01 — About this directory
What wtnsource tracks
Wtnsource started in late 2025 as a small mirror tracker run by a few longtime
Canadian buyers tired of phishing pages flooding clearnet search results. The
site now logs every Wethenorth onion address that the operators sign with their
PGP key, alongside ping checks every fifteen minutes from three independent Tor
nodes in Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia. Nothing here is marketing copy.
The numbers you see — 66,234 registered users, 1,286 active vendors, 19,571
listings — come from the latest signed snapshot dated April 22, 2026.
Wethenorth itself launched in 2021 with a Canadian-first focus — products
shipped from inside the country, vendors verified through escrow holding
periods, and a moderation team that speaks both English and French in disputes.
The market currently runs on a custom v3 onion stack with multisig wallets in
BTC and XMR. Withdrawal queues clear within roughly 40 minutes during peak
Sunday hours, faster on weekday mornings. Wtnsource does not run the market and
has no commercial relationship with the operators. We just keep the address
book honest.
Every link on this page passes through a three-step check before it goes live.
First we pull the announcement from the Wethenorth signed PGP key archive, then
we cross-reference the v3 address against the dread mirror thread, then we run
the page itself through a clean Tor circuit and confirm the captcha banner
matches the last verified screenshot. If anything looks off, the entry gets a
yellow flag and stays out of rotation until two of three checks pass. The
current rotation includes seven mirrors, four primary and three backup.
The crew running this directory is small on purpose. Four people across
Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, and Halifax. Each runs a Tor exit-checker on
a personal box, each maintains a copy of the signed PGP archive, and we
rotate the publishing role every two weeks so no single account holds the
keys to the rotation. If one of us goes dark for a week — vacation, a dead
hard drive, anything — the next person in the rotation pushes the sweep
without missing a beat. That redundancy isn't theatre. It's how you build
a directory that survives the kind of operator turnover the darknet
marketplace scene goes through every six months.
We don't take donations. We don't run ads. We don't take affiliate cuts
from any market — Wethenorth or otherwise. The whole project costs about
$34 a month in VPS fees split four ways, and that's deliberate. The minute
a directory takes money from a market it stops being a directory and
starts being a marketing channel. If wtnsource ever needs to scale beyond
what four volunteers can cover, we'll close the project rather than turn
it into a business. That promise is in the dread thread, signed with the
same PGP key the mirror archive uses.
