Dark0de: 2024’s Darknet Market Leader - Flare Research Team > 자유게시판

On October 1st, 2021, White House Market, the most important Darknet Market (DNM) on the time, introduced its retirement from the mega darknet market scene on Dread. Since then, there was some hypothesis as to which market will take the number one spot.

Let’s have a look at what the present darknet market ecosystem appears like:

Largest markets by variety of listings

Here is a chart representing the full number of listings, all categories included, on darknet markets as of November seventeenth, 2021.

At the time of its retirement, White House Market had 48,679 energetic listings on its webpage. Since then, it seems Dark0de grabbed the #1 spot, with an impressive 69,103 energetic listings.

However, back in 2017, AlphaBay, the most important market at the time, had a mind-boggling 369,000 listings! This apparent lower in total listings could possibly be as a consequence of lots of various elements:

1. Increased Law Enforcement involvement within the DNM scene (for instance, the fall of the Cyber Bunker in September 2019, or the seizure of DarkMarket in January 2021);
2. The growing frequency (some would even say normalization) of exit scams;
3. Tighter control on illicit communities (for instance, Reddit banning /r/DarkNetMarkets in March 2018)
The exact reasons for the lower in complete listings are hard if not impossible to pinpoint.

Largest markets by number of fraud listings

As for fraud-associated listings (together with, however not restricted to; fraud methods; bank account logins; stolen identities; counterfeit cash; and so on.), the order does vary ever so barely, Dark0de nevertheless retains its crown.

An increase in number of energetic markets

If you happen to ignore the markets that only permit for the sale of illicit medication, there are still 32 darknet markets at the moment working! In the last year, it seems like new markets are opening for business every month, each promising better security, or attempting to make it large with a new gimmick. We’ve observed an growing number of markets also hosting a discussion board section on their website, encouraging product and vendor reviews, in addition to producing dialogue round numerous fraud "methods".

Liberty Market Activity Hints to Exit Scam

It's price noting that we omitted Liberty Market from our data analysis, just because they might at present be exit scamming; all their mirrors are offline and admins unresponsive. Oddly enough, on September 27th, 2021, the Liberty Market administration workforce did announce a retirement plan for his or her market, to finalize all orders by October 8th and shutting down the servers on October 10th.

However, after White House Market, in turn, announced their retirement on October 1st, Liberty’s administration appeared to have modified their thoughts, and introduced they will not be shutting down, and have been instead offering free "vendor bonds" to White House Market vendors; a frequent tactic used by market admins to drive site visitors to their market. Liberty Market directors stated slow development as the rationale for his or her shutdown, quoting "Liberty as of proper now has a small however decently sized business". Indeed, in line with Flare Systems information, we estimate Liberty market to have had about 20,000 active listings, which places Liberty comfortably in the highest 10 markets by volume.

For sure, their sudden disappearance on November 16th does not look good, however we’ll keep monitoring how the state of affairs evolves.One factor is for certain, it is going to be interesting to see how the Darknet Market ecosystem develops. Will Dark0de stay at the highest? Will AlphaBay claw it’s means back to the elusive #1 spot? Which market will exit scam subsequent? In any case, Flare will proceed to make sure that you’re updated on all the new developments on the dark web and darknet markets.