Anubis Market

The Vault and What It Catalogues

Anubis Vault is a single-market chamber. We do not list directories; we do not aggregate competitor markets; we do not sell ranking placement. The chamber tracks one platform — Anubis Market — and republishes only the mirror addresses that have cleared our prober on their most recent run.

The single-market posture is deliberate. Anubis Market operates on the post-Hydra darknet-market model: Monero-default settlement, 2-of-3 multisignature escrow as the default contract for new vendor accounts, and a signed mirror roster published on a multi-hour cadence. Catalogues that lump Anubis in with a dozen competitor markets dilute the operational signal; this chamber preserves it.

Three things matter when you arrive on a darknet market: that the address you have is current, that the mirror is reachable through your Tor circuit, and that the storefront you reach is genuinely the platform you intended to visit. The chamber addresses all three. The mirror table above answers the first. Latency telemetry per mirror (refreshed on a 10-minute prober cycle) addresses the second. The phishing reference in the next section addresses the third.

The 10-minute prober cycle

Every onion address listed in the mirror table is checked every 10 minutes. The check is functional, not cosmetic: the prober resolves the address, completes the platform’s anti-DDoS challenge if one is presented, fetches a representative page, and confirms that the response carries the platform’s expected page fingerprint. Mirrors that miss three consecutive checks drop from the public table automatically and only reappear after a clean run.

The cycle is tighter than the operator’s announcement cadence by design. Operators publish signed roster changes on a multi-hour rhythm; we re-validate at 10-minute resolution so the public table tracks operational reality, not the announcement schedule.

The Multisig Argument, Briefly

The single biggest reason this chamber catalogues Anubis Market and not its single-signature peers is the platform’s default multisig posture. The 2-of-3 multisignature escrow contract distributes the funding key across three parties: buyer, vendor, and platform. Funds cannot move without two of the three signing.

What this means in practice: a platform attempting an exit-scam under multisig has to convince a majority of vendors to actively co-sign their own losses, which has not happened in the post-Hydra era and would be visible on-chain within minutes of the attempt. Multisig is the structural feature that makes a unilateral exit-scam architecturally impractical.

Anubis routes new vendor accounts into multisig by default and gates non-multisig listings to vetted veterans. The full reference is in Chamber: Escrow.