The Tor Market Guide

The two markets and what this manual catalogues

This is not a directory. It is a working manual: every chapter is a procedure, every appendix is a copyable artefact, and the verification step is, as it should be, the cornerstone.

The dark web has, in recent years, simplified to a small handful of stable markets. The two catalogued in this manual — Anubis Market and Nexus Market — share the structural traits buyers have been demanding since the post-Hydra era: a Monero-default rail, 2-of-3 multisignature escrow, and multi-mirror rotations that survive DDoS. They differ on tenure and on the operational details we treat individually in their chapters below.

Anubis Market

Anubis Market

Since · 99.42% uptime · verified

XMR-default escrow market with multisig settlement and signed mirrors

99.42%uptime

4.7/51,284 rev

1,860vendors

$612K24h vol

—online

3mirrors

2-of-3 multisig2FA loginVerified mirrorsXMR-defaultVendor escrowDispute panel

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Nexus Market

Nexus Market

Since · 99.81% uptime · verified

Long-running multisig market with rotating mirrors and signed timestamps

99.81%uptime

4.8/52,741 rev

3,120vendors

$1.4M24h vol

—online

3mirrors

2-of-3 multisig2FA loginRotating mirrorsXMR-defaultVendor feedbackDispute arbitration

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The verification step is non-optional

Phishing operators clone the visual layout of a darknet-market login page in an afternoon and register a near-identical v3 onion in a few hours. The clones are pixel-perfect. The only durable defence is to copy the onion address from a verified directory like this manual — never retype a 56-character v3 onion by hand.