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Is GoMining Token Halal? HCS Crypto Screening

Quick Verdict: 58/100 : Doubtful (Provisional Research Classification)

GoMining Token (GOMINING) earns a provisional research score of 58 out of 100 under CoinStudy’s Halal Crypto Standard (HCS), placing it in the Doubtful band. The platform’s core activity, operating Bitcoin mining data centers and selling fractional access to hashrate via NFTs, is grounded in genuine economic activity with clear underlying value. All five Layer 1 red lines pass under CoinStudy’s documented protocol-level HCS screening for the core mining mechanism. However, three issues weigh heavily on Layer 2: Miner Wars is a documented competitive prize game with paid boosts, a prize pool funded by player spending, and randomly assigned round multipliers that constitute a material and now-confirmed Maysir concern rather than a vague gamification risk; the legal nature of what a Virtual Miner NFT actually grants its owner remains unresolved between ownership, Ijarah, and contractual entitlement structures; and GoMining’s expanded product suite, particularly Simple Earn, introduces potential Riba concerns that require separate scope assessment before the platform’s Layer 1 pass can be treated as unconditional. This score is provisional and should not be presented as a confirmed HCS classification until the five Chairman questions are formally resolved.

What Is GoMining Token in 2026?

GoMining is a Bitcoin mining infrastructure company that has tokenised fractional access to its hashrate through NFTs and built a utility token called GOMINING around that ecosystem. Founded on the premise that most retail investors cannot afford, house, or maintain physical Bitcoin mining equipment, GoMining introduced its “Liquid Bitcoin Hashrate” (LBH) concept in 2022, allowing ordinary users to purchase Virtual Miner NFTs representing specific amounts of mining power measured in terahashes per second (TH/s), operated inside GoMining’s own data centers.

By 2026, GoMining operates nine data centers with a declared combined capacity exceeding two exahashes per second. Users can purchase NFT Virtual Miners on GoMining’s primary marketplace, its own secondary market, or on OpenSea, with starting power options from 1 TH/s to 5,000 TH/s. Once purchased, a miner generates daily BTC rewards proportional to its hashrate. Daily electricity and maintenance fees are deducted from those rewards, with discounts of up to 20% available when fees are paid in GOMINING tokens, with the exact discount depending on token holdings and account settings.

GoMining’s Terms of Use identify three relevant legal entities: GoMining (Cyprus) Limited as the application owner and developer, GoMining (BVI) Limited as the GOMINING token issuer, and BMINE (BVI) Limited as the digital miner issuer. The platform is therefore not operated by an anonymous unincorporated entity, though the identities of individual founders and executives are not prominently disclosed in public documentation reviewed by CoinStudy.

The GOMINING utility token operates across four blockchains: Ethereum as ERC-20 (contract 0x7Ddc52c4De30e94Be3A6A0A2b259b2850f421989), BNB Smart Chain, Solana, and TON. According to CoinMarketCap research, the token currently trades at approximately $0.38, carries a market capitalisation of approximately $151.9 million, ranks 152nd globally, and has a circulating supply of 402,609,757. CoinStudy notes a discrepancy between CoinMarketCap’s supply figures and GoMining’s own tokenomics documentation, which reports an initial emission of 436.9 million tokens, over 34.3 million burned, and a long-term target supply of 100 million through ongoing burn activity. The platform’s Burn and Mint Equilibrium model means the maximum supply figure is not fixed in the way a hard-capped token’s is. The all-time high was $0.7016 recorded in November 2021, and the all-time low was $0.03592 recorded in January 2024.

Beyond the core mining mechanism, GoMining has expanded its ecosystem with a Burn and Mint Equilibrium (BME) tokenomics model, a veGOMINING governance locking mechanism, a competitive GameFi feature called Miner Wars, and a product called Simple Earn that deploys user assets into third-party protocols to generate BTC-denominated returns.

The Core Mechanism: Why GoMining Passes the Riba Analysis for Its Mining Product

The question Muslim investors most frequently ask about platforms promising daily BTC returns is whether those returns constitute a disguised form of Riba. For GoMining’s core mining product, the answer under CoinStudy’s HCS framework is provisionally no, and the reason lies in the causal structure of the return.

