10,001 generative aliens, meticulously crafted from hand-illustrated traits. Minted on the Ethereum blockchain in July 2021 and permanently preserved on Arweave.
Pulled into a black hole, the LASC Mothership scattered 10,001 aliens across the metaverse. The crew is bringing them home, one abduction at a time.
The summer of 2021 minted a generation of iconic collections. Lonely Aliens touched down right in the middle of it — and the club has been transmitting ever since.
Before the mothership, before the club, there was a single pencil sketch. One lonely alien, drawn in the spring of 2021, dreamed the whole mission into existence.
On July 16, 2021, the dream became a mission: 10,001 hand-illustrated aliens minted on the Ethereum blockchain, every image and trait permanently preserved on Arweave. Then the mothership fell into a black hole, and 10,001 members of the Space Club were scattered across the metaverse.
"This is the new captain speaking. We have taken over the mothership, I repeat, we have taken over the mothership!" With the NFT market in deep uncertainty, community member Suds bought out the ownership stake of all three original founders and became the project's sole owner, done with the community in mind.
A transition team steered the ship: Suds as owner and project lead, Trunk as community manager, Lee Crypto as lead mod, and LonelyBoy, who rose to First Officer and second in command. Their work brought Mang0G0rilla aboard as lead developer. The project could have ended when the founders stepped away. Instead, the community invested in its future, and the leadership from that day still flies the mothership.
The community shifted the spotlight away from rarity rankings and floor prices and onto the art itself. A 64-alien tournament bracket, decided round by round through community voting, set out to crown the Lonely Alien with the strongest overall aesthetic: personality, color, and how well the traits came together as a complete PFP.
Aliens with modest rarity ran deep into the bracket while some of the rarest fell early, proving that the best alien isn't always the most expensive one. The strongest-looking aliens tend to be tightly held by long-term collectors, so the floor never tells the whole story. The bracket remains one of the club's most memorable art-focused events: a reminder that every Lonely Alien can stand out for reasons far beyond its rarity score.
"Intercom chimes... This is your captain speaking. The rumors are true!" During an inspection of the mothership's space-worthiness, the transition team uncovered a hidden shaft in the cargo hold containing an unknown material: Ore. Under Executive Officer LonelyBoy and Chief Engineer Mang0G0rilla, the Science Wing refined it into a power source far more efficient than the ship's existing fuel.
The first experiment it powered was the Ification Machine, a new way for holders to transform their alien's artwork. Early runs included GM-ification, with a special coffee blend brewed exclusively for the community, and Vulcan-ification. After 24 hours of High Council stress testing, the captain opened the machine to every alien aboard: connect a Web3 wallet at the LASC art portal, follow three steps, and generate new artwork. The Ore holds a bigger promise too, with mining equipment planned to find enough to one day power the mothership itself.
One alien is one membership. Holders board the mothership: private sectors of the site and Discord, a vote on community changes, and a matching Lonely Planet.
The collection, arranged into one giant photomosaic. Scroll, pinch, or double-click to zoom all the way in and find yours.
All 10,001 aliens were initially accounted for and brought back to the mothership since the July 16th 2021 mint, however as years went by Aliens ventured off and never came back. These are the aliens sitting in wallets that went silent years ago, keys misplaced, seed phrases forgotten, owners drifted off into deep space. Set your own thresholds and see who's still out there.
Nobody can prove an alien is lost. A wallet silent for years might just belong to a very patient holder. Adjust the dials and decide for yourself what counts.
An alien is LOST when both are true: the alien itself hasn't moved on-chain in N+ years, and the wallet holding it hasn't signed an outbound transaction of any kind (ETH, tokens, or NFTs) in M+ years. We only look at outbound activity on purpose, because anyone can send spam airdrops into a wallet, but only someone holding the keys can send something out.
Snapshots are generated from Ethereum mainnet data (via Alchemy) and refreshed monthly. Dormancy moves slowly, so there's nothing to gain from live queries. None of this is a claim that any specific alien is lost forever: a wallet silent for four years could still belong to someone who simply never needed to move anything. Methodology inspired by LostPunks.
The aliens currently classified as lost, sorted by how long their wallet has been silent. Click any alien to inspect its wallet on Etherscan.
Signals from the Lonely Aliens crew on permanence, provenance, and preserving the history of digital ownership.
Most NFTs don't actually live on the blockchain. Where the art is stored decides whether it survives, and it's why Lonely Aliens chose Arweave to preserve every alien forever.
When you buy an NFT, you own a token on the blockchain. But here's the part most people never think about: the artwork itself (the image, the traits, the metadata that makes your alien your alien) usually lives somewhere else entirely. Where that "somewhere else" is decides whether your art still exists in ten, fifty, or a hundred years.
