RIOT

Riot Platforms Inc.

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Is RIOT Halal?

Bitcoin mining company — speculation concerns.

What You Should Know

Riot operates Bitcoin mining operations. Speculation element present. Its March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q reports $3,438.020 million of assets, $842.163 million of interest-bearing debt, $205.666 million of cash, $66.569 million of receivables and $167.219 million of quarterly revenue. Debt/assets is 24.50% and the financial ratios pass, but the disclosed $111.895 million bitcoin-mining revenue proxy keeps the overall activity screen failed.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Speculation
  • Bitcoin price volatility
  • Data-center transition

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-15.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
24.50%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

842.163 / 3,438.02

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
5.98%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

205.666 / 3,438.02

Receivables + cash / assets
7.92%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

272.235 / 3,438.02

Non-compliant income / revenue
1.38%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

2.313 / 167.219

FTSE Yasaar
v4.6, February 2026
Financial
Pass
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is 24.50%, liquidity/assets is 5.98%, receivables-plus-cash/assets is 7.92% and disclosed interest income is 1.38%; the bitcoin-mining activity proxy fails the retained qualitative/business screen.

MSCI Islamic (total-assets series)
October 2024 methodology
Financial
Pass
Overall
Fails

Debt, liquidity and receivables-plus-cash are below the examined total-assets limits, but the bitcoin-mining core-business screen fails. This is not an index-membership claim.

Malaysia SAC financial ratios
single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025
Financial
Pass
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets and identifiable conventional cash are below the examined Malaysia limits; the disclosed bitcoin-mining proxy fails the retained activity assessment.

Market-cap denominator methods
MSCI M-Series, S&P and Dow Jones methods differ
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Fails

A properly licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored; market-cap methods cannot cure the activity failure.

Business-activity disclosure

Riot operates bitcoin mining, data centers and engineering businesses. Bitcoin mining is the core qualitative concern because scholars differ on digital-asset permissibility and the speculative exposure remains material.

Limitation: The filing reports segment revenue but does not allocate a scholar-universal prohibited-revenue numerator; bitcoin-mining revenue is used only as a conservative disclosed proxy.

Purification

Riot discloses $2.313 million of interest income, but no scholar-approved purification percentage is asserted for digital-asset or data-center activity.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Riot's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • Interest-bearing debt is current debt of $254.502 million plus debt less current portion of $587.661 million; operating leases and contingent consideration are excluded.
  • Cash is $205.666 million; accounts receivable is $66.569 million; quarterly revenue is $167.219 million.
  • Bitcoin-mining revenue of $111.895 million is used as a disclosed conservative activity proxy. Data-center and engineering revenue remain unallocated, so this is not a claim that every dollar of revenue is impermissible.
  • Disclosed interest income is $2.313 million, or 1.38% of quarterly revenue.

This is a reproducible financial screen, not a fatwa. A failed total-assets screen can coexist with a pass under a market-cap methodology. ZakatInvest keeps the qualitative assessment separate so numerical thresholds do not erase material context.

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