Best for never being offline. Most onions running at the same time on this list.
Mars publishes more live onions at any given moment than anybody else on this list. When the active mirror gets DDoSed you can just paste another from the signed list and keep going. For people who lost orders because a market went dark for two days during a flood, this matters.
On the phishing side: text captcha, six characters, with decoy input fields whose names rotate every page load. Bots fill the wrong field, trip a honeypot, and never get to the real login. The page header prints the onion you should be on, so you can cross-check the address bar against what the market says it is.
Three coins: BTC, LTC, XMR. Monero is the one to use when privacy matters. Litecoin is here for small orders where BTC fees would be silly. Bitcoin is there because some vendors still want it.
Standard escrow. Vendors put up a bond, run escrow-only for a while, then earn finalize-early. Dispute outcomes are visible on the profile. Mods answer fast on Dread, which is one of the things that gets a market on this list and one of the things that keeps it there.
PGP-signed mirror pool for Mars Market. Open any of the v3 onion addresses below in Tor Browser; if one is under DDoS the others stay reachable. Always verify the 56-character fingerprint against a PGP-signed announcement before entering credentials.
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