HaramCoinsIs DeFi lending (Aave, Compound) halal?
DeFi lending platforms let you deposit crypto to earn a yield, or borrow against collateral for a fee. That yield and that fee are interest.
Interest (riba) is explicitly prohibited regardless of the rate or the technology delivering it. So protocols whose core function is interest-based lending — Aave, Compound, and similar — are viewed by most scholars as impermissible to earn from.
This is why such tokens carry our "concerns" status. Providing liquidity for trading fees is a separate question with its own debate.
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