The reference English-language market. Fast onboarding, signed mirrors, three coins including Litecoin.
Nexus opened in 2023 and is widely treated as the reference English-language Tor market. It does the unglamorous parts well: onboarding takes minutes, the mirror list is PGP-signed, and it accepts Bitcoin, Litecoin and Monero, which covers what most buyers reach for.
Its phishing defence is layered. The login captcha renders the market's own onion address into the image, so you can compare what you typed against what the server printed, and the mirror list is signed so you can verify an address came from the operator. For the full verified address list and a step-by-step access guide, see the dedicated Nexus URL site.