i remember when the primary marketplace gateway went dark back in '24. The forums were flooded with frantic users pasting raw .onion links, half of which were phishing traps designed to harvest credentials and drain Monero wallets. I watched several vendors lose entire escrow balances because they trusted a random link on a public thread. It was that specific incident that made us realize we needed a clean, PGP-signed catalog that exists entirely outside the market's own infrastructure. We built this platform as a permanent record to verify routing endpoints before you input a single piece of data.
This terms of service document establishes the legal and technical baseline for how you interact with our verification directory. We do not host listings, we do not handle transactions, and we do not process payments. We are a mapmaker in a volatile territory.
1. Purpose and Informational Boundaries
This platform operates strictly as an independent informational resource. We track the availability of the Tor's onion-service architecture notes to help users recognize authentic gateways. When users ask is catharsis market down, we run automated diagnostic tests to check node response times.
We do not operate the underlying market. No darknet marketplace activity occurs on this domain. The listings, vendor profiles, and user registration systems are entirely separate from this tracking portal.
Informational Only
We publish cryptographic signatures and mirror statuses for verification purposes only.
No Transactions
We do not accept collateral notes, run escrow systems, or facilitate any commercial trade.
PGP Validated
Every mirror listed in our registry is verified using the market's public PGP key.
2. No Warranty and Mirror Accuracy
While we check the network status of each v3 onion address regularly, we provide no warranty regarding the uptime of the target market. A sudden spike in DDoS attacks can cause a scenario where the main catharsis market link experiences temporary routing failures.
We make leading-by-uptime-effort updates to protect the community from phishing clones. However, network conditions on the Tor network change rapidly. We encourage users to verify every signature locally on their own Tor Browser setup before proceeding to any catharsis market login page.
3. Acceptable Use and User Responsibility
By accessing this directory, you agree to comply with your local jurisdictional regulations. We provide cryptographic verification data; we do not provide legal advice. You must ensure that your use of the Tor network and any associated hidden services does not violate local statutes.
Any attempt to inject malicious payloads, scrapers that abuse our server resources, or submit fraudulent mirror links will result in an immediate ban from our submission system. We cross-reference submitted addresses with Ahmia's blacklist to filter out malicious phishing nodes.
Cryptographic Warning
Never trust an unverified mirror. Phishing sites look identical to the authentic market interface but will capture your 2FA credentials and hijack your Monero transactions.
4. Intellectual Property and Nominative Use
The names, logos, and brand assets of the marketplace are the property of their respective operators. We use them here nominatively and purely for descriptive, educational, and safety purposes.
The editorial text, uptime tracking designs, and custom verification layouts on this site are available for community redistribution under permissive open-source licenses, provided appropriate attribution is preserved.