{"id":216096,"date":"2025-06-17T06:15:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T11:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/police-seizes-archetyp-market-drug-marketplace-arrests-admin"},"modified":"2025-06-17T06:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T11:15:26","slug":"police-seizes-archetyp-market-drug-marketplace-arrests-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/police-seizes-archetyp-market-drug-marketplace-arrests-admin","title":{"rendered":"Police seizes Archetyp Market drug marketplace, arrests admin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/police-seizes-archetyp-market-drug-marketplace-arrests-admin.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement authorities from six countries took down the Archetyp Market, an infamous darknet drug marketplace that has been operating since May 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Archetyp Market sellers provided the market\u2019s customers with access to high volumes of drugs, including cocaine, amphetamines, heroin, cannabis, MDMA, and synthetic opioids like fentanyl through more than 3,200 registered vendors and over 17,000 listings.<\/p>\n<p>Over its five years of activity, the marketplace amassed over 612,000 users with a total transaction volume of over \u20ac250 million (approximately $289 million) in Monero cryptocurrency transactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement authorities from six countries took down the Archetyp Market, an infamous darknet drug marketplace that has been operating since May 2020. Archetyp Market sellers provided the market\u2019s customers with access to high volumes of drugs, including cocaine, amphetamines, heroin, cannabis, MDMA, and synthetic opioids like fentanyl through more than 3,200 registered vendors and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1761,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cryptocurrencies","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}