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Archetyp

Type of site	Darknet market
Available in	English
Owner	ASNT
Created by	ASNT
URL	censored.onion
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Required
Users	420,000
Launched	May 2020
Current status	Online

Archetyp or Archetyp market is a darknet market that was launched in May 2020. It operates on the Tor network and is therefore only accessible via a specialized browser. All transactions are conducted using Monero, a cryptocurrency designed to be private. Archetyp only accepts drug-related listings.

History

In an interview with German website tarnkappe.info [de], the founder of the market stated that they grew up in a deprived area and first encountered drugs at a young age. After trying LSD at age 20, they reflected on their life of alcohol abuse and drug-related anti-social behavior and realized that it did not fit with the social good they had wanted to do as a child. They were impressed by the libertarian philosophy of the Silk Road website and, after seeing that many of the markets which replaced it were more focused on profit than this philosophy, decided to set up their own to support the European drug scene and advocate drug liberalization.

At the May 2023 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, researchers presented an onion service popularity estimation algorithm which found that, after accounting for phishing sites, Archetyp Market was the most popular onion service website on Tor.

According to a February 2024 study in the journal International Criminal Justice Review, most of the users of the previously-popular darknet market Flugsvamp migrated to Archetyp following security issues and allegations of fraud at Flugsvamp.

Research by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of New South Wales found that Archetyp was the largest of the 11 darknet markets monitored in May 2024 by number of listings, with an average of 8,607. This was up from January 2024, when Archetyp came fourth after Incognito, Bohemia and Nemesis (which all closed before May).

References

1. ^ "Archetyp: From Underground Hideaway to Digital Revolution and 420k Users". DarknetDiscussions.com. 2024-04-29. Archived from the original on 2024-09-01. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
2. Nosov, V. V.; Manzhai, O. V.; Kovtun, V. O. (2023-09-28). "Technical, forensic and organisational aspects of work with Monero cryptocurrency". Law and Safety (in Ukrainian). 90 (3): 102–125. doi:10.32631/pb.2023.3.09. ISSN 2617-2933. deyaki rynky pidtry-muyutʹ vyklyuchno Monero, napryklad Archetyp деякі ринки підтри-мують виключно Monero, наприклад Archetyp [some markets support Monero exclusively, such as Archetyp]
3. Sudan, Harjeev Kour; Tai, Andy Man Yeung; Kim, Jane; Krausz, Reinhard Michael (2023-01-01). "Decrypting the cryptomarkets: Trends over a decade of the Dark Web drug trade". Drug Science, Policy and Law. 9: 20503245231215668. doi:10.1177/20503245231215668. ISSN 2050-3245.
4. Wang, Yichao; Arief, Budi; Hernandez-Castro, Julio (2024-06-05). "Analysis of Security Mechanisms of Dark Web Markets". European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference. EICC '24. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 120–127. doi:10.1145/3655693.3655700. ISBN 979-8-4007-1651-5.
5. "Archetyp: neuer Darknet-Drogenshop will an die Spitze - Interview". tarnkappe.info [de] (in German). 2021-03-16. Archived from the original on 2024-07-13. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
6. Wang, Chunmian; Luo, Junzhou; Ling, Zhen; Luo, Lan; Fu, Xinwen (17 May 2023). "A Comprehensive and Long-term Evaluation of Tor V3 Onion Services". IEEE INFOCOM 2023 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. IEEE. pp. 1–10. doi:10.1109/INFOCOM53939.2023.10229057. ISBN 979-8-3503-3414-2. Finally, the top 6 most popular core websites are Archetyp market, ROYALMARKET, DARKMONEY, VClub, dark.fail and ASAP market. The fifth website is a well-known yellow page and the rest are black markets. It shows that black markets are very popular on the Tor network.
7. Waldner, Oscar; Moeller, Kim (September 2024). "Collective Displacement of Regional Cryptomarket Vendors—A Study on the Aftermath of the Flugsvamp 3.0 Closure". International Criminal Justice Review. 34 (3). Sage Journals: 206–223. doi:10.1177/10575677241229682. ISSN 1057-5677.
8. Man, Nicola; Sadaphale, Vandit; Sutherland, Rachel; Barratt, Monica; Bruno, Raimondo; Peacock, Amy (2024-07-25). "Trends in the availability and type of drugs sold on the internet via cryptomarkets, June 2023 – May 2024" (PDF). UNSW Sydney. doi:10.26190/unsworks/30309. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-11-28. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
9. Man, Nicola; Sadaphale, Vandit; Yang, Yan; Bruno, Raimondo; Barratt, Monica; Sutherland, Rachel; Peacock, Amy (2024-03-28). "Trends in the availability and type of drugs sold on the internet via cryptomarkets, February 2023 – January 2024" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-11-28. Retrieved 2024-11-28.

See also

• Internet
• Anarchism

• Internet properties established in 2020
• Tor onion services
• Darknet markets