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Is SOON (SOON) Halal? A CoinStudy HCS Analysis

SOON is one of the more technically interesting projects in the Layer 2 landscape. Its core innovation, the Decoupled SVM, separates Solana's Virtual Machine execution environment from Solana's consensus and settlement mechanisms, allowing developers to deploy high-throughput SVM-compatible chains on Ethereum, BNB Chain, Base, and other Layer 1 networks. This is genuinely novel infrastructure: it brings Solana's execution performance to Ethereum's settlement security without requiring developers to operate within Solana's monolithic architecture.

The compliance analysis for SOON is clean at the Layer 1 level. The project is modular blockchain infrastructure with transaction fees and staking rewards as the core economic model. No Riba mechanism, no gambling, no Haram industry at the Level 1 and Level 2 scope. The Financial Exposure dimension achieves a clean 25 out of 25 because the core revenue mechanism is straightforwardly permissible.

CoinStudy's HCS methodology requires honest disclosure of documented concerns alongside the compliance verdict, and SOON has significant ones in the Gharar, Utility, Tokenomics, and Governance dimensions. Muslim investors must understand these clearly before committing capital.

Quick Verdict: SOON Is Halal With Concerns ⚠️

SOON scores 79 out of 100 Halal With Concerns. All five Layer 1 red-line checks pass at the Level 1 and Level 2 protocol assessment scope. The core mechanism is clean.

The 79 score reflects genuine concerns across Gharar from the extreme adoption gap and the soonBase L3 strategic pivot, Utility from currently documented minimal on-chain activity relative to market capitalization, Tokenomics from ongoing inflationary supply with no maximum cap and demonstrated foundation monetary discretion, and Transparency and Governance from limited team identification and accountability documentation. These concerns are assessed through distinct analytical dimensions without treating the same underlying fact as multiple independent deductions.

Under CoinStudy's HCS framework, SOON's documented core protocol is classified as Halal With Concerns with a score of 79 out of 100. This classification is limited to the assessed mechanisms and available evidence. It is not a universal scholarly consensus or a personal fatwa. Investors should consider the documented risks, review the terms of any staking or other products they use, and consult a qualified Islamic scholar where individual guidance is needed.

What Is SOON in 2026?

SOON, which originally stands for Solana Optimistic Network, is a modular rollup framework and network built around what its documentation calls Decoupled SVM. The core technical claim is that SOON separates SVM execution from consensus and settlement, allowing SVM-compatible rollups to be deployed on top of different Layer 1 blockchains rather than being confined to Solana's native architecture.

SOON Mainnet is a Layer 2 settling on Ethereum using optimistic fraud proofs, implementing SVM rollup architecture to provide Solana-level execution performance on Ethereum settlement. The SOON Stack is the rollup-as-a-service framework allowing developers to launch custom SVM chains on any Layer 1. InterSOON is described as a cross-chain module connecting SOON deployments.

In September 2025, SOON announced that its SOON-Kailua architecture was live in testnet, utilizing ZK-style fraud proofs in the RISC Zero/Kailua approach to reduce dependency on simple economic challenge games and shorten dispute assumptions compared to classical optimistic rollups.

The project disclosed strategic funding from Jump Crypto and Amber Group in 2025 and launched through Binance Alpha and MEXC. Its token generation was described as having a $0-VC fair-launch structure with major community allocation emphasis according to KuCoin research.

According to CoinMarketCap research as of October 9, 2026, SOON trades at approximately $0.31 with a market capitalization of approximately $190.71 million. The all-time high was $5.04 in November 2025 per CoinMarketCap. Circulating supply is approximately 606 million SOON.

The 2026 Developments: Complete Analysis

soonBase L3 Shutdown and AI Capital Market Pivot: March 2026

According to Yellow research, a March 2026 report indicated that soonBase L3 would be shut down and resources redirected toward AI Capital Market products. This is the most significant strategic development of 2026 for the SOON project.

