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Signed record
Each address is meant to match a signed catalog, not a link someone dropped in a forum thread.
filed · signatureMARS DARKNET MARKET REVIEW · IS MARS LEGIT · 2026
Mars Darknet Market Review: Is Mars Legit? Onion Access & Status (2026)
Is this project legit, or another exit-scam clone? This review judges the darknet market on the things that actually decide it: PGP-signed addresses, escrow, uptime and how easily a fake slips through. Mars here is the Tor marketplace, not a Mars Inc chocolate review, the planet, or a corner-shop rating that happens to share the word. Most Mars searches land on a forum thread that is months stale or a mirror list nobody has re-checked since it was posted; this page exists to be the opposite of that — a Mars reference that says exactly what it verified, when, and how, and admits plainly where its own knowledge of Mars stops. Read it top to bottom once, then use the jump links below to come back to whichever Mars question you actually came for.
Field dataonion service
- Live mirrors
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- Network refs
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- Canon
- PGP
- Access
- Tor
CALL No.MARS / 001
ENTRY / addressChecking
The current reference address. Status is a live probe, not a hard-coded promise. Copy it, verify it, then open it only in Tor Browser.
pending (Phase 0)Authority rests with the fingerprint, never with a spelling. Phase 0 is when the Mars signing key goes live; before that, compare every character of the address and confirm the canary.WHAT THIS IS
Mars here means one darknet market, nothing else
This project on this catalog is the Tor marketplace that runs as a hidden service. It is not the planet, not the chocolate bar, not the basketball team, and not a space agency mission. There is no clearnet shop and no app. What we hold is the onion address, a status read on each working link, and the fingerprint to check them against.
Honest limit: we publish the reference, we do not run the market. Whether a mirror answers at the precise minute this catalog opens is not something we can guarantee, and neither your account nor your coins pass through us.
The confusion this section clears up comes up often enough to spell out directly: search engines return a mix of results for the bare word "Mars" — the planet, the chocolate brand, the space missions, a dozen unrelated companies — and none of that traffic has anything to do with the Tor marketplace this page tracks. When we say Mars on this domain, we mean exactly one thing: a specific onion service reachable only through Tor Browser, identified by a specific address and a specific PGP fingerprint, neither of which changes because someone else registered a similarly named clearnet brand. Treat any clearnet site claiming to be "the official Mars market" with default skepticism — a real darknet market of this kind does not operate a clearnet storefront, and anything that does is not the service this catalog verifies.
If you arrived here already knowing the Mars onion address, this page still has a use for you: cross-check the address you already have against the mirror table and the fingerprint section below before trusting it. A Mars address that matched last month is not guaranteed to match today, since markets rotate infrastructure and phishing clones circulate old addresses that used to work. Every mention of Mars on this domain refers to the darknet market described here, verified the same way, every time.
WHY TRUST THISfour checks
What makes a Mars entry safe to open
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Key beats name
A copy can clone the look. It cannot forge the signature, so the fingerprint is the thing to trust.
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Honest status
Every marker sits at Checking while a probe is outstanding. No colour in this catalog is written in by hand.
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Monero escrow
Orders on the market hold in Monero escrow until they clear. This page never sees your funds.
filed · escrowThese four checks are cumulative, not alternatives — a Mars address that passes the signature match but has never returned a successful probe is not treated as trustworthy just because the key checks out, and an address with a long uptime history is not exempted from the PGP check just because it has been reachable before. Each record above exists because a single point of failure — a forged key, a spoofed status badge, a compromised escrow claim — is exactly the failure mode phishing clones of Mars are built to exploit. Running all four together is slower than trusting a forum post, and that is the point.
HOW A LISTING LANDSour method
How a Mars address earns a place in this catalog
Nothing is listed because it looks official. Every candidate onion walks the same short path before it shows up on this page, and the honest status you see is the last step of it, not the first.
1 · IntakeA candidate string is collected from the project source, never from a random mirror aggregator.
2 · ProbeIt is reached over Tor to see whether it answers, and the result is logged as it stands.
3 · PublishIt is matched to the signed record and shown with the status the probe returned, good or not.
