HCS Score
Red Line Violations
Research Opinion, Not a Fatwa
These are absolute prohibitions in Islamic finance. If any red line is triggered, the asset is automatically classified as HARAM.
Ecosystem Riba Exposure
Not directly or indirectly connected to interest generating mechanisms
Gambling / Betting
No gambling or betting mechanism
Haram Industry
Not involved in haram industry
Based on Red Line Screening and HCS Scoring.
Haram / Non Compliant
This cryptocurrency is evaluated as Haram for investment and use because the asset demonstrates material Sharia compliance concerns within the CoinStudy HCS framework.
Explanation
This asset shows significant concerns related to Sharia compliance, financial structure, or speculative design.
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CoinStudy Shariah Board
In July 2024, Societe Generale, one of France's largest and most systemically important banks, accomplished something that most dollar stablecoin issuers had not: it launched a stablecoin that was genuinely, comprehensively, and rigorously compliant with the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation.
The MiCA framework that came into force in June 2024 is the world's most comprehensive regulatory framework for stablecoins. It requires 1:1 reserve backing with publicly disclosed reserve composition, licensing as an Electronic Money Institution, mandatory redemption rights for holders, segregated reserve custody separate from the issuer's own assets, and restrictions on distributing yield to holders.
SG-Forge, an integrated and regulated subsidiary of Societe Generale, unveiled a series of transformative updates to its EUR CoinVertible stablecoin in compliance with MiCA to allow widespread adoption and distribution. The regulatory compliance is genuine. The institutional backing is unimpeachable. Societe Generale is a systemically important European bank with balance sheet strength and regulatory oversight that USDT's offshore issuer Tether cannot match. SG Forge
EURCV's market cap surged over 200% year-over-year as of May 2026, signaling rising institutional demand for compliant euro digital assets. The stablecoin has deployed on Ethereum, Solana, XRP Ledger, and Stellar by March 2026. It has integrated with Morpho for DeFi yield vaults and with Canton for institutional repo financing and settlement. CoinMarketCap
For Muslim investors in Europe specifically, EURCV represents the most institutionally credible euro-denominated stablecoin available in 2026. The question for CoinStudy is not whether EURCV is well-regulated. It is whether the financial mechanisms underlying its reserve structure are permissible under Islamic finance.
The answer, as with every T-Bill and government bond-backed stablecoin CoinStudy has analyzed, is that the reserve structure generates interest income from government securities. MiCA compliance mandates reserve holding in cash deposits and high-quality securities. High-quality securities in European banking regulation are interest-bearing instruments. The regulatory compliance that makes EURCV trustworthy in conventional financial terms simultaneously mandates the interest-generating reserve structure that fails CoinStudy's Ecosystem Riba Exposure red line.
We ran EURCV through the full CoinStudy Halal Crypto Standard (HCS) methodology with comprehensive research into all 2026 developments. Here is the complete picture.
EUR CoinVertible fails the CoinStudy HCS Sharia red-line screening. The Ecosystem Riba Exposure red line is triggered by the reserve structure explicitly including high-quality securities alongside euro cash deposits, where high-quality securities in European banking regulation means interest-bearing government bonds and ECB-eligible instruments. The euro cash deposit component earns ECB overnight deposit rate interest. The Morpho DeFi integration creates direct ecosystem Riba exposure through lending protocol participation. The Canton deployment for repo financing creates institutional-level interest-based financial workflow integration. Automatic Haram classification follows.
EUR CoinVertible is a euro-backed electronic money token issued by Société Générale-FORGE, a regulated subsidiary of Société Générale. Fully compliant with the EU's MiCA regulation, EURCV is pegged 1:1 to the euro and backed by segregated fiat reserves held at Société Générale. It is available on Ethereum and Solana public blockchains and designed for institutional use. EURCV enables cross-border payments, after-hours settlement, euro-denominated smart contracts, and DeFi integration. CoinDesk
EURCV qualifies as an e-money token and is fully compliant with the European Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation. SG-Forge is licensed as an electronic money institution with the French regulator ACPR. Messari
The token was launched in April 2023 on Ethereum exclusively for institutional clients. From July 1st 2024, SG-Forge restructured EURCV to ensure all capabilities of an open stablecoin are met: compliance with MiCA regulation and free transferability without whitelisting restrictions. This liberalization made EURCV accessible to any user rather than only whitelisted institutional participants. SG Forge
SG-FORGE is Societe Generale's regulated digital assets subsidiary, operating under French ACPR licensing. This is not a startup or an offshore company. It is an integrated subsidiary of a 160-year-old systemically important European bank with EUR 1.7 trillion in total assets.