The shutdown of a deployed product and reallocation of development resources toward a new product category indicates that the original soonBase L3 deployment did not achieve the adoption required to justify continued investment. The AI Capital Market pivot represents SOON searching for application demand that can justify its execution-layer thesis rather than operating as a general-purpose rollup, which faces extreme competition from established L2 networks. This pivot is the primary source of strategic uncertainty assessed in the Gharar dimension.

The specific mechanisms of SOON's AI Capital Market products are not sufficiently defined in publicly available research at the time of this analysis. An undefined future product is not by itself evidence that the core protocol contains a prohibited mechanism. CoinStudy does not speculate about what these mechanisms might be and does not create deductions based on undefined future products.

SOON-Kailua Testnet: September 2025

According to Yellow research, SOON announced that its SOON-Kailua architecture was live in testnet in September 2025, utilizing ZK-style fraud proofs to improve upon classical optimistic rollup dispute assumptions. This technical development demonstrates ongoing engineering investment in the core infrastructure.

SIP-1 Burn and Token Redemption Program: 2025

According to Yellow research, SIP-1 burned 30 million SOON tokens from the initial supply. The foundation also executed a token redemption program in July 2025 following price volatility. These interventions demonstrate that the foundation exercises active discretionary control over the token's monetary parameters and are assessed through the Tokenomics Fairness and Governance dimensions.

Ecosystem Deployments

According to BlockEden research published in February 2026, the SOON Stack had onboarded Cytonic, CARV, and Lucent Network with deployments on Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Base. BingX research cited over 30 integrated projects across DeFi, AI, gaming, and RaaS chains within months of launch.

TVL and Adoption: Two Dated Snapshots

As of October 9, 2026, CoinMarketCap reports SOON's TVL at approximately $467,390. Earlier data from late May to early June 2026 per Yellow research showed sub-$1 million in bridged TVL and negligible DEX volume, indicating that the minimal on-chain adoption pattern has persisted across this period. These two snapshots are presented as separate dated data points rather than as contemporaneous evidence, and together they support a cautious Utility assessment independent of the market capitalization trajectory.

The Core Mechanism: Why SOON Passes Layer 1 Screening with a Clean Financial Exposure Score

SOON's core Level 1 and Level 2 economic model is computational infrastructure revenue. SOON is used to pay transaction fees on the SOON Network and staked to participate in network security. Staking earns inflation-based rewards from the protocol's 3% annual emission mechanism.

The transaction fee mechanism is straightforwardly clean: users pay SOON for genuine computational execution services and the network earns those fees as service revenue. No prohibited financial mechanism exists at this level.

The staking reward mechanism is the more analytically interesting question. SOON staking earns variable inflation-based emission rewards for providing genuine network security services as validators. The economic substance is that validators provide real computational security services to the network and the network compensates them through newly minted tokens as a shared payment mechanism. This is not a lending relationship: the staker does not lend capital to a borrower who returns more than they received. The new tokens issued are compensation for genuine services rather than excess over a lending principal.

CoinStudy distinguishes this from the Riba-bearing mechanism of Kamino Finance: in Kamino, lenders hold a protocol-defined and programmatically enforceable entitlement to excess over the principal they deposit, paid by borrowers. In SOON staking, no such lending relationship and no such entitlement to excess over principal exists. The inflation-funded model differs from OriginTrail's publisher service-fee-funded model in its funding mechanism but not in its fundamental compliance character: neither constitutes interest.

The Financial Exposure dimension achieves a clean 25 out of 25 because no prohibited mechanism is documented at the core Level 1 and Level 2 protocol scope.

Applying AAOIFI Principles to SOON

CoinStudy uses relevant AAOIFI Sharia Standards as analytical reference points where appropriate. This does not imply that those standards directly govern or specifically approve the SOON protocol. The comparison below is an analytical analogy, not a claim of formal certification or a definitive Sharia ruling.

The principles relevant to AAOIFI Sharia Standard 18 on Ijarah provide a conceptual reference point for understanding the staking service relationship at Level 2. Validators provide genuine network security services and earn compensation for those services. Validator services and inflation-funded rewards are not automatically equivalent to a conventional bilateral Ijarah contract. CoinStudy presents this framing as an analytical analogy to explain the economic substance of the service-compensation relationship rather than as a formal jurisprudential determination. Transaction fees for computational execution are genuine service revenue more directly consistent with permissible fee-for-service structures.

