Nexus Market FAQ

Any of them. They are the same market from three directions, with the same accounts, balances and orders. Pick one, and if it stalls on your connection, open the next. The mirrors page has all three with copy buttons, and there is no ranking among them, because there is nothing to rank.

Yes. One account system, three entry points. Log in through any of the three and you are in the same shop, with the same wallet, the same open orders and the same escrow. The address is the door, not the house.

Usually not. A fresh circuit plus the market's check screen takes 30 to 60 seconds, and every refresh restarts the circuit. Give it one patient minute, then run the other two addresses. If all three stall on a healthy Tor connection, work the not loading page top to bottom before declaring anything dead.

That is the market's DDoS protection. Six boxes, a circle with distorted characters, a 60 second timer. Read the characters, type them box by box, hit the red submit. Zoom the page to 150 percent first if the circle is hard to read. One failed round is normal; the timer redrawing is the only penalty. The first visit page documents the whole sequence.

You can browse through a gateway that converts the onion to a normal URL, and you should know what that means: the gateway sees every page you load through it, and any password you type on that route passes through a third party's server. Fine for a once-in-a-while look. Not fine for the login page or the wallet. For anything with credentials, use the Tor Browser directly.

No. Browsing, prices, vendor pages, feedback and shipping options all work without logging in. An account is created when you are ready to buy, and it is created on the market, inside Tor: username, password, six digit PIN, one captcha, and the mnemonic phrase to write down. No email anywhere in the flow.

The account cannot be restored, because the phrase is the key and no one else holds a copy. If you lose the password but keep the phrase, you are fine; the restore flow is on the login screen. If you lose both, the balance is gone in the practical sense, except coins still sitting in an open order's escrow, which you can claim through a dispute before the finalize timer runs. This is why the phrase is paper, not a screenshot.

The buyer fee is 2.5% of the order total, and it drops to zero once your account reaches level 2. Vendors pay from 1.1% to 5% per sale depending on their tier. Escrow holds the order total until you confirm, the timer runs, or a dispute resolves, and withdrawals cost only the network transaction. The full table is on the fees page.

Bitcoin is the base currency of the market and of escrow. Some vendors also list Monero on individual listings, which you can see on the listing itself. The withdrawal side is a Bitcoin address in your profile, and the habit worth forming is a fresh one per withdrawal, because the address is visible to the vendor during the order.

Four checks, in under a minute: 56 characters before the .onion, the nexus prefix, only the letters a to z and the digits 2 to 7, and the last six characters matching your source. Then the page itself: the real market starts with a browser check and a DDoS captcha, and never asks for a password before them. The checklist is on the verify page.

Open a dispute before the auto finalize timer ends, while the coins are still locked in escrow. Moderation takes the thread, and the outcome is a full refund, a split, or release to the vendor, with the common case being a refund for items that provably never arrived. The timer is on the order page; disputes opened early resolve in about a day, and the vendors page covers the evidence that wins them.

Not often, and never quietly. A change is announced inside the market with a PGP signed message, and the new addresses keep the nexus prefix and the 56 character length. Read the announcement before you switch, the way it is meant to be read, on the address changed page.