Is Litecoin (LTC) Halal or Haram?

Shariah compliance review of Litecoin (LTC) by Islamic finance scholars at EthicalNode, with separate verdicts for trading and for staking.

Trading verdict: Comfortable

The projects and use cases provided by Litecoin appear to be in accordance with Shariah principles. Source: sharlife.my

Staking verdict: Questionable

There is no Proof of Stake consensus, the chain functions on Proof of Work protocol, which is "mining". This is why any so called "staking" or other instrument with a fixed yield for this cryptocurrency is at least questionable, because it lacks participating in creating new blockchain transactions in the blockchain. <br><br>You can read more about Proof-of-Stake protocol on our Blogs section below this crypto list. However, we are not talking about other pledge or liquidity instruments that involves LTC, it will have a separate ruling.

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