Is VeChain VET halal? I am also confused about whether earning VTHO from staking counts as interest.

VeChain scores 89 out of 100 under CoinStudy's Halal Crypto Standard and is classified as Halal. It is one of the stronger scores in our enterprise blockchain series. Let me address both your questions directly.

On whether VET itself is halal, the answer is straightforwardly yes. VeChain is an enterprise blockchain built for supply chain tracking, product authentication, and sustainability measurement. There is no lending market, no interest-bearing financial product, and no borrowing mechanism anywhere in the protocol. Walmart China tracks food safety on it. BMW tracks carbon footprints on it. DNV runs sustainability certifications on it that cut reporting time by 70 percent. The VeBetter platform has 5.3 million users who have completed 50 million verified sustainable actions tracked on the blockchain. This is about as clear a productive economic purpose as we encounter in our analysis series. The underlying business activity of preventing counterfeiting and supply chain fraud also aligns directly with Islamic commercial ethics around honest dealing and fraud prevention.

On the VTHO staking question, this is genuinely the most important compliance nuance for VeChain and you are right to ask it carefully.

Following the December 2025 Hayabusa upgrade, VeChain moved from Proof-of-Authority to Delegated Proof-of-Stake. To earn VTHO you need a minimum of 10,000 VET, you mint a Delegator NFT, and you actively delegate to a validator who participates in network consensus. Your VTHO rewards come from that validator's block production activity.

This is different from depositing money in a savings account and earning a fixed percentage regardless of what you do. Several things distinguish it from interest income. The rewards are variable and not predetermined. You must actively participate by choosing a validator and maintaining delegation. You are compensating genuine network security service through your delegation. The rewards come from block production rather than from other participants paying interest on borrowed capital. And there is even a risk that your ticket earns nothing if network conditions change.

CoinStudy assesses this under what we call the Ijarah-adjacent framework, where variable rewards for genuine network security service participation pass the Guaranteed Interest check. The staking mechanism resembles service compensation more closely than it resembles interest on deposited capital.

That said, this is a genuinely nuanced area of Islamic finance where scholars can reasonably disagree. If you plan to actively stake VET and earn VTHO we recommend discussing your specific participation with a qualified Islamic scholar for personal guidance. CoinStudy's assessment passes it at the compliance level but we always encourage personal scholarly consultation for individual staking decisions.

One additional point worth noting: VeChain launched a major 2026 roadmap expanding into AI agent infrastructure and full Ethereum compatibility through the Interstellar upgrade. This is positive for long-term utility but it means DeFi lending protocols could eventually deploy on VeChainThor. Any specific application you use on the network should be evaluated individually rather than assuming everything on VeChain shares its 89 out of 100 Halal classification.