In a Riba transaction, money is exchanged for a guaranteed increment of money over time, with the increment arising from the passage of time alone rather than from any productive activity or genuine commercial risk. GoMining’s core return mechanism is structurally different. When a user purchases a Virtual Miner NFT, they are not lending money to GoMining and receiving interest. According to GoMining’s Terms of Use, ownership of a digital miner entitles the user to a specific capacity of physical mining hardware facilitated through a strategic partnership with BMINE (BVI) Limited. The platform states that digital miners are backed by physical computing power and generate BTC rewards. Daily electricity and maintenance fees are deducted from those rewards, reflecting real operational costs.

The BTC received is not a fixed guaranteed increment. It is the product of computational work: GoMining’s machines contribute TH/s to the Bitcoin network, the proof-of-work algorithm allocates block rewards proportionally to contributed hashrate, and the user receives their share after real electricity costs are deducted. If the Bitcoin network’s global hashrate rises, rewards per TH/s fall. If BTC price falls, the dollar value of rewards falls. If electricity costs rise, the net payout shrinks. None of these outcomes are guaranteed or fixed.

However, CoinStudy must note an important unresolved question before treating this analysis as complete. GoMining’s Terms of Use confirm a contractual connection between the NFT and physical mining capacity. What remains unresolved is the exact Shariah classification of the legal right the NFT holder acquires. There are at least three possible structures, and they are not interchangeable under Islamic law:

The NFT may represent actual ownership of a defined share of physical mining equipment. If so, the relevant questions are whether ownership, possession, and risk are sufficiently established for a Shariah-valid sale.

The NFT may represent an Ijarah arrangement granting usufruct of a defined hashrate capacity. If so, the arrangement must satisfy the requirements of a valid Islamic lease, including defined compensation and clear delineation of the lessor’s obligations.

The NFT may represent a contractual entitlement to a share of pooled mining output, in which case the buyer is effectively exposed to a service provider’s contractual promise rather than owning productive equipment. This structure is more vulnerable to Gharar and counterparty risk concerns.

CoinStudy therefore does not describe the NFT structure as automatically constituting Musharakah or Ijarah. The platform’s documentation supports the existence of a real connection to physical hashrate, which is a positive factor. The precise Shariah classification of the contractual right requires review by the Chairman before a confirmed ruling is issued. This question is the first and most fundamental one submitted for his review.

Scope of This Classification

CoinStudy’s provisional HCS classification addresses the GOMINING token and the core Bitcoin mining NFT mechanism. It does not constitute approval of every financial product offered through the GoMining application. GoMining now offers Simple Earn, which deploys user assets into third-party staking, liquidity, lending, or DeFi protocols to generate BTC-denominated returns, and Instant Funds, described in GoMining’s Terms as a structured sale and repurchase arrangement. These products require separate Shariah assessment. Muslim investors should not treat this analysis as permission to use Simple Earn or Instant Funds without independent scholarly review of each product.

Islamic Finance Analysis

GoMining presents a genuinely novel structure for Islamic finance scholars to consider. The platform is not a DeFi lending protocol, a derivatives exchange, or a stablecoin issuer. Its core purpose is Bitcoin mining infrastructure, but it has layered several additional products and mechanisms around that core that require individual assessment. The central Islamic finance questions are: what legal right does the NFT actually grant, whether the platform’s ancillary mechanisms introduce impermissible elements, whether the corporate structure is sufficiently transparent, and whether GoMining’s expanded product suite has introduced Riba concerns beyond the core mining activity. CoinStudy applies the HCS framework to GoMining with all documented protocol-level mechanics in view.

Layer 1: Sharia Red Line Screening

CoinStudy’s Layer 1 screening evaluates five absolute disqualifiers under the HCS operational framework. These represent CoinStudy’s documented red-line standards for automatic disqualification and are not a universal classical scholarly consensus on every related question. Any single confirmed breach results in a Not Halal classification and stops Layer 2 scoring. The Layer 1 assessment below applies to the GOMINING token and the core Bitcoin mining NFT product only. Simple Earn and Instant Funds are identified as separate products requiring scope extension before Layer 1 can be confirmed as unconditional across the entire GoMining application.

