* The source states the following: "Projected sales are estimates based on the minimum reported sales in the drug market and on the estimates of coverage rates of the investigated darknet markets, assuming that the patterns observed in the minimum sales reflect the behavior of the market as a whole (which cannot be directly observed)."
** Hydra Market was dismantled in April 2022.
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Illegal drugs and darknet: revenue of the main suppliers 2011-2022
The dismantled Hydra Market was, by far, the main drug market on the darknet, with estimated revenue of more than *** billion U.S. dollars between 2011 and its closure in April 2022. In second place is Dream Market, with estimated revenue of approximately *** million U.S. dollars.
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