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 › Before you start

The money

The cryptography is the strong part. What people get wrong sits on either side of it.

What is genuinely protected

Ring signatures hide which input was actually spent among decoys. One time destinations mean two payments cannot be linked by where they went. Confidential amounts hide the value. A passive observer of the chain learns that a transaction happened and essentially nothing else. That is a real and substantial property.

Where it leaks instead

The real exposureAt the boundary, where money converts from something with a record into something without one. A withdrawal from an exchange that knows who you are, followed a few minutes later by a deposit of a matching amount, does most of the work for anybody looking later.

Leak	Why the chain protection does not help
Timing correlation	A withdrawal and a deposit minutes apart with matching amounts is a pattern, and nobody had to read the chain to see it.
The exchange record	Somebody knows you bought, when, and how much. That record exists whatever happens afterwards.
The bank transfer behind it	One step further back and entirely conventional.
Custodial wallets	A wallet somebody else controls reintroduces exactly the record you were avoiding.
Reusing a deposit address	Defeats the one time destination property, which is most of the point.

Which is why the currency choice is necessary and not sufficient. Somebody who understands the cryptography well, has excellent chain privacy, and an obvious trail on both sides of it is a common outcome rather than an unusual one.

Two rules about amounts

Fund what you intend to spend soon. A balance sitting on a platform is outside escrow and outside every protection described on this site. It is the most frequent loss here and it has no attacker attached to it.
One movement rather than several small ones. Each transfer pays a fee and adds another timing event at the boundary.

Wallets

Open source and maintained, on desktop where possible. Avoid anything custodial, because a wallet somebody else controls holds records regardless of which currency it handles. Keep the seed where nothing on your machine can read it, and understand that no legitimate flow anywhere ever asks for it. That last point comes up again in unexpected requests, where it is the one absolute rule on this whole site.