AWE
AWE#174AWE (formerly STP Network, STPT) is the token of a project building payment, identity and application tools for AI agents on Base.
- Market cap
- $136.89M
- Volume 24h
- $2.96M
- All-time high
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- Circulating supply
- 1.94B of 1.94B
Does not clear all 8 Shariah criteria. Needs caution: gambling (maysir), business model, excessive uncertainty (gharar), usage, and benefit and harm (maslahah).
- 3 pass
- 5 caution
- 0 fail
Verdict history
- DoubtfulCurrent
First publication
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Halal analysis
Can a Muslim hold AWE?8 Shariah criteria
3 pass · 5 caution · 0 failHolding AWE pays nothing and no lending or interest mechanism is documented.
Riba is interest or any guaranteed increase on a loan. AWE has no staking reward and the docs describe no lending or borrowing. CryptoUmmah, the authoritative source, gives a low riba score (38.1) but its own analysis finds fee and subscription revenue and no evidence of lending pools or interest-bearing holdings; the gap it names is that treasury composition is not disclosed, which is recorded under data gaps. With no interest mechanism shown, the criterion is at the maximum.
AWE is a governance token of a working project with live products.
This criterion asks whether the asset has real value as property (mal). AWE gives votes in governance and is used in the project's agent services. CryptoUmmah rates the project impermissible, but for reasons about its products and disclosure, not about what the token is; it scores token purpose at 72. No coin-specific problem with the nature of the asset is shown, so the criterion is at the maximum. The general scholarly dispute about crypto is reflected in confidence.
The token is not a bet, but one of the project's two applications packages prediction-market bets into indexes and vaults.
Maysir is gambling: gaining or losing by chance rather than through productive exchange. AWE itself has no lottery or betting feature. But Polyvaults, which the project presents as one of its two applications, selects YES or NO outcomes on Polymarket prediction markets and offers vaults that users deposit into. Staking money on uncertain events such as elections or sports results is gambling. CryptoUmmah flags this as a gambling-adjacent feature of the project's own design. Because the gambling element sits in a product and not in the token, the status is caution at the bottom of the band.
Income is fee-based, but part of the business is a prediction-market product and its share is not published.
This criterion asks how the project earns. CryptoUmmah describes fee and subscription income from agent services, which is permissible. But Polyvaults, a prediction-market product, is one of two applications the project promotes, and no breakdown of income is published. Impermissible activity is shown to exist while its share is unknown, so under the threshold rule the criterion is at caution.
Leadership is undisclosed since the rebrand, treasury holdings are unknown and unclaimed migration tokens await a vote.
Gharar is excessive uncertainty or hidden information. On the positive side, supply is fixed with no inflation, contracts are public and SlowMist audited the token and bridge. But CryptoUmmah reports that founder names differ between sources and that current leadership has not been disclosed since the rebrand, that treasury holdings are not published and that allocation is concentrated. The fate of unclaimed migration tokens is also left to a future proposal. These concrete gaps keep the status at caution.
The ecosystem serves AI agents with payments and identity, but a flagship use is building prediction-market positions.
This criterion looks at what the project is actually used for. Payments, identity and tools for AI agents and a price layer for trading cards are permissible uses. Polyvaults, however, exists to build and fund positions in prediction markets, which is an impermissible use, and the project highlights it in its monthly updates. The share of each use is not published, so the status is caution.
Fully paid spot AWE is available on major exchanges and can be self-custodied on Base.
This criterion asks whether the asset can be owned in a permissible way. AWE trades spot on Upbit, Bithumb, Binance and others and can be held in a self-custody wallet on Base. The criterion is at the maximum.
Agent infrastructure is useful, but promoting prediction-market betting is a harm.
Maslahah weighs benefit against harm. Open payment and identity tools for AI agents are useful. Against that, the project builds and promotes a product that makes betting on events easier, and CryptoUmmah scores its ethical practices at 45 for this reason. The harm is concrete, so the status is caution.
How you can use it
Tap a card for the ruling and sourcesBuying AWE with full payment and immediate delivery is available on exchanges, and the tokens can be held in self-custody.
No exchange-traded fund or product holding AWE was found in the sources collected. A product that held AWE would be judged like spot; its structure would need checking.
AWE is mainly a governance token; payments in the ecosystem's x402 service settle in USDC. Tier-1 bodies such as Indonesia's MUI reject crypto as general currency.
AWE has no native staking and holding it pays nothing; delegating votes earns no reward. Exchange products advertised as AWE staking pay from other sources, which must be checked.
Margin trading is never acceptable: it is a deferred exchange with borrowed money and leverage (AAOIFI SS 20).
Futures, perpetuals and options always fail under AAOIFI SS 20: deferred exchange without delivery, usually with leverage.
Lending AWE through exchange or DeFi lending programmes pays depositors interest from borrowers. This is riba.
AWE has no reward of its own, so a product promising yield on it takes the return from lending, and Polyvaults vaults take positions in prediction markets. Both fail.
Scholars quotes
Penggunaan cryptocurrency sebagai mata uang hukumnya haram, karena mengandung gharar (ketidakjelasan), dharar (bahaya) dan bertentangan dengan Undang-Undang nomor 7 tahun 2011 tentang Mata Uang dan Peraturan Bank Indonesia nomor 17 tahun 2015 tentang Kewajiban Penggunaan Rupiah di Wilayah Negara Kesatuan Republik Indonesia.Sebagaimana mata wang yang lain, mata wang digital hendaklah tidak digunakan sebagai bayaran kepada barangan, perkhidmatan dan aktiviti tidak patuh Syariah seperti pembelian dadah, pelacuran, perjudian dan pendanaan aktiviti keganasan serta penggubahan wang haram.The SAC has also resolved that investment and trading of Digital Assets that fulfil the above requirements and which are traded on Digital Asset Exchange (DAX) registered with SC are permissible.Third: In light of the above and given the significant risks associated with this type of currencies and the instability of their transactions, the Council of the Academy recommends pursuing research and studies on issues affecting its ruling.Bitcoin is a digital currency that does not meet the legal and Sharia criteria that make it a currency subject to the rulings of dealing with official legal currencies recognized internationally.بناءً على ذلك: فلا يجوز شرعًا تداول عملة "البتكوين" والتعامل من خلالها بالبيعِ والشراءِ والإجارةِ وغيرها، بل يُمنع من الاشتراكِ فيها؛ لعدمِ اعتبارِها كوسيطٍ مقبولٍ للتبادلِ من الجهاتِ المخُتصَّةِ، ولِمَا تشتمل عليه من الضررِ الناشئ عن الغررِ والجهالةِ والغشِّ في مَصْرِفها ومِعْيارها وقِيمتها، فضلًا عما تؤدي إليه ممارستُها من مخاطرَ عاليةٍ على الأفراد والدول.According to research and opinion of experts so far, cryptocurrency is not considered ‘ maal ’ (wealth) in Sharia.Muhammadiyah memandang transaksi dan investasi kripto pada dasarnya mubah (boleh) tetapi dengan syarat tertentu.The opinion on this is the same as doing the same with any halal assets such as shares – 1) is permissible, 2) is more debatable and there are differing opinions on short-term trading.Our current position is 'tawaquf'; we can't say it is halal or haram, but we say it is better not to engage in itAs I mentioned at the beginning of this article it is not necessary to substantiate the permissibility of something as long as there are no prohibited factors involved in it or surrounding it.AI-assisted analysis checked against sources. Not a fatwa or investment advice.
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