keel News — Announcements & Research Notes
The project announces itself on GitHub Discussions — releases, compliance write-ups, research notes, and honest results. This page reads the Announcements category and deep-links every item to GitHub, where reading and replying actually happen.
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The honest measured result: no shipped rule is net-positive at Coinbase's taker rate actually paid
Stated by the project first, so nobody has to find it themselves: no shipped rule family is net positive at the taker fee actually paid on Coinbase ( 1.2% per leg — the only live venue; a Robinhood adapter exists but is deliberately unwired, issue 198). The viable parameter/fee…
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keel is not a fatwa engine — the governance boundary, in one post
The one sentence version, also on the README's first screen: keel is not a fatwa engine. It is an enforcement engine for a ruling you supply. What that means in practice: keel never derives a Shariah classification from market data. You record one — with a source and your name…
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keel is an open source Shariah compliance engine for spot crypto trading — not a trading bot with a halal coat of paint, but the compliance machinery: allowlist admission where Shariah classifications are attested with a source and never inferred from market data , a fails…
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The number 940 entry signals per year, pooled across 19 assets ( 2.6/day). Six weeks ago the same engine, on the same venue — Coinbase spot, USD pairs, the only venue keel trades — produced 2.15 signals per asset per year . The problem it fixes keel's promotion gate demands…
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What is keel? A plain-English introduction
Imagine you want a robot to trade crypto for you. The danger with trading robots is obvious: if the robot is wrong, it loses your money fast, and most robots are confidently wrong. Keel is my answer to that. It's a robot that trades crypto only if it can prove it deserves to.…
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We've added new entries to keel's fiqh reading list — and because of who one of the authors is, we want to be unusually precise about what that does and does not mean. The scholarship Dr. Mohamed Talal Lahlou (Université Mohammed V – Rabat; Laymoon) has spent his research career…
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Community contribution: a stochastic sizing layer for keel — Dr. Issam Elhattab's Quant Lab note
Contributed by Dr. Issam Elhattab (LinkedIn) — a 23 page modelling note proposing a stochastic sizing layer for keel, written to be readable before it is formalised. 📄 Read the full note (PDF, French) 🔍 Our cross verification — findings summarised in the reply below. The…
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What the community builds with keel has its own category — planned as a secondary feed here later. Until then, it lives on GitHub.