Nexus Market onion link & mirrors
Nexus runs since 2023 which on Tor is a long time. The interface is clean, the categories are where you would expect, and a vendor page shows order count and dispute number at the top so you can read it fast. New shoppers find their way around in a few minutes.
What Nexus is known for
Why the captcha matters here
The address drawn inside the login captcha is the part worth knowing about. A copied storefront can reproduce every pixel of the design, because the design is served to anybody who loads it. What it cannot do is sit at the real onion address. Printing the address inside an image that the login flow generates means a copy has to either show the wrong address or break its own login. Compare what the picture says against your address bar before you type a password, every time, and the most expensive mistake available on this site stops being possible.
Three coins and what each costs you
Bitcoin is the easy one to acquire and the one that writes the most down. Every payment records the amount and both addresses on a ledger anybody can read for as long as the chain exists. Litecoin behaves the same way on the ledger and confirms in a couple of minutes instead of ten, which makes it the sensible pick for a small deposit where a Bitcoin fee would take a visible bite. Monero produces no public record at all, which is why most regulars here use it and why the extra step of acquiring it is worth taking.
What running since 2023 actually tells you
Longevity on Tor is a weak signal and a real one at the same time. It means the operator has survived several flood waves and at least one round of the address set being rotated, which a great many shops do not. It does not predict anything about next month, because every market that ever ended was operating normally the day before. Treat it as a reason to start here rather than as a reason to leave a balance sitting.
Before you buy
We keep Nexus Market listed because its mirrors still answer and its address set is published, which is what you need to verify things yourself. The scammed flag means the operator stopped releasing escrow, so the practical advice is the opposite of normal: do not deposit, and if a balance is still reachable, move it out.