Is RPL (Rocket Pool (RPL)) halal?

Q: Is RPL (Rocket Pool (RPL)) halal?

HARAM: Decentralized staking — same as Lido. Staking yields resemble riba. Rocket Pool documents rETH as appreciating with network staking rewards and describes node operators using RPL collateral in minipools. The liquid-staking reward structure and protocol incentives raise the same riba concerns as Lido.

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Rocket Pool (RPL)

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Is RPL Halal?

Decentralized staking — same as Lido. Staking yields resemble riba.

What You Should Know

Rocket Pool documents rETH as appreciating with network staking rewards and describes node operators using RPL collateral in minipools. The liquid-staking reward structure and protocol incentives raise the same riba concerns as Lido.

⚠️ Concerns

•Staking yields (potential riba)
•RPL collateral and protocol rewards
•Decentralized riba facilitation

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on Protocol and governance reference figures for the period ended 2026-07-14; calculated 2026-07-14.

Protocol asset · issuer screen N/A

Issuer financial ratios are not applicable to this asset. This is a decentralized protocol or token, not an operating company or fund with an issuer balance sheet, debt schedule, receivables or revenue statement. The placeholder inputs are retained for schema integrity only and are not a financial classification. The methodology rows below preserve the qualitative, school-dependent analysis.

Methodology	Financial	Overall	What drives it
FTSE Yasaar issuer screen (not applicable) v4.6, February 2026	Not calculated	Fails	Issuer financial ratios do not apply to a decentralized liquid-staking protocol; documented reward-bearing staking functions drive the overall FAIL.
MSCI Islamic issuer screen (not applicable) October 2024 methodology	Not calculated	Fails	No issuer balance sheet exists; the core liquid-staking reward and collateral functions remain impermissible under the qualitative screen.
Malaysia SAC issuer screen (not applicable) single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025	Not calculated	Fails	Issuer ratios do not apply; documented liquid-staking rewards and RPL collateral functions drive the FAIL.
Market-cap issuer methods (not applicable) MSCI M-Series, S&P and Dow Jones methods differ	Not calculated	Fails	Token market capitalization cannot replace issuer financial statements or override the core protocol-activity conclusion.

FTSE Yasaar issuer screen (not applicable)

v4.6, February 2026

Financial: Not calculated
Overall: Fails

Issuer financial ratios do not apply to a decentralized liquid-staking protocol; documented reward-bearing staking functions drive the overall FAIL.

MSCI Islamic issuer screen (not applicable)

October 2024 methodology

Financial: Not calculated
Overall: Fails

No issuer balance sheet exists; the core liquid-staking reward and collateral functions remain impermissible under the qualitative screen.

Malaysia SAC issuer screen (not applicable)

single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025

Financial: Not calculated
Overall: Fails

Issuer ratios do not apply; documented liquid-staking rewards and RPL collateral functions drive the FAIL.

Market-cap issuer methods (not applicable)

MSCI M-Series, S&P and Dow Jones methods differ

Financial: Not calculated
Overall: Fails

Token market capitalization cannot replace issuer financial statements or override the core protocol-activity conclusion.

Business-activity disclosure

Rocket Pool's core product is decentralized liquid and node staking: users receive reward-accruing rETH, while node operators run minipools with ETH and RPL collateral. The reward-bearing staking structure and liquid-staking facilitation drive the FAIL under this qualitative screen.

Limitation: No issuer revenue, balance sheet or universal prohibited-activity numerator exists; the FAIL rests on documented protocol functions, not a fabricated company ratio.

Purification

No issuer income statement exists and no scholar-approved purification percentage can be inferred; the core liquid-staking reward function is classified separately as FAIL.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources

RPL is the node-operator and governance token of a decentralized Ethereum liquid-staking protocol, not an operating company or fund with issuer financial statements.
Rocket Pool documents describe rETH as a token that appreciates with network staking rewards, while node operators create minipools using bonded and borrowed ETH and stake RPL collateral; the Protocol DAO uses RPL stake for governance.
Debt, liquidity, receivables and income ratios are not economically applicable; placeholder inputs exist only for the shared record schema and are not a financial classification.

Rocket Pool: Rocket Pool Protocol DAO governance Rocket Pool Docs: Rocket Pool minipool validators and RPL staking Rocket Pool Docs: Rocket Pool staking and rETH FAQ ZakatInvest methodology: FTSE Yasaar issuer-screen applicability note ZakatInvest methodology: MSCI Islamic issuer-screen applicability note ZakatInvest methodology: Malaysia SAC issuer-screen applicability note

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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