Updated July 30th, 2022
AlphaBay is a legendary dark web marketplace which was by the FBI’s own words the biggest darknet marketplace to have ever existed. The platform was shutdown in 2017 by authorities during Operation Bayonet but they were unable to capture many of the staff members including its co-founder and security administrator DeSnake.
On 7th August 2021 DeSnake re-opened AlphaBay for business after having his identity verified by PGP, forum admins, ex-AlphaBay staff members (those not caught) and multiple security researchers.
AlphaBay is a principle-driven, vision oriented and community centered marketplace and Forum for all black market items. It boasts of mature management, unparalleled security, 24/7 professional & well-trained Staff. It is the marketplace which introduced most features you see today on other places such as sticky listing, featured listings, autoshops, monero as a payment, PGP-signed addresses, shared account access for vendors and so on.
Alphabay Unique Features
Apart from the usual autoshop, autodispatch listings, sticky and featured listings, ScamWatch, innovative features which it introduces on launch.
- AlphaGuard which protects wallets of both buyers and vendors in case of police raids on all servers by giving them opportunity to finish escrows, disputes and withdraw funds.
- Automated Dispute Resolver (ADR) system is a dispute resolution system. It is used between buyer and seller as they send propositions in case of disputes. For example replacement/reship, percentage refund, extending escrow and more all without a human moderator.
- Advanced Trust/Distrust System for buyers and vendors as well as review system for both as well.
- Default privacy for buyers makes all profiles private by default. When you make a purchase, only your purchase history will be shared to the vendor.
These and many more pave the way for this world class marketplace to reach the top once again.
Alphabay Decentralization Goal
DeSnake has started building the next generation decentralized marketplace network. This new version will allow markets and vendor shops from all around the world to join and form the future. The network will make it impossible to LE takedowns and it will be the long awaited progress in the darknet market scene.
- Marketplace url: alphabay522szl32u4ci5e3iokdsyth56ei7rwngr2wm7i5jo54j2eid.onion
- Alphabay Market Alternative links: N/A
- Forum url: N/A
STATUS: Up & Working Fine
| Item type | Detailed Stats |
|---|---|
| Name | Alphabay Market |
| Established | Dec 2014 |
| Main url | alphabay522szl32u4c***r2wm7i5jo54j2eid.onion |
| Support Multisig | |
| Security Issues | |
| Active Warnings | None |
| 2 Factor Authentication | |
| Finalize Early | Allowed |
| Commission | 2 to 4% |
| Vendor Bond | 1 XMR |
| Forced Vendor Pgp | Yes |
| Total Listings | 34k (As of July 2022) |
| Business volume (weekly) | N/A |
| Current Status | Active |
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We did some changes on the wallet page as attacker was requesting lots of addresses. We have resolved it many days ago and are going through tickets. If you have any amount missing send us a support ticket we will check and promptly credit.
Also no other marketplace has experience or credibility like us. we have the biggest choice of products as well as most secure escrow platform on the darknet.
Thank you.
much love to AB have had only good experiences other than bad vendors and hope they stay much longer and not exit scam like all the other ‘good’ fucking markets.
Welcome Back dude, I wish best for you.
Alphabay as always, is the best and safest marketplace. : x
I get an error when registering, can someone help me
since 24 days i write with support that my money doesnt reached. they said
they handle my queue.. but nothing.. just wait and writing for nothing
+ that xmr go down..
page is down
i’m finding problems getting into the market
I know the whole story believe me DeSanke knows what he’s doing he’s a true businessman
We’re best place to buy xmr at
Exodus exchange your Bitcoin for it you can’t buy it got to exchange for it
Kraken
Binance
Don’t Trust DeSnake, he was involved with Tal Prihar and Michael Phan that ripped off and received kicked backs on allot of people involving money laundering and charging them access to their troubled fraud sites.
lmfao then source another market or go away
When ever I create a ticket it just says security error redirecting, then error 403 forbidden?
I am unable to procceed to checkout on your platform – once you’ve clicked the button nothing happens and I keep getting error messages when trying to report throught the Service Centre. Can you assist, please?
Sorry to use the method of contact but since your site has no contact method I’d thought I’d drop a note here. After 5 attempts to register with AlphaBay I have decided to go elsewhere. If you want buyers to join, then stop making it so flaming impossible to register.
Same. Been trying to register for 3 days…
I’m still waiting for a month to have my XMR funds credited to my account. Last message from DeSnake was dated 06/13… will there be any update soon?
This is not a support forum. Message Desnake on alphabay market instead of posting your problems here.
I already have. I was hoping to get a bit more visibility on it (and possibly an answer) by making it public.
My xmr never reached my account either. I’m about 600 in the hole now. This some bs
You were probably using a fishing link unfortunately
Same here how the fuck do they go missing when credited to account properly
Kiss my snake.
Hey I am having some trouble i think an error logging in to the market.
I have an amount missing in my account
It has been days since my deposit and still nothing also anytime I try to submit a ticket gives error can’t speak to anyone
I’m fine, I deposited yesterday and got it after max 1 hour.
Your marketplace has credibility? It doesn’t even load, I have placed an order, paid for it and you are not apply the credits to complete the order. I smell scam, get your shit together
Learn how to use it and you should be fine. Maybe flawless transactions on AB.
The support ticket system is downnnnnnn!!! How are we going to log tickets????
I lost $600 CAD because someone changed your wallet address….
Is it down atm?
