Read educational articles, market insights, and Sharia-focused research designed for Muslim crypto investors using the CoinStudy Halal Crypto Standard (HCS) framework.
Mufti Taqi Usmani's fatwa that crypto is haram shook the Muslim investor community. CoinStudy's Shariah Board Chairman Dr. Usman Quddus responds with a comprehensive scholarly analysis of the classical fiqhi definition of mal across all four schools, the contemporary application of those principles by Dr. Al-Qaradaghi at the International Union of Muslim Scholars.
Yield farming cannot receive one universal Islamic finance ruling. Shariah Board Chairman's direct rulings to every yield farming category. Lending-based farming is Haram. Automated vaults are Haram. Leveraged loops are Haram. Only pure fee-based liquidity provision in permissible asset pairs passes the chairman's two-condition LP test. Complete analysis inside.
Liquidity providing cannot receive one universal Islamic finance ruling. CoinStudy's Shariah Board Chairman Dr. Usman Quddus has ruled directly: permissible if given for partnership and trade AND if it is known the liquidity will be used in a permissible place. This guide applies that two-condition test to real protocols including Uniswap, Meteora, xStocks pools, and stablecoin pairs with com
Crypto lending is one of the clearest Haram classifications in Islamic crypto finance. Every form including centralized platforms, DeFi protocols like Aave and Compound, exchange earn products, and collateralized loans fails CoinStudy's Ecosystem Riba Exposure and Guaranteed Interest red lines. The chairman has confirmed: taking profit on a loan is Haram in Islamic jurisprudence. Complete gui
Arc Network scores 72/100 under CoinStudy's HCS methodology, classified as Halal With Concerns. Circle's $3B USDC-native Layer 1 blockchain passes all red line checks as neutral payment and settlement infrastructure, but USYC Treasury token native integration, Circle's 25% token concentration, permissioned validator set, and the USDC compliance question require honest acknowledgment. Testnet
DeFi cannot receive one universal ruling because it is a category containing hundreds of protocols with fundamentally different financial structures. CoinStudy's complete Islamic finance guide applies our HCS methodology to every major DeFi category: lending, perpetual futures, yield tokenization, DEX trading, liquidity provision, liquid staking, and real-world asset tokenization.
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