Red Line 1: Riba (Interest or Usury)

GoMining’s core mining reward mechanism does not generate Riba. BTC rewards are variable, tied to real computational work, and reduced by real electricity costs. There is no fixed guaranteed yield, no interest-bearing loan product in the core mining mechanism, and no bond-like instrument in the GOMINING token itself.

However, CoinStudy notes a material scope concern. GoMining’s Simple Earn product, launched in early 2026, deploys eligible user assets into unnamed third-party protocols described as staking, liquidity provision, and similar DeFi mechanisms to generate BTC-denominated returns paid every four hours. According to publicly available press coverage sourced from Hackernoon, the specific protocols used are not publicly named, and the yield source is not disclosed beyond a general description of “earning mechanism protocols.” If any of those underlying protocols generate returns through interest-bearing lending, the Simple Earn product would carry a Riba concern. This does not affect the GOMINING token’s core mining classification, but the Layer 1 Riba pass is confined to the token and mining product and does not extend to Simple Earn pending further investigation. Result for core mining and token: Pass ✅ with scope limitation noted.

Red Line 2: Gambling

GoMining’s core mining mechanism is not gambling. NFT miners generate BTC through legitimate computational work contributing to the Bitcoin network. Returns vary based on market and economic conditions, not chance-based outcomes.

Miner Wars requires specific attention here. According to publicly available documentation reviewed by CoinStudy and confirmed in our team’s independent research: BTC is awarded to winning clans while GOMINING tokens are awarded to personal battle winners; 97.5% of GOMINING spent on spells and boosts funds the GOMINING prize pool with 2.5% going to development; round multipliers are assigned randomly with possible values ranging from 1x to 256x that affect the weighting of competitive rewards; paid boosts increase participants’ scores and competitive advantage; and tokens spent on spells that do not take effect before a round ends are not refunded. GoMining’s own terms describe Miner Wars as a free prize competition where boosts are optional, meaning there is no mandatory token expenditure to participate.

Under CoinStudy’s documented red-line criteria, Miner Wars does not constitute a standalone gambling product triggering Layer 1 disqualification for the entire platform, because the feature is separable from the core mining mechanism and participation in boosted spending is optional. However, the mechanism contains documented characteristics that are materially Maysir-adjacent: competitive prize pool funded by participant spending, randomly assigned multipliers affecting reward distribution, and non-refundable token expenditure in competitive rounds. This is not a vague concern about gamification. It is a documented mechanism that the Chairman must rule upon before Miner Wars can be treated as permissible. Muslim investors must avoid Miner Wars entirely until that ruling is issued. Result for core mining and token: Pass ✅. Miner Wars: Flagged for mandatory Chairman ruling.

Red Line 3: Haram Industry

GoMining’s business is Bitcoin mining infrastructure. The platform is not involved in alcohol, tobacco, conventional banking, adult entertainment, weapons, or any categorically prohibited sector under classical Fiqh. Bitcoin mining involves real computational work contributing to network security and transaction validation. Result: Pass ✅

Red Line 4: Guaranteed Fixed Interest Product

GoMining’s core mining mechanism does not promise or guarantee any fixed interest or yield. All BTC mining rewards are variable and explicitly dependent on mining difficulty, block reward, and BTC market price. The veGOMINING mechanism distributes a share of newly minted supply to locked holders, but this is variable and governance-contingent. Result for core mechanism: Pass ✅

Red Line 5: Synthetic Interest Products

The GOMINING token and core mining mechanism do not involve yield-bearing stablecoins, synthetic fixed-income instruments, or derivative products designed to replicate interest. BTC rewards come from the real Bitcoin network’s proof-of-work allocation. There is no leveraged synthetic product or instrument artificially replicating an interest payment in the core mechanism. The Simple Earn product requires separate evaluation before this can be extended platform-wide. Result for core mining and token: Pass ✅ with scope limitation noted.

