Dark Matter Market Link — Official URL & Verified Mirror List

Check Any Dark Matter Link in 30 Seconds

People who lose funds to a fake Dark Matter site almost always typed their password into a page that looked perfect. A page is easy to copy; an onion address is not. Before you sign in through a link from anywhere, run these four checks in order:

1. Where did the link come from?

   This page, or a bookmark you saved from it, is a known source. A link from a search ad, a Reddit or Telegram post, a "hidden wiki" list or a private message is unknown until it passes the next check.

2. Compare the end, not the beginning.

   Every real Dark Matter link starts with darkmat — and so do most fakes, because free vanity-address tools find a key with a matching 7-character prefix within an hour on an ordinary computer. Compare the last six characters and a few in the middle: the real endings are …pcf3id, …yuy6ad and …pkafyd.

3. Check the format.

   A v3 onion address is exactly 56 characters before .onion, uses only lowercase letters a–z and digits 2–7, and always ends in d. A string with 0, 1, 8, 9, capital letters or a different length is not an onion address at all.

4. Paste it into the Link Checker.

   The Link Checker compares the full address against this list character by character. Use it even for links you copied yourself — clipboard-hijacking malware swaps onion and crypto addresses between copy and paste.

What an Exact Match Actually Proves

An onion address is not a name that points to a server, like a regular domain. It is the server's identity: the address encodes the site's public key, and Tor only connects you to a server that can prove it holds the matching private key.

There is no DNS to hijack and no certificate authority to fool. On a clean device, if the address in your address bar matches one of the three links above character for character, you are talking to the real Dark Matter server. That is why every phishing site has to live at a different address — and why its whole strategy is getting that address in front of you.

How to Open the Link in Tor Browser

1. Install Tor Browser.

   On a computer, download it only from torproject.org. On Android, install Tor Browser from Google Play or torproject.org; on iPhone and iPad, use Onion Browser, the iOS browser recommended by the Tor Project. If Tor is blocked where you are, enable a bridge (obfs4 or Snowflake) — see the Tor Browser setup guide.

2. Copy one of the links.

   Use the Copy link button on any card marked Online, or click the address to select it in full.

3. Paste it into the address bar and press Enter.

   Use the address bar, not the search box on the start page. Anything Tor Browser does not recognise as an address is sent to the search engine — and search results are exactly where fake links are planted.

4. Give it 10–30 seconds.

   A connection to an onion site runs through six Tor relays, so the first load is slower than a regular website. Once connected, the address bar shows an onion icon instead of a padlock.

5. Check the address bar on the sign-in page.

   The market opens on its Authorization page: username, password, a "Session expires in" selector and an "I am a human" check. Compare the address bar with the card you copied from before you type anything.

6. Bookmark it.

   Press Ctrl+D (⌘+D on macOS) and open the market from that bookmark from now on, never from a search.

After Sign-In: Two More Checks

Your personal phrase in the 2FA message

When you register, the market asks for a personal phrase and notes that your two-factor message will contain it. With PGP two-factor login enabled, the challenge you decrypt at sign-in includes that phrase. A copied page cannot show it. A live proxy clone (see below) can relay it from the real market, so this check backs up the address check — it does not replace it. Setup is covered in the 2FA guide.

The market's own PGP key

The footer of the real market links to its PGP page. Save that public key on a visit you have verified by address. From then on you can check any link list or announcement signed with it yourself, without relying on this site or anyone else — the PGP guide shows how to verify a signature. For checks beyond the link (vendor keys, escrow behaviour), see Market Verification.

How Fake Dark Matter Links Work

A phishing site for a market is rarely a hand-made copy. Most are reverse proxies: a server at a lookalike onion address that fetches every page from the real market in real time and passes it on to you. Listings, vendor names, reviews — even your real balance after you sign in — all look right, because they are real, relayed through the attacker. The proxy only changes what it needs to:

• Your username, password and PIN are recorded as you type them.
• Deposit addresses are replaced, so the XMR you send to "your wallet" goes to the attacker.
• PGP keys on vendor profiles can be replaced, so messages you encrypt become readable to the attacker.

Where fake links are planted

• Search results. Sponsored results and SEO pages built around queries like "dark matter link" or "darkmatter url".
• "New working link" posts. Reddit threads, Telegram channels and forum replies — especially during an outage, when people are actively looking.
• Link directories. Clearnet link lists and "hidden wiki" pages that mix real, retired and fake addresses without saying which is which.
• Private messages. "Support" or "admins" sending a link to sign in, verify your account or claim a refund.

More warning signs, and what to do if you have already entered your password on a fake site, are in Detecting Phishing. Found a fake Dark Matter link? Report it through the contact page so it can be flagged.

Link Not Opening? What Tor Browser's Error Means

When an onion site can't be reached, Tor Browser shows an error page with a code. The code tells you whether the problem is the address, the market or your own connection.

If all three links are down

Three links on separate servers rarely fail at the same time. When all of them are unreachable for more than 30 minutes, the cause is almost always a DDoS attack or maintenance, not a closure. Check the per-link history on the Status page and wait for this page or the RSS feed to update. This is exactly when "new link" posts appear on forums and in Telegram channels — a genuinely new Dark Matter link is published here first.

How This Link List Is Maintained

• Manual checksEach link is opened in Tor Browser and counts as online only when the market's sign-in page loads. Per-link results and the incident log are on the Status page.
• DailyAll three links are re-checked at least once a day. "Last check" at the top of this page is the last time all three were confirmed.
• On every changeThis page is updated first, followed by an entry in the RSS feed and in "Latest Updates" on the homepage.
• Retired linksDeleted from the list, not archived — every link shown here is usable right now.

Why a Dark Matter link changes

Market operators add or replace onion addresses to spread load during DDoS attacks, after moving to new servers, or when a private key may have been exposed. A retired address simply stops answering — without its private key, nobody else can run a site at it. The real danger of old links is the lists that keep them: a directory showing a dead Dark Matter link next to a live fake gives you no way to tell the two apart.

There Is No Clearnet Dark Matter Link

Dark Matter Market exists only as a Tor onion service. There is no .com, .net, .to or other regular-domain version, and no "clearnet mirror". This website, darkmatter.market, is an information portal: it publishes the link list and guides, has no login and never asks for your market credentials. Any page on a regular domain that asks you to sign in to Dark Matter is phishing.

Saving the Link Safely

• Bookmark all three links in Tor Browser, not just one — if a link goes offline, you won't need to search for an address.
• On Tails, bookmarks are erased at shutdown unless you turn on the Tor Browser Bookmarks feature in Persistent Storage.
• Keep links out of synced notes and messengers. Cloud notes and "Saved messages" store them on servers you don't control, tied to your account.
• Re-check bookmarks against this page now and then, and delete any link that is no longer listed.

Dark Matter Link FAQ