Three coins, one escrow
Awazon Market accepts Bitcoin, Litecoin and Monero. Whichever coin you choose, the deposit funds the same 2-of-3 multisig escrow at checkout; the coin choice is about deposit comfort and on-chain privacy, not about the security of the order itself. Pick the coin that fits the size and frequency of your deposits and move on; you can always switch coins later, the wallet keeps a separate address for each.
Bitcoin (BTC)
Bitcoin is the most widely available coin and the easiest to acquire for a first deposit. It also has the most legible on-chain trail — every transaction is public and analytics services follow them routinely. Bitcoin deposits credit after three confirmations. Network fees vary with mempool conditions; pay enough fee to land in the next two or three blocks rather than the lowest fee on the slider, because the storefront does not count partial confirmations.
Deposit address: the wallet page generates a fresh address each time you ask for one. Do not reuse the same deposit address across multiple deposits — the wallet keeps the address valid for twenty-four hours, after which it expires; sending a second deposit to an expired address can result in a lost deposit. The wallet shows the BIP21 URI as a clickable Open in wallet link below the address field; clicking that launches a configured wallet app with the address pre-filled, which avoids the copy-paste step entirely.
Litecoin (LTC)
Litecoin confirms in two and a half minutes per block with very low network fees, which makes it the friendliest pick for a small first deposit. It uses the same kind of address format as Bitcoin's SegWit (the bech32 ltc1q... prefix), so any modern wallet handles it without configuration. Litecoin deposits credit after three confirmations.
The on-chain trail for Litecoin is as public as Bitcoin's, which means the coin choice does not buy any privacy on its own. Litecoin is faster and cheaper, not more private. If on-chain privacy matters to you, Monero is the coin to pick; Litecoin is the friendly default for short turnarounds and small ticket sizes.
Monero (XMR)
Monero is the privacy-focused coin: ring signatures, stealth addresses and confidential amounts conceal the parties and the value of every transaction on the public ledger. For a darknet marketplace deposit, this is the strongest on-chain privacy of the three coins. Monero deposits credit after ten confirmations because blocks land every two minutes; the count is set so the deposit clears at about the same wall-clock time as a Bitcoin or Litecoin one.
Getting Monero usually means swapping into it from another coin you already hold. Several non-KYC swap services accept Bitcoin or Litecoin in and pay Monero out at a market rate; alternatively, exchanges that list Monero will sell it for fiat. The friction of acquiring Monero is the main reason first-time buyers start with Bitcoin or Litecoin; once the first order has settled, switching to Monero for subsequent deposits is a small operational upgrade.
BIP21 deposit URIs
The wallet page shows a deposit URI in addition to the raw address. The URI is a BIP21-style string — bitcoin:bc1q...?amount=0.001 for Bitcoin, litecoin:ltc1q...?amount=0.05 for Litecoin, monero:48...?tx_amount=0.1 for Monero. Wallet apps recognise the URI and pre-fill the address and amount fields automatically, which removes both the address typo and the amount typo from the process.
If your wallet does not handle URIs, copy the raw address and the amount separately from the wallet page. The verification step worth doing in either flow is comparing the first four and last four characters of the address you pasted to the address shown on the wallet page; an address corrupted in transit will fail this check immediately.
Confirmation counts and waiting times
Bitcoin and Litecoin both require three confirmations before the deposit is credited; Monero requires ten. In wall-clock terms, Bitcoin is roughly thirty minutes in a calm mempool and up to an hour in a busy one, Litecoin is about seven minutes and Monero is about twenty. None of those counts can be shortened by paying a higher network fee — they are inherent to the underlying chains and the storefront has no way to bypass them. Open a support ticket only if the deposit is not visible on a block explorer at all after a full hour; tickets opened inside the confirmation window are routinely closed unread.
Address reuse and expiry
The wallet page generates a fresh deposit address each time you visit it. The address stays valid for twenty-four hours after generation. Sending a second deposit to an expired address may result in a lost deposit; the storefront no longer watches the address after expiry. The defence is operational rather than technical — generate a new address for each deposit, send promptly after generation and treat the address as one-shot.
Withdrawing from the wallet
The Withdraw page accepts any external address. Bitcoin and Litecoin withdrawals queue and broadcast on the next batch cycle, which runs frequently enough that funds usually clear the storefront within an hour; Monero withdrawals broadcast individually as soon as the network confirms. The withdraw fee for each coin is published on the page in plain numbers, not as a percentage hidden in legal text.
The practical rule is to keep on the storefront only what you are about to spend. The marketplace treats its wallet as a checkout buffer rather than a vault and the operator has been explicit about that framing since launch. Buyers who park a large balance on the storefront for convenience are exposed to a class of risk the design was never meant to cover.
Cross-coin swaps
The storefront offers an internal Swap Service that converts between the three accepted coins at a market rate. The service is convenient for a quick conversion before withdrawal but is not a privacy upgrade by itself — the storefront still sees both legs of the swap. If your goal is to deposit Bitcoin and withdraw Monero with a real privacy improvement, a non-KYC external swap routed through a fresh wallet is the stronger pattern; the internal Swap is for convenience inside the same account.