Chainalysis reports that about 3.7% of cryptocurrency whales are criminals and most of their income appears to come from the dark web, as they have about $25 billion in total assets. However, as law enforcement becomes more efficient, legal cryptocurrency adoption remains ahead of illegal use.

Blockchain analytics provider Elliptic revealed that the four Russian sites earned a total of about $263 million in digital assets through illegal transactions. The three most commonly used cryptocurrencies are bitcoin (BTC), ethereum (ETH) and litecoin (LTC).

The dark web marketplace is still a very lucrative industry, if ever there was one, and the retirement of those who came before can give current operators the confidence that they can run a successful marketplace and make their fortune - without getting arrested.

The website domain name is sdklioxpbd7whqbvhnderrd3dz67rkmdpb4j533xtff34fonqrt4wxyd.onion, calling itself "Genuine Chinese Guaranteed Marketplace - a small high-end Chinese secure buying and selling platform Genuine Chinese Guaranteed The actual fraudulent website is a low-end scam that uses a lazy recharge. We are determined to expose it and ask our users to beware.

Scatchrad, who is unemployed, set up an account on TorMarket under the username "freshkiwiproduce" and advertises various drugs on the TorMarket marketplace, including MDMA, LSD, Viagra and Ritalin.

Xuzhou Procuratorate's year-end summary points to "'Tea-horse Ancient Road' dark web trading market case and a number of key cases", and with the "Tea-horse Ancient Road" dark web trading market website screenshots, enough to prove that the "Tea-horse Ancient Road" dark web trading market has been cracked down on by the police and transferred to the procuratorial authorities to accept the review and prosecution.

Alex Hudson of Britain's National Crime Agency admits that police have been a step behind the criminals, but says new technology will make a difference.

Police crackdown and "exit scams" are the main reasons for the closure of dark web marketplaces. "Under the Dark Web/AWX" counts down the Chinese dark web marketplaces that will die in 2021.

This article is a list of the top global dark web marketplaces as of January 2022. While there is no definitive top dark web marketplace, it is likely that providers in pre-closed dark web marketplaces will migrate to any of the five dark web marketplaces in this article.

DarkFox is a dark web marketplace where scammers gather, transactions are not received orders, administrators do not actively deal with disputes, do not give users the opportunity to communicate, and suppliers who have been inactive for years suddenly show active, it seems that the administrators are also involved in scams, so they are restricted from functioning by the Dread forum.