About RapTor

An address is the least durable thing on a market page

An address that is genuine today can belong to a seized server, a lapsed mirror or a phishing clone by the time this page is read again next month, and nothing static keeps up with that on its own. Meanwhile anyone searching for a market by name is offered a dozen links, some of them by operations running a convincing lookalike — frequently on a cheap clearnet domain bought because it resembles the real name — and relying on a reader who has no way to tell one from the other.

That is why every market page here spends its address section on the check rather than the string: how to obtain the market's key from a source independent of whoever handed you a URL, and how to confirm the signed mirror list yourself. The PGP verification page carries the full procedure — getting the operator's key from more than one place, comparing the full fingerprint rather than a short ID, and checking a signed announcement before trusting any of it. It is also honest about the ceiling: a valid signature proves who wrote the list, not that the market behind it is honest. Verification narrows the risk of landing on a clone; it does not vouch for what you find once you are in.

What this site publishes, and what it refuses to

A figure with a name and a date attached, or no figure at all

Nothing about a live market's listing count, user count, mirror count, or dispute rate is independently measurable from outside it — those numbers come from the market's own dashboard or from a directory that copied it without saying so. This site attributes every one it prints ("the market's own displayed figure, reported by X on this date") rather than passing a copied number off as a fact it stands behind.

No uptime percentage, no status light, no trust score

Nobody outside a market can measure any of these, including the sites that publish them with a confident decimal point. Where a page has to say whether something is currently running, it states the date it was last checked and the method used, so the claim expires visibly instead of sitting there looking current forever.

A published verification procedure, not a published conclusion

Every market page shows the steps rather than just asserting the result, for the reason above: so the reader's trust rests on a check they ran, not on this site's word.

Disagreement, left visible

When two sources give a market two different launch dates, two different coin policies, or two different sizes, both appear on the page with their dates rather than one being quietly dropped. Picking a favourite when the sources disagree would be hiding the most useful thing the page knows.

Nothing claiming official standing

RapTor is not the official anything, has no insider access to any market, and is not a partner or a gateway to one. Several of the pages this site competes with in search results describe themselves as the official resource for a market they have no connection to; no page here says anything of the kind, about any market.

Who writes this, and what "we checked" means here

Every page here is written and maintained by RapTor Admin, the editor of the site; that page sets out the subjects covered, the sources each page is written from, and the standards applied to them. Where a page says "we checked" or "when we last looked," that describes work done on the date the page names: reading a source, running a command, opening a link.

The reviewer's judgment on the market pages — a verdict on who a market suits, where it's weak, what to watch for — is written the same way a specialist review is written anywhere: informed by reading the market, the sources about it, and comparable markets, and stated plainly rather than hedged into nothing. It is opinion built on stated evidence, not an unearned credential, and every claim it rests on is either linked or is the kind of orientation that needs no citation because it isn't a checkable fact about the world.

If something here is wrong

It happens. A source updates a figure, a market goes dark between one visit and the next, a version number this site names is superseded within the fortnight — Tor Browser and Tails both moved to two-week release cycles in September 2026, which means any page naming a specific version is a snapshot, not a live fact. The fix built into every page here is the date attached to the claim: a reader who finds a stale figure can see exactly when it was current and judge from there, rather than being left to guess whether an undated number was ever true. The site carries no comment section, contact address or public corrections log at present. The citation on a sentence is the place to start checking it — it names the source this site read, not a source this site is asking you to trust on faith.

What this site is not

Not a marketplace, a mirror, or a partner of anything it covers — RapTor reviews these markets from the outside, hosts nothing on their behalf, and earns nothing from whether a reader visits one. Not a vendor of any hardware, software, or service it reviews — the hardware wallet and operating system guides recommend specific products with nothing to sell and no commission on the recommendation. Not a source of legal or medical advice; the disclaimer sets out exactly what that limit means and where the real exposure sits. And not a data collector: the privacy page lists precisely what this site gathers about a visitor, which is close to nothing. Everything else this site covers is reachable from the front page.