Seven Tor marketplaces, side by side

MarketStor is a storefront-style view of seven Tor marketplaces that are actually open for business in 2026. The whole point: see them all on one page, compare what they take and who they're for, then jump to the operator's signed onion when you've made up your mind. No "top 10" rankings, no affiliate links, no editorial fluff — just the storefronts.

Seven storefronts, one shelf

Each card below is one marketplace as it presents itself today: short bio, the coins it takes natively, and the current onion list pulled from the operator's signed announcement on Dread. Click the name for the longer page.

Why this looks like a shelf, not a top-10

Everyone else who lists Tor markets ranks them. We don't. A rank only helps if you already know what you're shopping for, and most people who land here are still figuring that out. Are you after the deepest selection or the cleanest checkout? A market where vendors take Monero by default or one that still leaves a Bitcoin option open? English-only or do you want the bilingual room? Until you've answered those, ranking the seven against each other is noise. The grid above lets you compare them the way you'd compare seven shops on a high street — size them up, peek in the window, walk in once you've decided.

Where the data comes from

The onion addresses on this page come straight off the operator's signed posts on Dread. Nothing else gets in. When a market rotates a mirror, the new address lands on Dread first with the operator's signature attached, and we pull it from there during the next sync. Twice-daily on weekdays, once on weekends. If a mirror appears on Telegram, Reddit, X or any clearnet site without showing up on the operator's signed account, it stays out of the list — clones spread through exactly those channels and we're not interested in laundering them.

That's the entire process. There's no scoring committee, no internal review queue, no "MarketStor staff says". The market either has a signed mirror live or it doesn't. We've been burned in the past by sources that felt authoritative until they weren't, so the bar is intentionally simple and intentionally high.

How long the storefronts stay open

Some of the seven have been around since 2021 (WeTheNorth), most since 2023 or 2024. The pattern in the last few years has been longer-lived markets — multisig escrow, browser-side encryption, and onion-only frontends have closed enough of the failure modes that operators don't fold every six months anymore. The shortest-lived market on the current shelf has been live for roughly fourteen months. The longest is closing in on its fifth year. That doesn't mean any of them are permanent. It means the average lifespan is finally measured in years, not weeks.

What we don't publish, and why

No vendor reviews. No product ratings. No "best market for X" guides. There are two reasons. The first is operational: vendor data shifts daily, and a static page that says "Vendor V is reliable" was already wrong by the time you read it. Markets surface per-vendor stats live — deal count, dispute ratio, finalize-early eligibility — on the vendor profile itself. That's the right place to look. The second reason is editorial: pointing buyers at specific vendors implies an endorsement we don't make and have no business making. The market is between you and the vendor. We just point at the door.

Bookmark the shelf, not the URLs

The seven storefronts on this page are stable. The onion URLs inside them aren't — they rotate. Bookmark marketstor.live itself, not any individual address. When you come back tomorrow or next week, the cards will still be here and the URLs inside will be whatever the operator most recently signed. That's the easiest way to make sure you're always pasting a real one into Tor Browser.