Per-service status
Mars Onion Status 2026: Is Mars Market Reachable Right Now?
Oniongate reports one thing about the mars darknet market: whether its onion endpoints answer, and how long they take. The reading comes from an automated probe, not a person, and it stays blank when oniongate have nothing fresh to show. This is the marketplace on Tor, not the planet, the confectioner, or any clearnet brand that shares the name. Oniongate tracks this mars onion market the same way it tracks every other listed service, on one shared, honest probe loop.
How to read mars's status numbers
Why Oniongate tracks Mars instead of just linking to it
Oniongate exists because a link alone tells a visitor nothing about whether Mars actually answers right now. Every Mars mirror on oniongate is probed on the same recurring loop as the other six markets Oniongate follows, scored independently, and shown with an honest Unknown state rather than a guess. Oniongate does not operate Mars and cannot vouch for anything past the network layer — only whether the listed Mars addresses responded to the last probe.
What the 24h, 7d and 30d uptime windows mean
Each uptime card is a rolling percentage of successful probes over that window, recalculated every cycle rather than fixed to a calendar day. The 24h figure reacts fastest and swings the most on a single bad stretch; the 30d figure smooths past a short outage and reflects the longer pattern. Read the 24h card for "is anything wrong right now" and the 30d card for "how reliable has mars actually been."
Reading mars's per-mirror breakdown
mars has 5 endpoints on file in the signed directory below, each probed and scored independently rather than rolled into one shared number. A single mirror reading Down while the others read Online usually points at that specific mirror, not at mars as a whole — check whether the pattern is isolated to one address or shared across all of them before drawing a conclusion.
What to do if mars reads unknown
Unknown means the probe loop has no fresh result to report for mars, not that anything is wrong. It shows up right after this status page is first added to oniongate, and it shows up if the probe feed itself goes offline — in both cases every service on oniongate reads unknown together, not just this one. Wait for the next cycle and refresh rather than treating an unknown reading as a sign the market itself is in trouble.
Probe timeline
last 30 checksEach cell is one probe, newest on the right. The strip fills as the loop runs; with no feed attached yet, every check reads unknown rather than a colour oniongate cannot stand behind.
Mirrors — monitored endpoints
5 endpoints on filemarskp4ozu3nv2ez3in5ofyukovali7o5ioxyuvubeus74cu2bjl5nid.onionmars255knwfphkt2wbm7xfug4hu2ni4ywqdx5tapc5cxouitsfjpojqd.onionmars2gwctkkjh3z5dghzdzl7wmmp7nkaf3ddfhxide6qf3gztbgbxtqd.onionmarsgj5zwflddhoh4fkusyuqir2t6vd7nnamkp4hwjlxe6pmknw7wvqd.onionmarsucyir7bdzorkufa7o4xurcdd4su253lme5vazbnbopfnqksvtoid.onionThese addresses come from the signed 2-of-3 directory. oniongate measures the mars mirrors, it does not create them. Any mars address you find outside that signed list is not one oniongate monitor and not one to trust on sight.
Honest answers
Is the mars onion down?
Read the banner at the top of oniongate. Down means oniongate's most recent probe could not complete a request to any listed mars endpoint. Unknown means oniongate simply have no fresh measurement yet, which is the honest state before the feed is attached or right after a restart. Either way, the word describes oniongate's probe, not a verdict on the operator.
mars has several addresses — which one is real?
All the ones in the signed list above, and only those. Because mars publishes multiple mirrors, phishers lean on look-alike strings that swap a character in the middle. Copy the full address, read it end to end, and check it twice. Oniongate show every character on purpose so you never have to trust a shortened link.
Why does one mirror read down while another reads online?
Each mars endpoint is probed on its own loop and carries its own dot. Mirrors fail independently, so a single dead address does not mean the marketplace is gone, and a single healthy one does not prove the rest are fine. The banner summarises the set; the rows below tell you which specific endpoint answered.
How current is this reading?
When the feed is live, each row shows how long ago its last check ran. Tor circuits are slow and mars mirrors move, so a stale timestamp is a signal in itself. If every row reads unknown, the loop has not reported for this service and oniongate would rather say so than paint a green light oniongate cannot back.
Does Oniongate probe Mars more than once a day?
Yes, on a recurring loop rather than a single daily check. Mars's mirrors are probed repeatedly through the day so a row here reflects a recent measurement, not a stale one from hours earlier. The exact interval varies with probing load across all seven tracked markets.
If Mars shows Unknown across every mirror, does that mean it is seized?
No — treat an all-Unknown reading as a monitoring gap, not a seizure claim. It usually means the probing loop for Mars has not reported recently, whether from a restart, a Tor circuit issue on oniongate's end, or a temporary gap in the feed. A seizure is a specific claim oniongate does not make without a signed statement to back it.
Mars onion market: mirror & incident log
Separate from the live banner above, this is oniongate's running record for mars specifically — notes on mars's own mirror set that do not belong crammed into a status dot, kept apart from the identical-looking log every other tracked market on oniongate also carries.
