How to show a crypto balance on camera without it looking fake

First, the line: a prop, not proof

This guide is about a prop holding up in a scene the audience knows is a scene — a skit, a parody, a short film. Realism is for the scene. Shown to anyone as your own balance — to sell a course or a signal group, to raise money, or as evidence of income for a loan, a lease or a visa — the same screen is prohibited however convincing it looks, and the accounts behind it are closed. The details are in our acceptable use policy.

Decide who sets the numbers

Pozer’s crypto wallet has one switch that decides how everything else behaves: Live prices, in the Headline group of the editor. It’s on by default.

Live prices on: you type holdings, the market sets values

Each token the price feed covers is valued at your holding times its current market price, with its real 24-hour move. The total is those rows plus your cash, and the change under it is the tokens’ moves over the day, added up — each card prints its own share, so the cards sum to the headline to within a cent of rounding, and cash is left out because cash doesn’t move. You never type a dollar value for ETH or SOL; you type 24.8 or 412.5 and the market does the rest. The feed covers about two dozen of the largest coins. A token it doesn’t carry keeps the value and 24h % you typed, and still counts in the total.

Live prices off: every figure is typed, the total included

Switch it off and two fields appear beside it in the Headline group, Total balance and Change amount; every token gains Value and 24h % fields; and every figure on screen becomes exactly what you typed — including the headline, which the app does not add up from the rows. The defaults show the trap. The seven token rows come to $264,820 and cash to $2,480.35, but the headline, being its own field, reads $184,920.55. The change has the same problem: +$20,380.00 Today sits over rows whose own moves add up to $10,450.80.

So with live prices off, do the addition yourself: set Total balance to the rows plus cash, and Change amount to the rows’ moves added together. Each row’s move is the figure printed under the value on its card: the day’s change in money, which the app works out from the value and the 24h %.

Which to use

• Live on when the scene is set today and your viewers might know today’s prices: a reaction, a POV, anything topical.
• Live off when the scene needs a particular kind of day — a crash, a euphoric top, a date in the past — or when several takes have to match.
• Live off when euro or rupiah figures have to match a particular exchange rate: live ones are converted at a fixed, approximate rate, explained further down.

The numbers a crypto audience checks

Viewers who hold crypto read a wallet differently from everyone else. These are the things they check, roughly in the order they check them.

The price of something they own

Open a token and its price is the largest figure on the page. With live prices on it’s the market price, even for a coin you hold none of. With them off it’s the value you typed divided by the holding, which is easy to lose track of: the default 24.8 ETH at $92,400 puts Ethereum at $3,725.81, whatever it trades at on the day you film. When you type values by hand, work backwards from today’s price — holding × price = value — for every coin a viewer might know.

The market cap

The Market card on each token’s page gives the market cap as the price on screen multiplied by a stored figure for the coin’s circulating supply, and the bar along the bottom of the page repeats it. Because it follows the price, it’s a quick check on a typed one: put Bitcoin at $500,000 and the card reads $9.9T, a figure anyone who follows the market will stop on. The 24h Volume on the same card is worked out from the market cap rather than taken from the market, so treat it as set dressing, not a figure to quote.

The app keeps a supply figure for every coin the price feed covers, plus UNI. Any other coin — one you’ve invented, or a real one you add by hand — has none, so its market cap and volume show a dash rather than an invented number. That’s right for a coin nobody has heard of and a tell for a famous one, so check the Market card of any real coin you add yourself.

Stablecoins

A dollar stablecoin should read a dollar and barely move. The default USDC row does: 5,420 USDC worth $5,420, with a 0% move. With live prices on it follows the market, which keeps it within a whisker of $1. If you type it, keep the value equal to the holding and the 24h % at zero — a stablecoin up 6% on the day is about the fastest tell there is.

Holdings that look accumulated

Real holdings are built from buys at different times and prices, so they rarely land on round numbers: 0.412 BTC, not 1.000. Each token card prints its holding under the name, so a column of round quantities reads as typed even when the values beside them are live. With live prices off, also give at least one row a negative 24h %; a wallet where every coin is up on the same day reads as wishful.

Colours that agree

The home screen shows the change in money, with no percentage, followed by the period word. With live prices on, that figure is the 24-hour move, so leave Change period on Today; the same number labelled This month is a contradiction viewers notice. On a token’s page, the LIVE and 1D charts are drawn in the colour of the 24-hour figure above them and lean the same way, so a red line never sits under a green gain.

The network under the name

Your Positions names the network beside the symbol — BTC on Bitcoin, LINK on Ethereum, USDC on Solana — and the Market card repeats it. Only tokens issued on another chain, like LINK and USDC, show a contract address under View all, in that chain’s own format; Bitcoin and Ether have none, which is right. The address is generated for the screen and is not the token’s real contract. A coin the app has no record of is shown as a token on Solana, with an address in Solana’s format — fine for an invented meme coin, wrong for a real coin that lives elsewhere.

Euros and rupiah

The price feed quotes US dollars. Set the Currency control to EUR € or IDR Rp and live values are converted, so a rupiah wallet runs into the billions the way it should. The rate is fixed and approximate rather than today’s, so the figures land at the right size without matching a bank to the cent. Cash, and any coin the feed doesn’t carry, you type in the wallet’s own currency; with live prices off, you type everything in it. The headline steps down in size for long figures, which rupiah totals usually are.

Continuity between takes

Live prices refresh about once a minute, and pulling down on the home screen checks again, with a spinner while it does. Within one take that’s exactly what you want. Across several it’s a continuity problem: cut take one against take three and the total jumps. When shots have to match, note the figures, turn live prices off and type them in.

Two more things carry over between takes. Anything you do in the app — a send, a trade, added cash — stays on that phone until you reset it with Reset to published values, behind the owner-only Edit button, or publish a change, which takes the place of the take when the phone picks up the new version. And the charts move with the market too: for a coin the feed covers, LIVE, 1D and 1W are shaped from its real price over the past week, while 1M, 1Y and ALL come from the Trend curve in the editor’s Chart group, which stays where you drew it.

Moves to check before you roll

• Asking for more than a row holds. A send or a trade takes what’s there and no more, and the receipt and the history show what actually moved. A slip of 240 for 24 empties the row rather than failing, so read the receipt’s headline before you hold on it.
• Acting on a row that’s already empty. Nothing moves, and the receipt says so: NOT SENT or NOT SWAPPED, with a dash where the tick would be.
• Looking for Add Cash in the history. It moves the Cash row and the total, but only sends, receives and trades are written into the history.

On the day

• Refresh before you roll. Pull down on the home screen once, with the token list scrolled to its top, so the first frame carries the latest prices.
• Go to the token the scene is about. Its price is the largest thing on that page, which is what a close-up needs.
• Use the ranges as a beat. A token’s page first opens on LIVE, which is nearly flat, because minutes of a real chart barely move. ALL shows the big swings. Tapping from one to the other changes the story the chart tells.

When the numbers hold up, the crypto wallet template shows the whole app, what each screen does on camera and how to install it, and opens it in the editor in one tap.