Bitget Token
BGB#56BGB is the token of the Bitget crypto exchange and its Bitget Wallet.
- Market cap
- $1.39B
- Volume 24h
- $18.12M
- All-time high
- $8.45
- −76.53% from ATH
- Circulating supply
- 699.99M of 2B
Does not clear all 8 Shariah criteria. Needs caution: nature of the asset, gambling (maysir), business model, excessive uncertainty (gharar), usage, and benefit and harm (maslahah).
- 2 pass
- 6 caution
- 0 fail
Verdict history
- DoubtfulCurrent
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Halal analysis
Can a Muslim hold Bitget Token?8 Shariah criteria
2 pass · 6 caution · 0 failHolding BGB pays no interest; the interest-style returns on offer come from optional Bitget products, not from the token.
Riba means interest or any fixed increase on a loan. This criterion asks whether simply holding the asset produces interest. BGB pays nothing to its holder: it is an ERC-20 token, and it does not secure a proof-of-stake network, so there is no validator reward. Bitget does offer returns on BGB, but through separate exchange products: Simple Earn, which Bitget itself describes as a way to 'earn daily interest' at an estimated APR, as well as Launchpool and PoolX. ShariaQuant also reports a fixed 5% APY BGB staking pool, which we could not confirm on a Bitget page.
These products are optional and are assessed below under yield products and lending, where they are not acceptable. The score sits near the bottom of the pass band because the main rewards marketed to BGB holders are interest-style products.
BGB has real utility on Bitget, and in 2025 it was named the future gas token of the Morph network, but that network role is still a plan, and authoritative bodies disagree whether crypto tokens are property (mal).
BGB gives fee discounts and access to token launches on Bitget, pays gas in Bitget Wallet, and in September 2025 was named the gas, governance and payment token of the Morph Layer 2 network; in November 2025 Morph said users would soon be able to pay transaction fees directly in BGB and that burn settings are to be set by community vote. That is real utility, not an empty record. But the Morph role was announced as a plan, and no data were found showing it is live or how much it is used, so most of BGB's value still rests on one exchange's services.
On whether such tokens are property (mal), Malaysia's Securities Commission Shariah Advisory Council treats a digital currency without an underlying asset as a tradable good ('urudh), while Darul Uloom Karachi (2026) says crypto tokens are not mal, Indonesia's MUI holds that crypto is not valid to trade as a commodity unless it has an underlying, and state fatwa bodies in Egypt, Turkey and the UAE have rejected cryptocurrency in general. This disagreement keeps the criterion at caution.
BGB has a real function, but the exchange around it is dominated by leveraged derivatives trading, and its promoted perks centre on token launches and airdrops.
Maysir means gambling, or gains that depend mainly on chance; ordinary price swings are not maysir. BGB is not a meme or betting token: it has fee, gas and governance uses. Yet the activity around it is heavily speculative. Bitget's own whitepaper says it began as a futures platform and that its futures open interest ranks among the top three exchanges, and CoinGecko data for 27 September 2026 show derivatives at about 7.7 times spot volume on Bitget.
BGB's main holder perks are Launchpool and PoolX airdrops of newly listed tokens; Bitget's whitepaper says its Launchpool projects averaged an APR of 90%. ShariaQuant also reports a daily BGB lottery, which we did not find in the current whitepaper. Because a real function exists, this is caution, not fail.
Bitget is a derivatives-led exchange, so disputed income is very likely above the 20% limit, but it publishes no revenue split and the share cannot be measured.
For exchange tokens, the test looks at the income of the exchange behind them; fees from leveraged trading are disputed activity with a 20% limit, and AAOIFI Shari'ah Standard 20 treats futures without delivery as impermissible. Bitget's whitepaper describes it as having evolved from a derivatives platform, pioneering perpetual futures and futures copy trading, and it also offers margin trading, crypto loans and Earn products. On 27 September 2026, per CoinGecko, about 89% of Bitget's trading volume was derivatives.