Layer 1 Result: All five red lines pass for the GOMINING token and core Bitcoin mining product under CoinStudy’s documented protocol-level HCS screening. This pass is not unconditional across the entire GoMining application. Simple Earn and Instant Funds require separate scope assessment. Proceed to Layer 2.

Layer 2: HCS Score Breakdown

Seven weighted dimensions totalling 100 points. Score bands: Halal 80 to 100, Halal With Concerns 60 to 79, Doubtful 40 to 59, Haram 0 to 39.

Financial Exposure Risk

Score: 14/25

GoMining operates nine physical data centers requiring substantial capital expenditure across hardware, power contracts, land, cooling, and maintenance. CoinStudy has not located publicly available audited corporate financial statements for GoMining’s operating entities. The absence of audited accounts does not establish that GoMining carries interest-bearing debt. It does mean that CoinStudy cannot verify the financing structure of the infrastructure, and that Muslim investors cannot confirm whether the data centers are funded through permissible means. This uncertainty is primarily a transparency concern and is weighted primarily in the Transparency and Governance dimension, though it carries residual financial exposure implications here because capital structure is unknown.

The Burn and Mint Equilibrium (BME) tokenomics mechanism operates on a documented distribution schedule. According to GoMining’s published tokenomics, 65% of newly minted GOMINING goes to hashpower service providers to cover electricity and maintenance, 20% goes to veGOMINING holders as weekly staking rewards, 10% goes to NFT marketing covering discounts, bonuses, referral rewards, and round multipliers with residual amounts redirected to NFT holders by governance vote, and 5% goes to the GoMining team as development royalties. The mint coefficient is currently 0.8, meaning for every 1 GOMINING burned in fees, 0.8 is reminted. Burns occur in epochs of every 10 million GOMINING burned.

CoinStudy also notes a meaningful supply discrepancy. GoMining’s own tokenomics documentation reports an initial emission of 436.9 million tokens, over 34.3 million burned, and a long-term target supply of 100 million, indicating that the BME model is designed to reach a significantly lower equilibrium supply over time through sustained burn activity. This is a positive long-term dynamic for existing holders, but it means the “fully circulating” characterisation from CoinMarketCap’s figures does not fully reflect GoMining’s active supply management design.

The Liquidity Pools programme was retired on May 19, 2026 per GoMining’s documentation. CoinStudy does not count liquidity provision incentives as a current utility in this analysis.

Gharar

Score: 7/15

When a user purchases a Virtual Miner NFT, the actual BTC yield received depends on four simultaneously uncertain variables: Bitcoin network global hashrate, BTC block reward, BTC market price at the time of reward, and electricity fees charged daily by GoMining. This multi-variable uncertainty is a structural feature of the product. Publicly available reviews note that ROI estimates provided by the platform are not exact. CoinStudy notes, however, that variable mining rewards alone do not constitute excessive Gharar. Variable outcomes tied to real market conditions are a normal feature of any productive commercial activity and are not inherently prohibited.

The more material Gharar concern is counterparty and verification risk. GoMining users are entirely dependent on GoMining’s operational integrity for accurate hashrate allocation and reward calculation. The actual hashrate delivered is not independently verifiable by NFT holders in real time. NFT holders must trust GoMining’s self-reported figures. GoMining’s own Terms acknowledge counterparty, custody, operational, and product performance risks explicitly. This centralised dependency is a structural Gharar concern.

The unresolved legal nature of the NFT miner right compounds this. If the NFT represents actual ownership of defined equipment, the Gharar is lower because the user holds a real property interest. If it represents a contractual entitlement against GoMining’s performance, the Gharar is materially higher because the user is relying on a service provider’s promise with limited recourse. Until the Chairman resolves the NFT ownership question, CoinStudy cannot fully resolve the Gharar score for this dimension.

GoMining’s operating entities are identified in its Terms of Use as three BVI and Cyprus registered companies. This means the platform is not entirely anonymous at the corporate level. However, the identities of individual founders, directors, and executive leadership are not prominently disclosed in publicly available documentation reviewed by CoinStudy. There is a meaningful difference between a company with identifiable legal entities and a company with adequate public disclosure of its principals. CoinStudy treats this as limited executive disclosure, not complete anonymity.

