The TorZon Handbook

a reader's guide
Edition  2026 · kept by hand
Chapter I

Chapter I. Accessing TorZon

Tor Browser setup, mirror selection, first login

Reaching TorZon Market takes Tor Browser, one onion address from the mirror list, and roughly two minutes. This chapter walks through the setup once, then covers the small handful of things that trip up new readers on the first login.

§1. Tor Browser

Download Tor Browser from torproject.org. That is the only source you should trust the first time. Every other download page is either a mirror you cannot verify or a fake distribution with modifications baked in. First install, verify the signature on the bundle. The Tor Project download page walks through the check on every operating system.

Security settings

Open the shield icon next to the address bar. Set the security level to Safest. This disables JavaScript on all sites. Some pages break under Safest. Every serious Tor storefront including TorZon works fine on Safest because the login flow is HTML forms, not React apps.

Do not resize the window

Tor Browser opens at a fixed size on purpose. Resizing gives you a unique window size that fingerprints uniquely across sites. If you maximize by accident, close the window and open a fresh one.

Do not install any extension

Every extension changes the fingerprint. NoScript, uBlock Origin, a dark theme, all of them make you look different from a stock install. Even changing the new tab page is a mistake. Leave the browser exactly as it came out of the download.

§2. Picking a mirror

Any of the six addresses on the mirror list works. They all resolve to the same storefront. If one stalls on the anti-DDoS queue for more than two minutes, try the next. Tor circuits vary across an evening, so a slow first attempt does not predict the second.

§3. First login

Paste the onion into the address bar and press return. The anti-DDoS wait page appears and holds you for 20 to 60 seconds while a counter decrements. When the counter finishes, the captcha renders.

The captcha carries a check inside it

The captcha image on TorZon has the current onion address printed in the small text at the bottom. Read that string. Compare it to what you typed into the address bar. Match wins. Mismatch means you landed on a phishing clone, close the tab and open the mirror list again from a bookmark.

§4. Registration

New account registration is a single form: username, password, mnemonic seed. Write the mnemonic on a piece of paper. Do not screenshot it. Do not save it to a cloud-synced note. The mnemonic is the recovery path if you lose the password. Anyone with the mnemonic owns the account.

§5. Depositing coin

The wallet panel shows deposit addresses per coin. Monero is the default and the recommended coin. Bitcoin and Litecoin also work. Do not deposit from a KYC exchange address directly. Route through a wallet you control first, or better, buy Monero peer-to-peer.

Boring beats clever. The defaults shipped by the Tor Project are tested by people whose day job is exactly that. Do not override them unless you know why.

§6. Common problems