This intake sequence runs the same way for every Mars address on this catalog, including the primary onion, every listed mirror, and any new address submitted after this page was last published. There is no fast-track for an address that "looks right" or arrives from a source we recognize — a candidate that skips the probe step or the signature match does not get published, regardless of how it was sourced. When an address later drops out of rotation, it is because a probe failed or a signature stopped matching, not because of an editorial decision about the market itself.
MIRRORSupdated 2026-08-21
Mars mirror addresses
The table below is the current state of every Mars onion address this catalog tracks, refreshed on each probe cycle rather than left static after the first publish. "Primary" is the main service entry; the remaining live rows are mirrors kept in rotation for redundancy, and the retired row stays visible, struck through, so an old bookmark does not get mistaken for something still live. Copy an address only from this table or from the signed mirrors.json record it draws from — not from a search result, a forum post, or a link inside an email, all of which are common phishing-clone vectors for a Mars address specifically.
| Role | Onion URL | Status | Action |
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Last checked . A status marker reports a probe, not an endorsement.
A retired address stays listed with a strike-through rather than being deleted, on purpose. Someone arriving with an old bookmark or a screenshot from a forum thread needs to see that the address is dead, not just fail to find it and assume the page is wrong or outdated. Deleting a dead mirror outright would also make it easier for a phishing clone to reuse that exact string later and claim it as a "recovered" Mars address; keeping the retired row visible, marked dead, closes that gap. If you are holding an onion address that is not on this table at all — neither live nor marked retired — treat it as unverified rather than assuming it is simply a mirror we have not added yet.
PGP KEYtrust layer
Verify a Mars address before you connect
Catalog key fingerprint:
pending (Phase 0)Show PGP key and verification command
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
(pending publication, offline key, Phase 0)
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----gpg --import catalog-pub.asc
gpg --verify mirrors.json.sig mirrors.json
# require a good signature and match the fingerprint aboveThe fingerprint field above reads "pending" honestly rather than showing a placeholder key, because publishing an unverified or dummy fingerprint would be worse than publishing none — it would give a false sense of having checked something. Once the catalog key is published, this section updates to show the real fingerprint and the command above becomes runnable end to end. Until then, treat any Mars address you encounter as unverified through this specific channel, and rely on the mirror table's probe-based status as the honest signal this catalog can currently offer.
ADDRESS CHECKexact match only
Check a Mars address
This tool trims harmless spacing and case, then accepts only an exact match from the signed catalog held on this page. A near miss stays unverified.
"Exact match only" is a deliberate design choice, not a limitation of the tool. Fuzzy or "close enough" matching would defeat the entire purpose of a Mars address checker, since a phishing clone is built specifically to look one character away from the real thing. If this tool reports no match, the correct response is to re-copy the address from the mirror table above, not to assume the checker made a mistake.
SIGNED DIRECTORY
View recordRead the signed Mars record
Pull the local mirror record and check it against the fingerprint shown above before you compare a single address.
The raw record is a plain JSON file, not a formatted page, deliberately — it is meant to be diffed, scripted against, or pasted into a signature-verification tool rather than read as prose. Anyone maintaining their own list of Mars addresses can pull this record on a schedule and flag when an entry changes, which catches a compromised or stale address faster than checking this page manually every time.
GLOSSARYplain definitions
Darknet market terms explained
This catalog leans on vocabulary that regular readers take for granted and that newcomers usually meet here for the first time. Each entry below is written for how the term actually functions on a Tor-hosted marketplace, not as textbook security theory.
Escrow
Under escrow the platform takes custody of a buyer's payment and keeps it there until the buyer confirms the goods arrived; only at that point does the seller get paid. This narrows the exposure to a seller who pockets money and ships nothing, without closing it, and it opens a second exposure, since whoever administers the escrow pool is equally free to disappear with the balance.
PGP fingerprint
A fingerprint condenses a public key into forty hexadecimal digits that no second key will ever reproduce. Set the fingerprint a trusted directory publishes beside the fingerprint riding along with an address: if the two strings are not identical, stop. That side-by-side test is the pivot the whole catalog turns on, because appearance is cheap to imitate while a signature is not.