Maysir

Score: 8/15

The Miner Wars feature requires a significantly more detailed assessment than a general gamification concern.

According to documented GoMining mechanics confirmed in our team’s independent research, Miner Wars operates as follows. Clan battles award BTC to winning clans, while individual battle winners receive GOMINING tokens. 97.5% of GOMINING tokens spent by players on spells and boosts enters the GOMINING prize pool, with 2.5% going to platform development. Round multipliers are assigned randomly, with values ranging from 1x to 256x, and these multipliers affect the weight of competitive rewards. Paid boosts increase a participant’s score and competitive advantage. Tokens spent on spells that do not take effect before a round ends are forfeited without refund. GoMining’s terms describe Miner Wars as a free prize competition with optional boosts.

Under CoinStudy’s HCS Maysir framework, the assessment is grounded in mechanism characteristics, not investor motivation. The documented Miner Wars structure contains the following characteristics relevant to Maysir: participants spend GOMINING tokens to gain competitive advantages in a prize-pool competition; the majority of that spending (97.5%) directly funds the prize pool from which winners receive rewards; random multipliers assigned by the system materially affect who wins how much, introducing a chance element into reward distribution; and tokens spent on ineffective spells are not returned, meaning participants bear downside risk on expenditure without a guaranteed service delivered. The feature also has a critical mitigating factor: GoMining describes entry as free and boosts as optional. This means there is no mandatory payment required to participate in the competition itself, which is a meaningful distinction from classical Qimar, where entry requires a stake at risk.

CoinStudy’s assessment is that Miner Wars occupies a zone of documented Maysir risk rather than a zone of confirmed classical Qimar. The paid boost structure, prize pool funded by spending, and random multipliers together constitute a material and documented Maysir concern that cannot be dismissed as merely optional gamification. A formal Chairman ruling is required before any use of Miner Wars paid features can be considered permissible for Muslim users. Until that ruling is issued, Muslim users must avoid all paid participation in Miner Wars.

The core Bitcoin mining activity has zero Maysir characteristics. Mining is deterministic: computational work contributes to Bitcoin’s proof-of-work, and reward is proportional to hashrate with no random allocation in the base reward mechanism.

Underlying Business Activity

Score: 11/15

GoMining’s core business is a legitimate commercial activity with genuine economic substance. Bitcoin mining involves real computational work contributing to network security and transaction validation. GoMining invests in hardware, electricity contracts, facilities, and maintenance to produce real hashrate, which generates real BTC through Bitcoin’s proof-of-work consensus.

The BME distribution model is now documented more precisely. The 65% allocation to hashpower service providers funds the real electricity and maintenance costs of the mining operation. The 5% team allocation is a standard development royalty. The 10% NFT marketing allocation covers operational incentives including discounts, bonuses, and referral rewards. The 20% veGOMINING allocation is the dimension requiring the most careful treatment, addressed further below.

GoMining’s Simple Earn product represents a material expansion of business activity beyond mining. Simple Earn deploys eligible user assets into unnamed third-party DeFi protocols described as staking, liquidity provision, and similar mechanisms to generate BTC-denominated returns. According to publicly available press coverage sourced from Hackernoon and The Block, the specific underlying protocols are not publicly disclosed. If any of those protocols generate returns through interest-bearing lending, Simple Earn would constitute a product offering access to Riba-contaminated yield. This does not change the classification of the mining product, but Muslim users must not use Simple Earn pending a separate Shariah assessment of the underlying protocols and their yield mechanisms.

Utility and Real Use

Score: 6/10

GoMining’s utility token has meaningful on-platform utility in its core mining context. Users can pay daily maintenance and electricity fees in GOMINING with discounts up to 20% depending on holdings and settings, creating genuine demand from active platform participants. The token is accepted for purchasing and upgrading NFT miners. Locking tokens as veGOMINING provides governance rights over fee structures, reward distribution, and protocol parameters.

