A working guide for sellers who are evaluating Anubis or Nexus as their next platform. What the application looks like, what the vetting screens for, and what the realistic timeline is.
If you are reading this, you have probably sold somewhere else and are weighing whether to apply to Anubis or Nexus. Both have an application gate; both vet new vendors before allowing listings; both have a published vendor agreement that you should read once before applying.
The application form
Both platforms ask for the same broad categories of information: a vendor handle, the categories you intend to list in, a sample listing or two written in the platform's schema, and proof of life from your previous platform if you have one. Anubis includes a short questionnaire about ship-out timing and dispute history; Nexus includes a vendor-agreement attestation block that you sign as part of the application.
What the vetting screens for
Three things. Whether the listings you intend to publish fit the platform's rules. Whether the categories you are entering have moderation capacity (some categories are throttled to keep the dispute panel's queue manageable). Whether the proof of life you provided actually corresponds to a vendor with a clean record. The vetting is not a formality; both platforms reject applications.
Realistic timeline
Application to first listing takes a working week if your application is clean. The bottleneck is the moderation review, not the platform's technical setup; the technical setup is automated and finishes in minutes. If your application sits in review longer than a working week, post on the vendor forum politely asking for a status update; the moderation team is responsive but they do not auto-bump.
Once you are in
Both platforms onboard new vendors into multisig escrow by default. Both publish a vendor-agreement that you should re-read once a quarter. Both have a vendor channel where the platform team posts updates. Joining the channel is the lowest-friction way to keep up.
