CryptoUmmah exists to answer one question with the same rigor a ratings agency brings to a bond, or an auditor brings to a balance sheet: is this coin halal?
Since 2021, we've applied a published, repeatable methodology — not personal opinion, and not a single scholar's gut call — to every coin we screen. Each assessment runs through the same 27-point framework, evaluating riba (interest), gharar (uncertainty), and maysir (gambling) across a project's legitimacy, operations, financials, tokenomics, and staking mechanics. Every score is calculated, not asserted — and every screening is written by our research team and reviewed by a qualified Islamic scholar before it's published.
To bring the same rigor institutional finance takes for granted — published methodology, independent scoring, scholarly review — to a market that's had none of it. Not a fatwa. A standard, applied consistently, to every coin, every time.
Why this matters
Crypto moves fast, and most “halal or haram” answers online move even faster — a single tweet, a forum post, a one-line fatwa with no methodology behind it. Muslim investors have been left to either guess, avoid crypto altogether, or trust sources with no consistent standard from one coin to the next.
Get it wrong and the cost isn't abstract — it's holding income that was never really yours to keep, with no idea how much, or what to do about it.
We built CryptoUmmah to close that gap: a platform where every verdict is reproducible, every criterion is documented, and every score can be traced back to the research behind it.
What we do
- Screen every major coin against our 27-point methodology
- Score riba, gharar, and maysir independently, then combine them into a single, transparent verdict
- Review every screening with a qualified Shariah scholar before publication
Purification & accountability
For coins that pass with caveats, we don't just tell you a number — we tell you where it goes. Purification donations made through CryptoUmmah go directly to Jamiya Masjid & Islamic Centre (JMIC), a UK registered charity (no. 1089986), with our resident scholar directly involved in overseeing how those funds are used. Not an unverified wallet address. Real accountability.
What we don't do
We don't publish a verdict from one person's opinion. We don't let a coin's popularity or market cap move its score.
Every criterion is documented so you can check our work instead of taking our word for it.