Incident log
No incidents are logged for mars in the current window. oniongate adds a line here only after a pattern holds across several consecutive probe cycles for one of mars's five endpoints, never from a single stray timeout — a lone miss simply feeds the 24h uptime figure above and stays out of this log entirely.
Mirror history
Mars currently ties torzon for the largest mirror set oniongate tracks, at five onion endpoints on file. A circuit failure through Tor can look identical to a genuine outage from the outside, which is part of why oniongate times out and retries rather than flagging a service Down on the first miss — the mechanics of how a Tor circuit actually builds and can fail mid-connection are documented directly by the Tor Project's own support portal, a better source than a status board's paraphrase. oniongate logs a change here whenever mars's signed mirror count itself moves, not every time one endpoint has a rough cycle.
What this oniongate mars status page cannot tell you
A reachability reading is a narrow, specific claim. Here is what it does and does not cover, so a green dot next to mars is not mistaken for more than it actually says.
Reachability is not the same as legitimacy
A probe reaching mars's onion address confirms the service answered a network request within the timeout window. It says nothing about escrow practices, vendor vetting, or whether a specific listing inside mars is genuine — those questions belong on mars's own reference and verification pages, not on a reachability board. Treat oniongate as one input among several, not a verdict on whether mars itself is trustworthy.
Why one mirror's reading is not the whole picture
mars may publish more than one onion endpoint, and each one is probed independently. A single dead mirror does not mean mars itself is down if other mirrors on file are still answering — check the full mirror table below rather than reading one row as the complete state of the service. Conversely, one live mirror during a wider outage is not proof everything is fine; it only means that one specific address is currently reachable.
How to use oniongate alongside mars's own verification steps
Before trusting any mars address copied from oniongate or anywhere else, verify it against mars's own signed record — a PGP fingerprint match, not a status dot, is what actually establishes that an address is genuine. This status page exists to answer "is it reachable right now," a question mars's own reference site is not built to answer continuously; the two pages do different jobs and neither replaces the other.
Reading mars's mirror count on oniongate
mars is tracked here with five separate onion endpoints, tied with torzon for the largest mirror set OnionGate monitors. As with any market on oniongate, endpoint count reflects the operator's own redundancy choice, not a signal OnionGate assigns.
What mars's own reference material says about verification
Material published around mars places heavy emphasis on PGP-signature verification and Monero-based escrow rather than a visual or brand check alone — a pattern consistent with a market treating address authenticity as a first-class problem. That framing does not change what this status page measures, but it is worth knowing when you follow a mars address off oniongate.
Why mars's status here is still a narrow claim
Nothing on oniongate evaluates whether mars's escrow, PGP process, or vendor vetting work as described — only whether the address answered a probe. Cross-check any mars address against its own signed canon before treating a reachable reading here as more than "the door opened."
A worked example: why mars’s five onion addresses rarely fail together
What independent failure actually looks like
mars runs five separately probed onion endpoints, and in practice they do not go down as a block — a routing issue affecting one address over Tor does not typically touch the others, since each is a distinct hidden service on its own infrastructure path. Seeing one mars mirror read Down while four read Online is the expected shape of a partial issue, not evidence the whole market is compromised.
When five mirrors reading Down together is a different kind of signal
The exception worth taking seriously is the opposite pattern: all five mars addresses reading Down in the same cycle, sustained across several consecutive checks rather than one blip. That pattern is far more consistent with an operator-side outage than with routing noise, since it would be an unlikely coincidence for five independent onion services to all suffer the same transient Tor issue simultaneously. The changelog on oniongate exists so that pattern is visible over time, not just as a single snapshot.
What a mars status reading cannot substitute for
A reachable onion address is not the same claim as a safe one to transact on. Oniongate answers whether a specific mars endpoint currently responds over Tor — it says nothing about escrow behavior, vendor conduct, or anything that happens after a connection succeeds. Pair a clean mars reading here with your own PGP or signature verification of the address before treating it as trustworthy, not as a replacement for one.
Mars as a darknet market: what oniongate's status actually verifies
Mars is one of seven darknet markets oniongate probes on the same Tor loop, and the status word on this page describes exactly one thing: whether Mars's onion address answered a Tor request within the timeout window on the most recent probe cycle. Nothing about Mars's inventory, its vendor base, or any uptime claim Mars makes on its own front page factors into this reading — oniongate did not consult Mars's marketing, it consulted a stopwatch and a Tor circuit.
Why "darknet market status" means something narrow here
A lot of pages use the phrase "darknet market status" to mean a vague blend of reputation, activity level, and uptime folded into one score. oniongate's Mars status page does not do that. Reachability over Tor is the only signal this page reports, and every other question about Mars — whether it is a good market to use, whether its escrow is sound, whether its vendor base is currently active — belongs to Mars's own reference material, not to this status reading.
How often Mars's Tor status actually changes
Most probe cycles produce no change at all: Mars's onion address answers the way it answered last cycle, and the status word simply repeats. A change only gets logged on this darknet market's page when Mars's status genuinely flips between Online, Checking, Down and Unknown — oniongate does not manufacture drama by treating an unchanged Tor reading as new information about the market.