Vortex Market Link: Wallet Escrow and a 4% Swap

The order screen has no multisig

Directory pages add 2-of-3 multisig, AES-256 encryption, six currencies, a $400 vendor bond, and user and vendor counts. The order-protection screen describes wallet escrow. The wallet holds Bitcoin, Monero, and USDT. The market's documentation puts the vendor bond at $500, and it does not carry those extras.

Vortex keeps several mirrors and points users toward third-party directories. Those directories are referral-paid, and the wallet menu has a referrals control of its own. Phishing pages target the name. An onion from one of those directories is not a second door. The full market list compares Vortex to the other names on coins and escrow; this page is the deliverable for the Vortex address.

What you can find on Vortex Market?

Narcotics categories sum to 5,100 on the sidebar, against 1,014 in fraud: about five to one. Stimulants lead that drug count at 1,317, cannabis at 842. The captured header reads approx. 6,735 results. Digital products are 622, security and hacking 250, and cracked software, botnets, and malware 155. Sidebar totals run past the result count because one listing can sit in more than one category.

A captured Cards listing priced a US record at $12, held in escrow, from a vendor at level 3 and trust level 2. The score was 4.3 of 5 across 235 sales. The text does not guarantee a balance. It offers a cashout write-up in exchange for positive feedback.

Inside security and hacking, methods are 104 of the 250. The rest is hacking software at 62, services at 43, exploits at 29, and exploit kits at 12. Posted bans are fentanyl, weapons, venoms, child sexual abuse material, and government data. Fraud and malware are not on that list. Vendors who already have a trading history are taken on, including sellers from markets that have shut.

The dispute button waits for two extensions

The dispute control appears only after a buyer has extended escrow twice. International physical goods stay 14 days, domestic goods 7, and digital goods 3. A buyer may extend after one day on a physical order, and immediately on a digital one. The screen never says how long an extension lasts. With no extension and no dispute, the deadline releases the funds and marks the order delivered. A buyer can mark it delivered sooner and leave a review on that order.

Finalize Early releases the funds when the vendor accepts. There is no dispute, only a ticket to staff. The market limits that status to vendors who already have enough feedback. A vendor login with Finalize Early on it can complete an order that the buyer cannot dispute. Staff decide from the terms, the shipping evidence, the messages, the reputation, and the prior trades. A finalized order cannot be reopened.

The timer does not change who holds the wallet. The balance sits in a market wallet the whole time, the same kind of custody that left Empire Market dark between 20 and 23 August 2020, with roughly $30 million in escrow gone. A 3-day digital window limits a vendor. It does not limit the operator.

A 4% swap and a 10% dice cut

The wallet converts Bitcoin, Monero, and USDT at a 4% fee. On the captured screen the pair is Bitcoin sold for Monero, and the fee line says 4% of the amount. Sales take a separate 4%. Keeping the conversion inside the wallet is what cuts the public Bitcoin trail at the deposit. The Monero guide explains why that coin resists the tracing Bitcoin does not.

Dice runs on the same balance. The heading on the screen is Bet on any game, and the graphic is a die. Open bets pool two or three players, priced in the coin of the selected tab: Bitcoin, Monero, or USDT. There is no join fee. The house takes 10% of winnings. A bet is not an order, so the wallet can move with no order attached to the deposit.

The mnemonic is shown once

Recovery is a mnemonic of 12 to 24 words, shown once, plus the username. The market collects no email and no phone number. Withdrawals ask for a numeric PIN. Messages use a PGP public key the account holder supplies. A flagged account is frozen: no withdrawal, no sales, no profile changes.

A lost mnemonic is a lost balance. The PIN does not restore it. A stolen mnemonic is the account. Phishing pages aimed at darknet logins are built for that one secret, and directory pages that already misstate the escrow are where a lookalike address would be believed.

Common questions about Vortex