# Awazon Help Center, full text > Verified 2026-07-17. Site: https://link-awazon.biz Language: English Use: reference --- # Awazon onion links - http://awazoneqkwtrk5ylid5aammako4zc4qz2lvo4n47t62isvnet63usaid.onion - http://awazonloedcyl2otgftfg7qm6e2klbgg2dhouyli3hdno6gdkueh6byd.onion - http://awazonozc4jwyrveu4473igv5ldt2hnccl2s7lerm2z27cvrc22e4uyd.onion --- # Getting started *What Awazon is, what you need, and whether it is safe.* ## What is Awazon and how is it different? Awazon is a Tor market built to feel like a normal online shop, accepting Bitcoin and Monero. Short answer. Awazon is a Tor marketplace that opened in 2024 and is built to feel like an ordinary online shop, with product cards, a category sidebar, vendor pages and a working search. It accepts Bitcoin and Monero. ## What makes it different Most Tor markets look like they were built a decade ago. Awazon treats the interface as a product, so if you have bought anything on the clear web you already know how to use it. That familiarity is the main reason people pick it as a first market. ## How it protects you Orders run through escrow, so your money is held until you confirm receipt. Vendors post a bond and cannot finalise early until they have run clean orders. Each vendor page shows a deal count and a dispute ratio. The login uses a case-sensitive captcha and honeypot fields to block bots, and the mirror list is PGP-signed. ## What it is not It is not a clear-web site. It exists only as a Tor hidden service, and any clearnet page using the name is a phishing clone. --- ## How do I open Awazon for the first time? Install Tor Browser, set it to Safest, copy a verified onion address, and check it against the login captcha. Short answer. Install Tor Browser from the official site, set the security level to Safest, copy a verified Awazon address from this help center, open it, and check the address against the one the login captcha prints before you type anything. ## Step by step First, install Tor Browser and set it to Safest. A normal browser cannot open an onion address, and Safest closes the biggest hole. Second, copy an address from the verified list, never type a fifty-six character string by hand. Third, when the login loads, hold the address in your bar against the one printed in the captcha. Match means genuine, mismatch means close the tab. ## Then register Pick a username you have never used elsewhere, generate a unique password, and store the recovery phrase the market issues on paper. That is the whole first visit. --- ## What do I need before I start? Tor Browser, a verified address, a password manager, and some Monero or Bitcoin in a wallet you control. Short answer. Four things: Tor Browser set to Safest, a verified Awazon address, a password manager for a unique password, and some Monero or Bitcoin held in a wallet you control. ## The browser Tor Browser from the official project, set to Safest. This is the only thing that opens the market. ## The address A verified onion from this help center. Copy it, do not type it, and verify it against the captcha. ## The wallet and password Hold your own coin in Feather or Cake for Monero, or Sparrow or Electrum for Bitcoin, rather than sending straight from an identity-checked exchange. Keep a unique generated password in an encrypted local manager, and store the market recovery phrase on paper. --- ## Is Awazon safe to use? The market provides escrow, signed mirrors and a phishing-resistant login. Your habits decide the rest. Short answer. Awazon gives you the tools to be safe. The outcome depends on whether you use them. The biggest real risk is phishing, and verifying every address removes most of it. ## What the market provides Escrow that holds your money until you confirm receipt, a PGP-signed mirror list, a login captcha that prints the market's own address for you to check, honeypot fields against bots, and vendor pages showing a deal count and dispute ratio. ## What you provide Tor Browser at Safest, a verified address checked every session, a unique password, a recovery phrase on paper, Monero when privacy matters, escrow left intact until delivery, and small on-market balances. ## The honest summary No market is risk-free. But the danger here is rarely the market itself and almost always a lookalike address. Verify, and you have handled the main threat. --- # Access and mirrors *Reaching the market, choosing a mirror, verifying an address.* ## Which Awazon mirror should I use? Any of the verified addresses. Try the first, and switch to another if it is slow. All resolve to the same market. Short answer. Use any address from the verified list. Try the first one, and if it is slow, switch to another. Every mirror resolves to the same market with the same account and balance. ## Why there are several A single address is a single point of failure. Awazon runs several so a flood or takedown on one never puts the market out of reach. When one is slow, the others stay reachable. ## How to choose The choice is only about speed on your Tor circuit, not about which is more genuine. The longest-lived address often resolves fastest. If one stalls, do not wait, switch. Verify whichever you land on against the login captcha. --- ## How do I check an Awazon address is genuine? Copy