ZIGChain, the Layer-1 blockchain focused on compliant digital finance, has launched its first institutionally approved Shariah-compliant yield platform, marking a significant step in the company’s ambitions to build a regulated ecosystem for Islamic finance products on-chain.
The debut of Nawa Finance brings audited, transparent and Shariah-certified yield opportunities to users seeking alternatives to the speculative returns that dominate much of the decentralised finance market.
Nawa is designed to appeal to investors who have been deterred by the opacity of crypto-based yield strategies, many of which rely on leverage or synthetic financial engineering. Instead, the platform offers returns derived from real-world, asset-backed structures that operate without interest-based models, in line with Islamic principles.
Institutional-grade visibility
The project has undergone Shariah certification by Amanie Advisors, a leading advisory firm in the Islamic finance sector, and security audits by Halborn and Oak Security. ZIGChain executives say this combination provides institutional-grade visibility into how value is generated and deployed.
“This is a significant moment for the ZIGChain ecosystem,” said Abdul Rafay Gadit, founder of ZIGChain. “Our goal has always been to build infrastructure where compliant financial products can operate transparently and at scale. With Nawa Finance live on-chain, users now have access to audited, Shariah-certified yields built for clarity and trust.”
Nawa’s promoters argue that demand for ethically aligned digital-asset tools is strengthening as investors reassess the risks of traditional DeFi. “People are tired of speculative and unclear yield sources,” said Shaqir Hashim, a core contributor at Nawa Finance. “They want returns they can trust and that align with their values. With our Shariah certification, we are building exactly that. This is only the beginning.”
The launch follows a soft-rollout phase that attracted several hundred early users and generated millions of dollars in total value locked across Bitcoin and ZIG token pools. ZIGChain’s wider ecosystem has been gaining institutional traction, including SEGG Media Corporation’s planned $300mn digital-asset and tokenisation programme and BTCS S.A.’s $30mn allocation and validator operations on the network.
Analysts say these developments signal growing confidence in the chain’s regulatory posture and its proposition as a platform for asset-backed financial products.
What’s next for Nawa Finance?
The roadmap for Nawa includes the release of additional yield vaults backed by Ether, stablecoins and real-world assets such as trade finance and commodity-linked structures. Public Shariah reports and real-time dashboards showing how capital is deployed are also scheduled, as are treasury and liquidity-management tools targeted at banks, funds and fintechs seeking compliant digital-asset exposure.
ZIGChain is positioning itself as an emerging hub for Shariah-compliant digital finance, building on earlier work with Zamanat, its tokenisation platform certified under Islamic-finance rules. The network’s architecture is designed to support modular, regulated DeFi applications, allowing institutions to issue and manage asset-backed digital products with full on-chain transparency.
For ZIGChain, the bet is that demand for compliant, audit-backed digital finance tools will grow as regulators tighten scrutiny of speculative crypto models and as institutional investors seek exposure to tokenised assets without compromising governance requirements.
The launch of Nawa Finance, which blends blockchain automation with Islamic-finance principles, is intended to show that digital-asset platforms can align with both ethical and regulatory expectations.
Nawa Finance, ZIGChain says, is only the first of several products that will expand its compliant finance footprint. The company hopes the platform will help set new standards for trust-based yield generation in a market that has been defined as much by its volatility as its innovation.
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