I lost my Coins yesterday i open withdrawal request still not arrived i open support ticket admin also not reply know tell me what can i do now
Lost XMR
I tried to sign up and it keeps saying security error! I’m not sure what the problem is
DeSnake. Your 2FA isn’t working. Just get ERROR: encrypt failed
they are running a scam
i sent the first Funds ” Full amount . it never credit to my balance. contact support . the only reply you get , you have been phishing website. not the origial. I wasnt , i was at the original address.
after 3 days i sent 1$ , it arrived to my balance in 10 min. today i sent the full amount again. and its gone. never credited to my balance
hello, can someone help me with a hacker who can hack an account in a game on the phone or to hack the account of someone who is playing, a recommendation or who I can contact because on alpha I can’t write to the seller, please help…! thanks
Thank you so much DeSnake for creating such a awesome safe way for people like myself with severe chronic pain and anxiety to get some much needed relief.
Please fix the Security Error at the registration site.
Hay DeSnake its hard to buy Monaro because it is at such a low value a lot of credible coin dealers are not selling Monaro because of what a low price it is at I’m unable to purchase from your store because of this
Hey mate use freewallet. Buy your btc send to freewallet and there you can exchange for free.
Hope this helps.
After putting in login and password, no page with text to decrypt for 2FA code… just get error at the top. It seems as if this has been going on for a good month or so.
Can anyone get in touch and pin an update to the top of this thread to let us know if AlphaBay is gone (again) or what?
It’s looks like you PGP keys are expired. Check it please.
Where do I do this… is it in the Tor browser somewhere? I’m not even getting the text to copy and decrypt. After I put in my user name and pasword I just get what looks like the banner of the AlphaBay page, but in the upper left it says “ERROR: ENCRYPT FAILED” and there’s the line to type in the 2fa Token, but I can’t get the token because there is not the PGP shit to decrypt to get it!
I need urgent help, since I sent several monero to my alpha bay wallet and it has not arrived yet
help my please
Can you answer my ticket that escalated to you one week and a half ago please ? My money just vanished
Deposits are taking extra long today. One took just shy of 2 hrs, another one is 2hrs 15 mins and waiting, still not arrived with 50+ confirmations. I’ve not been phished. Never known it to take this long before.
Haven’t been able to connect to the site for the past couple hours. Is there a DDOS attack or something? Technical difficulties? Or, gods forbit, an exit scam? I hope the site comes back up soon.
Anybody help me here. Haven’t been able to log in for about a month now and had placed an order but it’s never turned up so unable to check if it was shipped or canceled (I am assuming the latter). Spoken with somebody who says it’s working fine for them. My problem is when I put my password in the page just refreshes. I know it says it will refresh if password is incorrect but been using the same one. Also can’t register a new account. Please someone help me if possible. Cheers guys
Exit scam ?
They’re scamming people, stay away.
Ok so I got reallllly paranoid reading recent reviews on here. Thinking AlphaBay probably in a process of exit scam or had their website hacked, so I tried it out yesterday for the first time made a small deposit from my cake wallet and then a withdrawal BOTH worked well so went ahead made a larger deposit and again no issue. However I think some people here may have used a phishing site. Why? Well I used one just a few minutes ago, since the onion page was offline. I got it off a very legit looking subreddit w/ 8k followers for alphabay (r/AlphaBayMarketDarknet) and some moderator there pinned “an Emergency link” alphabay522s***65ei7rwngr2wmi75jo54j2eid.online. I feel pretty stupid since it does… Read more »
For fucksake 120 quid down because TWICE couldn’t get the xmr on darknet wallet
IDK Why all these guys have problems with the site… I ordered there since over 6 month and never dissapointed me…. Today i deposit some coins and it takes 1 hour to arrive… if you dont see your coins, dont use your mirror link. sometimes over the mirrior link the coins dont show up. Or try to buy something. Think its a bug. This site is 100% legit.
Deposit never arrived at the Wallet, Sipport says i was on a phishing site and sends exactly the same link like i used before… !! SCAM !!!
Same, they’re claiming the deposit address don’t belong to AB, while i was on the main link, with 2fa.. They’re scamming.
2Fa isnt working.
sent crypto to the correct wallet one day still not arriving support not replying..
money arrived,
i did not see them, if you cannot see them in your account try to make an order it would show available balance everywhere else I was seeing 0
same problem. I ussually use my mirror link. When i dont use mirror link the coins show up.
Depoisted money, the transcation was detected, said it would be deposited in 10 confirmations, now been 40 confirmations and hours later, nothing in my wallet, being ignored by support, SCAM avoid!!
You use mirror link? Sometimes the coins only show up on regular site… Or try to buy something. I had the same bug few hours ago. Since i stopped use my mirror link the coins showed up. Site is legit.
Since i can’t get on AlphaBay (no 2fa to decrypt, been trying for over a month), does anyone here know another market where “Monsanto” or “DopeKing USA” do business? I’ve checked several markets listed here and don’t see them, but they were both regulars on Alpha Bay. Thanks.
Alphabay scammed me don’t use them. I paid for some product and they acted like they never got the money when I showed them I had paid they sent some bullshit link to different scam site called delta shipping or something. It still shows to be in transit some 3 weeks later and now alphabay will not respond or anything. Save your money they are truly a scam as of September 2022.
When you got scammed its the fault of the Vendor, not Alphabay.
I have been in a dispute now 2 Weeks and no answer from Staff, 1000€ in Escrow, the Vendor scammed me and my Money is 2 Weeks in Dispute and nothing!!!!!
Hello Dear, I’m sorry about your experience, next time choose a market that is not too loaded.
— Infinity Team
Alright, can someone help me out here because I have been able to log in to AlphaBay for months but for the last month or so I’m just not getting the text for me to decrypt to get the 2fa-token after the login page. I do the “clock” page, then I get the page and put in my login and password with the Captcha, but then where I used to get a long string of PGP text to decrypt for a 2fa-token for the final check, now I just get a page that says “Enter 2-FA Token” and it has the field to input the decrypted 2fa-token, but the actual encoded text I need to copy and decrypt is NOT… Read more »