Ethereum is extraordinary at one thing: keeping a permanent, tamper-proof record of who owns what. It is extraordinarily bad at storing files. Every byte written to Ethereum is replicated across hundreds of thousands of nodes forever, so on-chain storage is priced accordingly. Storing a single high-resolution image directly on Ethereum can cost thousands of dollars in gas. Multiply that by 10,001 aliens and the math simply doesn't work. That's why nearly every NFT contract stores only a small pointer: a URL that says "the art lives over there."
Early projects pointed those URLs at ordinary web servers. When a team dissolved or a hosting bill went unpaid, the art vanished, leaving tokens pointing at nothing. The lesson was clear: the pointer is only as strong as what it points to. Decentralized storage networks emerged to fix this, spreading files across many independent machines so no single company or server outage can erase them. IPFS made files content-addressed, meaning the link is a fingerprint of the file itself. But IPFS only keeps a file alive while someone, somewhere, chooses to keep hosting it.
Arweave takes the final step. Instead of renting storage month to month, you pay a single upfront fee that goes into an endowment designed to fund the cost of storing your file for at least 200 years, on the conservative assumption that storage keeps getting cheaper the way it has for decades. Miners on the network are rewarded for proving they still hold old data, so the incentive to preserve every file is baked into the protocol itself. Every Lonely Alien image and its metadata lives on Arweave. No subscription, no server, no company that can go out of business and take the art with it.
Ask any collector of physical art what drives value across generations: condition and provenance. A painting that survives intact, with a documented history, becomes more valuable as decades pass. Digital art works the same way. An NFT whose image has gone dark is a broken collectible: the provenance is on-chain, but the object is gone. Permanent storage means a Lonely Alien abducted today will look exactly the same to a collector in 2126, with an unbroken chain of ownership stretching back to the mint.
Lonely Aliens minted on July 16, 2021, in the heart of the summer that defined the early Ethereum NFT era, alongside the collections that became legends. That moment in time can never be re-created, and we believe it's worth preserving properly. 10,001 hand-illustrated aliens, every image and every trait, permanently archived on Arweave. Not because it was the cheapest option, but because a collection from 2021 should still be fully intact when the collectors of the future come looking for the history of digital ownership.
The mothership may have fallen into a black hole, but the art is never getting lost again.
This Lonely Alien Space Club NFT LICENSE AGREEMENT, comprised of these pages governs the acquisition of an artistic work (“Art”) featuring the Lonely Alien Space Club and/or Lonely Planet Space Observatory embodied on nonfungible token(s) (“NFT”) conforming to the ERC-721 standard stored on the Ethereum PoS Blockchain and distributed by Space Club LLC, a New York LLC (“Space Club”) on the Opensea platform (“Platform”), which is being purchased by the purchaser (“Purchaser” or “you”). This Agreement governs all of Purchaser’s rights relating thereto. Space Club intends to only recognize NFTs on the PoS Eth chain as eligible for membership and the below License Agreement.
The term (“Term”) of this Agreement will begin upon purchase of the NFT(s) and continue into perpetuity unless terminated by Space Club as provided below in this Agreement. All of the rights and obligations that customarily extend beyond the Term (warranties, representations, compensation, indemnity obligations, etc.) shall continue in perpetuity notwithstanding any termination or expiration of this Agreement.
A. Ownership. Purchaser’s ownership of any NFT(s) issued by Space Club is governed by a smart contract on the Ethereum Blockchain which cannot be reversed or modified in any way whatsoever.
B. Personal Use. Subject to Purchaser’s continued compliance with the terms of this License Agreement, Space Club grants you a worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license to use, copy, and display the Art for your Purchased NFT(s), solely for the following purposes: (i) for your own personal, non-commercial use; (ii) as part of a marketplace that permits the purchase and sale of your Purchased NFT(s), provided that the marketplace cryptographically verifies each NFT owner’s rights to display the Art for their Purchased NFT(s) to ensure that only the actual owner can display the Art; or (iii) as part of a third party website or application that permits the inclusion, involvement, or participation of your NFTs, provided that the website/application cryptographically verifies each NFT owner’s rights to display the Art for their Purchased NFT(s) to ensure that only the actual owner can display the Art, and provided that the Art is no longer visible once the owner of the purchased NFT leaves the website/application.
C. Commercial Use. Subject to Purchaser’s continued compliance with the terms of this License Agreement, Space Club grants you an unlimited, worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use, copy, and display the Art for your Purchased NFT(s) for the purpose of commercializing your own merchandise that includes, contains, or consists of the Art for your Purchased NFT(s) (“Commercial Use”). For the sake of clarity, nothing in this section will be deemed to restrict you from (i) owning or operating a marketplace that permits the use and sale of NFTs generally, provided that the marketplace cryptographically verifies each NFT owner’s rights to display the Art for their purchased NFTs to ensure that only the actual owner can display the Art; (ii) owning or operating a third party website or application that permits the inclusion, involvement, or participation of NFTs generally, provided that the third party website or application cryptographically verifies each NFT owner’s rights to display the Art for their Purchased NFTs to ensure that only the actual owner can display the Art, and provided that the Art is no longer visible once the owner of the purchased NFT leaves the website/application.
