About this access terminal
A short note on who runs this page, why it exists, and what it does and does not promise. Useful if you are weighing whether to trust the mirror list.
Who runs this
Two operators with a shared shell account. Both have been on Tor since the v2 hidden-service era, both have run market access terminals before this one. The work is not paid by Torzon, the operators are not affiliated with Torzon staff. The relationship is read-only: we pull the signed manifest, we publish the list, we run the rotator.
Why this page exists
Because the most common failure mode for new users on any darknet market is landing on a phishing clone with a near-identical onion address. A small, signed, curated list reduces that risk to near zero, provided the visitor cross-checks the address before logging in.
The secondary reason is rotation. A single bookmarked mirror will be unreachable some fraction of the time. The rotator endpoint hides that complexity behind one onion.
How the verification pipeline works
- The operator publishes a flat ASCII manifest of mirrors, signed with a long-lived PGP key.
- A small daemon on this host pulls the manifest every six minutes over Tor, validates the signature, parses the list.
- Each onion in the list is probed with an HTTP
GET /over Tor, expected headers and response code checked. - The reachable set is cached locally and rendered on this page on each request.
- The rotator onion serves the same cache, with a 302 to the lowest-latency live mirror, and a JSON status endpoint.
What this page does not do
- It does not host any market data. No vendor pages, no listings, no wallets, no escrow.
- It does not run JavaScript. The entire UI works on the Safest Tor Browser slider.
- It does not set cookies, does not log requests beyond standard short-lived nginx access logs, does not run analytics.
- It does not solicit money. There is no donation address on this page on purpose.
How to reach the operators
Through the rotator endpoint, which has a short ASCII contact page at /contact. The contact page lists a single PGP key and an XMPP handle bound to a Tor-only onion. We do not maintain a clearnet contact channel.
Reasonable expectations
This page has been online longer than most market access terminals, but it is not a permanent fixture. If the operator key goes silent for more than four weeks, treat the manifest as stale and do not rely on the rotator. The market itself is also not permanent. Treat any single market the same way you treat a single mirror, useful right now, not promised forever.