Bitget publishes no revenue breakdown, its effective fee rates are not public, and its interest income from margin, loans and Earn is undisclosed, so the share cannot be tested. ShariaQuant states that over 33% of Bitget's revenue is non-compliant but gives no data source. Because the revenue mix is unknown, this is rated caution, not fail; the score is at the bottom of the band because derivatives very likely dominate. Since September 2025 the Morph Foundation steers BGB, and burns follow a fee-based formula rather than a share of Bitget's profits, so BGB holders get no direct profit share.
Burns are visible on-chain, but ownership is highly concentrated, a large treasury is still being released, and the burn formula can be changed.
Gharar means excessive uncertainty or hidden terms. Some things are transparent: the supply started at 2 billion, and on 27 September 2026 the burn address held about 1.09 billion BGB after the 800 million burn in January 2025 and the 220 million burn in September 2025. Other things are not. Outside the burn address, two unlabelled Ethereum addresses held about 440 million BGB, roughly 48% of the remaining supply. The Morph Foundation holds a 220 million BGB treasury released at 2% a month, and the quarterly burn formula has adjustable factors that governance can change.
Only about 700 million BGB circulate. Bitget's proof of reserves is self-published, with no independent audit found. This partial opacity is caution; it is not fail, because the on-chain total supply is still the original 2 billion and burns are publicly visible.
Many of BGB's promoted uses run through disputed exchange products (Earn, Launchpool, crypto-loan collateral), while its payment, gas and voting role on Morph is still announced rather than shown to be live.
Some of BGB's uses are permissible in themselves: fee discounts on spot trading, gas in Bitget Wallet, and the planned gas payments and burn-setting votes on the Morph network. But the whitepaper's list of holder perks leans on disputed products: staking BGB in Launchpool and PoolX to 'earn passive income', subscribing to token launches, and using BGB as high-value collateral in Bitget's Crypto Loans. BGB can also be placed in Simple Earn, which Bitget describes as earning interest.
No data were found showing that BGB gas payments or voting on Morph are live, or how much BGB is used for payments. With disputed uses this prominent and no measurement showing that permissible use dominates, the criterion is caution.
BGB can be bought with full payment on spot markets and withdrawn to a personal wallet on Ethereum or Morph.
This criterion only asks whether the asset can be owned in a permissible form. BGB is an ERC-20 token on Ethereum and also exists on Morph, so it can be held in self-custody. It trades on spot markets at Bitget, MEXC, Kraken and other exchanges and on decentralised exchanges such as Uniswap and BulbaSwap. No fund holding BGB was found. Bitget's Terms of Use exclude users in several countries, including the United States, Malaysia, Austria, France and Germany, which narrows access to BGB's main venue there. BGB does not exist only as a leveraged or derivative wrapper.
BGB supports payments and a Layer 2 network, but the exchange behind it builds its business on marketing leveraged futures and copy trading to retail users.
Maslahah means weighing real benefit against real harm. On the benefit side, BGB has been named the future gas and payment token of the Morph network, and Bitget publishes a proof of reserves and keeps a user protection fund of about 6,500 BTC. On the harm side, Bitget describes itself as the world's largest crypto copy-trading platform, including futures copy trading, and derivatives made up about 89% of its trading volume on 27 September 2026; leveraged trading exposes retail users to rapid losses.
Bitget's Terms of Use also exclude several major jurisdictions, and on 2 July 2026 Bitget EU was still awaiting MiCA authorisation from Austria's Financial Market Authority. BGB itself is not mainly a tool for fraud or sanctions evasion, so harm does not dominate, but it is significant.
How you can use it
Tap a card for the ruling and sourcesSpot BGB with full, immediate payment is available on Bitget, MEXC, Kraken and decentralised exchanges such as Uniswap, and it can be withdrawn to a personal wallet. Spot is rated acceptable for a DOUBTFUL asset; the doubts concern the asset and its issuer, not the spot method.
No exchange-traded fund or product holding BGB was found, so this route is not available. A fund that holds BGB itself would be judged like spot, with its structure checked for lending and interest income.
BGB can pay gas in Bitget Wallet; paying gas on Morph and Bitget Pay and Card uses are planned; no payment volume data were found. Tier-1 bodies such as MUI (Indonesia, 2021) prohibit crypto as a means of payment, so this use is caution.