Onion address (v3)
A v3 address is fifty-six characters long, terminates in .onion, and is computed from a public key instead of being leased from a domain registrar. Nothing about it can be purchased, sold on, or confiscated the way registrar-held names routinely are. That protection stops at the address itself: the host serving it remains findable, and can be knocked offline by other routes.
Mirror
A mirror is an additional entry point to one and the same service, kept on the record so that a reader who finds the primary address unresponsive still has somewhere verified to go. What makes a mirror worth anything is where it came from: signed by the operator's own key, it means something; lifted from a forum post, it means nothing until somebody checks the signature.
Exit scam
The term describes an operator who takes in payments and then vanishes, releasing neither goods nor escrow, generally picking a moment when the pot sitting on the platform is as large as it will get. Any market that holds funds carries this possibility permanently, as part of its design. It is the reason this catalog will confirm that an address responded today and still refuse to call the market behind it trustworthy — those are not the same statement.
Signed catalog
A signed catalog, like the mirrors.json record this page links to, is a machine-readable list of addresses accompanied by a cryptographic signature over its contents. Anyone with the corresponding public key can verify the file has not been altered since signing, independent of trusting whoever is hosting the copy in front of them at that moment — the signature travels with the data, not with the domain serving it.
RESOURCESoutside this catalog
Independent resources on Tor and verification
No single page, this one included, deserves to be your only reference for what Tor does or for why verifying a signature matters. The bodies listed below author and maintain the underlying software; this catalog does nothing more than apply their work to one project.
Tor Project
Tor Browser is built and kept up by this nonprofit. Get your copy straight from them; a download link handed to you by a market, or by a catalog such as this one, is not a link to follow. torproject.org
Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF works on digital rights and maintains Surveillance Self-Defense, written in ordinary language, covering how to reason about who your adversary is and how to browse with less exposure. Very little of it is specific to markets like this one. eff.org
Privacy Guides
An independently run, community-edited survey of security and privacy tools that takes no money from the vendors it covers. If a recommendation here about PGP software or an operating system matters to you, check it there first — that site has no interest in what you decide. privacyguides.org
Tor Metrics
The Tor Project publishes live figures on relays and on the condition of the network as a whole. When a platform makes a claim about being reachable, this is where you can look for an unrelated second opinion on whether Tor itself was simply having a bad day. metrics.torproject.org
These four are cited because each publishes independently of any darknet market and has no incentive to inflate a Mars-specific claim one way or the other. If a claim about Tor's design or about safe verification practice appears anywhere on this catalog and contradicts what these sources say, treat the contradiction as this catalog's error, not theirs.
FAQplain answers
Frequently asked questions
Where is the official Mars link in 2026?
Take only the full onion shown in the address box on this page, and open it after its PGP fingerprint matches the signed record.
How do I catch a fake Mars mirror?
A close prefix, a copied layout, or a green badge proves nothing. Only an exact address plus a matching signature counts.
What is the Mars market URL?
It is an onion string, not a clearnet domain. Copy it from the verified box here rather than from a search snippet.
Why does every status read Checking?
Reach comes and goes on Tor. Checking is an honest probe state, and it is never a promise that a mirror is safe right now.
Does Mars have a phone app?
No. The market is only the onion service. Anything sold as a Mars app for your phone is malware, so leave it alone.
How is this Mars catalog different from a general darknet market wiki?
A general wiki lists many markets at once and updates on volunteer schedules that vary wildly by entry. This catalog tracks Mars specifically, on a defined probe cycle, with the fingerprint-match discipline described above applied consistently — narrower scope, in exchange for a more consistent verification standard on the one project it covers. That trade-off is the entire reason a single-market catalog like this one exists alongside broader wikis rather than instead of them; use both, and weigh this page's Mars-specific probe history more heavily than a general wiki's occasional status note.
Can Mars change its onion address without warning?
Yes. Any Tor hidden service operator can rotate keys or migrate to a new address, and there is no central registry that requires advance notice. This is exactly why the mirror table and the signed record above matter more than a bookmarked link — a bookmark does not update itself when the underlying address changes.
Where can I read the full Mars review, not just this summary page?
The full Mars review, linked from the cards below, applies a fixed set of criteria — reachability history, signature discipline, escrow model, and clarity of status reporting — and lays out each one individually with a scorecard, rather than compressing everything into a single number the way many review sites do.