Primary held through a coordinated DDoS burst.
Queue times ran 40 to 70 seconds most of the day. No rotation needed. Observed from three fresh circuits.
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Changelog
Every mirror rotation, feature change, security advisory and operator note since Nexus Market opened in November 2023. Grouped by year.
last 30 days
2 entries in the last month. Most recent: Primary held through a coordinated DDoS burst. on .
2026
Mirror 02 gap and same-address return.
Backup 02 offline for two days, back on the same address. No signed post because the address did not change. Standard descriptor stale-out shape.
addition
Mirror 03 introduced.
Third mirror added to the set. Signed at 22:14 UTC. Fingerprint on the announcement matches the operator key on file since launch.
Captcha style changed, address position moves to top-right.
Cosmetic change. The onion address is still baked into the captcha image, only its position moved. Verification behaviour unchanged.
Primary rotated.
Fourth primary rotation on the current key. Old primary went dark inside the hour. Signed announcement mirrored in the pinned Dread thread.
Mirror 01 rotated.
Nine weeks on the previous address. New address in the signed rotation. No operator commentary on the cause.
advisory
Phishing wave using prefix-collision clones.
Wave of lookalike onions circulating on unrelated Tor forums. All of them share the first four to eight characters with a real Nexus mirror, then diverge. Full-length letter-for-letter check against the current mirror set is the reliable answer. Editor recommendation: refuse addresses copied from anywhere other than a signed rotation.
2025
Primary rotated.
Third primary rotation. Nine months on the previous address.
feature
Captcha now embeds the current onion inside the image.
The login captcha image now carries the current mirror address in the small print at the bottom. Buyers compare that string against the URL bar as a phishing check before typing the password. Cheap check, hard for clones to spoof at scale.
feature
Multisig 2 of 3 becomes the enforced default at checkout.
Classic single-key escrow removed from the checkout dropdown. Every new order runs 2 of 3 multisig automatically. Existing single-key orders in flight complete under the old flow, then the option retires.
Primary rotated.
Second primary rotation. Ten months on the previous address, roughly matching the running average.
feature
Litecoin added to the wallet panel.
Third coin option alongside Bitcoin and Monero. Chosen for smaller-order convenience because confirmations arrive faster than Bitcoin. Vendors opt in per listing.
2024
feature
Anti-DDoS queue introduced on the login gateway.
Login now goes through a wait page that decrements a counter before the captcha renders. Reduces the feedback loop attackers use to time their bursts. Default wait profile is 15 to 40 seconds, shifts up under real pressure.
addition
Mirror 03 added.
Third mirror published. Set count now stands at primary plus three mirrors. Operator note in the announcement said the additional slot was added ahead of expected winter load.
Primary rotated.
First primary rotation since launch, roughly six months on the initial address. Signed announcement mirrored on the operator Dread profile. Old primary went dark within two hours of the rotation.
addition
Mirror 02 added.
Second mirror published in a signed rotation post at 21:44 UTC. Same operator PGP key. The visible set now shows the primary plus two mirrors.
2023
First month online, no incidents.
Six weeks of operation with no queue outages and no rotation events. Vendor onboarding runs steady. Reader inbox is quiet. Nothing to report on the mirror set.
feature
Initial release. Nexus Market opens.
Public launch of the Nexus Market storefront under the operator PGP key that has signed every subsequent rotation. Bitcoin and Monero supported at launch. 2 of 3 multisig escrow enforced by default on every deposit. One primary onion and one backup mirror published in the first signed announcement.