Nexus mirrors

Nexus Market: the live mirror list

Three onion mirrors on rotation, refreshed regularly. The front page carries the full set with copy buttons; the notes below explain the role of each and what to do when one is slow.

Nexus publishes three onions. The headline mirror takes most of the buyer traffic and is the sensible default. The next is the one to lean on during heavy settlement windows. The last is the failover, on lower-throughput relays. The shape mirrors what Anubis does, for the same reason: redundancy keeps the market reachable when any single onion link is under pressure.

Nexus has kept the same three-mirror shape since it launched, and the rotation cadence has tightened over its run. This directory does not republish an address once it fails a check, so the table on the Nexus listing is the current working set. Copy from there, never retype, and bookmark the directory rather than the onion.

Why three mirrors

The same logic applies here as everywhere in this directory. One onion is a single point of failure; three is a rotation. A flood aimed at the headline mirror leaves the other two serving, and the operator can bring a fresh onion online before retiring an old one so there is no gap. This is exactly the kind of mirror discipline we check for before listing a market, and it is why a stale bookmarked onion is the wrong thing to rely on. Bookmark the directory instead and the live set is always in front of you.

Which mirror to use

Start with the headline mirror. If it stalls behind its challenge layer, drop to the second, then the failover. If all three time out together, request a new Tor circuit for the site, wait a little, and try again. A market this established rarely goes fully dark; a simultaneous outage is almost always a passing flood rather than a closure.

Copying the address safely

The onion address is long, fifty six characters before the suffix, and a single wrong character lands you nowhere good. Use the Copy button on the Nexus listing, which gives you the exact string, and paste it into the Tor Browser. The buyer habits page covers this and the other small routines that keep buyers out of trouble.

Frequently asked

How often do the mirrors rotate?
Often enough that a saved onion will eventually go stale. Bookmark the directory, not the onion, and you never have to track it.

Why does my saved Nexus link no longer work?
It rotated out. Come back to the listing for the current set rather than reusing an old address.

Is Nexus down if a mirror fails?
Almost never. Try the next onion in the list before assuming an outage.