Dubai, U.A.E. — Halal NFT market SouqNFT now hosts the world’s first NFT-based halal compliance certifications. The NFT certificates, minted and issued by Shariah Specialists Ltd., are powered by moral decentralized finance (DeFi) platform MRHB.Community.
These NFTs are the primary utterly immutable halal compliance certifications which have been recorded on a blockchain, offering newfound transparency to the halal certification sector. The NFTs will permit firms to publicly confirm that their enterprise practices and merchandise are licensed halal, which suggests they’re moral in accordance with Islamic jurisprudence ideas.
“The trustless nature of NFT-based halal compliance certifications fills a urgent want within the halal economic system sector, the place certificates forgeries are frequent or tough to validate, particularly within the halal meals trade. NFTs are distinctive and neither replaceable nor interchangeable — this makes them an ideal expertise for immutable certificates,” mentioned MRHB DeFi CEO Naquib Mohammed. “The whole transparency of blockchain additionally implies that anyone can simply cross-check a certificates with Shariah Knowledgeable’s public key to confirm past a shadow of a doubt that it was this particular Shariah advisory agency that minted the NFT and issued the certificates. By default, NFTs incorporate proof of possession.”
Shariah Specialists, the issuer of the NFT certificates, is a London-based advisory agency based in 2020 with the mission of guiding Web3 tasks alongside Islamic ideas. Shariah Specialists’ fatwas (authorized rulings) embrace Islamic banking and finance, gold and silver, zakat almsgiving for monetary establishments and traders, and waqf charitable endowments. The corporate is headed by world famend Shariah students Dr. Farrukh Habib and Mufti Billal Omarjee. Singapore-based gold crypto platform Cache.Gold is the primary receiver of the halal certification within the type of NFT minted on SouqNFT market.
“Shariah Specialists imagine that tokenization of certificates within the type of NFTs may help keep away from cumbersome authentication strategies and gradual verification processes,” Dr Habib — Co-founder, Shariah Specialists — mentioned. “Different strategies are liable to a number of factors of failure alongside the way in which, corresponding to loss or destruction of a paper or digital certificates. NFTs are a extra streamlined and everlasting answer.”
The SouqNFT market was launched in December 2021, and was MRHB DeFi’s first launched product together with their $MRHB token. Notably, SouqNFT can be the world’s first NFT market to checklist halal-certified NFTs, guaranteeing customers won’t ever come upon inappropriate content material on the location. The Shariah Governance Board (SGB) retains a watch on all NFTs submitted to the market, and are additional aided by NSFW and NLP machine studying algorithms.
Bringing Collectively an Moral Web3 Ecosystem
MRHB DeFi Community was based to create a platform ecosystem of halal DeFi services made particularly for individuals involved about making solely moral monetary selections. This contains the Islamic Finance sector, a market representing over 1 billion individuals and US$3 trillion in worth. So as to be thought-about halal for Islamic Finance, companies should adhere to strict moral and financing ideas, together with avoidance of social exploitation, curiosity or usury and assist of transparency, sustainability, asset or utility-backed financing and equitable risk-reward sharing — all ideas which have a common enchantment past the Muslim group.
“It’s our honest hope that the NFT certificates we host on SouqNFT will encourage others to hitch MRHB DeFi Community in our mission to construct a Web3 ecosystem targeted on moral enterprise practices,” Naquib mentioned. “The cryptocurrency trade has been unregulated for much too lengthy, and this has introduced many dangerous actors and immoral conditions. A protected, reliable house must be constructed within the cryptoverse for individuals with robust convictions of what’s proper and flawed, and we expect that blockchain might be the right instrument to make this occur.”
MRHB DeFi Community just lately launched their flagship product, Sahal Pockets, which is a self-custodial multichain cryptocurrency pockets constructed particularly to be suitable with solely tokens licensed halal. The pockets can be a portal to the remainder of the MRHB DeFi ecosystem — together with linking on to SouqNFT — making it simple for anyone to make use of the MRHB DeFi Community platform as a trusted gatekeeper to the halal cryptoverse, 5 extra merchandise are additionally being constructed for this ecosystem, together with interest-free crypto financing, a cross-chain DEX aggregator and a liquidity harvester, together with an entrepreneur launchpad and decentralized philanthropy (DePhi) aimed toward creating higher alternatives for underprivileged communities.
MRHB DeFi Community’s imaginative and prescient is supported by quite a few companions and traders, together with Polygon Expertise, Sheesha Finance, Australian Gulf Capital, NewTribe Capital, Blockchain Australia, Mozaic, Contango Digital Belongings, ZKSync, Acreditus Companions, EMGS Group, Sinofy Group, Sukhavati Protocol and MKD Capital, amongst others.
About MRHB DeFi Community
MRHB DeFi Community is a halal, decentralized finance platform constructed to embody the true spirit of “Moral and Inclusive DeFi” by following faith-based monetary and enterprise ideas the place all excluded communities can profit from the complete empowerment potential of DeFi.
The various workforce contains researchers, technocrats, influencers, Islamic fintech specialists, enterprise entrepreneurs and trade professionals, who’ve all come collectively to make sure that MRHB DeFi prevails in a way that can influence society as a complete, primarily bridging the hole between faith-conscious communities and the blockchain world.
MRHB DeFi Community Official Channels
Web site: https://mrhb.community
Twitter: https://twitter.com/marhabadefi
Telegram: https://t.me/mdf_official
Telegram Bulletins: https://t.me/marhabadefi_ANN
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MarhabaDeFi
Medium: https://medium.com/@mrhbdefi
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/firm/marhabadefi
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/DubSjKmkBX
Fb: https://www.fb.com/MRHBDeFi
Telegram (Arabic): https://t.me/mdf_arabic
Telegram (Russian): https://t.me/marhabadefi_russia
Telegram (Turkish): https://t.me/MarhabaDefiTR
Telegram (Persian): https://t.me/mrhbdefi_persian
Telegram (Urdu/Hindi): https://t.me/MRHBDeFi_Urdu_Hindi
SouqNFT Market: https://souq.mrhb.community
