Frequently Asked Questions

This website acts as the central, authorized clearnet gateway and directory index for the drughub market network. Our primary architecture is designed to host, monitor, and distribute verified .onion mirror endpoints. This ensures that users retain access to our safe commerce marketplace regardless of targeted censorship, physical node outages, or temporary routing anomalies. Through this secure portal, users can always access the official drughub market platform.

A .onion address is a specialized domain format utilized exclusively by Tor hidden services. Standard domain names utilize global DNS registries, whereas .onion nodes leverage cryptographic metadata to verify identity and negotiate end-to-end encrypted routing. Traffic is automatically randomized across server relays, which conceals physical hosting coordinates and user IP signatures. This ensures that your browsing session remains completely anonymous and secure from external analysis.

Access requires the use of the official Tor Browser, which is a customized utility built specifically to resolve .onion addresses. You cannot open these links on normal browsers like Chrome or Safari. Download Tor, launch the connection interface, copy one of the active .onion links on our homepage, and paste it directly into the secure Tor address bar to proceed.

Navigate to our active onion mirror inside Tor and click the registration window. You must provide a personalized username and a strong passphrase. For privacy preservation, the platform will never ask for personal identifying details, email linkages, verification steps, or SMS authentication. Remember to save your automatically generated mnemonic phrase securely for password recovery processes.

To ensure absolute security and guard against mirror tampering, you should routinely verify connection hashes. Use the integrated PGP Verification Terminal on our home page to compare the published signature block against the official Drughub public keys. If the cryptographical check returns an error, avoid inputting credentials or initiating coin transactions. Always rely on our centralized clearing key for direct authentication.

Browsing our informational clearnet hub is perfectly safe. However, safety on the Tor network itself is a continuous process. You must consistently follow core protective guidelines: verify mirrors via cryptographic signatures, ensure your local system firewall is enabled, disable active browser components like JavaScript, and never reuse passwords between platforms.

Two-Factor Authentication using Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) replaces typical text-message or authenticator-app 2FA. When logging in, the platform encrypts a short authentication challenge using your registered public key. You must decrypt this message locally and input the resulting token to gain entry, protecting your account from unauthorized access even if your passphrase is leaked.

The marketplace utilizes Monero (XMR) as its core payment asset due to its robust privacy features and transaction anonymity. In addition to XMR, Bitcoin (BTC) is integrated with integrated address mixing protocols. We highly recommend utilizing Monero for all transactions to benefit from its native ring-signatures and invisible ledger properties. This establishes a highly secure and private purchasing flow.

Escrow acts as an automatic safety vault. When you complete a purchase, your cryptocurrency is safely locked in our system's secure pool rather than transferring directly to the vendor. The merchant is notified to dispatch your items. Only after you receive and confirm the quality of your order will the escrow release, allowing the vendor to claim the funds.

There are no registration fees or account maintenance tariffs on the market. Transactions bear a small fee ranging between 2% and 4% based on vendor level, which is collected only when an escrow is settled successfully. External withdrawals are subject strictly to the standard network transaction fees of each blockchain.

Select your desired listings, carefully check the merchant's historical score, and proceed to checkout. You must use the vendor's public PGP key to encrypt your delivery coordinates locally on your machine before submitting them. Submit your payment to the system escrow, confirm the transaction receipt, and monitor the order status updates on your dashboard.

If an order does not arrive within the designated timeframe or differs from the listing description, you can open a dispute prior to escrow finalization. Our dedicated moderation team will review the encrypted conversation ledger, the shipping confirmation details, and vendor history to resolve the dispute fairly. If the dispute is decided in your favor, the funds are immediately refunded to your account balance.

Yes. To maintain high security and moral integrity, our platform strictly prohibits several categories of listings. This includes child exploitation material, weapons, explosives, toxic chemical formulas, personal identity databases, and any items designed to cause real-world physical harm. Violating this code of conduct results in immediate banishment and loss of safety deposits.

Onion links can occasionally load slowly or experience downtime due to network synchronization latency or localized traffic spikes. We recommend requesting a new Tor circuit identity, checking your internet connection, or using one of our verified secondary mirrors. Our team monitors and rotates our active nodes systematically to maintain continuous system uptime.

Users can open a support ticket directly through their user dashboard on our active onion mirrors. For general issues regarding mirror availability, you can contact our coordination staff using our signed PGP profiles on our official Contact page. We strive to address all security queries within 24 hours.