Agora becomes darknet's largest marketplace

20/03/2015

Agora, the darknet's market operating in the Tor network launched in 2013, becomes the largest online marketplace inside the Deep Web. Previously Evolution was first before an exit fraud forced it to shut down.

Unaffected by November 2014's Operation Onymous that seized many darknet's websites, Agora reigns the marketplace in the Dark Web's bustling, bitcoin-based narcotics economy.

The site has had numerous temporary downtimes die to bulking up its defenses against potential attacks that believes to be used to identify the site's servers and operators. The site also went down several times when it detects suspicious activities they believe may break its Tor's protection.s that they believe might be used to deanonymize server locations:[9]