Nexus publishes its annual report for 2025, providing a comprehensive overview of platform performance, security posture, infrastructure investment, and the year's key developments. This report is intended to give the marketplace community an honest and data-grounded picture of where the platform stands and how it intends to develop in 2026.
Platform Scale and Activity
At year-end 2025, the platform has 2,980 active vendor accounts, 47,800 active product listings, and has processed approximately 720,000 transactions since the beginning of the year -- an increase of 26% over the same period in 2024. Cumulative registered user accounts have grown significantly, though the platform does not publish registered user numbers to avoid creating meaningful data that could be targeted by adversarial actors.
Payment method adoption data shows Monero at 61% of transaction value at year-end, Bitcoin at 29%, and Litecoin at 10%. The continued shift toward Monero is consistent with the platform's advocacy for privacy-preserving payment methods and reflects the growing sophistication of the user base. The XMR-exclusive mode launched in August accelerated this trend among privacy-conscious vendor-buyer pairs.
Security Posture Assessment
The independent security audit published in September returned a clean result at the critical and high severity levels. The two medium-severity findings were remediated within the quarter. The platform underwent three additional internal security assessments over the course of the year, with all critical and high findings remediated within 48 hours of identification. The warrant canary has been updated monthly throughout 2025, with no missed updates -- an unbroken record that represents a meaningful transparency commitment.
The anti-phishing campaign launched in October has resulted in 43 confirmed phishing sites being added to the community blacklist. The reporting mechanism has been used by hundreds of users, demonstrating strong community engagement with platform security. PGP verification adoption among active users has increased materially, with more users confirming addresses through the signed announcement process rather than relying on stored bookmarks.
Infrastructure Investment and 2026 Outlook
The 2025 infrastructure investment included server capacity expansion, the multi-sig escrow architecture (representing the most significant technical undertaking of the year), and performance optimization work that reduced average page load times by approximately 30%. For 2026, the platform's roadmap -- published separately in January -- focuses on search algorithm improvements, expanded Monero integration, a redesigned mobile Tor Browser experience, and a community governance mechanism for category and policy decisions. The full roadmap is covered in the 2026 roadmap release article. Platform architecture details are documented at platform information.