Tor Network Explained
The Tor network is the infrastructure layer. Understanding it helps distinguish privacy technology from the many different services that can use it.
Tor is a privacy network built around relays operated by volunteers. Tor Project documentation describes Tor Browser as a way to access the network while adding browser-level privacy protections. The network itself is not a marketplace and has legitimate uses beyond any darknet-market context.
Onion services are a related but distinct part of the Tor ecosystem. They are designed to be reachable through Tor and to hide the service's network location. This makes the .onion namespace useful for privacy-preserving publishing, communication and other lawful applications.
When discussing TorZon Market, it is useful to keep three layers separate: the named marketplace, the Tor network that can carry traffic, and the onion-service technology that can publish services. Conflating these layers produces inaccurate explanations.
This page therefore focuses on concepts and documentation rather than access instructions or live destinations.