# along7 gallery

> A permanent, self-hosted archive of contemporary digital art, NFTs, generative and AI art, collected on-chain by Aaron Long (along7.eth). Every work is kept from the original file the artist declared, with on-chain provenance, so the art outlives the marketplaces that sold it.

## Key numbers

- 1776 works by 431 artists across 632 collections
- Chains: Ethereum, Shape, Base, Abstract, Polygon
- 99.5% archived from the originals, 24.2 GB of media
- Collecting span: 2022 to 2026

## Browse

- [Artists](https://along7gallery.xyz/artists/): every artist gets a room, a bio, and their work on one wall
- [Collections](https://along7gallery.xyz/collections/): the series and projects
- [Explore](https://along7gallery.xyz/wall/): the whole collection, filterable by medium, chain, and marketplace
- [Timeline](https://along7gallery.xyz/timeline/): the collecting diary, month by month
- [Market](https://along7gallery.xyz/market/): where each piece was minted and where it was collected, receipts traced
- [Map](https://along7gallery.xyz/map/): a globe of where the artists actually live
- [Art Blocks](https://along7gallery.xyz/on/art-blocks/): the flagship generative era and the 500 tracker

## Glossary, plain-English definitions of the NFT, crypto, art, and AI terms

- [1-of-1](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/one-of-one/): A single, unique artwork, one owner, ever, with no other copies minted. The counterpart to an edition. Nearly half the works in this collection are 1-of-1s.
- [AI Art](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/ai-art/): Art made with the help of machine-learning models, where the artist guides, trains, or edits a model toward an image. It is one tool among many and draws strong
- [Airdrop](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/airdrop/): A work sent directly to a collector's wallet, unprompted, a gift, a reward, or a surprise. Several pieces here arrived by airdrop, sent by the artists themselve
- [Allowlist](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/allowlist/): A list of wallets given early or guaranteed access to a mint, usually as a thank-you to an artist's supporters. Also called a whitelist.
- [Artist proof](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/artist-proof/): A few of a work's editions kept back by the artist, the on-chain version of an artist's proof in printmaking. Often marked AP.
- [Arweave](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/arweave/): A storage network that aims for permanence: pay once, and the data is meant to persist forever across a distributed 'permaweb.' A common home for NFT artwork fi
- [Auction](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/auction/): A timed sale where collectors bid and the highest bid wins. Because the bids are recorded on-chain, this gallery's Story timelines can show exactly who else was
- [Bidder Edition](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/bidder-edition/): A reward for taking part in an auction, a piece you receive for placing a bid, whether or not you win the headline lot. Justin Aversano's daily Moments polaroid
- [Blockchain](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/blockchain/): A shared public ledger maintained by many computers at once, where records are chained together so that altering the past is effectively impossible. It's the fo
- [Burn](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/burn/): To destroy an NFT on purpose by sending it to an address no one can open, permanently removing it from circulation. Artists sometimes burn to shrink an edition,
- [Burn to redeem](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/burn-to-redeem/): A mechanic where a holder destroys one token to claim another, often a physical item or an upgraded edition. The burn is permanent and recorded on-chain.
- [CC0](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/cc0/): A work released with no rights reserved, put in the public domain on purpose so anyone can use, remix, or build on it. Said C-C-zero.
- [Cold & Hot Wallets](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/cold-hot-wallet/): A hot wallet is connected and used for everyday buying and bidding; a cold wallet (or vault) stays offline-ish and just holds, for safety. Tracing pieces from t
- [Collaboration](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/collab/): A work made by two or more artists together and credited to each. This collection holds several, shown on both artists' pages.
- [DAO](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/dao/): A decentralized autonomous organization: a group that coordinates and votes through a shared smart contract and treasury rather than a company structure. Common
- [Degen](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/degen/): Short for degenerate, worn as a badge: a collector who buys fast, on instinct and vibes, deep in the middle of a drop. Said with affection, mostly.
- [Delist](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/delist/): Removing a work from sale by cancelling its listing. The piece stays in the owner's wallet; only the offer to sell is withdrawn.
- [Derivative](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/derivative/): A new work built on an existing project's characters or style, sometimes blessed by the original artist, sometimes not. Web3 art runs on tribute and remix.
- [Diamond hands](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/diamond-hands/): Holding a work through the noise instead of selling, out of conviction. The opposite, bailing at the first dip, is paper hands.
- [Digital Art](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/digital-art/): Art made to live on screens rather than walls: images, film, animation, and code, born digital and shown digital. NFTs added a way to prove which copy is the or
