In a landmark move, ZIGChain, a Layer-1 blockchain built for compliant wealth generation, has launched Nawa Finance, its first institutionally approved, Shariah-compliant on-chain yield platform. The launch indicates a major expansion of the blockchain company’s Islamic-finance ecosystem, bringing audited, transparent, and Shariah-certified digital yields directly to users.
“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.”
For several users, yield opportunities are speculative, uncertain, misaligned with their moral values. In this scenario comes ZIGChain’s Nawa Finance addressing this gap through a combination of institutional-grade auditing, Islamic-finance certification, and real-world, asset-backed yield mechanisms that prioritize transparency and ethical deployment, giving users clear insight into how value is created without relying on interest-based models.
All products are certified by Amanie Advisors and audited by Halborn and Oak Security, ensuring full visibility into both capital deployment and return generation..
“People are tired of speculative and unclear yield sources. They want returns they can trust and that align with their values,” said Shaqir Hashim, Core Contributor at Nawa Finance. “With our Shariah certification, we are building exactly that. This is only the beginning.”
Early momentum and institutional support
The launch of the Shariah-compliant platform follows an early soft-launch phase that delivered strong market momentum, attracting hundreds of early users and millions in Total Value Locked (TVL) across BTC and ZIG pools. It also comes as institutions increase engagement across the ZIGChain ecosystem, including SEGG Media Corporation’s $300 million Digital Asset and Tokenization Program and BTCS S.A.’s $30 million allocation and validator operations on the network.
Upcoming releases include ETH, stablecoin, and real-world-asset (RWA) yield vaults, along with public Shariah reports and real-time dashboards for capital deployment visibility. Treasury and liquidity products for banks, funds, and fintechs are also in development.
The launch further reinforces ZIGChain’s position as an emerging hub for Shariah-compliant and regulated financial products delivered entirely on-chain, building on earlier work with Zamanat, the network’s Shariah-certified tokenization platform..