Islamic Finance Analysis

Financial Exposure Risk:

The Financial Exposure Risk score of 25 out of 25 reflects SOON's clean Level 1 and Level 2 core revenue and reward structure with no documented prohibited financial mechanism. This is a clean score.

SOON's core economic model at Level 1 and Level 2 earns transaction fees for genuine computational execution services and provides staking rewards funded through 3% annual inflation as compensation for network security services. No interest-bearing reserve, no lending mechanism, and no protocol-defined entitlement to excess over principal exists in the core protocol as documented in available research.

The foundation's demonstrated discretionary control over monetary policy through SIP-1 and the July 2025 token redemption program is a governance and tokenomics concern assessed through those distinct dimensions. It is not a Financial Exposure concern because foundation monetary discretion is not itself a prohibited financial mechanism at the core Level 1 and Level 2 protocol level.

The AI Capital Market product pivot is a strategic uncertainty concern assessed solely through the Gharar dimension. An undefined future product is not evidence that the core protocol contains a prohibited mechanism and does not produce a Financial Exposure deduction.

Gharar:

The Gharar score of 9 out of 15 reflects significant forward-looking uncertainty about the SOON Network's adoption trajectory and strategic direction. This is a 6-point material concern deduction.

CoinStudy applies the expanded HCS operational uncertainty framework rather than classical contractual Gharar. The concern is not classical contractual uncertainty about what is being purchased at the moment of transaction: SOON is clearly defined as a rollup infrastructure token with documented technical specifications. The concern is about the economic and strategic environment surrounding the asset that creates meaningful uncertainty about what Muslim investors are entering into.

The 6-point material concern deduction reflects three specific forward-looking uncertainties through distinct pathways. The first is adoption sustainability uncertainty: the available TVL data across two periods, approximately $467,000 as of October 9, 2026 per CoinMarketCap and sub-$1 million bridged TVL in late May to early June 2026 per Yellow research, represents a persistent and significant gap between token valuation and demonstrated on-chain economic participation. The path from this adoption level to an ecosystem that can sustain the token's utility claims is genuinely uncertain. The second is strategic pivot uncertainty: the shutdown of soonBase L3 and redirection of resources toward AI Capital Market products in March 2026 per Yellow research represents a significant change in the project's primary application thesis, and the success of this pivot is the single appropriate analytical home for the AI Capital Market uncertainty in this analysis. The third is L2 competitive landscape uncertainty: according to BlockEden research published in February 2026, Arbitrum, Optimism including Base, and zkSync collectively controlled over 90% of Ethereum L2 transaction volume at that time, and SOON's path to capturing meaningful market share against these established network effects remains genuinely uncertain.

Maysir:

The Maysir score of 15 out of 15 is a clean score at the Level 1 and Level 2 protocol scope. SOON's core protocol contains no wagering, gambling, or chance-based zero-sum wealth transfer mechanism. Transaction execution, network security staking, and rollup deployment are genuine productive activities.

Underlying Business Activity:

The Underlying Business Activity score of 15 out of 15 is a clean score reflecting SOON's permissible core infrastructure activities as currently documented.

UBA asks whether the underlying activities the protocol currently enables are permissible. Modular blockchain rollup infrastructure, SVM execution layer technology, cross-chain deployment tools, and high-performance transaction processing infrastructure are permissible economic activities that serve genuine productive economic purposes.

The AI Capital Market products are not sufficiently defined in publicly available research to warrant a UBA deduction. An undefined future product does not produce a UBA finding because there are no documented activities to assess for permissibility. If and when the AI Capital Market product mechanisms become publicly documented and those mechanisms raise specific UBA concerns, this dimension would require reassessment. The AI Capital Market uncertainty is assessed solely through the Gharar strategic pivot pathway.

