NexusLinks — frequently asked questions

The current verified Nexus Market links are on the NexusLinks home page. Nexus runs three concurrent v3 onion links at all times — if one is slow or unreachable, paste another into Tor Browser and continue. All three resolve to the same account and balance, so you do not need to log in again.

Verify the full 56-character onion link against the operator’s PGP-signed mirror announcement on Dread. A partial-prefix match — the first eight characters matching — is not a verification. Phishers run vanity-key generation to produce strings that match the prefix and randomise the rest of the link.

Yes. "Link," "URL," "onion address," "domain" and "mirror" are interchangeable terms for the same v3 hidden-service endpoint. NexusLinks lists three concurrent Nexus links — call them whatever you like, they all resolve to the Nexus Market back-end.

We refresh the link list every time the operator posts a new PGP-signed Dread announcement. Nexus does not rotate links on a fixed schedule — rotations are pressure-driven. When a link comes under sustained DDoS the operator may retire it; when the pool is being topped up, a new link is added.

You can, but verify it again every time you launch a session. Operators retire links and an old bookmark can point at a dead endpoint or, worse, at one that has been claimed by a phisher running a similar vanity prefix. The five seconds of verification is the cheapest insurance you’ll buy.

Denial-of-service pressure against a single hidden-service link is cheap to mount. Maintaining three concurrent links limits the blast radius — if one link is being flooded, paste another into Tor Browser and the marketplace stays reachable. Same back-end, same login, no client-side reconfiguration.

The operator is most likely in the middle of a rotation. Wait an hour, then check the operator’s PGP-signed Dread post for an updated link set. Do not accept a link surfaced in Telegram, Reddit or email during an outage — those channels are systematically abused by phishers when the real marketplace is down.

Hidden-service links live inside the Tor network and your ISP cannot see what you are reaching through Tor. If a link does not load it is usually the marketplace’s own hidden-service descriptor being unreachable, not your ISP. Pasting a different link from the list is the first thing to try.