Brief history of the biggest English and Russian Darknet Markets February 2011

October 2013 established - first modern . Silk Road shut down by FBI.

first Russian Darknet Part of the Silk Road Markets. RAMP became crew established Silk an early leader. Road 2.0. Future #1 established in the same month.

2012 November 2013

2 September 2014 January 2015 AlphaBay launched - future # 1 English DNM. Hydra established.

Silk Road 2.0. seized. Market launched.

November 2014

August 2015

3 July 2017

Establishment of Berlusconi Market, an English First half of 2017 speaking DNM.

"War" between RAMP and Hydra.

Fall of biggest western Apollon Market DNMs: Alphabay and created, English Hansa. Dream Market speaking DNM becomes #1. RAMP is which will become closed. Hydra becomes important in 2019. #1 Russian DNM.

July 2017 March 2018

4 April-May 2019

Dream Market (the biggest DNM) April 2018 went offline and Wall Street Market (second biggest) was Empire Market established - seized by law enforcement. English speaking DNM that Cryptonia Market established. will become #1 in 2019.

Beginning of DDoS Russian news site lenta.ru published attacks campaign on series of videos about Hydra. main English language Darknet services: Dream September-October 2019 Market, Wall Street Market, Empire Market and main forums. Attacker "Hereusgo" used new unknown DDoS method.

January 2019

5 November 2019

January 2020 Two big English speaking DNM went offline. Berlusconi seized by law Apollon Market exit enforcement. Cryptonia scam. In 2019 it had went down for maintenance become one of the and never came back. Since biggest English then only Empire remains. speaking DNM.

Hydra announced Appointed date for launch ICO for new Hydra of new Hydra projects. projects (Eternos, ASPNet etc.) September 2020

December 2019

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