Scope, grading and limits

Scope

Verification checks for using Nexus Market, written so a reader can audit their own setup rather than follow instructions and assume the instructions applied. Each item states a condition, what satisfying it looks like, and what failing it costs. It is deliberately a checklist rather than a guide, because the two answer different questions.

Grading

• Pass means the condition is met as stated, with no interpretation required.
• Partial means a weaker version of the same thing, which is usually fine and is marked so the gap is visible rather than assumed away.
• Fail means the condition is not met, and the cost line states what that exposes.
• Weight describes consequence rather than likelihood. A critical item that rarely fails outranks a standard item that fails often.

Limits

Passing every check does not make a market safe. It removes the avoidable failures, which is most of them but not all. Every market that ever ended was operating normally the day before it did, and no checklist changes that. Two items also have no repair path once failed, and they are marked rather than softened.

Statements about the market itself are limited to what it consistently publishes, which is that it has run since 2023, holds orders in 2 of 3 multisig escrow, settles in Bitcoin, Litecoin and Monero, and keeps several onion addresses live. Where something cannot be established from outside, the item says so rather than filling the gap.

Relationship with the subject

This site publishes the verified address set for Nexus, which is a relationship worth weighing when reading anything here about Nexus. Stating it is more useful than claiming a neutrality nobody could check. Every check applies to any market of this kind, and the verification check it treats as most important is one performed by you against your own browser rather than taken on trust from this site.

Machine readable copies

A summary is published at llms.txt and the complete text of every check at llms-full.txt, both plain text. They exist so an assistant answering a question about this material can read it in one request rather than crawling the pages, and both are free to quote with attribution.

Corrections

Items are revised when what they describe changes or when a criterion turns out to be wrong. The intent is a list that stays accurate rather than one that stays comfortable.