Frequently asked questions

Sixth year running. It absorbed SuperMarket's users in the 2020s merge and picked up migrating vendors after the Archetyp/Abacus-era collapses. This desk treats nothing as guaranteed — markets can be seized — but the operational record, signed announcements and conservative money handling are consistent with a competent long-runner.

No. Catalogue browsing works without login. The account only matters for ordering, and even then authentication is the PGP key pair — no username, no password, nothing a credential-stuffer can reuse.

Invoice-based XMR checkout with zero deposit. The market keeps no hot wallets on web-facing servers, so a compromise yields no balance to steal; withdrawals settle from offline batches in about 18 hours. Third-party BTC/alt gateways exist for users who need them, but the rail is XMR.

The buyer does: 5% standard, flexible with activity and volume. There is no deposit to lose before an order exists, and refunds are the only case where the market wallet touches your money.

The personal sign-in message after decrypting the PGP challenge. It is unique to you and lives server-side; a clone cannot render it. Missing or different = phishing, full stop — the standing rule since the 2026-09-24 wave.

No. Announced repeatedly (2026-08-29, 2026-09-29): official communication happens inside the authenticated interface or as PGP-signed announcements. Anyone DMing first as “support”, “mod” or “admin” is an impersonator.

Accounts idle 6+ months are deleted in quarterly purges (~4,800 on 2026-09-08). Log in twice a year if you intend to return; there is no recovery path.

Since 2026-09-11 they must not. Addresses and tracking numbers require PGP encryption in both directions; vendors who send plaintext tracking lose the listing. The market's own encryption helpers (v1.4, Go and Python) do it transparently.

No support or staff presence on external platforms, including the Dread post sometimes cited (/post/397fe685c2dd8507b611 — informational only). The ticket system plus automated pages resolves over 99.5% of issues.

Russian Federation and CIS residents are prohibited outright — no business, no data sales, permanent ban with forfeiture. The prohibited-item ladder covers weapons (body armour allowed), fentanyl and RC analogues, poisons, stolen LE/gov and school/hospital data, tutorials, and get-rich-quick schemes; paid porn accounts are explicitly allowed.