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Darknet Journal

This journal serves as a historical archive documenting the turbulent evolution of the darknet ecosystem. We track major market events, law enforcement actions, and significant technical updates.

Data sources include public archives from Gwern, Darknetlive, OnionTree, and community reports from Dread.

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2023

April 5th Elude Exchange Suspends Operations (Exit Scam)
March 30th Tor Market Declares Temporary Hiatus
March 5th Dread Returns Online with New DDoS Mitigation
February 14th DeSnake Advises Withdrawal as AlphaBay Exits
January 20th Kilos Exchange Goes Dark with User Funds
January 3rd DiDW (Deutschland im Deep Web) Seized by German Police

2022

June 9th Tor Network Suffers Massive DDoS Attack
May 26th Launch of VenTor Market
May 22nd Versus Market Officially Retires
April 12th Dread Deploys I2P Mirror
April 6th Closure of xChange.me Service
April 5th Hydra Market Infrastructure Seized by Authorities
March 25th World Market Pulls Exit Scam
March 7th Release of Dread v3
February 25th Dark0de Reborn Confirmed Exit Scam
January 28th DeepDotWeb Administrator Receives 97-Month Sentence

2021

December 30th Monopoly Market Goes Offline
December 16th ToRReZ Market Announces Retirement
December 8th Discovery of Massive Malicious Tor Relay Cluster
November 23rd Cannazon Market Shuts Down Gracefully
October 1st White House Market Retires
September 27th Launch of Abacus Market
August 7th AlphaBay Returns (Relaunch)
June 11th Slilpp Marketplace Seized
May 23rd Bohemia Market Begins Operations
May 2nd Tor Announces End of Life for v2 Onion Services
March 31st Incognito Market Launches
January 12th DarkMarket Seized in International Operation

2020

November 29th Tor2Door Market Launched
August 25th Empire Market Exit Scams
May 25th Vice City Market Launches
May 17th Archetyp Market Launched
May 15th Dark0de Reborn Launched
March 25th ASAP Market Launched
March 10th Daniel's Hosting Service Shuts Down
February 28th ToRReZ Market Begins Operations

2019

December 12th Versus Market Launched
November 15th Kilos Search Engine Launched
May 7th DeepDotWeb Seized, Admin Arrested
May 3rd Valhalla Market Taken Down by Europol
May 2nd Wallstreet Market Seized by German Police
April 30th Dream Market Announces Shutdown
August 22nd White House Market Launched

2018

May 29th Dread Forum Relaunches
March 27th Reddit Bans /r/DarkNetMarkets
January Empire Market Launch (Estimate)

2017

July 5th AlphaBay Seized by International Authorities
May Elude.in Launched

Early Years (2013-2016)

October 19th, 2016 Wallstreet Market Launched
March 18th, 2015 Evolution Market Vanishes (Exit Scam)
December 22nd, 2014 Original AlphaBay Launched
November 29th, 2013 Sheep Marketplace Heist ($6 Million Stolen)
November 15th, 2013 Dream Market Launched
October 1st, 2013 Silk Road Seized by FBI

The Beginning

January 31st, 2011 Silk Road Launches