Nexus Best Open Library
An open collection of assessments, comparisons and measurement notes on Nexus Market and the Tor marketplaces it is usually ranked against. Every entry states its criteria and its limits.
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Library / Catalogue / When a marketplace exits
Keywords: exit, shutdown, seizure, escrow, balances, withdrawal discipline
A seizure compresses this into a single step with a notice replacing the site, and a voluntary exit stretches it over weeks. The exposure is the same either way.
| Position | Exposure |
|---|---|
| Balance sitting on the market | Lost in full, and this is the largest category by a distance |
| Order funded and in escrow | Depends on the escrow design, which is why the design matters |
| Order shipped, awaiting confirmation | Usually resolved between buyer and vendor if both are reachable |
| No funds on the market | Nothing lost, only inconvenience |
Every account of somebody losing money in an exit reduces to a single sentence, which is that funds were sitting on the market when it stopped. Not in escrow on an active order, simply parked because withdrawing felt like effort. Deposit for the order in front of you, withdraw the remainder, and the entire category of loss described in this entry stops applying to you.
The period right after a market disappears is when replacements are announced everywhere, and the vast majority of those announcements are phishing aimed at exactly the people who just lost access. Anything urgent and unsigned during that window deserves the opposite of trust.
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