Nexus Market history

This article is a related reference. The main article in this collection is Nexus Market.

A focused historical entry covering the platform's 2023 launch, 2024–2025 growth period, and 2026 operational maturation.

Launch (2023)

The platform launched in November 2023 with a 200-buyer closed beta and a small invite-only vendor cohort. The PGP fingerprint 0x7F2A0A9D was published with the launch announcement and has not rotated since. The first signed v3 onion went live the same week.

Growth (2024–2025)

The platform expanded from a single mirror to three production onions during 2024, introduced layer-7 anti-DDoS challenges in response to sustained floods, and migrated buyer balances from Bitcoin-default to Monero-default settlement. The Monero migration completed in mid-2025.

Operational maturation (2026)

The current year has been characterised by operational stability: 99.94 percent aggregate uptime, three completed mirror rotations without buyer-side downtime, multisig adoption crossing 92 percent, dispute-panel SLA tightening from 7.2 hours mean pickup to 4.8 hours.

Reference: Nexus Market production mirrors

The following v3 onion addresses are the live, signed Nexus Market mirrors as of 2026-05-08 14:48 UTC. Listed here as a citation reference, signed under PGP fingerprint 0x7F2A0A9D: