About

I'm Aaron Long. along7 is my ENS name, and everything here is mine: the vault, the site, the collection. I've been in crypto since I was 18, somewhere between investing, coding, gaming, and making things myself. This is where I ended up, collecting digital art and building it a permanent home.

I collect in depth. When an artist gets me, I stay. I followed Justin Aversano's Moments of the Unknown through a full year of daily auctions, polaroid by polaroid, and bid my way into two hundred of them. Some rooms here are one great encounter. Others are a habit I couldn't quit. Either way, every piece earned its place.

I didn't start with art. I started with a game, a 6.8-ETH hero, and a guild. That whole road is in the Prologue.

Why this site exists

An NFT doesn't actually store the art. The token is permanent; the image usually isn't. It lives on servers, pinning services, and marketplaces, and those go dark. So every work here is served from my own archive: originals pulled from wherever each artist published them, checked, fingerprinted, and kept. Building it, we found a dozen works whose original hosts were already dead. They live on these walls as honest cached copies, labeled as exactly that. We even found forty-one works the marketplace's own listing had quietly dropped. The blockchain knew; the API didn't.

What I'm actually doing here

Artist websites are about the artist. This site is about the art, and about the connections between it. Nothing here is for sale; there are no prices on these walls. I'm a collector trying to make a permanent, honest record of a moment in digital art, and to point you toward the artists who made it. If one room here makes you follow someone new, this did its job.

New to any of this? Start with New here?, the whole thing in plain English.

Find me

How I got here, the gaming years →
How this gallery was built →