Most directories give you fifty markets and call it a day. We list two: Anubis and Nexus. Both pass the only checks that matter, and we explain why.
If you have spent any time on darknet directories, you know the pattern. A wall of market cards, a sea of dead onions, half the entries pulled from forum posts that nobody verified. Useful only if you enjoy clicking through rotted links.
DarkPort takes the opposite approach. We track Anubis and Nexus, full stop. Two platforms, both publishing live mirror rosters, both running multisig escrow as the default contract, both routing new accounts to Monero. Our prober hits each mirror every ten minutes and pulls anything that misses three checks in a row.
Why these two? Because they share the structural traits that reduce buyer risk. Multisig escrow means no single party can run with the funds. XMR by default means your deposit is not sitting in a public ledger waiting to be clustered by someone with a budget. Mirror rotation means a flood on one address does not take the whole platform down. The smaller markets either skip one of these or do not enforce them, which moves the risk back to you.
What you should expect from a market in this list
The bar is short. A working mirror, a published rotation roster, an escrow contract you can verify on chain, and a dispute panel that resolves orders inside a working week. Anubis and Nexus clear all four. You can copy a mirror from the home page and be in Tor Browser in under thirty seconds.
If you are new, start with the buyer onboarding walkthrough. If you have history on one platform and want to compare against the other, the quick compare table covers the structural differences in one page.
