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Is Avalanche (AVAX) halal?

Permitted

The six conditions are met for a spot purchase.

Verdict calculated by Halal Bourse's published rules from an investigation of primary sources (project documentation, registers, decisions), conducted on 10/05/2026 and not reviewed by a human.

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The asset

Native currency of the Avalanche network (layer 1 with smart contracts, proof of stake, custom blockchains) Issuer: No single issuer: Ava Labs (a U.S. company) launched the network; Avalanche Foundation Limited (Singapore, registered on June 19, 2020) is named as the issuer in the MiCA white paper.

AVAX pays network fees (burned), is staked with validators to secure the network, and serves as the unit of account between the blockchains created on Avalanche. The supply is capped at 720 million AVAX; 360 million were created at the outset, and the rest is issued as staking rewards.

Why this verdict

  1. Permissible purpose : met. AVAX pays the fees of a platform for smart contracts and custom blockchains, and is used for staking. No impermissible purpose appears in the sources read.
  2. No riba : met. Simple holding pays no interest: the white paper states that the token carries no right to any dividend, profit or interest; rewards are AVAX created by the protocol for validators, at the end of the staking period.
  3. No gambling : met. The spot purchase is of a token recorded on the blockchain, transferable and burned when it pays fees; it is not a contract on a price difference.
  4. No excessive gharar : met. The cap (720 million), the initial creation (360 million), the rule for issuing rewards and the burning of fees are published; the circulating supply is readable on the chain (about 475.0 million AVAX on October 5, 2026). The rights attached are limited to using the network.
  5. Real ownership : met. AVAX is held with a private key and transferred from one address to another without an intermediary; only staked AVAX is locked for the chosen duration.
  6. No fraud or manipulation : met. No sanction or regulator alert targeting Avalanche was found, but I-SCAN could not be read. In August 2022, an anonymous site (Crypto Leaks) accused Ava Labs of paying lawyers to go after competitors; Ava Labs denied it and no regulatory follow-up was found. The top 100 wallets held about 28% of the circulating supply at the end of November 2025. Halal Bourse rule (October 6, 2026): holder concentration, an accusation with no follow-up or an abandoned complaint are information, not established fraud; the condition is considered met as long as no sanction or deception toward buyers is found.
  7. Réseau ouvert et généraliste : met. un outil neutre

Tolerance case

T1. AVAX is the native currency of an open general-purpose network: becoming a validator is permissionless (2,000 AVAX minimum) and any holder can delegate from 25 AVAX. Ava Labs and the Avalanche Foundation exercise de facto influence. No share of an issuer's impermissible income is published: the T2 case cannot be quantified.

Opinions found during the research

Opinions reported as read, named for what they are; they do not enter into the calculation of the verdict.

What could not be verified

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General information: neither investment advice nor a fatwa. Verdict calculated by published rules, from financial statements read automatically and not reviewed by a human. Read the methodology