it from a signed source, then compare it against the address the login captcha prints. They must match. Short answer. Two checks. Verify the PGP-signed mirror list once, and every session compare the address in your bar against the one the login captcha prints. Match means genuine. ## The signed list Awazon publishes its addresses with a PGP signature. Verifying it proves the list came from the market and was not edited. Import the market key once and check the list against it. See how to verify a PGP-signed list. ## The captcha check The genuine login prints the market's own address into the captcha. Hold it against your address bar. A clone cannot easily serve the correct address in the captcha while sending you to the wrong one, so a mismatch gives it away. Run this every session, because a bookmark can go stale. --- ## How do I install Tor Browser for Awazon? Download it only from the official Tor Project site, verify the signature, and set the security level to Safest. Short answer. Get Tor Browser only from the official Tor Project website, verify the download signature the first time, and set the security level to Safest. ## Download and verify Any download that is not the official project is either unverifiable or modified. On the first install, verify the signature against the project key, which the download page documents for every system. This ensures the browser itself is genuine. ## Set it up right Open the shield and set the level to Safest, which turns scripting off everywhere. Do not add extensions and do not resize the window, because both make your fingerprint unique. Awazon works fine at Safest, so you lose nothing. --- ## Why must Tor Browser be on Safest? Safest turns scripting off, closing the most reliable route to break anonymity. Awazon still works fully. Short answer. Safest turns scripting off across every site, which closes the single most reliable route anyone has to break anonymity from inside the browser. Awazon is built to work at Safest. ## What the level changes The security level does not change the Tor network, which is the same at every setting. It changes what the browser does with a page once it arrives. At Safest, scripting is off everywhere, and scripting in a hostile page is how nearly every serious deanonymisation has happened. ## Why it costs you nothing here Some ordinary websites break at Safest because they lean on scripting. Awazon does not. Login, browsing, checkout and messaging all work with scripting off. Set the dial to Safest and leave it there. --- ## What if Tor is blocked where I am? Use a bridge. It routes your Tor connection through an unlisted relay, hiding that you use Tor. Short answer. Use a Tor bridge. It routes your connection through a relay that is not on the public list of Tor nodes, which hides that you are using Tor and gets you past a block. ## When you need one Use a bridge if Tor Browser cannot connect, connects very slowly, or if the Tor Project site itself is blocked where you are. If Tor is not blocked, skip it, because a bridge only adds latency. ## How to set one Open the connection settings, choose to use a bridge, pick the built-in obfs4 option or request one from the Tor Project, and restart. A bridge changes how you reach Tor but nothing about verifying an Awazon address. --- # Payments *Coins, deposits, non-KYC funding, and stuck deposits.* ## Should I pay with Bitcoin or Monero? Monero by default, because it keeps the payment private. Bitcoin only when a vendor requires it. Short answer. Default to Monero, because it hides the sender, receiver and amount, so the payment is not legible on a public ledger. Use Bitcoin only when a vendor accepts only Bitcoin. ## Why Monero If privacy is any part of why you are on Tor, Monero is the coin that delivers it. Bitcoin's ledger is fully public and leaves a permanent readable trail. ## When Bitcoin Some vendors take only Bitcoin. When you must use it, do not send straight from an identity-checked exchange, because that ties your name to the deposit. Route through a fresh wallet or swap into Monero first. The deposit address is fresh per order either way. --- ## How do I deposit Monero to Awazon? Hold XMR in Feather or Cake, copy the order deposit address, send, and wait a few minutes for confirmations. Short answer. Hold Monero in a wallet you control such as Feather or Cake, open your Awazon order, copy the Monero deposit address it issues, send from your wallet, and wait a few minutes for confirmations. ## Getting Monero If you already hold Bitcoin, Cake has a built-in swap that converts it to Monero without an exchange in the middle. Otherwise buy Monero peer-to-peer. See getting coin without KYC. ## The deposit Awazon issues a fresh deposit address per order, so there is no address to reuse. Monero confirms quickly and the fee is a fraction of a cent, so the balance credits soon after you send. --- ## How do I deposit Bitcoin to Awazon? Route through your own wallet, copy the order address, pick a sensible fee, and wait for confirmations. Short answer. Do not send straight from an identity-checked exchange. Route through a wallet you control such as Sparrow or Electrum, copy the deposit address from your Awazon order, send with a sensible fee, and wait for