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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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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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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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…
Show and tell
What the community builds with keel has its own category. The latest posts appear below in their original language; reading and replying happen on GitHub, not here.
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Keel meets Kelly: what ten money-management writeups taught an engine that refuses to bet
Based on Will McGinnis's ten post money management series (April 2025 March 2026, accompanying the open source betting library) as analyzed in keel's source review. This is the sizing half of that review, written up for readers deciding how a trading engine should treat bet…