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Onion guide · updated May 5, 2026

Nexus Market onion guide — v3 hidden service mechanics

Background on the v3 onion address format and how Nexus Market uses it. Useful context for understanding why the verification flow looks the way it does.

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K. Briskill · OpSec writer at TorTaught
Topic landing · updated May 5, 2026 · 2026-05-05 03:13 UTC

A v3 onion address is 56 base32 characters before the .onion suffix. The string encodes the service's Ed25519 public key plus a checksum and version byte; the public key being baked into the hostname is what makes spoofing computationally infeasible. The TorTaught walkthrough does not require you to understand the cryptography to use the platform safely; it does require that you trust the verification step (the PGP signature) over your own visual inspection of the URL.

The pinned reference at site16.jrussell.org/v3-onion-service-specification has the full protocol-level reference for users who want to dig in. For day-to-day use, the only thing that matters is: a real Nexus mirror is 56 chars, sits on the homepage roster, and serves a verifiable PGP signature.

Verified working Nexus Market mirrors

Three v3 onion addresses currently serving the production market, signed under PGP fingerprint 0x7F2A0A9D. Use the Copy button; never retype an address.

Recommended http://nexuspokkxp4ayqqec3c3lkekwhnjdqur5bqiocemx4t6sy3werqihad.onion
Backup http://nexusncagw2vnag3ycv62occuouhfgkp6htx7alhnzl5xwgtzi2mfbid.onion
Failover http://nexusr4ivg23525pvw53h3av7b7xcamxqguprosazaoray33qgrar2qd.onion

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