confirmations. ## Mind the fee Bitcoin fees swing with congestion. Overpaying wastes money and underpaying gets the transaction stuck for hours. Pick a fee that confirms within a reasonable window. ## Keep it clean Sending an exchange withdrawal straight to the market ties your name to the deposit. A fresh wallet in between, or a swap into Monero, breaks that link. The balance credits once confirmations land. --- ## How do I get coin without KYC? Swap Bitcoin to Monero inside a wallet like Cake, or buy peer-to-peer with a random identity. Short answer. Two routes. Swap an existing Bitcoin balance into Monero inside a wallet like Cake, or buy coin peer-to-peer from another person with a random identity rather than a verified exchange account. ## Why it matters The privacy of a deposit is only as good as the coin that funded it. Coin from an identity-checked exchange sent straight to a market ties your name to the deposit through the exchange records. ## The routes An in-wallet swap converts Bitcoin to Monero without an exchange in the path, breaking the direct link. Peer-to-peer platforms let you buy with a range of payment methods and no verified account. Either way, route through a wallet you control before depositing. --- ## My deposit has not shown up. What now? Almost always confirmations, or an underpaid Bitcoin fee. Check the transaction and the order address. Short answer. A deposit that has not credited is almost always waiting on confirmations rather than lost. Bitcoin can take from minutes to hours depending on the fee. Monero is usually quick. ## Check the confirmations The market credits after the network confirms the transaction. Until the required confirmations land, the balance will not show. An underpaid Bitcoin fee is the usual cause of a long wait, and the transaction will still confirm as the mempool clears. ## Check the address Awazon issues a fresh deposit address per order, so make sure you sent to the address from the correct order. If confirmations have clearly landed and the balance still does not show, contact market support through the on-site message system with the transaction details. --- # Security *Phishing, passwords, PGP, and operational security.* ## How do I spot an Awazon phishing clone? The tells are an address that is close but wrong and a login that asks for your recovery phrase. The captcha check beats them. Short answer. A clone uses an address that is close but not identical to a genuine one, and often asks you to re-enter your recovery phrase, which the real market never does. The captcha address check catches it. ## The tells An address differing by a few characters in the middle. A prompt for the recovery phrase at login. A captcha whose printed address does not match your bar. Formatting subtly off from the site you remember. ## The check that beats them Copy addresses only from a verified signed source, and every session hold the address in your bar against the one the captcha prints. A clone cannot serve the correct address in the captcha while pointing you elsewhere. ## If you already typed a password Assume it is compromised. Reach the genuine market through a verified address, change the password, and withdraw any balance. --- ## How should I store my password and recovery phrase? The password in an encrypted local manager, the recovery phrase on paper. Neither in the cloud. Short answer. Keep the password in an encrypted local password manager, and write the recovery phrase on paper stored somewhere only you reach. Neither belongs in a cloud-synced service. ## The password Generate a long unique password and store it in an encrypted local manager such as KeePassXC. Do not reuse it from anywhere, and do not keep it in a browser autofill or a cloud manager. ## The recovery phrase The phrase restores the whole account, so anyone who holds it owns the account. Write it on paper in your own hand. Do not screenshot it, do not save it to a synced note, and do not paste it into any page. No genuine login asks for it. --- ## How do I verify a PGP-signed mirror list? Import the market key once, run gpg verify on the signed list, and look for the good-signature line. Short answer. Fetch the market public key once from two independent places, cross-check the fingerprint, import it, then run GnuPG verify on the signed list and look for the line that says the signature is good and names the market key. ## What it proves A signature proves the list was signed by the holder of a specific key and that not one byte has changed since. That means the addresses came from the market and nobody edited them. ## Reading the result A good-signature line is success. A warning that you have not certified the key is normal and expected. A bad-signature line means the list was altered, and you trust none of the addresses in it. Do not re-fetch the key each time, because that is another chance to be handed the wrong one. --- ## What operational-security basics should I follow? Fresh username, unique password, phrase on paper, short sessions, small balances. Short answer. A stack of small habits: a username you have never used elsewhere, a unique password, the recovery phrase on paper, short sessions, and small on-market balances. ## Identity and credentials Reusing a handle from a clear-web account is how a name gets linked across platforms, so start fresh. Keep a unique generated password in an encrypted local manager, and the recovery phrase on paper. ## Sessions and balances Close the browser after a session rather than leaving it open for days. Keep the on-market balance sized to the order in front of you and withdraw the rest to a wallet you control, because money on a market is money exposed to whatever happens to the market. --- # Trading and escrow *Vendors, orders, escrow, disputes, and finalise-early.