Abacus Market
Abacus darknet
The Abarus Darknet market is a website on the darknet that accepts BTC and XMR, with a 3-year uptime!

Short Description Abacus Market 2025
Abacus is a large darknet marketplace that launched in early 2020 as AlphaBay. To avoid confusion with the recently revamped AlphaBay, the marketplace renamed itself Abacus market and has since grown from AlphaBay. It currently has around 65,000 listings, including a large selection of medicines and pharmaceutical products. The Abacus darknet also has an extensive digital goods section. Signing up to the Abacus market is a little more complicated than some others, but it has enough features to make experienced users feel comfortable.
As well as being inspired by its original namesake, Abacus onion is also modelled on the old AlphaBay, which the admins describe as "the friendliest and most intuitive layout the darknet has ever seen". At the same time, they claim that the marketplace has been designed and built from scratch. Indeed, Abacus market is similar to AlphaBay, but with many modern features built in, such as support for multi-sig XMR and BTC transactions, and the ability to differentiate between different levels of FE (100%, 75%, 50% and 25% payment FE'd on delivery).
Apart from the ban on fentanyl (and the usual blacklisted items), Abacus Market seems to be quite liberal in terms of what is allowed to be sold. It is one of the last major marketplaces to have a huge section for fraudulently obtained data, including personal information, credit cards and various data dumps. The Abacus darknet also offers thousands of other digital goods, some of which are hard to find elsewhere. User support is also said to be "24/7", although we haven't had time to check this out.
Besides borrowing heavily from the template of the world's most famous darknet exchanges, Abacus market has a few other problems that can't go unnoticed. For example, the captcha system it uses is relentless and can be difficult to navigate. The lack of a direct payment option (per order) is a little frustrating, as is the almost complete reliance on the traditional market escrow system. It's difficult to find a provider willing to accept BTC multisig escrow, which means everyone is at the mercy of the marketplace to get it right. Apart from these problems, Abacus market seems to be a perfectly good darknet marketplace, and its popularity has really taken off in the last few months.
How to access Abacus Market
The client needs to establish communication with the onion network. To do this, use the Tor Browser, which you can easily download from the project's official website. Then connect to any VPN service and follow the link to access Abacus Market.

Joining the Abacus Market
Abacus market requires an account in its system to be able to use the main functions of the market. The account dependency is at the highest level. This is evident from the fact that you cannot even look at the goods without logging into your account. Let's take a look at the account registration process.

Creating an account with Abacus Market is easy. Firstly, as explained above, make sure you are visiting an official Abacus Darknet site and not a phishing URL. The landing page will have a link to the registration page under the word 'register'.
Create a unique username on Abacus Market that can't be associated with your online identities. Next, create a strong password on Abacus darknet of 8 or more characters (a random combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers is recommended), repeat the password and then enter a 6 character withdrawal pin (required to withdraw funds from the market).
Before you continue, make sure that you have saved your Abacus Market username, password and PIN in a safe place where you can remember where they are. Once you have saved this information, enter the captcha and press "Join Abacus Market".
You will then be taken to the Mnemonic screen. Normally a 'mnemonic' is a memorable list of words, but in the case of Abacus Market it is a long string of letters and numbers. Save this along with your other information, or even somewhere else, as you will need it to recover your account if you lose access to your login details or if they are hacked.
Once you have saved your mnemonic in a safe place, tick the 'I have saved and stored my mnemonic...' box and click 'Continue'. The account creation process is now complete and you are ready to browse the market.
Browsing Abacus Darknet
If you take a quick look at the Abacus Market, you will notice that its design is very different from the design of almost all other darknet sites. Instead of the classic storefront, Abacus Darknet looks more like a forum - and indeed, by default, its forum opens instead of the marketplace page.

Deposit Your Account in Abacus Market
Before you start browsing products on Abacus Market, there is one more thing you need to do before you can place an order: top up your account. Abacus Market adheres to the old school, as all payments are made through an escrow system. This means that the user's funds are stored on the market until the order is placed by the buyer. The Abacus darknet has an early termination (FE) option, but it still requires transferring funds from your account to an escrow account.

How does the replenishment system on Abacus market work?
Abacus Market accepts two different cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin (BTC) and Monero (XMR). If possible, it is preferable to use XMR, as it is harder to trace and is both cheaper and faster to send. However, for the purposes of this guide, we will show you how to make a deposit using BTC. First, hover over the "BALANCE" menu option and select "Bitcoin Balance". Here, below the "Deposit Funds" section, you will see a black box that says "Generate Bitcoin Address".
Click on the box to generate an address. This will refresh the screen and display a newly created BTC address where you will deposit coins to fund your account. Your deposit address will change every 48 hours, so if you generate an address and wait more than 2 days before making a deposit, check back to see if your address has changed. Deposits will be credited to your account after 2 confirmations, but may take up to half an hour to appear in your displayed balance.
You can also make withdrawals from this screen. Bitcoin withdrawals are processed for a reasonable fee of 0.0003 BTC.
Purchasing on Abacus Onion
The purpose of visiting the Darknet market in the vast majority of cases is to buy products, the process of buying products is associated with each customer of the market and needs a review from our side, let's find out what manipulations need to be done to buy products on the Abacus Market.

Once you have found an item you wish to purchase, select the quantity you wish to purchase and click the Buy Now button with BTC or XMR, depending on how you wish to pay. Next, select the shipping method you wish to use, along with the payment option (Escrow or Finalise Early) and check the total payment before proceeding. You will then enter your encrypted shipping information for the seller.
If you wish to encrypt your shipping information yourself (highly recommended), you will need to import the supplier's PGP public key into your PGP client. This can be done by saving it as a text file and using the client's import function. Once you have done this, type in your delivery information as lines of text, copy it to your clipboard, and close the text file without saving the contents. Next, use your PGP client to encrypt the contents of the clipboard using the supplier's PGP key as the recipient. Paste the encrypted contents into the Shipping Info field and you're ready to go.
Once you are satisfied that your order is in order, click the Order button to deduct the amount owed from your account balance. This will alert the seller that an order is waiting for them, and they will begin to prepare the order. When the seller has shipped the order, they will mark it as such in the order status. Once you have received your order and are happy with it, release the funds held in escrow to the supplier by completing the order. Don't forget to do this, as the seller cannot be paid until you do.