MX Token
MX#154MX is the token of the MEXC crypto exchange. It gives trading fee discounts and access to token airdrops.
Passes our 8 Shariah criteria. Needs caution: business model, excessive uncertainty (gharar), usage, and benefit and harm (maslahah).
- 4 pass
- 4 caution
- 0 fail
Verdict history
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Halal analysis
Can a Muslim hold MX Token?8 Shariah criteria
4 pass · 4 caution · 0 failHolding MX pays no interest; the interest on offer comes from optional MEXC Earn products, not from the token.
Riba means interest or any fixed increase on a loan. Holding MX pays nothing: it is an ERC-20 token and does not secure a proof-of-stake network, so there is no validator reward, and CryptoUmmah finds no explicit interest mechanism in it. The score is not the maximum for one concrete reason: MEXC runs Earn products (Flexible Savings and Fixed Savings) whose page describes interest that accrues daily, and CryptoUmmah notes that the sources of MX staking rewards are not fully transparent. These products are optional and are assessed separately under yield products and lending, where they fail.
MX has real uses on the MEXC exchange: trading fee discounts and access to token airdrops.
MX gives a 50% trading fee discount to holders of 500 or more tokens and access to Launchpool and Kickstarter airdrops on MEXC. That is real utility, not a purely speculative record. Some bodies doubt whether crypto in general is property (mal), but they do not name MX and give no concrete reason against this token, and CryptoUmmah, which rates MX doubtful, does so over transparency and speculation, not over the nature of the asset. With no concrete problem here, the criterion gets the maximum score.
MX is not a betting token, but its holder perks are airdrops of newly listed tokens on an exchange that offers leverage of up to 500x.
Maysir means gambling, or gains that depend mainly on chance; ordinary price swings are not maysir. MX has fee and access uses and no chance-based payout, and CryptoUmmah describes it as utility-based rather than gambling-focused. The score is lowered within the pass band for a concrete feature: the main perks for holders are Launchpool and Kickstarter airdrops of newly listed tokens, which MEXC's MX page shows with an estimated APR of 21.41%, on an exchange where about 89% of volume is derivatives and leverage reaches 500x on some pairs.
CryptoUmmah also notes that exchange tokens attract significant speculative trading.
MEXC is a futures-led exchange, so disputed income is very likely above the 20% limit, but it publishes no revenue split and the share cannot be measured.
For exchange tokens, the test looks at the income of the exchange behind them; fees from leveraged trading are disputed income with a 20% limit, and AAOIFI Shari'ah Standard 20 treats futures without delivery as impermissible. There is a concrete, sourced problem here: on 2 October 2026 about 89% of MEXC's trading volume was derivatives (CoinGecko), with 1,295 perpetual pairs and leverage of up to 500x, and MEXC also runs interest-paying Earn products. MEXC funded MX burns from 40% of its quarterly profits, so the token's supply policy rested on this income.
MEXC publishes no revenue breakdown, so the share cannot be measured; where impermissible revenue is shown to exist but its share is unknown, the result is caution, here at the bottom of the band.
About 78% of all MX sits in three unlabelled multisig wallets, burns are now at MEXC's discretion, and the operating company is not named in the user agreement.
Gharar means excessive uncertainty or hidden terms. Supply figures and burns are visible on Ethereum, which is why this is not a fail. Three concrete transparency problems remain. On 2 October 2026 three multisig wallets with no owner label held 317,187,500 MX, about 78% of the total, which MEXC shows as locked without published unlock terms beyond saying team releases are suspended. In December 2025 MEXC replaced the fixed rule of burning with 40% of profits by burns made according to market conditions. And MEXC's User Agreement does not name the legal entity behind the platform.
CryptoUmmah scores gharar lowest of its criteria (49.3), citing a low-profile team and no named third-party audit.
The main use of MX is a fee discount that applies to futures as well as spot, on an exchange where most trading is futures.
A fee discount on spot trading and access to new tokens are permissible uses in themselves. The concrete concern is that MEXC applies the MX discount to futures fees as well as spot fees, and on 2 October 2026 about 89% of MEXC's trading volume was derivatives, so much of the token's practical use is making leveraged trading cheaper. MEXC also promotes staking MX in Launchpool with a quoted APR. How much MX is used for each purpose is not measured, which is recorded as a data gap; because the disputed use is built into the main benefit, this criterion is caution, not fail.
MX can be bought spot with full payment and held in self-custody.
This criterion only asks whether the asset can be owned in a permissible form. MX is an ERC-20 token, so it can be withdrawn and held in a personal Ethereum wallet, and it trades spot on MEXC with full payment. It does not exist only as a leveraged or derivative wrapper, so the criterion gets the maximum score. MEXC does not serve several countries, and most MX liquidity is on MEXC itself, which limits access but is not a Shariah problem.
MX lowers trading costs, but the exchange behind it offers leverage of up to 500x and was fined in Dubai for unlicensed activity and missing KYC.
Maslahah means weighing real benefit against real harm. On the benefit side, MX has a real use, and MEXC publishes reserve figures and keeps a Guardian Fund that held 100 million USDT and 2,000 BTC on 30 September 2026. On the harm side there are concrete, sourced concerns: MEXC offers futures leverage of up to 500x, which exposes retail users to rapid losses, and on 22 June 2026 Dubai's regulator VARA published a notice of fines finding that MEXC served Dubai customers without a licence from 2022 to April 2026 and onboarded users without required KYC.
MX itself is not a tool for fraud, so harm does not dominate, but it keeps this criterion at caution.
How you can use it
Tap a card for the ruling and sourcesSpot MX with full, immediate payment is available on MEXC and can be withdrawn to a personal Ethereum wallet. Spot is acceptable for a HALAL-rated asset; the remaining doubts concern MEXC, the issuer, not the spot method.
No exchange-traded fund or product holding MX was found, so this route is not available. A fund that holds MX itself would be judged like spot, with its structure checked for lending and interest income.
MX is used to pay trading fees on MEXC; no data on other payment use were found. Tier-1 bodies such as MUI (Indonesia, 2021) prohibit crypto as a means of payment, so this use is caution.
MX has no native validator staking: it does not secure a proof-of-stake network. 'Staking' MX in MEXC Launchpool is a custodial product that pays airdrops of new tokens, not validation work; CryptoUmmah finds its documentation on lock-up terms and counterparty risk vague, so the source of return is unclear at best.
Always fail: borrowing with leverage and deferred exchange without delivery (AAOIFI SS 20).
Always fail: futures, perpetuals and options are deferred exchange without delivery, with leverage (AAOIFI SS 20). Perpetual futures are most of MEXC's trading volume.
Lending MX for a return is riba. Lending for interest is not acceptable on any platform.
MEXC Earn (Flexible Savings and Fixed Savings) is described by MEXC as paying interest that accrues daily, so these products fail. Launchpool and Kickstarter airdrops of new tokens have an undisclosed source and would be caution at best.
Scholars quotes
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.The meeting concluded that exchange tokens are compliant with Shariah principles, meaning they do not inherently pose any Shariah issues.As 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.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.Our current position is 'tawaquf'; we can't say it is halal or haram, but we say it is better not to engage in itAI-assisted analysis checked against sources. Not a fatwa or investment advice.
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