The reserve backing of EURCV is the single most important compliance question for Muslim investors and requires precise analysis of what the reserves actually consist of.
As a fiat-backed stablecoin, SG-FORGE ensures that all EURCV tokens are backed 1:1 by bank cash deposits or high-quality securities. The collateral assets are kept separate from SG-FORGE's general assets on both an accounting and legal basis, managed by a well-known fiduciary, and are exclusively allocated to back the EURCV stablecoin. Bullish
The two-component reserve structure, bank cash deposits and high-quality securities, requires individual assessment of each component.
Bank cash deposits held at Societe Generale or other European banks earn the ECB overnight deposit rate interest. The European Central Bank sets overnight deposit rates that apply to bank deposits. As of 2026, these rates have been meaningfully positive following the ECB's rate hiking cycle that began in 2022. Euro bank deposits earning ECB overnight interest constitute interest income generated by the reserve, flowing to SG-FORGE as the reserve manager.
High-quality securities in the context of European banking regulation and MiCA compliance means ECB-eligible high-quality liquid assets. These include European government bonds such as German Bunds, French OATs, and other Eurozone sovereign bonds, covered bonds, and other ECB repo-eligible instruments. All of these are interest-bearing securities that pay coupon interest to their holders. When SG-FORGE holds German government bonds in EURCV's reserve, those bonds pay coupon interest to SG-FORGE. This is interest income from the reserve.
The compliance parallel to dollar stablecoins is direct. USDT holds US Treasury bills that pay interest to Tether. USDC holds US Treasury bills that pay interest to Circle. EURCV holds European government bonds and ECB-eligible securities that pay interest to SG-FORGE. The currency denomination differs. The mechanism is identical. The compliance conclusion is the same.
Reserves held in EUR cash at SocGen itself with euro-denominated cash deposits and high-quality securities held in a segregated fiduciary estate at Societe Generale, with daily public disclosure of reserve composition. The transparency of daily disclosure is genuinely better than most stablecoins in the market. It makes the interest-bearing character of the reserves more clearly documented rather than less present. Pharos
Multi-Chain Expansion to XRP Ledger — February 2026
The bank's digital asset arm deployed EUR CoinVertible on XRP Ledger, extending a project that was already active on Ethereum and Solana. Ripple has acted as a key technology partner, providing infrastructure that meets the security and operational standards of a large European bank while still enabling on-chain programmability. Ripple's custody solution is used to hold the underlying euro reserves and high-quality liquid assets backing the stablecoin, as well as to orchestrate minting and burning of EURCV across different networks. CriptoLog
The XRP Ledger deployment introduces Ripple's custody infrastructure for EURCV reserves. The compliance assessment of the reserves does not change with the custody provider. High-quality liquid assets held by Ripple custody for EURCV still generate interest income regardless of who provides the custody service.
Stellar Deployment — March 2026
SG-FORGE executed a multi-chain strategy, deploying EURCV on Ethereum, Solana, XRP Ledger and Stellar by March 2026. The multi-chain strategy reflects institutional ambition to position EURCV as the dominant euro settlement layer across major blockchain ecosystems. Each additional blockchain deployment expands the reach of an instrument whose reserve structure generates interest income. CoinMarketCap
Canton Deployment for Repo Financing — May 2026
Societe Generale will deploy its EURCV and USDCV stablecoins on Canton to power tokenized collateral, repo financing, and institutional settlement workflows. CoinMarketCap
This development is the most compliance-concerning 2026 update beyond the base reserve structure. Repo financing, short for repurchase agreement financing, is an explicitly interest-bearing short-term lending instrument where one party sells securities to another and agrees to repurchase them at a higher price, with the price difference constituting interest. When EURCV is deployed on Canton specifically to power repo financing workflows, it becomes the settlement instrument for definitionally interest-based institutional lending. This confirms that EURCV's ecosystem applications include not just neutral payment infrastructure but explicitly interest-bearing financial product support.
Morpho Integration for Yield Vaults
EURCV is integrated into DeFi protocols like Morpho for yield-earning vaults. Morpho is a DeFi lending protocol that CoinStudy has separately classified as Haram due to its interest-based lending mechanism where depositors earn yield paid by borrowers. When EURCV is deposited into Morpho yield vaults, the depositor earns interest income from borrowers who pay interest on EURCV loans. This is Riba at the DeFi application layer added on top of the base reserve structure Riba. CoinMarketCap
Muslim investors who hold EURCV and deposit it into Morpho vaults are engaging in Riba at two simultaneous levels: the reserve level where SG-FORGE's securities generate interest, and the DeFi application level where Morpho borrowers pay interest to EURCV depositors.
