What is Nexus Market

Nexus Market is a marketplace that runs on the Tor network. It works like the other long-running darknet markets: vendors list products, buyers pay in coins, and the market holds the payment in escrow until the order is complete. The difference is where it lives. It has no clearnet site. The whole thing is an onion service, so the only way to reach it is a .onion address in the Tor Browser.

How it works

• Vendors open shops, list products, and set prices and delivery methods.
• Buyers browse, place an order, and pay in coins. The payment goes into escrow.
• The vendor ships. When the buyer confirms, the escrow is released.
• Both sides leave feedback, which builds the vendor's record over time.

Why it is on Tor

Running on Tor means the market's location is not a normal server you can look up, and visitors reach it through the Tor network rather than a clearnet domain. That is why there is no website to bookmark in the usual sense. You bookmark an onion address instead, and you open it in the Tor Browser. The three current addresses are in the block at the top of this page.

If you are new to this, the connect page walks through setting up Tor Browser, and the safety page covers what to check before you trust an address.