BGB has no native validator staking: it does not secure a proof-of-stake network. Products labelled 'staking' on Bitget, including Launchpool, PoolX and the fixed-rate staking pool reported by ShariaQuant, are not validation work, so their source of return is unclear at best; interest-bearing variants are covered under yield products.
Always fail: borrowing with leverage and deferred exchange without delivery (AAOIFI SS 20). Bitget offers margin trading.
Always fail: futures, perpetuals and options are deferred exchange without delivery, with leverage (AAOIFI SS 20). Bitget's core business is perpetual futures.
Lending BGB for a return is riba. Bitget runs Crypto Loans that accept BGB as collateral, and the whitepaper plans BGB lending on DeFi protocols; lending for interest is not acceptable.
Bitget's Simple Earn pays what Bitget itself calls daily interest at an estimated APR, and ShariaQuant reports a fixed 5% APY BGB staking pool, so these fail. Launchpool and PoolX airdrops of new tokens have an undisclosed source and would be caution at best.
Scholars quotes
Penggunaan cryptocurrency sebagai mata uang hukumnya haram, karena mengandung gharar (ketidakjelasan), dharar (bahaya) dan bertentangan dengan Undang-Undang nomor 7 tahun 2011 tentang Mata Uang dan Peraturan Bank Indonesia nomor 17 tahun 2015 tentang Kewajiban Penggunaan Rupiah di Wilayah Negara Kesatuan Republik Indonesia.Sebagaimana mata wang yang lain, mata wang digital hendaklah tidak digunakan sebagai bayaran kepada barangan, perkhidmatan dan aktiviti tidak patuh Syariah seperti pembelian dadah, pelacuran, perjudian dan pendanaan aktiviti keganasan serta penggubahan wang haram.The SAC has also resolved that investment and trading of Digital Assets that fulfil the above requirements and which are traded on Digital Asset Exchange (DAX) registered with SC are permissible.Third: In light of the above and given the significant risks associated with this type of currencies and the instability of their transactions, the Council of the Academy recommends pursuing research and studies on issues affecting its ruling.Bitcoin is a digital currency that does not meet the legal and Sharia criteria that make it a currency subject to the rulings of dealing with official legal currencies recognized internationally.بناءً على ذلك: فلا يجوز شرعًا تداول عملة "البتكوين" والتعامل من خلالها بالبيعِ والشراءِ والإجارةِ وغيرها، بل يُمنع من الاشتراكِ فيها؛ لعدمِ اعتبارِها كوسيطٍ مقبولٍ للتبادلِ من الجهاتِ المخُتصَّةِ، ولِمَا تشتمل عليه من الضررِ الناشئ عن الغررِ والجهالةِ والغشِّ في مَصْرِفها ومِعْيارها وقِيمتها، فضلًا عما تؤدي إليه ممارستُها من مخاطرَ عاليةٍ على الأفراد والدول.As the token is rated non-compliant due to structural Riba and Maisir mechanisms directly tied to its value accrual, holding or trading BGB is not recommended for Shariah-conscious investors.According to research and opinion of experts so far, cryptocurrency is not considered ‘ maal ’ (wealth) in Sharia.Muhammadiyah memandang transaksi dan investasi kripto pada dasarnya mubah (boleh) tetapi dengan syarat tertentu.The opinion on this is the same as doing the same with any halal assets such as shares – 1) is permissible, 2) is more debatable and there are differing opinions on short-term trading.Our current position is 'tawaquf'; we can't say it is halal or haram, but we say it is better not to engage in itThe meeting concluded that exchange tokens are compliant with Shariah principles, meaning they do not inherently pose any Shariah issues.As I mentioned at the beginning of this article it is not necessary to substantiate the permissibility of something as long as there are no prohibited factors involved in it or surrounding it.AI-assisted analysis checked against sources. Not a fatwa or investment advice.
Where it trades
3 exchanges from our coverage · no referral links
KrakenCentralized · BGB/USDVolume 24h$3.05KReliability7.4Halal productNo halal product
BitgetCentralized · BGB/USDTVolume 24h$8.15MReliability5.0Halal productNo halal product
MEXCCentralized · BGB/USDTVolume 24h$78.83KReliability4.7Halal productNo halal product
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