D. Limits on Use. The license granted applies only to the extent that the Purchaser continues to own the applicable Purchased NFT(s). If at any time the Purchaser sells, trades, donates, gives away, transfers, or otherwise disposes of the Purchased NFT(s) for any reason, the license granted in this section will immediately expire with respect to those Purchased NFT(s) without the requirement of notice, and the Purchaser will have no further rights in or to the Art for those NFT(s).
E. Sales and Transfers. Purchaser shall have the right to sell, transfer, or otherwise dispose of the NFT(s) to a third party purchaser so long as the Purchaser’s rights to the NFT(s) are cryptographically verified at the time of the sale to confirm Purchaser’s status as the then current title owner of the NFT(s). Purchaser shall not misrepresent or make false representations to any third parties or the public at large as to Purchaser’s status as a title owner of the NFT(s) if at any point Purchaser cannot be cryptographically verified as the same.
E. Third Party Application or Website Uses. Purchaser may use or display the NFT(s) as part of a third party website or application that permits the inclusion, involvement, or participation of the NFT(s), provided that the website/application cryptographically verifies each NFT owner’s rights to display the Art for their NFT(s) to ensure that only the actual owner can display the Art, and provided that the Art is no longer visible once the Purchaser of the NFT leaves the website/application.
F. Intellectual Property Restrictions. Purchaser acknowledges and agrees that Space Club owns all trademarks or logos in relation to the NFT(s) and has no right to use such trademarks or logos.
G. Third Party IP. To the extent that any Art or NFT incorporates or embodies intellectual property belonging to a celebrity, athlete, or other public figure (“Third Party IP”) Purchaser understands and acknowledges that Purchaser will not have the rights to use any such Third Party IP except in connection with the license term specifically stated above.
H. Reservation of Additional Restrictions. Space Club reserves the right to make revisions, amendments, alterations, and add restrictions to the license terms stated herein at any time upon its sole and absolute discretion. Space Club may from time to time provide written notice (email) to Purchaser relating to additional restrictions or modifications on the Art or NFT and Purchaser shall be responsible for complying with all such restrictions from the date of receipt of such notice. Purchaser’s failure to do so will be considered a breach of this license agreement.
I. Right to Terminate. SPACE CLUB SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO TERMINATE THIS AGREEMENT AND THE LICENSE AND ALL RIGHTS AND GRANTS AUTHORIZED TO PURCHASER IN THIS AGREEMENT UPON WRITTEN NOTICE (BY EMAIL) TO PURCHASER. All uses of the NFT or Art by Purchaser following termination of the license Purchaser by Space Club shall be considered actionable infringement.
Space Club’s obligations and performance herein may be suspended, delayed, canceled, hampered, impeded, or otherwise impaired due to any force majeure event, including but not limited to fire, earthquake, labor dispute or strike, pandemic, governmental restrictions or controls relating to pandemic circumstances, act of God or public enemy, any municipal ordinance, any state or federal law, governmental order or regulation, or other cause beyond Space Club’s control, death, illness or incapability of any principal member thereof, and under such circumstances, Space Club may postpone, reschedule, terminate, suspend or otherwise take all measures or omissions at Space Club’s discretion.
A. No Infringing Uses. Purchaser warrants and represents that Purchaser’s use of the NFT shall not violate or infringe upon any trademark, trade name, copyright, patent, or any literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, personal, private, civil, contract or property right, right of privacy or publicity moral right of authorship or any other right of any person, firm or entity or constitute unfair competition or libel, slander or defamation of any person, firm or entity.
B. Space Club Information. Purchaser acknowledges that no representations or warranties have been made to Purchaser, or to Purchaser’s advisors or representative, by Space Club or others with respect to the anticipated NFT business, collections, or future projects of Space Club, or the valuation thereof.
C. NFT Valuation. Purchaser acknowledges that the price of the NFT for sale on the Platform was either pursuant to an auction, sale price, or set by Space Club, as applicable, and no warranties are made as to value. Purchaser further acknowledges that future offerings of the NFT may be made at lower valuations, and could result that the Purchaser’s NFT will bear a lower valuation. Purchaser acknowledges that no promises, guarantees or warranties are being made by Space Club to Purchaser that Purchaser’s NFT(s) will appreciate in value in any way.