Utility and Real Use:

The Utility and Real Use score of 4 out of 10 reflects the documented gap between SOON's claimed infrastructure utility and currently demonstrated on-chain economic activity. This is a 6-point material concern deduction.

CoinStudy notes an important methodological caveat before this assessment. TVL is not a complete measure of infrastructure utility for a rollup stack: developer deployments, transaction activity, fees generated, and application count are also relevant adoption indicators. CoinStudy considers TVL alongside all available adoption evidence rather than treating it as the sole measure of utility.

Having applied this caveat, the available evidence still supports a cautious Utility assessment. The documented technical achievements are real: SOON Mainnet is operational, the SOON Stack has onboarded documented projects including Cytonic, CARV, and Lucent Network according to BlockEden research, and the SOON-Kailua fraud proof architecture was in testnet. The technical infrastructure exists and functions.

The 6-point material concern deduction reflects that despite these technical achievements, the totality of available adoption evidence is thin relative to the network's market valuation. As of October 9, 2026 per CoinMarketCap research, SOON's TVL is approximately $467,390, indicating a substantial gap between the $190.71 million market capitalization and demonstrated on-chain capital deployment. This minimal adoption pattern was also present earlier: Yellow research documented sub-$1 million bridged TVL and negligible DEX volume in late May to early June 2026. The persistence of minimal on-chain activity across both snapshots supports the cautious Utility assessment.

Tokenomics Fairness:

The Tokenomics Fairness score of 6 out of 10 reflects a genuinely community-oriented allocation structure alongside specific ongoing supply concerns. This is a 4-point significant concern deduction.

The positive tokenomics elements are real and notable. According to Tiger Research and KuCoin research, the 51% community allocation is among the highest community-oriented allocations CoinStudy has assessed. The 10% team and co-builder allocation with vesting is lower than many comparable projects. The SIP-1 burn of 30 million tokens demonstrates that the ecosystem can act on governance decisions.

The 4-point significant concern deduction reflects supply-side concerns assessed through the distributional fairness and supply predictability pathway. The first concern is the unlimited inflationary supply: SOON has no maximum supply cap per CoinMarketCap research, with 3% annual ongoing inflation creating continuous dilution of existing holders. The economic justification of staking rewards through inflation is standard in Proof-of-Stake protocols, but the absence of any maximum supply creates an open-ended dilution trajectory. The second concern is supply predictability: the foundation's demonstrated discretionary ability to intervene in token supply through SIP-1 burns and redemption programs means that the long-term monetary trajectory cannot be predicted from the protocol specifications alone, creating unpredictable distributional outcomes for holders. The accountability dimension of this discretion is assessed separately in Governance through its distinct pathway.

Transparency and Governance:

The Transparency and Governance score of 5 out of 10 reflects significant governance documentation gaps and accountability concerns. This is a 5-point significant concern deduction.

The positive governance elements are limited but present. SOON governance is documented as operating through token holder voting. SIP-1 demonstrated that the improvement proposal mechanism can produce binding protocol changes. Strategic backing from Jump Crypto and Amber Group provides some institutional credibility.

The 5-point significant concern deduction reflects three governance concerns through distinct pathways that do not rely on evidence already assessed in other dimensions. The first is team identification: the core SOON team is not prominently identified in publicly available research for a project with a $190 million market capitalization, which is an unusual level of anonymity at this scale. The second is accountability documentation: while foundation monetary discretion is assessed in Tokenomics Fairness for its distributional consequences, the distinct governance question here is whether documented accountability mechanisms adequately constrain that discretion. The available evidence does not demonstrate such documented constraints. The third is governance documentation depth: specific governance mechanisms including voting thresholds, proposal requirements, quorum rules, and the practical relationship between community votes and foundation authority are not fully documented in publicly available research at the depth required for confident assessment.

Overall HCS Score: 25 + 9 + 15 + 15 + 4 + 6 + 5 = 79 out of 100 : Halal With Concerns ⚠️

Anticipated Scholarly Questions: Critical Islamic Finance Review

Scholar Question 1: Is SOON staking permissible given that it earns rewards through token inflation rather than through explicit service fees paid by users?

