This saw over a thousand products being listed on Tor Market by mid-2022 (see graph below). Its listings grew from fewer than ten products in the months prior to Dream Market's closure in early 2019 to over 100 products by July that year.Īfter a steady period where there were, on average, 255 listings across 2020 and 379 across 2021, another period of growth happened in early 2022.
This makes Tor Market's performance over the same period even more remarkable. While total sales on all darknet markets increased in 2020, and again in the first quarter of 2021, data for the fourth quarter of 2021 suggest sales declined by as much as 50%. And there appears to be a general loss of confidence in darknet drug supply due to those enforcement shutdowns and exit scams. No dominant international darknet market has emerged since the "voluntary shut down" of Dream Market in 2019. The fragmented darknet ecosystemĭarknet marketplaces have disappeared as a result of increasingly sophisticated and successful law enforcement operations, including clandestinely taking over sites for extended periods to gather evidence on vendors and buyers.Īlternatively, site administrators pull off opportunistic exit scams and abscond with cryptocurrency held in accounts. Of the more than 110 darknet drug markets active from 2010 to 2019, just ten remained fully operational by 2019.
Many darknets sell illegal drugs anonymously, with delivery by traditional post or courier, and resemble legal e-commerce sites such as Amazon.Īn analysis of over 100 darknet markets between 20 found sites were active for an average of just over eight months.
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