the token's smart contracts, and no project treasury is publicly disclosed.
Purification Note
Not applicable. The project does not generate any revenue or yield, meaning there is no non-compliant income for a token holder to purify.
BOTTOM LINE
Jimothy The Raccoon is a viral meme coin with no underlying business, functional utility, or revenue model. While the token itself qualifies as recognized digital property and is free from inherent interest or gambling mechanics, its purely speculative nature and high risk of market manipulation render it Doubtful for Islamic investors. As always, this report provides financial and structural analysis, but final religious authority rests with a qualified Shariah scholar.
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 Jimothy The Raccoon (JIMOTHY), and every row above states the specific evidence that drove it — so the reasoning can be examined rather than taken on trust.
The framework screens three layers — the infrastructure an asset runs on, the application it serves, and the asset itself — and separately tests whether the token qualifies as recognised property (māl): that it presently exists, has an ascertainable supply, can be held and transferred, and carries a genuine lawful use. A failure at any single layer fails the asset.
Revenue-purity thresholds follow the AAOIFI screening standard: non-compliant income below 5% of revenue is tolerated and purified, while 5% or above fails the screen.
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.
Is Jimothy The Raccoon a serious project?
Permissible is not the same as good. This is the research behind that second question — what Jimothy The Raccoon is actually for, who is paying for it, what is already built, and what would have to go wrong.
Research on the project, not advice on the trade. A high fundamental score is not a recommendation to buy, and it says nothing about whether the asset is permissible — that is the Shariah verdict, and it is free.
How Jimothy The Raccoon ranks against its peers
The Shariah verdict tells you whether you may own Jimothy The Raccoon. This tells you what you would be holding — measured from market data, with no AI judgment in it, and compared only against assets of the same kind.
A ranking of how solid an asset is against its peers, not a forecast of what it will do next and not investment advice. A permissible asset can rank badly, and a badly ranked asset can still rise.
About Jimothy The Raccoon
The token operates on neutral infrastructure and qualifies as a digital asset with no inherent interest or gambling mechanics. However, it is flagged as a high-risk potential pump-and-dump meme coin with no underlying business, resulting in a Doubtful overall status.
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