CoinStudy's response: SOON staking earns variable inflation-based emission rewards for providing genuine network security services as validators. The economic substance is that validators provide real computational security services to the network and the network compensates them through newly minted tokens as a shared payment mechanism. This is not a lending relationship: the staker does not lend capital to a borrower who returns more than they received. The distinction between inflation-funded staking rewards and service-fee-funded staking rewards is one of funding mechanism rather than economic substance. Neither constitutes a protocol-defined entitlement to excess over principal in a lending relationship. CoinStudy presents this as an analytical position based on available documentation. Muslim investors should independently review the specific staking terms and consult a qualified Islamic scholar before participating in staking where individual guidance is needed.

Scholar Question 2: Does the foundation's discretionary power over token supply create Sharia concerns beyond the governance and tokenomics concerns CoinStudy identifies?

CoinStudy's response: CoinStudy identifies the foundation's demonstrated discretionary monetary control as a supply predictability concern in Tokenomics Fairness and an accountability concern in Transparency and Governance. A central authority's ability to change the monetary parameters of a digital asset does not by itself constitute a prohibited mechanism under Islamic commercial law. However it does create genuine uncertainty about the long-term monetary trajectory of SOON that Muslim investors must honestly factor into their assessment. CoinStudy does not extend this to a Financial Exposure finding because it is not a prohibited mechanism at the core protocol level.

Scholar Question 3: The AI Capital Market products are undisclosed. Should Muslim investors wait for clarification before holding SOON?

CoinStudy's response: CoinStudy's current classification covers SOON's documented Level 1 and Level 2 mechanisms. The AI Capital Market products are assessed through the Gharar dimension as part of strategic pivot uncertainty because their undisclosed nature contributes to meaningful forward-looking uncertainty about the project's direction. The pivot does not produce a Financial Exposure or UBA finding because an undefined future product is not evidence of a current prohibited mechanism in the core protocol. Muslim investors who are specifically concerned about the AI Capital Market product mechanisms should monitor SOON's public documentation. If those mechanisms introduce prohibited financial instruments at the native infrastructure level, CoinStudy's classification would require reassessment at that time.

Scholar Question 4: Is the TVL gap a Gharar concern or simply an investment risk?

CoinStudy's response: The gap between SOON's market capitalization and its documented TVL is assessed through two distinct dimensions. In Gharar it contributes to the adoption sustainability uncertainty pathway: the forward-looking question of whether the network will achieve genuine adoption to sustain its utility claims is an HCS operational uncertainty concern rather than classical contractual Gharar about the transaction terms themselves. In Utility it directly supports the significant deduction for currently demonstrated genuine use across two dated snapshots. These are analytically distinct assessments of related evidence. The question of whether the gap between market valuation and on-chain activity makes SOON a good or bad investment is a financial judgment that falls outside CoinStudy's compliance assessment scope.

CoinStudy HCS Screening Results

Layer 1: Sharia Red Line Screening

Ecosystem Riba Exposure: ✅ Passed. SOON's core Level 1 and Level 2 economic model is transaction fee service revenue and inflation-based staking rewards for network security services. No interest-bearing lending mechanism and no entitlement to excess over principal in the core protocol. Level 3 DeFi applications do not trigger this red line under the four-level framework.

Gambling and Betting: ✅ Passed at Level 1 and Level 2. No wagering mechanism in core protocol design.

Haram Industry: ✅ Passed at Level 1 and Level 2. Modular blockchain rollup infrastructure and SVM execution layer technology are permissible computational infrastructure.

Guaranteed / Contractual Interest Return: ✅ Passed. Variable inflation-based emission rewards for network security services are not a guaranteed contractual entitlement to excess over principal in a lending relationship.

Synthetic Interest Products: ✅ Passed at Level 1 and Level 2.

All five Layer 1 red-line checks pass.

