Meme coins: are they halal?

What is Meme?

Meme coins are tokens whose value and community are built primarily around cultural humor, branding, or social momentum, generally without a defined utility roadmap.

How CryptoUmmah screens Meme coins

Maysir is the governing, independently disqualifying concern for this category, and our methodology treats it that way explicitly — a coin flagged as a meme with genuinely low utility is capped in the Haram range regardless of how clean its riba or gharar profile happens to look, since a clean interest and transparency profile can't rescue a fundamentally speculative, chance-driven instrument. Coins showing real adoption despite meme-style origins can land in a Mashbooh cap instead of the Haram floor, but never in the fully Halal range. Across the 345 Meme coins we've screened, the average Shariah compliance score sits at 36.1/100, with 0% classified Halal, 3% Mashbooh, and 97% Haram.