Bitcoin-Backed Loan Collateral Acceptance
EURCV is accepted as collateral for Bitcoin-backed loans. When EURCV is used as collateral for loans, the loan itself carries an interest charge that the borrower pays. The specific Bitcoin-backed loan product in which EURCV serves as collateral requires individual assessment of whether the loan carries interest charges. If the Bitcoin-backed loan product is structured with interest on the outstanding balance, using EURCV as collateral for that loan involves the borrower paying interest, which is Riba. CoinMarketCap
200% Year-Over-Year Market Cap Growth
Market cap surged over 200% year-over-year as of May 2026, signaling rising institutional demand for compliant euro digital assets. This extraordinary growth confirms genuine institutional adoption of EURCV for euro settlement purposes. The institutional demand is real and the growth is documented. From a compliance perspective, the scale of adoption confirms that the compliance concerns are not theoretical concerns about a marginal product but material concerns about a rapidly growing institutional settlement instrument. CoinMarketCap
Muslim investors in Europe may ask whether EURCV's rigorous MiCA compliance, which is genuine and comprehensive, represents a regulatory framework more aligned with Islamic finance principles than the less regulated US dollar stablecoin market.
This argument identifies a real difference. MiCA's transparency requirements, reserve disclosure mandates, redemption rights protections, and prohibition on yield distribution to holders are all regulatory features that improve the conventional financial integrity of euro stablecoins. They address consumer protection, systemic risk, and market integrity concerns that Islamic finance also values.
What MiCA compliance does not do is mandate reserve compositions free from interest-bearing instruments. MiCA's approved reserve assets for electronic money tokens include bank deposits and high-quality liquid assets, both of which generate interest income under European monetary conditions. The regulatory framework that protects EURCV holders from issuer fraud and reserve mismanagement simultaneously mandates the interest-bearing reserve instruments that fail CoinStudy's Ecosystem Riba Exposure check.
The parallel to the US GENIUS Act is direct. GENIUS Act compliance mandates T-Bill reserves for US dollar stablecoins. MiCA compliance mandates bank deposits and high-quality securities for euro stablecoins. Both regulatory frameworks mandate the interest-bearing instruments that fail Islamic finance screening. Regulatory compliance and Islamic finance compliance are moving in the same direction in terms of transparency and consumer protection but remain structurally misaligned on the fundamental question of whether reserves can generate interest income.
Muslim investors in Europe who need euro-stable digital assets for commerce and settlement face the same fundamental challenge as dollar stablecoin users globally: every major fiat-pegged stablecoin that meets regulatory requirements holds interest-bearing assets in reserve.
USDT holds US Treasury bills generating dollar interest income. USDC holds US Treasury bills and bank deposits generating dollar interest income. EURCV holds European government bonds and euro bank deposits generating euro interest income. RLUSD holds dollar-equivalent reserves generating dollar interest income.
The only stablecoin CoinStudy has found with a potentially permissible reserve structure is UNIT by Ducat Protocol, backed exclusively by overcollateralised Bitcoin with no interest-bearing instruments of any kind. UNIT is denominated in dollars rather than euros and is currently in closed mainnet alpha pending formal Chairman certification.
For Muslim investors who need euro-stable value specifically, no currently available major euro stablecoin passes CoinStudy's Ecosystem Riba Exposure red line because the only instruments stable enough to back a euro peg under regulatory requirements are interest-bearing European financial instruments. This is the same structural problem that affects every major dollar stablecoin.
The Chairman's conditional permissibility ruling for T-Bill backed stablecoins as mediums of exchange applies to EURCV as a structurally similar instrument. Using EURCV purely as a medium of exchange for permissible cross-border transactions with appropriate caution about the interest-bearing reserve backend is conditionally permissible under the same reasoning. Depositing EURCV into Morpho yield vaults is not covered by this conditional permissibility and remains definitively Haram.
Our Shariah Board Chairman Dr. Usman Quddus issued a ruling on USDT and structurally similar fiat-backed stablecoins that applies to EURCV as a euro-denominated instrument with the same fundamental reserve structure:
Scholars have differing opinions regarding USDT and other fiat-backed stablecoins. Some scholars consider it impermissible and some consider it permissible. According to our research, its use is permissible. Its backend structure and currency leveling method is not interest in totality, however caution is necessary due to the presence of interest-based transactions within it. If it is used in halal means the profit will be halal, and if it is used in haram dealings it will be haram.
