The market lives inside Tor under three .onion addresses. All three open the same shop, the same accounts, the same escrow balance. Copy one below, open it in the Tor Browser, and before you type a password, compare the last six characters in your address bar against what you just copied.
A clearnet reference for the market. Not the market itself, not affiliated with it.
nexusb2l7vah4dnacy6sasnuzrayrkzuqzpzbvw3v7hxpypth6pafpqd.onion
nexusma2idee6cndveqpty2oahxvjkzfbfz4qhmo4z5aljxntx3ngvqd.onion
nexusabcdyk5mrsghxmprelubxkkjvcv4vdvhg4zterhhyj7biyzb7ad.onion
paste one of these into the Tor Browser address bar. nothing on a clearnet page should ever ask for your market password.
Every Nexus Market entry point is a 56 character onion with the nexus prefix. That prefix is not decoration. Generating an onion that starts with those five letters takes real mining time, so a fake address without the prefix is easy to spot at a glance.
There are three such addresses, not because one of them is special, but because the market runs capacity across regions. A circuit built in Frankfurt will almost always connect faster to one of the three than to all of them. That is why all three are listed here in the same weight, with no ranking, no "primary", no "backup". Pick any. If one sits on the loading screen, open the next. Your account, wallet and escrow are identical behind each of them.
If someone hands you a fourth "Nexus" address, or a short one like nexusmarket.onion, treat it as a stranger until it passes the checks on the verification page.
The failure mode that costs people coins is simple. A page that looks almost right, a login form that is almost right, and a password that goes to a server you have never heard of. The real market does not ask for your password on its first page. Not on the check screen, not on the captcha. It asks for it after you are through, on the login page of the shop itself.
Four things to check before credentials ever leave your keyboard:
.onion, all of them lowercase letters and the digits 2 to 7. A zero, one, eight or nine in the middle means a different kind of address, not this market.The full procedure, with the exact symbols a real address can and cannot contain, is on the verify an address page.
Your first load of any of these three addresses does not open a shop. It opens a dark screen with the NEXUS wordmark and the line "Checking your browser before accessing Nexus Market". Give it up to 30 seconds. Then a DDoS protection page arrives: six boxes, a red circle with distorted characters, a 60 second timer. Type the characters, hit the red submit, and the market loads for real.
People time it out and call the market down. Most of the time it is not down, it is doing its thing. The not loading page walks through the fixes in the order that works fastest, from "retype the address" to "your country blocks Tor relays".
Do I need an account before I open the market? No. Browsing, reading vendor pages and checking prices work without logging in. You only create an account when you are ready to buy or sell, and you create it on the market, inside Tor, not on any clearnet page.
Can I open it in Chrome or a clearnet proxy? Any browser that can route through Tor can open it. A clearnet gateway in between can see everything you load through it, so the direct route through the Tor Browser is the one to keep. Details on the how to open page.
How do I know an address I found online is not a trap? Length, prefix, allowed symbols, last six characters, and the exact first page you should see. The verification page turns that into a checklist you can run on any address in about a minute.
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