Akash Network

Holding AKT pays nothing; staking rewards are variable payments for validation and carry slashing risk.

Riba is interest or any guaranteed increase on a loan. AKT has no lending or interest function at protocol level. Staking rewards come from inflation of 3–4% a year and vary with the share staked; a validator that double-signs loses 5% and one that goes offline is penalised, and delegators share that risk. This is payment for work with real risk, so the criterion is at the maximum.

AKT is the native token of a working compute marketplace.

This criterion asks whether the asset has real value as property (mal). AKT secures the Akash chain and, since March 2026, is burned to buy the compute credits tenants use. Sharlife rates it permissible, so the general scholarly debate about crypto is reflected in confidence rather than this score.

AKT is a utility token, not a game of chance.

Maysir is gambling: gaining or losing by chance rather than through productive exchange. AKT pays for real computing services and has no lottery or meme mechanics. No coin-specific gambling feature is documented, so the criterion is at the maximum.

Akash earns from compute leases with no take rate; no impermissible income is involved.

This criterion asks how the protocol earns. Under Burn-Mint Equilibrium tenants burn AKT for compute credits and providers are paid in AKT, with no take rate; validators earn inflation rewards. No source shows interest-based or other impermissible revenue, so the criterion is at the maximum.

Rules and parameters are public on-chain, but a pending proposal would change the security model and the role of staking.

Gharar is excessive uncertainty or hidden information. Akash publishes its parameters on-chain and its changes as numbered proposals. One concrete point lowers the score within pass: AEP-79 seeks to move Akash to shared security from another Layer 1, ending its own validator set, and no partner had been chosen by August 2026. Token economics also changed in March 2026 with Burn-Mint Equilibrium.

AKT is used for compute payments, staking and governance.

This criterion looks at what the asset is actually used for. AKT is burned to pay for cloud and GPU compute, staked and used to vote. No impermissible primary use is documented, so the criterion is at the maximum.

Fully paid spot AKT is available on exchanges and DEXs and can be held and staked from a self-custody wallet.

This criterion asks whether the asset can be owned in a permissible way. AKT trades spot on centralised exchanges and on Osmosis, and it is a native coin that can be held in a self-custody wallet and staked directly. Ownership does not depend on derivatives or leverage, so the criterion is at the maximum.

Akash gives open access to cheaper compute and uses idle hardware; no concrete harm is documented.

Maslahah weighs benefit against harm. Akash lets anyone rent out spare servers and GPUs and gives developers an open alternative to large cloud providers, including confidential compute. No source shows the network being used mainly for harm, and no major security incident was found. The criterion is at the maximum.