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Drug Trends has identified, crawled (or ‘scraped’), extracted, categorised and analysed drug listings on cryptomarkets on a regular basis since 1st February 2014. This bulletin series reports on trends in the availability and types of drugs sold on the internet via cryptomarkets over a 12-month period. The current bulletin focuses on analysis of drug listings on cryptomarkets from October 2023 to September 2024.

An accompanying public is available, allowing viewers to interact with data collected over the total monitoring period.

Key Findings

• From 1st February 2024 to 31st January 2025, 14 cryptomarkets were monitored, of which two closed during the reporting period.
• The three markets reaching more than 10,000 listings in a snapshot during this period were Incognito, Archetyp, and Abacus.
• In the final month of monitoring, Archetyp, Nexus, Torzon, Dark Matter, and MGM Grand were the largest accessible cryptomarkets.
• There were 30,786 and 26,222 drug listings per snapshot in February 2024 and January 2025, respectively, with no significant change in overall trend in the drug market size during the 12-month period.
• Cannabis comprised the greatest percentage of drug listings from February 2024 to January 2025 (26.5%), followed by MDMA (8.4%), benzodiazepines (8.1%), opioids (excluding heroin) (7.6%), cocaine (6.9%), and meth/amphetamine (illicit) (6.1%).
• The market share of NPS showed the highest rate of increase from 3.7% in February 2024 to 4.8% in January 2025.
• The greatest rate of decrease in market share was observed for other medicines, from 4.2% in February 2024 to 3.5% in January 2025, and for hallucinogenic mushrooms, from 3.1% in February 2024 to 2.4% in January 2025.

Recommended citation

Man, N., Sutherland, R., Barratt, M. J., Bruno, R., Sadaphale, V., & Peacock, A. (2025). Trends in the availability and type of drugs sold on the internet via cryptomarkets, February 2024 - January 2025. Drug Trends Bulletin Series. Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç Sydney. Available from:

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