Xuzhou Procuratorate's year-end summary points to "'Tea-horse Ancient Road' dark web trading market case and a number of key cases", and with the "Tea-horse Ancient Road" dark web trading market website screenshots, enough to prove that the "Tea-horse Ancient Road" dark web trading market has been cracked down on by the police and transferred to the procuratorial authorities to accept the review and prosecution.

Alex Hudson of Britain's National Crime Agency admits that police have been a step behind the criminals, but says new technology will make a difference.

Police crackdown and "exit scams" are the main reasons for the closure of dark web marketplaces. "Under the Dark Web/AWX" counts down the Chinese dark web marketplaces that will die in 2021.

This article is a list of the top global dark web marketplaces as of January 2022. While there is no definitive top dark web marketplace, it is likely that providers in pre-closed dark web marketplaces will migrate to any of the five dark web marketplaces in this article.

DarkFox is a dark web marketplace where scammers gather, transactions are not received orders, administrators do not actively deal with disputes, do not give users the opportunity to communicate, and suppliers who have been inactive for years suddenly show active, it seems that the administrators are also involved in scams, so they are restricted from functioning by the Dread forum.

Launched in 2018, the 2easy marketplace has experienced rapid growth since last year, when it sold data from only 28,000 infected devices and was considered a minor player, but grew rapidly from 28,000 infected devices to 600,000 in a single year.

Mrblonde, the administrator of ToRReZ, warns against counterfeiters and offers well-meaning advice to existing ToRReZ customers to try to choose a smaller market when selecting a new trading market.

In an official announcement, the operators of Cannazon, a dark web marketplace, said the DDoS attack was not the reason for the shutdown, but it provided an opportunity to shut down the site, which was the plan all along.

Despite the closure of these cracked-down marketplaces, the trading market space on the dark web appears to continue to thrive as users choose to easily flee to other markets that are still accessible.

There is a good reason why the dark web marketplace Hydra is thriving in Russia, mainly because of Putin's protection.