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Is Ondo (ONDO) halal?

Questionable

No condition fails, but 5 points remain to be verified or fall under a tolerated case.

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

Governance token of the Ondo DAO (Flux Finance lending protocol and treasury) in the Ondo ecosystem of tokenized securities (ERC-20, Ethereum) Issuer: Ondo Foundation (a Cayman Islands foundation company, created in 2022, formerly Neptune Foundation), which acquired the token's issuance rights from Ondo Finance (a US company founded in 2021).

ONDO is the governance token of the Ondo DAO; it does not represent any of Ondo's products (tokenized Treasury bills OUSG and USDY, tokenized stocks, perpetual contracts) and carries no right to income. The contract supply is 10,000,000,000 ONDO; a Foundation multisig wallet holds 5.18 billion (Etherscan, October 7, 2026), of which 4.42 billion are declared locked (update of August 26, 2026).

Why this verdict

  1. Permissible purpose : to be verified or tolerated case. ONDO is the governance token of the Ondo DAO, which governs Flux Finance (a tokenized securities lending protocol, with interest rate models) and manages a treasury; the token does not represent Ondo's products. Governance has existed (seven proposals executed in late 2023, FIP-08 executed in January 2024, Foundation tokens not delegated) but its recent activity is not established: Tally indicates the DAO is paused. The purpose depends on what the token governs (partly a lending market).
  2. No riba : to be verified or tolerated case. The white paper states that the token gives no right to any return, dividend or claim: holding ONDO pays nothing. The issuing Foundation, however, holds through its subsidiaries 99% of the common equity of the USDY issuer, a note backed by US Treasury bills or bank deposits, and uses the proceeds for its mission; the issuer therefore receives interest-linked returns without paying anything to token holders.
    • « The token does not entitle its holders to any yield, redemption, dividend or claim against any entity in the Ondo ecosystem. » Crypto Risk Metrics (livre blanc MiCA d'ONDO) (2026-06-18)
    • « owns 99% of the common equity in Ondo USDY LLC, the issuer of USDY. The Ondo Foundation therefore benefits from the growth of USDY » Ondo Foundation (blog) (2023-12-27)
  3. No gambling : met. A spot purchase is of an ERC-20 token recorded on Ethereum, with a fixed supply of 10 billion, transferable; it is not a contract on a price difference.
  4. No excessive gharar : to be verified or tolerated case. The rights (governance with no economic right), the supply and the unlock schedule are documented. However, the contract allows new ONDO to be minted to any address holding the MINTER_ROLE, a role assigned at creation to the governance wallet, which is the Foundation's multisig (direct read of October 7, 2026, see autres_constats); the Foundation controls more than half of the supply. The identity of the Foundation's management members and of the multisig signers is not published in the pages read.
  5. Real ownership : met. ONDO is an ERC-20 token that can be transferred from a platform to a personal wallet, with no technical transfer restriction (the contract's transfer switch is on). Purchase platforms were not studied.
  6. No fraud or manipulation : to be verified or tolerated case. No sanction or deception of buyers found: the SEC closed without charges the investigation opened in 2023 into Ondo's tokenized assets and the token (Ondo announcement, December 2025). One risk signal under rule A.8 is found: the contract's mint right (MINTER_ROLE) is held by the Foundation's multisig, which the GoPlus scan does not flag. A single signal: point to be verified. The I-SCAN alerts target sites that imitate the Ondo name.
    • « the SEC probe into Ondo's tokenized RWAs and ONDO token ended without charges » Cointelegraph (2025-12-08)
    • « Ondo Finance said that tokenization's future looks brighter in the U.S. following the SEC's closure of a years-long probe into its business. » Decrypt (2025-12-08)
  7. Revenus illicites de l'émetteur : to be verified or tolerated case. share not published
    • « Live now for non-U.S. investors, Ondo Perps offers up to 20x leverage for stocks, indices, and commodities » Ondo Finance (PR Newswire press release) (2026-07-07)
    • « Ondo Perps is a platform for perpetual futures on equities, indices, and commodities with up to 20x leverage and 24/7 trading » DefiLlama (API) (2026-10-07)

Tolerance case

T2. ONDO is neither the native currency of a network (T1) nor a stablecoin (T3). The ecosystem earns revenue from tokenized Treasury bills (interest), tokenized stocks, Flux Finance (lending) and Ondo Perps (leverage up to 20 times). This revenue goes to Ondo Finance and the Foundation, not to token holders, and no share is published: the impermissible share cannot be quantified.

Contract security scan

GoPlus security scan of the ONDO contract on Ethereum: 215,968 holders; top ten wallets excluding exchanges and contracts 14.5%; code published. Signals found: Transfers can be suspended by the contract (transfer_pausable). Reading: the contract has no pause function; the signal comes from the transferAllowed switch, which only the enableTransfer function (admin role) can turn on, and which is on; there is no power to freeze addresses (is_blacklisted 0). The scan reports is_mintable 0 but does not read the roles: the Foundation multisig's mint right is a signal under A.8 (see controle_du_contrat). A single signal: to be verified.

Opinions found during the research

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