Mars Market — questions & answers
Mars Market topic hub. Multi-coin acceptance, concurrent endpoint pool, online since 2023.
Mars Market onion endpoints — verified set
Current v3 onion endpoints for Mars Market. Verify the full 56-character fingerprint against the operator’s PGP-signed announcement on Dread before logging in. Click any address to open in Tor.
- 01 marshjhtog245vzjzcicnmv2ci6yljibvdm4pngq5kmkfvcutppboxad.onion
- 02 marsiujka6lrsaqpnxiwvknthhzsrlmq77mnl2fi62guc4lwxif65syd.onion
- 03 marsmtbwtxkohhpu34m4jkwcntian7n257wsex5tbkmsjdjrsz6me3yd.onion
Mars has been running since 2023, which makes it one of the older English-language markets we cover. The operator's main concern is availability. More v3 endpoints are kept active at once than at any other market here. When DDoS waves hit, Mars stays reachable. Other markets fall off the public list for days; Mars usually doesn't. If you've lost orders to outages elsewhere, this is the practical reason to use it.
Currencies are BTC, LTC and XMR. The Litecoin support is what makes Mars useful for small deposits. Bitcoin fees can dominate a low-value order; Litecoin fees are pennies, confirmations are fast. Monero is the privacy default. Bitcoin sits in the middle — accepted because some vendors only take BTC, with the usual privacy caveats.
Login is a six-character text captcha plus rotating form-field names. Scripts that target the form by name fail because the names changed since the script last looked. Visible decoy inputs trip up scripts that target by position. The banner at the top of every page reprints the canonical onion, so a phishing clone that doesn't reproduce the banner is immediately obvious.
Vendor admission's the standard bonded model. Bond at signup, escrow-only until you've earned finalize-early. Deal count and dispute ratio at the top of every profile. Mirror rotations get posted to Dread with a detached PGP signature. The current onion set's on the Mars answer page in this hub.
What are the Mars Market onion addresses?
Mars Market runs three v3 hidden-service endpoints concurrently:
- 01 marshjhtog245vzjzcicnmv2ci6yljibvdm4pngq5kmkfvcutppboxad.onion
- 02 marsiujka6lrsaqpnxiwvknthhzsrlmq77mnl2fi62guc4lwxif65syd.onion
- 03 marsmtbwtxkohhpu34m4jkwcntian7n257wsex5tbkmsjdjrsz6me3yd.onion
Why concurrent mirrors
Mars has been online since 2023 and the operator’s declared priority is availability. Maintaining several v3 addresses limits the blast radius of any denial-of-service pressure — if one address gets flooded, the others stay reachable and users move over by typing a different string.
How to use the address pool
Open Tor Browser, paste any of the addresses above into the URL bar. All three resolve to the same backend so your account, balance, and order history are identical whichever one loads. If the address you started on slows down or stops loading entirely, paste a different one and continue. There's no fallback timer, no client config — just type a different string.
Why so many onions at once
Most Tor markets keep a single hidden-service endpoint live and fall offline when it gets DDoSed. Mars publishes more concurrent endpoints than anyone else on this site. When one address takes pressure, the others stay reachable. This is the practical reason Mars has the uptime record it has.
See also
Which currencies does Mars Market accept?
Mars Market settles in three currencies natively:
BTC LTC XMR
Monero is the privacy default. Bitcoin is there for vendor compatibility. Litecoin is the practical option for low-value deposits where BTC network fees would otherwise dominate the order — Litecoin confirmations are faster and per-transaction fees are dramatically smaller.
Deposit confirmation timing
Bitcoin credits after about two confirmations. Litecoin credits faster — the marketplace generally only requires one or two LTC confirmations, which is a few minutes. Monero takes around ten blocks, roughly twenty minutes. Pending balances show in the deposit panel as soon as the transaction hits the mempool.
Why three coins
Mars settles in BTC, LTC, and XMR because each one has a job. BTC for vendor compatibility (some vendors still only take Bitcoin). LTC for low-value deposits where BTC fees would dominate. XMR for privacy. There's no overlap that justifies dropping any of them. Anubis adds Ethereum on top of these three; no other market we cover does.
See also
Does Mars Market accept Litecoin?
Yes. Mars Market is one of three entries on this knowledge base that natively accepts Litecoin (the others being Nexus and Anubis).
When LTC makes sense
Litecoin is useful when you have a small deposit and Bitcoin network fees would eat too much of it. LTC fees are pennies and confirmations are faster, both because of network design and because the marketplace is willing to credit balances after fewer confirmation blocks than for BTC.
Privacy caveat
Litecoin’s privacy properties are similar to Bitcoin’s — a public ledger, traceable across exchanges. If privacy is the reason you are on Tor, default to Monero instead. See which Tor markets accept Litecoin.
Wallet recommendations
Any non-custodial Litecoin wallet that gives you the seed phrase is fine. Litecoin Core is the reference; Electrum-LTC is lightweight and quick to set up. Avoid exchange-custodial wallets for darknet deposits — the exchange logs every transaction, which defeats the privacy posture you started with.