Hidden-service commerce, answered question by question

OnionMarkets is a Q&A site about Tor marketplaces. Not a review aggregator, not a "best of" list, not a comparison shopper. People type questions into search — "what is the Nexus Market onion address," "does Anubis accept Ethereum," "which Tor markets take Monero" — and a search-result page that answers that exact question is what we try to be. One question per page, written like a person answered it, with the source data (onion addresses, accepted currencies) on the same page so you don't have to click through five tabs.

We cover seven hidden-service marketplaces: Nexus, Anubis, Osiris, Crown, Mars, Awazon, and WeTheNorth (also written WTN). Every one of them has been continuously reachable on Tor for at least ninety days, settles in at least one privacy-preserving coin (Monero, almost always), publishes its mirror rotations as PGP-signed posts on Dread, and runs an escrow workflow with a documented dispute process. Markets that don't clear those bars aren't on the site.

For each marketplace there are three or four answer pages. The first is always the onion-address lookup — that's the question people show up for. Then there's a currency page (which coins are accepted and what to default to), plus one or two market-specific questions: WeTheNorth's Canadian focus, Anubis's Ethereum support, Crown's PGP-by-default messaging, Mars's Litecoin support, and so on. The marketplace's own page (topic hub) bundles all the questions for that operator into one place.

Beyond the marketplace pages there are two cross-cutting topics. Payments covers which markets take which cryptocurrencies — which markets accept Monero (all of them), Bitcoin (also all of them), Ethereum (Anubis only natively), Litecoin (Nexus, Anubis, Mars). Security covers the verification workflow: how to check an onion address is real, how to verify a PGP-signed mirror announcement, how to spot a phishing clone before you submit credentials.

A note on accuracy. Onion addresses change. Operators rotate v3 hidden services as part of normal operational hygiene and occasionally because of pressure. Every onion listed on this site is verified against the operator's most recent PGP-signed Dread announcement. Before you submit credentials to any marketplace, compare the address you typed against the operator's signed list — that's the strong verification source for any operator-published endpoint. An onion surfaced in a search result, in Telegram, in Reddit, or in email is not authoritative regardless of how convincing it looks.

If a question on this site doesn't answer what you came for, the full answers index lists every question grouped by topic. Each topic hub also has its own intro section with longer-form notes on the marketplace or subject. The search box people use is generally typed in their browser address bar, not on this site, so we don't ship a site-search widget; the index page is the substitute.