LinksMarkets — frequently asked questions

All seven markets in the LinksMarkets directory accept Monero natively: Nexus, Anubis, Osiris, Crown, Mars, Awazon, WeTheNorth. Monero is the privacy-default settlement currency on Tor marketplaces — the protocol hides amounts, sender and receiver at the network layer.

All seven. Bitcoin is the legacy default, accepted across every marketplace tracked here for vendor compatibility. The privacy trade-off is real — the BTC ledger is public and forensic services correlate exchange withdrawals with on-chain darknet activity — but BTC remains useful when a specific vendor only accepts it.

One: Anubis Market. Anubis is the only marketplace on this directory with native ETH acceptance — most operators that appear to accept ETH route through a third-party bridge, which is meaningfully different in privacy and reliability profile.

Three: Nexus, Anubis and Mars. Litecoin is useful for low-value deposits where Bitcoin network fees would dominate the order. LTC fees are pennies and confirmations are faster than BTC, but the privacy properties are similar to BTC’s — a public ledger.

WeTheNorth (WTN) is bilingual English/French — the French is first-class, not a translation layer. Vendor messages, policy pages and dispute screens all carry parallel French copy. The other six marketplaces in the directory are English-only.

Mars and Osiris both publish three concurrent onion and explicitly prioritise availability. Mars typically stays reachable through DDoS waves that take shorter-lived markets offline; Osiris’s posture is similar. Crown runs two onions and is more vulnerable to single-endpoint pressure.

Crown and Awazon are the two UX-forward operators. Crown ships a bespoke storefront codebase rather than the templated look most Tor markets use. Awazon imitates mainstream e-commerce conventions — product cards, faceted search, vendor profile pages — which makes it the friendliest for first-time buyers.

Awazon, because the storefront looks like a mainstream online shop. The mental model a first-time buyer already has — search, product page, cart, checkout — maps onto Awazon without translation. Behind the visual layer the multisig escrow and dispute workflows are the same as any other entry on this directory.