* ## How do I read an Awazon vendor page? Check the deal count and the dispute ratio at the top. It takes a minute and it is the key read. Short answer. Read the two numbers at the top of every vendor page: the deal count and the dispute ratio. A minute here is the most useful minute you will spend. ## Deal count How many orders the vendor has completed. A high count over time is a vendor the market has watched work. A brand-new account is unproven, so a first order there should be especially small. ## Dispute ratio The share of orders that ended in a dispute. Low is good, and a rising ratio on recent orders is a warning even on a long history. New vendors are locked out of finalise-early until they have run clean orders, and the profile shows their standing. --- ## How do I place a safe first order? Small, cheap, standard escrow, address encrypted to the vendor key, and never finalise early. Short answer. Keep it small and cheap, use standard shipping and escrow, encrypt your shipping address to the vendor key, and never confirm receipt before the package arrives. ## Why small A first order with any vendor is really a test of whether they do what they say. The right size is an amount you could lose without it mattering. Read the vendor page first. ## Protect yourself Encrypt your address to the vendor's PGP key before pasting it, so only the vendor can read it. Leave escrow standard and do not finalise early. If something goes wrong, you open a dispute, which is the path finalising early would remove. --- ## How does Awazon escrow protect me? It holds your payment until you confirm receipt, so a vendor cannot take the money and fail to deliver. Short answer. Escrow holds your payment until you confirm receipt. The vendor ships, you confirm, and only then does the coin release. If something goes wrong, you open a dispute instead of confirming. ## The flow You fund the order into escrow, the vendor ships, you confirm receipt after the package arrives, and the coin releases. If you never confirm, the order auto-finalises after a set window so a vendor is not left waiting forever. ## The catch The protection disappears the moment you confirm, so never confirm before the package is in your hands. Confirming early, finalising early, is the single most common way a buyer throws away escrow. --- ## How do I open a dispute? Open one when an order does not arrive or does not match, with clear evidence and a calm account. Short answer. Open a dispute when a vendor has gone quiet past a reasonable window, when the order is well past its shipping time, or when what arrived does not match. Bring clear evidence and a calm factual account. ## What a moderator reads Your account, your evidence, the full message thread, and the vendor's dispute history. The evidence you bring up front is what the decision turns on. ## Improving your odds Keep the language factual, not accusatory. Answer questions quickly. Do not open several disputes at once. And never finalise early hoping a vendor will reward you by shipping, because that removes the dispute path you would then need. --- ## Why should I never finalise early? It releases escrow before the package arrives, so there is no way back if it never comes. Short answer. Finalising early confirms receipt before the package arrives, which releases your escrow to the vendor and removes the dispute path. If the item never comes, there is no way back. ## Why vendors ask Some want the money before the shipping window closes. A few have reasons that are fine for a vendor you have used many times. Most requests to a new buyer from a new vendor are a scam pattern. ## The rule Do not finalise early on an unproven vendor. If a vendor pushes back on the refusal, choose a different vendor. Awazon locks finalise-early behind vendor probation for exactly this reason. --- # Troubleshooting *Fixes for the problems people actually hit.* ## Awazon will not connect. How do I fix it? Build a fresh Tor circuit and retry, or switch to another verified address. It is rarely the market. Short answer. An address that will not connect is almost never the market being gone. Request a new Tor circuit and retry, or switch to another verified address. All resolve to the same market. ## Fresh circuit Use the Tor Browser menu to request a new circuit or a new identity, then retry. A bad guard or a congested path is the most common cause, and a fresh circuit fixes it. ## Switch addresses Move to another address from the verified list. If one stalls, another usually opens. If every address stalls across fresh circuits for several minutes, a flood window may be in progress, which passes. Wait a short while rather than taking an unverified address from a stranger. --- ## The