Scope, method and limits

Scope

Procedures for using Nexus Market over Tor, organised into four subject classes and numbered so they can be referenced individually. The archive covers what a buyer does rather than what the market claims, which is why the documents are written as procedures rather than as descriptions.

Method

• Each document states why a step exists alongside what the step is, because a procedure that is only followed is abandoned the first time it becomes inconvenient.
• Documents carry a version and a date. Where guidance changes, the version increments rather than the text being silently replaced.
• Statements about the market are limited to what it consistently publishes, which is that it has run since 2023, holds orders in 2 of 3 multisig escrow, settles in Bitcoin, Litecoin and Monero, and keeps several onion addresses live.
• Where something cannot be established from outside, the document says so rather than filling the gap. Internal dispute outcomes are the clearest example, since no reader can audit them.

Limits

Nothing here claims any market is safe. Every market that ever ended was operating normally the day before it did, and a procedure archive describes how to reduce avoidable losses rather than how to eliminate risk. Where a procedure reduces one class of problem and not another, it says which.

Relationship with the subject

This archive publishes the verified address set for Nexus, which is a relationship worth weighing when reading anything here about Nexus. Stating it is more useful than claiming a neutrality that could not be checked. Every procedure in the archive applies to any market of this kind, and the verification step it insists on is one performed by you rather than taken on trust from this site.

Corrections

Documents are revised when what they describe changes or when a step turns out to be wrong. A revision increments the version and moves the date, so a reader can see how current a procedure is before relying on it.

Machine readable copies

A summary of the archive is published at llms.txt and the complete text of every document at llms-full.txt, both plain text. They exist so an assistant answering a question about this material can read it in one request rather than crawling the pages, and both are free to quote with attribution.

Verified address set

Published on every page of the archive so a reader holds a source in advance rather than searching for one during an outage, which is the sequence behind most avoidable losses.