Russia arrested the co-founder of the dark web platform Hydra a week after U.S. and German authorities said they would investigate the platform, according to reports. A court spokesman told Russian media that the suspect is Dmitry Olegovich Pavlov, an exact match to the name in the U.S. Justice Department's indictment.

After Russia's largest dark web marketplace, Hydra, was shut down a few days ago by German and U.S. police, there is speculation about who will be the next "leader" in the industry among the remaining dark web marketplaces.

The Chinese dark web marketplace "ChangAnBuYeCheng" was launched at the beginning of 2022, most probably relying on the advertisement of "onion666 dark web directory".But in just a few months, it has achieved a small popularity in the industry, which is very fast for a new dark web trading platform.

The German Federal Criminal Police Office said in a statement that the suspects are being investigated for "operating a criminal trading platform on the Internet in a commercial manner," selling drugs and other charges. The statement was titled "Shutting down the illegal dark web marketplace 'Hydra Market'".

World Market has completed a complete "exit scam", but the site has not shut down yet and is trying to continue playing the "exit scam" game, it has been DDOS attacking other dark web markets, really evil intentions! There is no humanity in the dark web, only endless scams!

The Hydra market, based in Russia, has grown so much, and it is absolutely certain that the marketplace cannot be developed without the strong support of the Russian government, and of course, on another level, the Hydra market earns billions of dollars a year.

With the closure and withdrawal of a number of listed dark web trading marketplaces, there are not so many large global dark web trading marketplaces left on the dark web. Foreign media summarized the top 5 global darknet markets that are still alive in March 2022.

Dark0de Market looks big due to the exaggerated banner ads on its forums and website, but actually has fewer transactions than many other dark web marketplaces. Most dark web marketplaces fake the number of users and comments on their platforms. The best indicator of the volume of transactions on dark web marketplaces is to look at the number of transactions by vendors who have profiles on multiple dark web marketplaces.

Cryptocurrency is anonymous, but it also means that anyone can track you through your wallet address. The bad guys know this and are looking for more sophisticated ways to cover their tracks. This explains their preference for dark web markets.

From the previous experience of "tea horse ancient road" dark web market died from "police crackdown", "ODN" thinks "Loulan City "The probability is that this is also the reason. But the truth is how, "ODN" will wait and see.