- [Drop](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/drop/): A scheduled release of new work by an artist or platform, usually at a set time and supply. The word covers everything from a single 1-of-1 to a large edition.
- [Dutch auction](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/dutch-auction/): An auction that starts at a high price and steps down on a set schedule until someone buys or a floor is reached. The reverse of an ascending, bid-up auction.
- [Edition](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/edition/): A limited run of the same artwork, say 30 numbered copies, each individually owned. Editions let more collectors hold a piece while keeping the supply finite an
- [ENS](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/ens/): The Ethereum Name Service, a human-readable name (like along7.eth) that stands in for a long wallet address, and can carry a profile: a bio, an avatar, links. S
- [Flip](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/flip/): Buying a work planning to resell it quickly for profit, rather than to keep it. The opposite of how this collection is run.
- [Floor Price](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/floor-price/): The lowest price anyone is currently asking for a work from a given collection, used as a quick read on its market. It is a market signal rather than a measure
- [FUD](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/fud/): Fear, uncertainty, and doubt, the negative chatter that spreads when a project or the market wobbles. Sometimes a fair warning, sometimes just noise.
- [Gas](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/gas/): The fee paid to the network to record a transaction on-chain, minting, transferring, or bidding all cost gas. It rises and falls with how busy the network is, a
- [Gas war](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/gas-war/): When demand for a mint outstrips supply and buyers bid up the network fee to have their transaction processed first. Gas prices spike for everyone until the min
- [Generative Art](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/generative-art/): Art made by writing rules and letting a program draw the result, so the code becomes the brush. The artist designs a system, and each run produces a different p
- [gm](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/gm/): Short for good morning, the everyday greeting of crypto-art communities, posted to say you are present and building. Behind the memes and the jargon, NFT cultur
- [Grail](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/grail/): A collector's most-wanted piece, the one you would not sell at any price. Most serious collections are built around a few of them.
- [Honorary](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/honorary/): A special edition an artist gifts outside the normal drop, to a collaborator, a supporter, or a friend. DeltaSauce's Issues run included honorary pieces.
- [How to Look at Digital Art](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/how-to-look/): A collection rewards slow looking. Open a single work full-screen, read its wall label, follow its Story from mint to now, then click through to the artist and
- [IPFS](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/ipfs/): The InterPlanetary File System, a peer-to-peer network where many NFT artworks are hosted, addressed by the fingerprint of their content rather than a location.
- [Layer 2](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/layer-2/): A network built on top of a base chain like Ethereum to make transactions faster and cheaper, settling back to the main chain for security. Polygon and Immutabl
- [Lazy minting](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/lazy-minting/): A method where a token is not written to the chain until its first sale, so the artist pays no upfront gas to list. Until then the work exists as a signed vouch
- [Long-form Generative](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/long-form-generative/): A generative project where the artwork is minted before anyone sees it: the collector mints, the code runs, and the output is revealed on the spot. Art Blocks m
- [Mint out](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/mint-out/): When every available piece in a mint has been claimed and none remain at primary. A fast mint-out is read as a sign of demand.
- [Mint pass](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/mint-pass/): A token that grants its holder the right to mint a future work, usually from an upcoming drop. It is claimed or bought ahead of time and redeemed when the main
- [Minting](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/minting/): The moment a work is first created on the blockchain, the artist presses publish and the piece exists on-chain for the first time. Collecting a work 'at mint' m
- [NFT](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/nft/): A non-fungible token is a record on a blockchain saying that a specific digital thing belongs to a specific person. It works like a property deed: the deed live
- [Offer](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/offer/): A price a collector proposes for a work that is not on auction, which the owner can accept, decline, or ignore. Offers are usually made in a wrapped token so th
- [On-chain vs Off-chain](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/on-chain-off-chain/): Where the artwork actually lives. Fully on-chain art stores the image or its code inside the blockchain itself, so it lasts as long as the chain does. Most work
