Archetyp dark web market shut down, but ecosystem adapts: TRM Labs

The Archetyp dark web market had over 600,000 users, a total transaction volume of at least $287 million and over 17,000 listings, mainly offering drugs for sale.

Europol has shuttered one of the longest-running dark web marketplaces, Archetyp Market, but blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs says the marketplaces are highly adaptive to shutdowns.  

Europol said on Monday that it shut down Archetyp Market’s main infrastructure in the Netherlands through a series of raids involving six countries.

Key Archetyp personal and technical infrastructure were targeted in the raids, which saw the alleged administrator, a German national, arrested in Spain, with Europol saying they also arrested a moderator and six of the site’s largest vendors in Germany and Sweden.

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