The Miner Wars paid boost utility, spending tokens on spells and competitive boosts in a prize-pool competition, represents token utility with documented Maysir-adjacent characteristics. CoinStudy does not count this as positive utility pending the Chairman’s ruling.

The Liquidity Pools programme was retired in May 2026 and is therefore not counted as current utility.

The token’s value is substantially correlated with BTC price and mining profitability, external variables that create high volatility regardless of protocol design. Retail holders without NFT mining positions have limited non-speculative use for the token.

Tokenomics Fairness

Score: 6/10

The documented 65/20/10/5 distribution of newly minted GOMINING tokens is now confirmed from GoMining’s own publications. The 65% allocation to hashpower service providers is a legitimate operational cost pass-through for electricity and maintenance. The 5% team allocation is a standard royalty. The 10% NFT marketing allocation funds platform-level incentives.

The 20% allocation to veGOMINING holders requires Shariah assessment on its own terms. According to GoMining’s documentation, these are distributions of newly minted protocol tokens, not expressly described as a proportional share of audited mining profits. CoinStudy therefore does not classify these distributions as Mudarabah or Musharakah profit-sharing. The relevant Shariah questions are: whether locking tokens for governance and incentive purposes creates a permissible arrangement under Islamic commercial law, whether newly minted token distributions constitute permissible protocol rewards, and whether the dilution imposed on non-locking holders raises additional fairness concerns. A formal ruling is required from the Chairman on these specific questions.

The supply discrepancy between CoinMarketCap figures and GoMining’s own reported token emission, burn, and long-term target figures is a transparency gap that makes it difficult for Muslim investors to assess the actual future dilution from the BME mechanism. CoinStudy could not locate publicly disclosed original token allocation data covering team, investor, and public sale shares, which limits CoinStudy’s ability to assess whether the founding distribution was structured fairly.

Transparency and Governance

Score: 6/10

GoMining has implemented meaningful governance infrastructure. veGOMINING locks allow token holders to vote on protocol parameters through an on-chain governance mechanism. The Ethereum contract is publicly verifiable on Etherscan. A CertiK smart contract audit is cited. Community channels are active across Telegram, Twitter and X, Discord, Reddit, and YouTube.

GoMining is not operated by a completely anonymous entity. The Terms of Use identify three registered corporate entities: GoMining (Cyprus) Limited, GoMining (BVI) Limited, and BMINE (BVI) Limited. This confirms a legal corporate structure exists. However, the identities of individual founders, directors, and executive leadership are not prominently disclosed in public documentation reviewed by CoinStudy. For a platform managing nine physical data centers and holding significant user assets, limited public disclosure of individual executive leadership remains a meaningful transparency gap.

CoinStudy has not located publicly available audited corporate financial statements for any of GoMining’s operating entities. This means the company’s debt structure, profitability, and financing methods cannot be independently verified. It also means the 65% electricity cost allocation in the BME model cannot be verified against actual audited cost figures. These are material disclosure gaps, though they do not in themselves establish that impermissible financing exists.

Applying AAOIFI Principles

CoinStudy applies principles relevant to the following AAOIFI Sharia Standards in evaluating GoMining, without claiming any standard directly governs a crypto token as a matter of formal AAOIFI jurisdiction, and using “principles relevant to” framing throughout as the operative standard for all references below.

Principles relevant to AAOIFI Sharia Standard 9 on Ijarah apply if the Virtual Miner NFT is ultimately classified as a usufruct lease of mining capacity, as treated by CoinStudy under the principles relevant to that standard. The arrangement would need to satisfy the requirements of a valid Ijarah, including defined compensation, clear delineation of the lessor’s obligations, and transfer of beneficial use to the lessee.

Principles relevant to AAOIFI Sharia Standard 12 on Sharikah apply if the NFT is ultimately classified as a co-ownership interest in productive mining equipment, as treated by CoinStudy under the principles relevant to that standard. The proportional distribution of BTC rewards would resemble a Musharakah distribution from a jointly operated productive activity. This classification cannot be confirmed until the contractual right is examined.

