Nexus Market Vendor Guide: Rules and Tools

Who Can Vend on Nexus Market

Vendor registration is not open to everyone. Applicants submit a short form listing previous markets, samples of past listings, a current PGP public key, and a reference from at least one established vendor who can vouch for shipping reliability. Operators review the application in batches roughly weekly. Approved applicants pay the vendor bond and unlock the listing dashboard.

Vendor Bond on Nexus Market

The bond is a refundable deposit in BTC or XMR, currently in the low hundreds of dollars depending on category. The bond protects buyers in case a new vendor exit-scams a small batch of orders before the dispute system can react. Bonds are returned when a vendor leaves in good standing and forfeit if the account is banned for fraud.

Listing Rules and Photo Requirements

Listing photos must be original. Stock images pulled from other markets, supplier catalogs, or vendor-promotion threads are rejected on review. A diagonal watermark with the vendor name and the current month is the standard convention and proves the photo is fresh. Three to five photos per listing is the working norm.

Descriptions must be honest. Weights, purity ranges, and shipping times are checked against a sample of buyer feedback; vendors who consistently overpromise lose their FE privileges and accumulate strikes that can lead to a ban. Stealth descriptions that exaggerate concealment quality are a particular trigger for review.

Finalize-Early Policy

FE is disabled by default for new vendors. After a vendor accumulates a sufficient sales volume with no major disputes, they can apply for FE privileges. The application is manual and the operators decline more than they approve. Approved FE vendors can request FE on individual orders but cannot force it; buyers retain the right to use multisig escrow on every order.

The Nexus Market Dispute System

Disputes open from the order page within the resolution window (typically seven to fourteen days after the package was marked shipped, configurable per category). Once opened, both parties post evidence in a structured dispute thread: tracking screenshots, photos of the received item, message history, anything relevant. Staff review the thread and rule on the prevailing party.

For multisig orders, the marketplace signs the prevailing-party side of the release transaction, which combined with that party's signature produces the two-of-three required. For regular-escrow orders, the marketplace releases funds directly. Either way, the dispute decision is published in the vendor's public profile, which feeds back into their reputation score.

Payout Cycle

Released funds appear in the vendor wallet on Nexus Market. Vendors initiate withdrawals from the wallet to their own external addresses at any time; there is no minimum withdrawal volume, only the network transaction fee. Most vendors run a daily withdraw cycle to keep on-market balances low in case of operator-side outage.

Vendor Communication Standards

Vendors are expected to respond to buyer messages within their stated handling window. The vendor profile shows the average response time as a public number, and slow vendors lose visibility in search results. Auto-responders are tolerated but a fully bot-staffed account is grounds for review.