Layer 2: HCS Score Breakdown

On Financial Exposure Risk, weighted at 25%, SOON scores 25 out of 25. Clean score. Core transaction fees and inflation-based staking rewards have no documented prohibited financial mechanism at Level 1 and Level 2. Foundation monetary discretion assessed in Tokenomics and Governance through their distinct pathways. AI Capital Market products assessed in Gharar as strategic uncertainty. Neither produces a Financial Exposure deduction.

On Gharar, weighted at 15%, SOON scores 9 out of 15. Six-point material concern deduction through three distinct forward-looking uncertainty pathways assessed under the expanded HCS operational uncertainty framework: adoption sustainability uncertainty evidenced by TVL of approximately $467,000 per CoinMarketCap October 2026 and sub-$1 million bridged TVL per Yellow research May to June 2026 against $190.71 million market capitalization, strategic pivot uncertainty from the soonBase L3 shutdown and AI Capital Market redirection in March 2026 per Yellow research as the sole analytical home for this concern, and L2 competitive landscape uncertainty given documented market concentration per BlockEden February 2026 research.

On Maysir, weighted at 15%, SOON scores 15 out of 15. Clean score. No wagering mechanism in core protocol.

On Underlying Business Activity, weighted at 15%, SOON scores 15 out of 15. Clean score. Rollup infrastructure, SVM execution layer, and cross-chain deployment tools are permissible economic activities. AI Capital Market products are undefined and do not produce a UBA finding.

On Utility and Real Use, weighted at 10%, SOON scores 4 out of 10. Six-point material concern deduction. TVL approximately $467,390 per CoinMarketCap research October 9, 2026. Sub-$1 million bridged TVL and negligible DEX volume per Yellow research late May to early June 2026 showing the minimal adoption pattern persisted across both periods. CoinStudy acknowledges TVL alone does not capture all infrastructure utility and considers developer deployments and transaction activity alongside it. The totality of available evidence nonetheless supports a cautious assessment.

On Tokenomics Fairness, weighted at 10%, SOON scores 6 out of 10. Four-point significant concern deduction for two supply-side concerns through the distributional fairness and supply predictability pathway: unlimited inflationary supply with no maximum cap per CoinMarketCap creating open-ended ongoing dilution, and foundation's demonstrated discretionary ability to intervene in token supply per Yellow research creating unpredictable monetary outcomes for holders. The 51% community allocation per Tiger Research and KuCoin research and 10% team allocation with vesting are positive distributional elements.

On Transparency and Governance, weighted at 10%, SOON scores 5 out of 10. Five-point significant concern deduction through three distinct pathways: core team not prominently identified in publicly available research for a $190 million market cap project, absence of documented accountability mechanisms constraining foundation monetary discretion, and insufficient governance documentation depth for voting thresholds, proposal requirements, quorum rules, and the practical relationship between community votes and foundation authority.

Overall HCS Score: 25 + 9 + 15 + 15 + 4 + 6 + 5 = 79 out of 100 : Halal With Concerns ⚠️

What Is Permissible and What Is Haram

Halal With Concerns at the Level 1 and Level 2 protocol level:

Holding SOON on a spot basis as a utility and governance token = Halal With Concerns ⚠️ with honest acknowledgment of the significant adoption uncertainty, strategic pivot uncertainty, unlimited inflationary supply, and governance transparency concerns documented in this analysis

Buying and selling SOON on spot markets = Halal With Concerns ⚠️

Paying SOON as gas fees for genuine transaction execution on SOON Mainnet = Halal With Concerns ⚠️

Staking SOON to participate in network security and earning inflation-based rewards = Halal With Concerns ⚠️ variable emission-based compensation for genuine network security services. Muslim investors should review specific staking terms and consult a qualified Islamic scholar if individual guidance is needed before participating.

Deploying rollups using the SOON Stack infrastructure = Halal With Concerns ⚠️ where the deployed rollup itself enables permissible applications

Participating in governance through SOON token voting = Halal With Concerns ⚠️

Requires individual scholarly assessment:

Participating in SOON's AI Capital Market products = Requires individual scholarly assessment ⚠️ the specific mechanisms of these products are not sufficiently defined in publicly available research for classification. Consult a qualified Islamic scholar when the product mechanisms become clearly documented.