captcha will not accept my answer. Why? Usually case. The captcha is case sensitive. Reload for a fresh puzzle and type into the real field. Short answer. The captcha is six characters and case sensitive, so most rejections are a case mismatch. Read the case carefully, and if the page has been open a while, reload it for a fresh puzzle. ## Case and freshness Match the case exactly. A capital typed as lower-case fails. A stale page can carry an expired challenge, so reload for a fresh captcha and fresh field names before trying again. ## The right field The login has decoy fields whose names rotate. Type into the visible real field only. If a password manager is filling a decoy, fill the visible field by hand. And confirm the captcha address matches your bar first, because a clone's captcha can behave oddly. --- ## The captcha address does not match my bar. What now? Stop. That is the phishing signal. Do not enter anything, close the tab, and fetch a verified address. Short answer. A mismatch means you are not on the genuine Awazon. Do not type your password or recovery phrase, do not solve the captcha, close the tab. ## Why it matters The captcha prints the market's own address. If your bar shows a different address, you are on a clone that is trying to capture what you type. This is exactly the phishing signal the check exists to catch. ## Recover safely Open this help center fresh, copy a verified address, and try again on a new Tor circuit. Do not reuse the address that mismatched. If you already entered a password, assume it is compromised, change it through a verified address, and withdraw any balance. --- ## The login keeps looping. How do I fix it? Reload from a verified address, allow first-party cookies, and type into the real login field. Short answer. A login that returns you to the login page usually has a simple cause: a stale page, blocked cookies, or the wrong field. Reload from a verified address, allow first-party cookies, and fill the visible field by hand. ## Reload and cookies Open a fresh copy of the login from a verified address rather than a page that has been sitting open. Tor Browser at Safest still allows first-party cookies, which the session needs, so if you have blocked them for the site the login will loop. ## The right field If your password manager is filling a honeypot decoy, the real field stays empty and the login fails. Fill the visible field by hand. And confirm the captcha address matches your bar, because a clone can loop you deliberately. --- ## My balance is missing after a deposit. What now? Wait for confirmations, check you used the right order address, and mind an underpaid Bitcoin fee. Short answer. A deposit that has not shown is almost always waiting on confirmations, not lost. Check the confirmations, confirm you sent to the right order address, and consider an underpaid Bitcoin fee. ## Confirmations The market credits after the network confirms the transaction. Bitcoin can take from minutes to hours depending on the fee. Monero is usually quick. Until the required confirmations land, the balance will not show. ## Address and fee Awazon issues a fresh deposit address per order, so a common mistake is sending to an old order's address. An underpaid Bitcoin fee delays but does not lose the transaction. If confirmations have landed and the balance still does not show, contact support through the on-site message system with the details. --- # Glossary **Deal count**: The number of orders a vendor has completed, shown on the vendor page. A high count over time is a vendor the market has watched work. **Dispute**: A formal disagreement over an order. A moderator reads evidence from both sides and decides where the escrow goes. **Dispute ratio**: The share of a vendor's orders that ended in a dispute, shown on the vendor page. Low is good. Weight the recent trend. **Escrow**: The holding of your payment until you confirm receipt, so a vendor cannot take the money and fail to deliver. **Finalise-early (FE)**: Confirming receipt before a package arrives. It releases escrow to the vendor and removes the dispute path. Avoid it on an unproven vendor. **Hidden service**: A server reachable only through Tor at a .onion address. Awazon is one. A normal browser cannot open it. **Honeypot field**: A decoy login input with a rotating name that traps automated fillers. Type into the visible real field only. **Mirror**: A distinct onion address resolving to the same market. Awazon runs several for redundancy. **Monero (XMR)**: A privacy coin that hides sender, receiver and amount. The default choice on Awazon when privacy matters. **Onion address**: A fifty-six character v3 Tor address ending in .onion. Copy it, never type it, and verify it against the login captcha. **PGP signature**: A cryptographic signature proving who published a message and that it is unchanged. Awazon signs its mirror list. **Recovery phrase**: The words that restore an account if the password is lost. Store it on paper. No login ever asks for it. **Safest**: The top Tor Browser security level, scripting off everywhere. The correct setting for Awazon. **Tor Browser**: The browser that opens onion addresses. The only way to reach Awazon. Download it from the official Tor Project only.