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Is Canton Coin (CC) 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 10/07/2026 and not reviewed by a human.

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The asset

Native currency of the Canton network (a permissioned public layer 1: the Global Synchronizer is run by invited super validators) Issuer: No issuer in the traditional sense: CC is minted by the protocol as a reward for activity. The Canton Foundation (a Delaware company with no shareholders, registered on June 24, 2024, executive director Melvis Langyintuo) is applying for admission to trading in the European Union and coordinates governance; Digital Asset Holdings, LLC (New York, founded in 2014) developed the protocol; Grayscale's prospectus also cites a Global Synchronizer Foundation “facilitated by the Linux Foundation”. The Canton Foundation website lists 65 super validator nodes..

CC pays for Global Synchronizer traffic (fees, denominated in dollars, are settled by burning CC) and is minted as a reward for super validators, validators and application providers. No presale or premine is disclosed; the supply has no fixed cap: a minting curve of about 100 billion CC over ten years, then about 2.5 billion per year, offset by the burning of fees. According to CoinMarketCap, 39.78 billion CC were in circulation on October 7, 2026 (rank 23); according to Grayscale's prospectus, 38.2 billion on March 31, 2026.

Why this verdict

  1. Permissible purpose : met. CC is used to pay for Global Synchronizer traffic (by being burned) and rewards the activity of operators and applications; this role is described by the official documentation, by the Canton Foundation's MiCA white paper and by the prospectus of a fund filed with the SEC.
  2. No riba : met. Holding CC pays no yield derived from a loan: new coins are minted for those who provide a service to the network (infrastructure, applications), not for holders; on the contrary, holding fees (per coin contract) exist. No loan is involved in the spot purchase.
  3. No gambling : met. A spot purchase covers the native token of a network, used to pay fees and transferable between accounts; it is not a contract on a price difference.
  4. No excessive gharar : met. Issuance is documented (predefined minting curve, burning of fees, no presale or premine disclosed) and the parties who decide it are identified: the parameters (set of super validators, minting curve, fees) are subject to a vote by the super validators, institutions named on the Canton Foundation website, whose leader is named in the MiCA white paper. Issuance can therefore be changed by that vote; no anonymous party controlling issuance, treasury or keys was found. The supply has no fixed cap (see description).
  5. Real ownership : met. CC can be held outside the network operators: the official documentation provides for “external parties” who sign with their own keys and not through the validator, and since August 19, 2026 Ledger has offered individuals self-custody access, with private keys on the Ledger device. The network remains permissioned on the operator side (super validators are invited); an individual's account is hosted by a validator whose identity is not specified (see gaps).
  6. No fraud or manipulation : met. No sanction, court decision or deception of CC buyers was found; the AMF blacklist and the IOSCO I-SCAN return nothing for “canton coin” and “canton network”. The team is identified. Grayscale's prospectus reports heavy concentration (the 100 largest wallets hold about 89% of circulating CC) and an accumulation of CC by early participants (super validators, applications): under the Halal Bourse rule, concentration alone is information, not a defect. The GoPlus scan does not apply to a native currency.

Contract security scan

Not applicable: CC is a native currency; the starting file lists no contract on another chain. No GoPlus scan was therefore run (rule A.8: the scan does not apply to native currencies).

Opinions found during the research

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