This ruling applies to EURCV as a structurally similar fiat-backed stablecoin. The conditional permissibility for medium of exchange use with caution is the same. The explicit prohibition on using it in haram dealings directly addresses the Morpho yield vault and repo financing applications that EURCV's 2026 ecosystem has developed.
Ecosystem Riba Exposure — ❌ Failed. Reserve explicitly includes high-quality securities meaning interest-bearing European government bonds alongside euro cash deposits earning ECB overnight deposit rate interest. Morpho DeFi integration creates direct lending Riba exposure. Canton repo financing deployment creates institutional interest-based workflow integration.
Gambling and Betting — ✅ Passed. No gambling mechanism.
Haram Industry — ✅ Passed. Euro payment infrastructure at classification level.
Guaranteed Interest — ✅ Passed at token holder level. MiCA prohibits yield distribution to EURCV holders. Interest flows to SG-FORGE rather than to token holders directly.
Synthetic Interest Products — ⚠️ Concern. Canton deployment for repo financing workflows and Bitcoin-backed loan collateral use create institutional synthetic interest product exposure. Not a definitive red-line failure at the base token level but a material concern at the application layer.
One red line failed definitively. Layer 2 scoring skipped.
Overall Result: Haram — Red Line Violation
Before using EURCV in any capacity beyond simple medium of exchange transactions, ask yourself honestly.
Do I understand that EURCV's reserve structure explicitly includes high-quality securities alongside euro cash deposits, and that high-quality securities in European banking regulation means interest-bearing government bonds whose coupon income flows to SG-FORGE, making the reserve structure generate Riba income regardless of how excellent Societe Generale's regulatory compliance is? Am I aware that MiCA compliance mandates the reserve composition that includes interest-bearing instruments, meaning that EU regulatory compliance and Islamic finance compliance are structurally misaligned on this specific point, just as the US GENIUS Act mandates T-Bill reserves for dollar stablecoins that also fail CoinStudy's screening? Do I understand that depositing EURCV into Morpho yield vaults to earn yield is Riba at two simultaneous levels, the reserve level where securities generate interest and the DeFi level where Morpho borrowers pay interest to EURCV depositors, and that this specific activity is definitively Haram regardless of the conditional permissibility for medium of exchange use? Am I aware that the Canton deployment of EURCV specifically for repo financing workflows means the token is being used as settlement infrastructure for an explicitly interest-based lending product at the institutional level?
EUR CoinVertible (EURCV) is classified as Haram / Non-Compliant under the CoinStudy Halal Crypto Standard.
The Ecosystem Riba Exposure red line is triggered by the reserve structure explicitly combining euro cash deposits earning ECB overnight interest with high-quality securities meaning interest-bearing European government bonds and ECB-eligible instruments. The interest income from these reserve components flows to SG-FORGE as the issuing entity rather than to EURCV holders, but the reserves generate Riba income regardless of who receives it.
EURCV's institutional credibility is genuine and among the highest of any stablecoin CoinStudy has analyzed. Societe Generale's regulatory standing, MiCA compliance, daily reserve disclosure, and segregated custody structure are all genuine institutional quality markers that address conventional financial risk concerns far better than offshore stablecoin issuers. The 200% year-over-year market cap growth confirms real institutional demand.
None of these genuine achievements change the compliance classification because the reserve instruments mandated by MiCA compliance are the same class of interest-bearing financial instruments that make USDT, USDC, and USAT fail CoinStudy's screening. The regulatory framework, the institutional backing, and the transparency are all genuine improvements over less regulated alternatives. The fundamental reserve structure that generates interest income is the same.
For Muslim investors in Europe who need euro-stable digital assets for payment and settlement, the Chairman's conditional permissibility for medium of exchange use with caution applies to EURCV in the same way it applies to USDT. Use for genuine commercial payment transactions is conditionally permissible with caution about the interest-bearing reserve backend. Depositing into Morpho, participating in repo financing through Canton, and any yield-generating activity with EURCV is definitively Haram and must be avoided.
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Disclaimer: This analysis is provided for educational and research purposes only based on guidance from CoinStudy's HCS Shariah Board members including the Chairman's ruling on fiat-backed stablecoins applied to EURCV as a structurally similar euro-denominated instrument. The reserve composition analysis reflects the documented reserve structure from official SG-FORGE publications and Pharos research. CoinStudy does not issue personal fatwas or financial advice. Please consult a qualified Islamic scholar for individual guidance.
Guaranteed Interest
No guaranteed interest obligations
Synthetic Interest Products
No synthetic interest instruments
1 Red Line Failed
This asset is automatically classified as HARAM.