- [Open Edition](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/open-edition/): An edition with no fixed cap: anyone can mint a copy during an open window, and the final supply is whatever gets minted before it closes.
- [PFP](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/pfp/): A profile-picture project: a large set of characters built from mix-and-match traits, made to be used as an avatar and to signal membership in a community. PFPs
- [Phygital](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/phygital/): A digital work tied to a physical object: hold the token and you can claim a real print or piece. Some Still Kyoto tokens here unlocked physical prints.
- [Primary market](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/primary-market/): The first time a work is sold, straight from the artist: a mint, a launch auction, a gallery drop. Everything after that, collector to collector, is the seconda
- [Provenance](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/provenance/): The full ownership history of a work, from the artist's mint to now: every transfer, sale, and gift. Because it is recorded on-chain, provenance is public and e
- [Rarity](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/rarity/): In a generative or PFP set, how uncommon a piece's traits are next to the rest. Rarer combinations tend to be prized more.
- [Reserve Auction](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/reserve-auction/): An auction that only starts its countdown once a minimum ('reserve') bid is met. On SuperRare, many works settle on a single bid, the first collector meets the
- [Reveal](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/reveal/): The moment a work's real image appears. Some drops mint blind, showing a placeholder until a reveal flips every piece to its final art at once.
- [Right-click-save](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/right-click-save/): The oldest objection to NFT art: if you can screenshot the picture, why does owning the token matter? You can photograph a painting too, and the photo is not th
- [Royalties](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/royalties/): A share of each resale that returns to the artist, set in the work's contract when it is made. Royalties let artists keep earning as their work resells, though
- [Rug Pull](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/rug-pull/): When a project's creators take the money and abandon it, leaving holders with nothing, one of the real hazards of a young and unregulated space. Scams are why p
- [Secondary Market](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/secondary-market/): Everything that happens to a work after its first sale, when collectors buy and sell it among themselves. Collecting at mint means being first; collecting on th
- [Seed phrase](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/seed-phrase/): The list of words that unlocks a wallet and everything in it. Whoever knows it controls the wallet, so it is kept offline and never shared; losing it means losi
- [Shill](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/shill/): Hyping a work loudly, especially one you own. Not always a dirty word: artists shill their own drops, and collectors shill the art they love.
- [Smart Contract](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/smart-contract/): A program that lives on the blockchain and runs exactly as written, the code behind minting, auctions, and editions. Platforms like Manifold let artists deploy
- [Snapshot](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/snapshot/): A record of who holds which tokens at a chosen block, used to decide who qualifies for an airdrop, a claim, or an allowlist. Because the chain is public, the re
- [Sweep the floor](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/sweep/): Buying several of the cheapest pieces in a collection at once, clearing the bottom of the market in one go.
- [The Art Blocks 500](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/art-blocks-500/): The complete set of 500 flagship generative projects Art Blocks released between 2020 and 2025, from Chromie Squiggle's era to the final drop, now closed and tr
- [The Token vs the Art](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/the-token/): What you actually own when you own an NFT: an entry on the blockchain that points to a work and names you as its holder. The token is permanent; the image it po
- [Token gating](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/token-gate/): Restricting access to content, a sale, or a space to the holders of a particular token. The wallet proves ownership, and the gate opens.
- [WAGMI](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/wagmi/): We're all gonna make it, the optimistic rallying cry of crypto-art circles. Its gloomier cousin is ngmi, we're not gonna make it.
- [Wallet](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/wallet/): A wallet does not hold the art itself; it holds the keys that prove which NFTs are yours and lets you sign to move them. Think keychain, not vault. This collect
- [Wash trading](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/wash-trading/): Selling a work back and forth between wallets you control to fake volume or price. A real problem in NFT markets, and one reason honest provenance matters.
- [Whale](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/whale/): A collector who holds or spends at a scale large enough to move a market alone. The term is descriptive, not a title.
- [Why Collect Digital Art](https://along7gallery.xyz/wiki/why-collect/): Why own digital art at all, when anyone can view it for free? For the same reasons people have always collected: to support an artist, to keep a record, to hold

