In response to researchers at Chainalysis, revenues generated by underground marketplaces skilled a double-digit decline in 2022, due to the closure of the popular Hydra Market in April. The researchers stated that dark web revenues fell from $3.1bn in 2021 to simply $1.5bn last year, whereas average every day revenue for all markets dropped from $4.2m just previous to Hydra’s closure to solely $447,000 instantly after. The researchers famous that though the collective revenues of drugs markets didn’t get better fully, they slowly crawled back up to reach earlier levels because of the success of mega market darknet, Blacksprut Market, and OMG!OMG! Market within the wake of the Hydra takedown. The researchers stated that criminals migrated to those primarily drug markets in an ever higher number after in addition they began providing money laundering providers, as Hydra did. Some, like OMG, also supply hacking utilities and stolen banking information. The researchers said OMG has several overlaps with Hydra which will counsel its admins are involved in the project. These embrace the identical "dead drop" change options for vendors and patrons and shared cryptocurrency deposit addresses.