SOON perpetual futures and leveraged derivative products = Require separate Shariah assessment ⚠️ Under CoinStudy's HCS approach, these products may be classified as Haram where their specific contractual structure involves prohibited elements such as interest-bearing financing, impermissible funding arrangements, or other prohibited derivative mechanisms. Their classification must be based on the actual product terms, not solely on the underlying SOON token.

Haram based on specific prohibited mechanisms:

Using DeFi lending protocols on SOON Mainnet where lenders earn interest from borrowers = Haram ❌ assessed through the specific DeFi protocol's own mechanism, not through SOON's infrastructure classification

Participating in any gambling or wagering applications deployed on SOON Mainnet = Haram ❌ regardless of SOON's own classification

Important Questions for Muslim Investors

Do I understand that SOON's 79 out of 100 Halal With Concerns score reflects genuinely significant concerns including a persistent TVL of approximately $467,000 against a $190 million market capitalization evidenced across two separate dated snapshots, the soonBase L3 shutdown and strategic pivot to undisclosed AI Capital Market products in March 2026, unlimited inflationary supply with no maximum cap, and limited team identification and governance accountability documentation? Do I understand that the documented gap between SOON's market valuation and its currently demonstrated on-chain economic activity is the most important factual disclosure in this analysis and that whether this gap will close through future adoption is a financial judgment that falls outside CoinStudy's compliance scope? Am I aware that the AI Capital Market products and any derivative products built on SOON require individual scholarly assessment and that CoinStudy's current classification is limited to assessed mechanisms only? Do I understand that SOON's clean Financial Exposure score of 25 out of 25 reflects the permissibility of the core transaction fee and staking reward mechanism and does not mean that all risks associated with holding SOON are acceptable?

Final Verdict

SOON is classified as Halal With Concerns under the CoinStudy Halal Crypto Standard with a score of 79 out of 100.

All five Layer 1 red-line checks pass. The Financial Exposure dimension achieves a clean 25 out of 25 because the core SOON protocol operates with permissible transaction fees for computational execution and variable inflation-based staking rewards for genuine network security services. Neither mechanism constitutes Riba. No gambling mechanism exists in the core protocol. The Underlying Business Activity dimension achieves a clean 15 out of 15 because rollup infrastructure, SVM execution technology, and cross-chain deployment tools are permissible economic activities.

The 79 score reflects genuinely significant concerns in Gharar, Utility, Tokenomics, and Governance assessed through distinct analytical dimensions without double-counting. The documented TVL of approximately $467,000 as of October 9, 2026 against a $190.71 million market capitalization, confirmed minimal across two separate dated snapshots, represents a substantial gap between valuation and demonstrated on-chain activity that is the most important factual disclosure for Muslim investors. The soonBase L3 shutdown and AI Capital Market pivot introduce strategic uncertainty assessed solely through the Gharar dimension. Unlimited inflationary supply with demonstrated foundation discretionary monetary control is assessed through Tokenomics and Governance through their distinct pathways.

Under CoinStudy's HCS framework, SOON's documented core protocol is classified as Halal With Concerns with a score of 79 out of 100. This classification is limited to the assessed mechanisms and available evidence. It is not a universal scholarly consensus or a personal fatwa. Investors should consider the documented risks, review the terms of any staking or other products they use, and consult a qualified Islamic scholar where individual guidance is needed.

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Disclaimer: This analysis is provided for educational and research purposes only based on guidance from CoinStudy's HCS Shariah Board. The 79 out of 100 Halal With Concerns classification applies to SOON at Levels 1 and 2 as documented in the activity matrix. The AI Capital Market products require individual scholarly assessment when their mechanisms become publicly documented. Any derivative products built on or referencing SOON require separate assessment based on their own contractual terms. DeFi lending protocols deployed on SOON Mainnet require separate assessment from SOON's own classification. CoinStudy does not issue personal fatwas or financial advice. Please consult a qualified Islamic scholar for individual guidance.