DrugHub Marketplace Frequently Asked Questions

http://drughuberjxfrxtlk2cystdz4jvogmc3lsnk5drvwx2nfi63ou2r2kid.onion/. Treat every other string as a mirror until it verifies to the staff key 2gj6 w49X MbMf … jfUF AmhQ. The market hands out unique private onions — two per accepted vendor, ticket-based for customers — and shared entry runs behind a proof-of-work puzzle, so expect a solve step and slower times on throttled machines.

Monero, and only Monero. Payments are invoice-based per order with no deposit: add to cart, check out, receive a one-time payment destination and amount, pay. The in-account wallet exists for refunds, overpayments, underpayments and late payments only — the wallet page quote says it directly. Staff wallet recommendations in-thread: the official Monero GUI or Feather; one user's summary line — “if you don't control the private keys, it's not your coin” — is the house view in practice.

5 % commission, customer-side, added to order value. Vendor listing prices therefore mirror cross-market prices and the fee is not inside the margin — a point one buyer raised openly (“a slight inconvenience… effectively makes everything 5 % more expensive”). The market side: withdrawal network fees covered, withdrawals handled offline within about twenty-four hours, nothing hot-walletted on the box. Full fee table on the invoices page.

Neither. Auth is signature-based: the public key is registered, every sign-in is proved by signing a fresh challenge, and the spec marks both username and password as “required: false, PGP: true”. Registration additionally expects working PGP + Monero knowledge — how-to-sign style tickets are documented dead ends. See the step-by-step on the login portal.

~6 months, then gone; two community confirmations bracket it (“5-6 months”, a two-year-old vendor account with FE wiped after a sales-free break). No warning email (there is no email); usernames and keys can be reused on re-registration per the staff-confirmed comment. Budget for re-registration as an operational note, not a grievance.

The market's own ticket system, full stop: the spec sets Dread support to false and there is an explicit line in the signed post with the source permalink (“no Dread support at all”). Open tickets and disputes wait, they are not stacked — “it will do nothing to send a new ticket” — and nothing is ever expedited. The automated support pages resolve 99.5 % of issues and “the pages say X, the staff say X”; if the market has a buyer's guide under /info/buyer-guide, that is where checkout questions go.

Case by case, with a hard verification bar: history must be checkable by key alone, waivers are judged on that check, and “99 % of the time, if a bond is being asked for, there's no way around it”. Early finalisation is also discretion, with or without a reason; the vendor application itself is manual and one-by-one, and vendors who don't register properly are quoted in the thread as closed-tickets.

No, not currently — a community question was answered in-thread with “not for the foreseeable future” and a permalink. The seizure story does not depend on multisig anyway: no stored passwords, enforced E2EE and an offline withdrawal cycle are the relevant lines of defence.

Russia + CIS are out (no business, no information sales). The prohibited-items list: weapons, fentanyl and analogues (the community thread literally complains about exactly this line), poisons, porn, law-enforcement / government / hospital stolen-data dumps, tutorials & methods, transfers, get-rich-quick schemes. Customer rules add no external contact sharing, no off-market deals, no plaintext tracking numbers; penalties run warning → fine → permanent ban.

All ten from the spec, flat: weapons; fentanyl and analogues; poisons; porn; leaked law-enforcement data; leaked government data; leaked school/hospital data; tutorials, guides and methods; transfers; and get-rich-quick schemes. The customer rules sit alongside: no external-contact sharing, no off-market deals, no plaintext tracking numbers, no phishing or doxxing; penalties warning → fine → permanent ban. The community openly gripes about the fentanyl line (“if only they’d lift the no-fentanyl rule”), so expect the item list to be the argument when it comes up.

Finalisation timers are vendor-set anywhere from five to forty-five days; the buyer may extend — one vendor’s gripe in-thread: an order of 22 June stretched to 10 July (an eighteen-day wait), and the staff answer is “another fact we forgot to mention, you can always open a dispute with reason ‘customer got the order and does not release escrow’; if you shipped with tracking, it gets resolved quite quickly”. The signed key-facts post adds the buyer side: watch your AF timer, extend, dispute where needed — forgetting is not a refund line, staff say bluntly.