Principles relevant to AAOIFI Sharia Standard 46 on Investment Agency are relevant to the veGOMINING distribution mechanism, as treated by CoinStudy under those principles, if the token locking creates a governance and incentive arrangement where locked holders act as agents for protocol governance in exchange for rewards. Whether this constitutes a permissible wakala arrangement or a form of impermissible redistribution requires the Chairman’s review.

Anticipated Scholarly Questions: Critical Islamic Finance Review

Question 1: What does a Virtual Miner NFT actually give its owner, and is that a Shariah-valid contract?

CoinStudy’s response: This is the foundational question for any positive classification of GoMining’s mining product. GoMining’s Terms of Use confirm that digital miner ownership entitles the holder to a specific capacity of physical mining hardware facilitated through BMINE (BVI) Limited, and that digital miners are backed by real ASIC infrastructure generating BTC rewards. However, the precise Shariah category of this contractual right, whether it is ownership of equipment, usufruct under Ijarah, or a contractual entitlement to pooled output, is not established from publicly available documentation alone. These three structures carry different Shariah implications and are not interchangeable. CoinStudy has submitted this question as the first and highest-priority question to the Chairman before any confirmed ruling is issued.

Question 2: Does Miner Wars constitute Maysir or otherwise involve a prohibited transaction under classical Islamic commercial law?

CoinStudy’s response: Miner Wars involves paid boosts where 97.5% of spending funds a competitive prize pool, randomly assigned multipliers from 1x to 256x affecting reward weighting, non-refundable token expenditure on ineffective spells, and a competition structure where BTC rewards go to winning clans and GOMINING goes to individual winners. GoMining’s terms describe participation as free with boosts optional, which means there is no mandatory stake at risk. The combination of voluntary paid entry into a competitive prize pool with randomly assigned outcome multipliers occupies a documented zone of Maysir concern. Whether the optional nature of paid participation removes the Maysir classification, or whether the mechanism still constitutes a prohibited transaction based on its structural characteristics, requires a formal ruling from the Chairman. Muslim users must avoid all paid participation in Miner Wars until that ruling is issued.

Question 3: Are the distributions of newly minted GOMINING tokens to veGOMINING holders permissible under Islamic commercial law?

CoinStudy’s response: GoMining’s published tokenomics confirm that 20% of newly minted GOMINING is distributed weekly to veGOMINING holders based on voting power. These distributions are funded through the BME minting mechanism and are not expressly described as a proportional share of audited mining profits. The relevant questions are whether locking tokens for governance purposes creates a permissible incentive arrangement, whether newly minted token distributions constitute permissible protocol rewards or impermissible seigniorage redistributed from passive holders, and whether the dilution structure raises additional fairness concerns. CoinStudy does not characterise these distributions as Mudarabah or Musharakah in the absence of a demonstrated profit-sharing basis. A formal Chairman ruling is required.

Question 4: Does GoMining’s Simple Earn product introduce a Riba concern when user assets may be deployed into third-party lending or interest-bearing DeFi protocols?

CoinStudy’s response: GoMining’s Simple Earn product, launched in early 2026, deploys eligible user assets into unnamed third-party protocols described as staking, liquidity, and similar DeFi mechanisms to generate BTC-denominated returns paid every four hours. The specific underlying protocols are not publicly disclosed. If any of those protocols generate returns through interest-bearing lending, Simple Earn would constitute a product offering access to Riba-contaminated yield through the GoMining platform. CoinStudy’s current classification does not extend to Simple Earn. Muslim users must not use this product without a separate Shariah review identifying and assessing the actual underlying protocols and their yield sources.

Question 5: What minimum financial and ownership disclosure should CoinStudy require before treating GoMining’s infrastructure financing as sufficiently transparent for a positive HCS classification?

CoinStudy’s response: CoinStudy has not located publicly available audited corporate financial statements for GoMining’s operating entities. The absence of audited accounts does not establish that interest-bearing debt exists. It establishes that the financing structure cannot be verified. CoinStudy requests the Chairman’s guidance on the minimum disclosure standard, specifically whether a Shariah-compliant declaration from GoMining’s management or a third-party audit confirming the absence of interest-bearing debt is required before the transparency concern can be resolved in the platform’s favour.

