Alphabay Market

Updated July 28th, 2023

AlphaBay is a legendary dark web marketplace which was by the FBI’s own words the biggest darknet marketplace to have ever existed. The platform was shutdown in 2017 by authorities during Operation Bayonet but they were unable to capture many of the staff members including its co-founder and security administrator DeSnake.

On 7th August 2021 DeSnake re-opened AlphaBay for business after having his identity verified by PGP, forum admins, ex-AlphaBay staff members (those not caught) and multiple security researchers.

AlphaBay is a principle-driven, vision oriented and community centered marketplace and Forum for all black market items. It boasts of mature management, unparalleled security, 24/7 professional & well-trained Staff. It is the marketplace which introduced most features you see today on other places such as sticky listing, featured listings, autoshops, monero as a payment, PGP-signed addresses, shared account access for vendors and so on.

Alphabay Unique Features

Apart from the usual autoshop, autodispatch listings, sticky and featured listings, ScamWatch, innovative features which it introduces on launch.

AlphaGuard which protects wallets of both buyers and vendors in case of police raids on all servers by giving them opportunity to finish escrows, disputes and withdraw funds.
Automated Dispute Resolver (ADR) system is a dispute resolution system. It is used between buyer and seller as they send propositions in case of disputes. For example replacement/reship, percentage refund, extending escrow and more all without a human moderator.
Advanced Trust/Distrust System for buyers and vendors as well as review system for both as well.
Default privacy for buyers makes all profiles private by default. When you make a purchase, only your purchase history will be shared to the vendor.

These and many more pave the way for this world class marketplace to reach the top once again.

Alphabay Decentralization Goal

DeSnake has started building the next generation decentralized marketplace network. This new version will allow markets and vendor shops from all around the world to join and form the future. The network will make it impossible to LE takedowns and it will be the long awaited progress in the darknet market scene.

Alphabay is gone and its administrator Desnake is arrested by law enforcement.

Marketplace url: alphabay522szl32u4ci5e3iokdsyth56ei7rwngr2wm7i5jo54j2eid.onion
Alphabay Market I2P link: tnaefzkcnhryeusi7hdpqujqiqmnbtah3dmjcg3gvezohunjuxbq.b32.i2p
Alphabay Market Alternative links: N/A
Forum url: N/A

STATUS: Seized by Law Enforcement

ITEM TYPE	DETAILED STATS
Name	Alphabay Market
Established	Dec 2014
Main URL	alphabay522szl32u4c***r2wm7i5jo54j2eid.onion
Support Multi-Sig	Yes
Security Issues	Yes
Active Warnings	Seized
2 Factor Authentication	Yes
Finalize Early	Allowed
Commission	2 to 4%
Vendor Bond	1 XMR
Forced Vendor PGP	Yes
Total Listings	34K (As of July 2022)
Business volume (weekly)	N/A
Current Status	Active