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Restaking coins: are they halal?

19 Restaking coins screened against our 27-point Shariah methodology. Open any report for pillar scores, criterion breakdowns and purification guidance.

What is Restaking?

Restaking is a mechanism that allows staked crypto assets, typically staked ETH or its liquid staking derivatives, to be reused as economic security for additional protocols beyond the base blockchain, such as oracles, bridges, and middleware. Platforms like EigenLayer popularized this model by letting validators opt in to extra slashing conditions in exchange for additional yield, effectively pooling security across multiple services rather than requiring each to bootstrap its own validator set. Tokens in this category include native governance and reward tokens of restaking protocols as well as liquid restaking tokens (LRTs) that represent a claim on restaked assets while keeping them liquid for use elsewhere in DeFi.

Halal: 3 coins (16%)Mashbooh: 12 coins (63%)Haram: 4 coins (21%)19 coins
  • Halal16%
  • Mashbooh63%
  • Haram21%
ShariahRibaGhararMaysir
107Ether-fiETHFIHALAL81.9
–ether-fi Staked ETHEETHHALAL76
136PendlePENDLEHALAL71.9
–Wrapped eETHWEETHMASHBOOH69.5
73Kelp DAO Restaked ETHRSETHMASHBOOH68.5
501AltLayerALTMASHBOOH68.5
1328BounceBitBBMASHBOOH68.5
1391PufferPUFFERMASHBOOH65
790RenzoREZMASHBOOH64.2
1754SwellSWELLMASHBOOH59.5
2196ZircuitZRCMASHBOOH55.9
2466King ProtocolKINGMASHBOOH55.7
183EigenCloud (prev. EigenLayer)EIGENMASHBOOH54.8
2050mETH ProtocolCOOKMASHBOOH53.3
880Kelp GainAGETHMASHBOOH53
1168KernelDAOKERNELHARAM47.4
994SolayerLAYERHARAM46.1
1810Thetanuts FinanceNUTSHARAM42.3
1511CygnusCGNHARAM37.8

How CryptoUmmah screens Restaking coins

As with every category we track, coins here are screened individually against our 27-point methodology across the three core pillars — riba (interest), gharar (uncertainty), and maysir (speculation/gambling) — rather than being judged by category label alone. Two coins sharing this tag can land on very different verdicts depending on their specific tokenomics, revenue model, and governance structure. Across the 19 Restaking coins we've screened, the average Shariah compliance score sits at 60.0/100, with 16% classified Halal, 63% Mashbooh, and 21% Haram.