CoinStudy HCS Screening Results

Permissible activities when engaging with GoMining, subject to contractual verification:

Purchasing a Virtual Miner NFT for its hashrate and receiving daily BTC rewards proportional to that hashrate = Provisionally Halal, subject to Chairman confirmation of the NFT ownership structure ✅

Paying electricity and maintenance fees in GOMINING tokens for the discount = Halal ✅

Buying, holding, and trading GOMINING tokens on permissible exchanges = Halal ✅

Requires Individual Scholarly Assessment:

Locking GOMINING as veGOMINING for governance participation = Permissible governance participation is likely, but receiving newly minted token distributions requires Chairman confirmation ⚠️

Participating in Miner Wars without any paid boosts or spell purchases = Requires Chairman clarification on whether unpaid participation in competitive prize rounds is affected by the broader Maysir concern ⚠️

Not Permissible:

Purchasing paid boosts or spells in Miner Wars until a Chairman ruling confirms this does not constitute Maysir = Not Permissible pending ruling ❌

Using GoMining’s Simple Earn product until the underlying protocols and yield sources are identified and assessed for Riba = Not Permissible pending assessment ❌

Using GoMining NFTs or tokens as collateral for interest-bearing loans = Haram ❌

Engaging in GOMINING derivatives, futures, or leveraged positions on any platform = Haram ❌

Chairman’s Ruling

Five questions have been submitted to Dr. Usman Quddus, PhD in Islamic Studies and Finance, for formal review before a confirmed HCS ruling is issued. These are, in order of priority: the Shariah classification of the Virtual Miner NFT contractual right; the Maysir classification of Miner Wars’ paid boost and prize pool mechanism; the permissibility of newly minted veGOMINING distributions without a demonstrated profit-sharing basis; whether Simple Earn’s use of unnamed third-party protocols introduces a Riba concern; and what minimum disclosure standards CoinStudy should require before treating GoMining’s financing structure as verified. CoinStudy’s current score of 58/100 Doubtful is a provisional research assessment and must not be treated as a confirmed HCS ruling. The full article will be updated following the Chairman’s formal review.

Final Verdict

GoMining Token (GOMINING): Doubtful, 58/100 (Provisional Research Classification)

GoMining’s foundation has genuine merit. A documented contractual connection between the NFT and real physical Bitcoin mining infrastructure, variable BTC rewards tied to real computational work, and a utility token with legitimate on-platform functions constitute a potentially permissible base structure. All five Layer 1 red lines pass for the core mining product and token under CoinStudy’s documented HCS screening.

The Doubtful classification reflects five unresolved issues that prevent a stronger score. The exact Shariah category of the NFT ownership right is the most fundamental and must be resolved first. Miner Wars is now confirmed to contain a documented Maysir-adjacent mechanism involving paid competitive boosts, a 97.5% prize pool funded by player spending, and randomly assigned multipliers from 1x to 256x, making it a material concern rather than a vague gamification risk. The veGOMINING minted token distribution does not have an established profit-sharing basis. Simple Earn’s use of unnamed third-party DeFi protocols introduces potential Riba exposure that falls outside this analysis’s scope. And limited public disclosure of executive leadership and the absence of audited corporate financials means the platform’s infrastructure financing cannot be independently verified.

Muslim investors who choose to engage with GoMining while awaiting the Chairman’s formal ruling should confine their activity to the core NFT mining product and GOMINING token holding, avoid Miner Wars paid features entirely, avoid Simple Earn entirely, and avoid any veGOMINING staking until the distribution question is resolved.

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Disclaimer: This analysis represents CoinStudy’s independent research opinion under the HCS framework. It is not a fatwa and does not constitute a formal Sharia ruling. Muslim investors should consult a qualified Islamic finance scholar before making investment decisions. Analysis Date: October 31, 2026.

Sources: CoinMarketCap research, GoMining published tokenomics documentation, Coinspectator GoMining tokenomics analysis, CoinEdition Miner Wars update, Hackernoon Simple Earn press release, The Block Simple Earn press release, Bitcoinist GoMining review, Hackread GoMining review.