D. Independent Investigation. Purchaser agrees in purchasing the NFT, Purchaser is relying on its own independent investigation of the NFT and Purchaser is not relying on any oral or written representations or assurances from Space Club or any other person or any representation of Space Club. The Purchaser has such experience in cryptocurrency and NFT acquisition matters that it is capable of evaluating the risk of its purchase of the NFT and in determining the suitability of the purchase of the NFT. Purchaser acknowledges and warrants that the Purchaser understands that the NFT(s) will be purchased with Ethereum and that Space Club has no control over gas fees collected by Ethereum miners and that Space Club has no ability to reverse any Ethereum transaction.
E. Risk. Purchaser understands and acknowledges that purchasing NFTs and the use of cryptocurrencies involves a high degree of risk, including depreciation, devaluation, or possible total loss of the amounts paid, theft by unauthorized third parties, system failures, technical software errors, hacking, cyber security breaches, loss of private key(s), custodial error or Purchaser error, unfavorable regulatory intervention, taxation, and numerous other risks. Purchaser represents that it is able to bear the economic risk of the purchase price paid for the NFT and acknowledges that Purchaser could face a total loss of the amounts paid for the NFT. In making this statement, the Purchaser hereby represents and warrants that the Purchaser has adequate means of providing for the Purchaser’s current needs and contingencies; the Purchaser is able to afford to hold the NFT for an indefinite period and the Purchaser further represents that the Purchaser has such knowledge and experience in cryptocurrency, business, and NFT matters that the Purchaser is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the Purchase of the NFT. Further, the Purchaser represents that it has no present need for liquidity.
F. Resales; Speculative Nature of Purchase. Purchaser represents and warrants to Space Club that Purchaser’s acquisition of the NFT(s) is for personal purposes only and not made with the intention of resale. Purchaser acknowledges, agrees and understands that there may be no resale market available for the NFT and no resale market for the NFT could potentially ever exist. Purchaser acknowledges, agrees and understands that the value of the NFT could erode immediately or over time and could potentially be zero.
G. Tax Liabilities. Purchaser agrees and acknowledges that Purchaser is responsible for all tax liabilities associated with the NFT(s) and agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Space Club against all tax liabilities of Purchaser.
A. Injunctive Relief. Nothing herein or in the subparagraphs above, however, shall limit the ability of Space Club to seek immediate injunctive relief from a court of competent jurisdiction in the event of potential immediate or irreparable injury to Space Club. Purchaser acknowledges that it would be difficult for Space Club to measure actual damages resulting from any breach by Purchaser of this Agreement, and that money damages alone would be an inadequate remedy for any such breach. Accordingly, Purchaser agrees that Space Club will be entitled, in addition to any other remedies it may have, to specific performance, injunctions, or other appropriate orders to correct or restrain any such breach by Purchaser, without showing or proving any actual damage sustained by the Purchaser or posting any bond or other security.
B. Limitation of Damages; Waiver of Purchaser’s Right to Seek Injunctive Relief. Purchaser agrees and understands that Purchaser’s sole remedy for any and all breaches of this Agreement shall consist of damages; under no circumstances may Purchaser seek injunctive relief, a restraining order, a preliminary/permanent injunction, or declaration judgment that would in any way seek or tend to seek the restriction, halting, enjoinment, or other limitation of the development, completion, distribution, and/or commercialization of the NFT(s) Content.
The NFTS ARE SOLD TO PURCHASER AS-IS, WHERE-IS, AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, specifically including warranties that the NFT will meet the requirements, specifications, or needs requested, or demanded by Purchaser.
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A. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Venue. This License Agreement will be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to the conflict of law principles. All disputes hereunder shall be decided in the state and federal courts of New York.
B. Successors and Assigns. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, this Agreement will be binding on, and will inure to the benefit of, the successors and permitted assigns of the parties to this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement is intended to confer upon any party other than the parties hereto or their respective successors and assigns any rights or obligations under or by reason of this Agreement, except as expressly provided in this Agreement.
C. Notices. All notices and other communications required or permitted hereunder will be in writing and will be delivered by hand or sent by overnight courier, fax or e-mail. Each party may furnish an address substituting for the address given above by giving notice to the other parties.
D. Severability. In the event that any provision of this Agreement is held to be unenforceable under applicable law, this Agreement will continue in full force and effect without such provision and will be enforceable in accordance with its terms.
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F. Amendment and Waiver. This Agreement may be amended only by a written agreement executed by the parties hereto and bearing the signatures of both parties. No provision of this Agreement may be waived except by a written document executed by the party entitled to the benefits of the provision. No waiver of a provision will be deemed to be or will constitute a waiver of any other provision of this Agreement. A waiver will be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which it was given, and will not constitute a continuing waiver.
G. Counterparts. This Agreement may be in any number of counterparts, each of which will be deemed an original, but all of which together will constitute one instrument.
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I. Independent Counsel. Purchaser represents that Purchaser has had the opportunity to consult an attorney regarding the terms of this Agreement.