Mars Market Reference Plain descriptions of what each step involves, what you will experience, and where it can go wrong

Mars Market addresses

Three published addresses for the same market. Copy rather than retype, and check the signature once you are through.

Address 1 marsautkudspgk6j23cxdtrk36ae4fpis2eoe7izu5y2rsksvmfji2ad.onion
Address 2 marshjhtog245vzjzcicnmv2ci6yljibvdm4pngq5kmkfvcutppboxad.onion
Address 3 marsiujka6lrsaqpnxiwvknthhzsrlmq77mnl2fi62guc4lwxif65syd.onion

This list is published, not monitored. An address that opens is not an address that is genuine, and the check that settles it takes under a minute.

Reference › When something is wrong

The interface looks different

People are good at noticing that something changed and bad at saying what. The noticing is the useful part.

Trust the instinctA vague feeling that something is off is the cheapest signal you will ever get here. Checking costs a minute. Dismissing it because you cannot articulate the difference is how people talk themselves past the only warning they received.

What to check, in order

  1. The address, in the middle. Not the first few characters, which is what a forgery matches.
  2. The signature. This settles it regardless of what the page looks like, and it is the only thing that does.
  3. What is being asked of you. A page wanting something it did not want before is the shape that matters most.
  4. Whether the other addresses look the same. A real interface change appears on all three. A copy is one address.

Changes that are innocent

What you seeUsually
Layout shifted, fonts differentYour security level is blocking something it did not before, or a stylesheet failed to load under congestion
Pieces missing, half renderedPartial fetch under load. Reload once.
Slower and plainerDegraded mode during heavy traffic, which is deliberate
A genuinely new interfacePlatforms do change. It appears on all three addresses and it does not ask you for anything new.

Changes that are not

  • A login prompt when you were already logged in, particularly during an outage.
  • A request for a wallet seed in any framing. There is no legitimate version of this.
  • Being asked to confirm your account to continue, which is not a thing that happens.
  • A prompt to lower browser security to make something work.
  • Any deadline at all. Nothing here operates on a clock.

If you already typed something

Then it is a credential problem rather than a browsing problem, and the ordered response is on login rejected. Move on the account before the balance, and do it from an address you established yourself rather than the one you were on.