Tor markets — verified onion marketplaces
A short directory of the Tor hidden-service marketplaces still actively trading in 2026. Each entry has been continuously reachable for 90+ days, settles in Monero (often plus Bitcoin), publishes PGP-signed mirror rotations on Dread, and runs a documented escrow flow with a moderator-arbitrated dispute process.
Tracked Tor marketplaces — verified URLs
Seven operators currently tracked. Click any name for the full per-market page with the mirror list and key facts.
Nexus Market. English-language. Online since 2023. Accepts BTC, LTC, XMR. Three concurrent v3 onions verified against PGP-signed mirror announcements. Anti-phishing: fingerprint-embedded login captcha plus a canonical-onion banner on every page.
BTC · LTC · XMR
Anubis Market. English-language. Online since 2024. Accepts BTC, LTC, ETH, XMR natively (no bridge for any of the four). Bonded vendor pool, six-tile rotated-glyph captcha. Three concurrent v3 onions.
BTC · LTC · ETH · XMR
Osiris Market. English-language. Online since 2024. Accepts BTC, XMR. Three concurrent v3 endpoints. Operator's documented priority is uptime under denial-of-service pressure.
BTC · XMR
Crown Market. English-language. Online since 2024. Accepts BTC, XMR. PGP-by-default vendor messaging (unusual). Two concurrent v3 onions.
BTC · XMR
Mars Market. English-language. Online since 2023. Accepts BTC, LTC, XMR. Three concurrent v3 endpoints. Strong uptime record across two annual DDoS waves.
BTC · LTC · XMR
Awazon Market. English-language. Online since 2024. Accepts BTC, XMR. Storefront mirrors mainstream e-commerce conventions. Rotating form-field honeypot in the login. Three concurrent v3 onions.
BTC · XMR
WeTheNorth (WTN). Bilingual English/French. Online since 2021. Accepts BTC, XMR. Canadian buyer base; vendors default to domestic shipping. Three concurrent v3 onions, all sharing the operator's vanity prefix.
BTC · XMR
Why TorMarkets keeps the directory short
There are more Tor marketplaces in 2026 than there are on this directory. We deliberately maintain a short list — seven operators — because the verification cost of maintaining each entry is real. Every URL we publish has been verified against an operator-signed Dread post and we re-verify on every sync. Pushing past ten or fifteen marketplaces dilutes the verification work and increases the chance of publishing a stale URL. A short, well-verified directory beats a long unreliable one for the use case readers actually have, which is "give me a working URL I can trust in under a minute."
How to access a Tor marketplace from a clean install
Download Tor Browser from the official Tor Project site at torproject.org. Verify the signature if you can. Don't install browser extensions — they break Tor's anonymity model and they aren't necessary. Open Tor Browser, paste a verified onion URL from this directory into the address bar, press enter. If you're prompted for a captcha on the marketplace's login, solve it and check that any canonical onion the marketplace prints in the page banner matches your address bar character-for-character.
Payments and privacy on Tor marketplaces
Tor marketplaces settle on-chain. The two dominant currencies are Monero and Bitcoin. Monero is the privacy-default — its protocol hides amounts, sender and receiver at the network layer. Bitcoin is the universal-compatibility option, accepted across every marketplace tracked here for vendors who haven't moved on from BTC yet. Three marketplaces add Litecoin (useful for low-fee small deposits) and one adds Ethereum (Anubis only). Settlement currency choice has direct privacy consequences; default to XMR unless your vendor specifically requires something else.