There is no green light on this site, because a status picture can be copied as easily as a logo. What is here instead is the set of endpoints, the last date they were checked and the difference between a market that is down and a market that simply moved the door.
Last check
| First screen | Then | What must match |
|---|---|---|
| Checking your browser before accessing Nexus Market | The shop with categories on the left | Banner label equals the address in the bar |
| Same queue page, different latency | The same account and balance | Banner label equals the address in the bar |
| Same queue page | Autoshop and listings | Banner label equals the address in the bar |
The first screen a visitor usually meets is not the shop but a waiting room: a dark page with the market name, a small counter and the line that access takes up to half a minute. That screen is a queue in front of the service, not a queue inside it. It is also the screen that clones reproduce badly, because the queue page carries no account and nothing to log into.
Outage, rotation, or your own circuit
Rule out the circuit first
Tor rebuilds circuits on its own, roughly every ten minutes. New circuit, or a second endpoint from the same list, settles half of the cases without any outside news.
Try all three before believing anything
The set exists exactly so that a single dead endpoint means nothing. If one opens and shows your balance, the market is up and the rest is plumbing.
Read the forum, not the mirror site
A signed announcement on the hidden service forum outranks every mirror page, including this one. Unsigned screenshots of an announcement are not evidence.
Status questions
Is Nexus Market still online?
The honest answer from the outside is that all three published endpoints answer with a check screen and then the shop. If at least one of them shows that screen, the market is up; this page prints the date of the last check, not a live counter.
One address does not open. Is that a problem?
Usually no. One endpoint of the set going quiet is normal: the queue is held at the front door and endpoints get moved. Log in through the second or third address and check that the label in the banner matches what you pasted.
Where does the market announce a new address?
On the Tor forum where the admins keep a public account, signed with PGP. A post without a verifiable signature is a rumour, and by the time a new label reaches a search engine it has been copied many times.
What should I never do during downtime?
Send coins to an address copied from a search result while the real shop is unreachable. A deposit is reversible only by the person who took it; a login is reversible by closing the tab.