## Stories

- [The five hundred](https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/the-five-hundred/): Art Blocks numbered its projects like chapters, stopped at 500, and put the era behind glass. Then I started collecting it.
- [How I got here](https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/how-i-got-here/): Before the art there was a game, and before the game there was Bitcoin. Under all of it, there was always art. Ten years from HODL to a seventeen-hundred-work g
- [What Cities Hold](https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/sigmax-cities/): SigmaX makes glowing cities. His What Cities Hold drop scattered its rarest 1-of-1s at random through the mint, and I will admit it, I used my statistics degree
- [The painter from Caracas](https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/andres-del-vecchio/): I wore Andres Del Vecchio's mask as my own face before I knew his story. Then I met him in New York, and we spent an afternoon in front of the American painting
- [The curator of nostalgia](https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/deltasauce-feed/): DeltaSauce calls himself an AI Wordsmith and a Curator of Nostalgia. His FEED series is the piece that turned this whole collection on, so I kept following. The
- [TDxL, and the color red](https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/tdxl-all-of-it/): I grabbed every piece of TDxL's I could reach, the bidders and editions and 1-of-1s and animations, all of it. Then he told his story, and I understood why it h
- [When the file becomes a frame](https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/kris-shin-prints/): Kris Shin shoots Kyoto quiet. I collected five of his Still Kyoto photographs before I learned five was the magic number, and now some of these NFTs are ink on
- [You are the infinite light](https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/an1-the-infinite-light/): An1 paints in the dark, in Los Angeles, and buries whole diaries in her canvases in two languages. I came for the images. I stayed to decode them.
- [A quiet place to get away](https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/gul-yildiz-quiet-places/): Gul Yildiz makes emotive, figurative stills in Istanbul. I collected her at mint and through Ninfa, and somewhere in there she became one of the artists who col
- [Two hundred faces](https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/moments-of-the-unknown/): For a year I followed Justin Aversano's Moments of the Unknown one polaroid at a time, bid my way into just over two hundred of them, and on the seventh of Apri
- [The guild years](https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/the-guild-years/): Two crowns, one spreadsheet, four games, a coin that died, and the memes that kept it all funny. What crypto gaming actually felt like from inside.
- [Who owns the picture](https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/who-owns-the-picture/): Buy a painting and you own the canvas, not the picture. The copyright stays with the artist. Minting did not change that. So what does a collector actually own?
- [The feeling was mutual](https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/the-feeling-was-mutual/): I set out to collect other people's art. I did not expect so many of them to turn around and collect mine, to keep sending work my way, or to watch a hundred fo
- [The year of the daily drop](https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/year-of-the-daily-drop/): For one year, collecting meant showing up. Not browsing a back catalogue, but being there when the drop went live, every day, saying good morning to the same pe
- [Why I keep the originals](https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/why-i-keep-the-originals/): An NFT does not actually store the art. The token is permanent; the picture usually is not. So I keep the pictures.

## Open data

- [Data export](https://along7gallery.xyz/data/): a CC0 machine-readable export of the collection (works, artists, collections, on-chain provenance) as JSON

## About

- [About](https://along7gallery.xyz/about/): what this archive is and why it exists
- [How it was made](https://along7gallery.xyz/archive/): the method: chain + OpenSea into a self-hosted archive
- [The collector](https://along7gallery.xyz/collector/along7/): Aaron Long (along7.eth), posts as @pengwinpants