How to film a crypto portfolio reveal scene

First, the line you don’t cross

Portfolio reveals are a real genre: someone opens their exchange and shows what they hold. Made with a prop, a reveal is fiction, and it has to stay fiction. A reveal inside a skit, a parody of the format or a short film is creative work. A reveal presented as your own portfolio is a claim about your money, and a false one — and once it sells anything, whether a course, a signal group, a referral link or your standing as a trader, it’s fraud. Presenting simulated results as real is prohibited under our acceptable use policy, and accounts that do it are closed. If the video says it’s your real portfolio, this is the wrong tool.

Decide what the reveal says

A reveal is a punchline, so write it first. The balance that changes everything, the one that’s gone, the character who’s rich in a coin nobody else has heard of, the friend whose “portfolio” is mostly stablecoins — each needs different numbers, and viewers read all of them: the headline, the day’s move and the coins underneath.

Then choose what the headline is counted in. Value shown in quotes the balance in BTC, ETH, BNB, SOL, USDT or fiat, and the same account lands two very different ways:

Quoted in BTC, the big number is small, precise and a little opaque — right for a character who talks in coins, or a joke that lands when someone does the conversion out loud. In fiat, the number is the joke. Either way the fiat value sits on the line underneath for anyone who pauses, and the same account reads 174.25725806 in ETH or 432,158.00 in USDT, which quotes to two decimals rather than eight.

Set the number with amounts, not a total

You never type the balance. It’s each coin’s amount times its price, added up, so you reach the number you want by changing amounts. With live prices off, the defaults — 2.84 BTC, 41.2 ETH, 620 SOL, 34 BNB and 18,400 USDT — come to $432,158.00. Halve the Bitcoin to 1.42 and the total falls by 1.42 × 79,500 to $319,268.00. Quoted in BTC, the headline drops from 5.43594969 to 4.01594969: exactly the 1.42 you took away.

With live prices on, the amounts are yours but the prices aren’t. The total is whatever the market makes it when you film, and it moves about once a minute. That’s fine for a reveal where the size is what matters. If the script names a figure, turn Live prices off and type the prices too.

Currency changes the size of the number, not what it’s worth. Fiat can be US dollars, euros or rupiah, converted at a fixed rate: the default account is €397,585.36 in euros and Rp7,044,175,400 in rupiah, where the cents are dropped because nobody quotes them above a million.

When the unit is a coin they don’t hold

A character can have their balance quoted in a coin they don’t own. The app prices it from the market board instead, so a portfolio with no SOL in it can still read in SOL. Take that coin off the board as well and there is nothing left to price it with, so the headline falls back to fiat and its label says so rather than pretending.

Make Today’s PNL fit the story

Under the balance, Today’s PNL is worked out from each coin’s value and its move over 24 hours. You don’t set it directly, which is what keeps it agreeing with everything else on screen. With live prices on it’s the real market’s day, green or red, and you get whichever the market gives you. With them off, you set each coin’s 24h % yourself.

The defaults come to +$8,917.40, or +2.11%. For a reveal that goes wrong, move the big holdings down: BTC −6.5%, ETH −8.2%, SOL −11.4% and BNB −4.1% turn the same account’s day into −$34,057.50, or −7.31%, in red. Leave the stablecoin at 0%. A dollar-pegged coin that moved five percent is its own joke, and probably not the one you meant.

A swap is not a win

A character who converts one coin into another to “lock in” a gain changes what the account holds, not what it’s worth. The rate carries a 0.1% spread, so the total dips slightly after the swap: converting 0.5 BTC at the default typed prices takes $432,158.00 to $432,118.25. That $39.75 is a punchline if you want one, and a continuity note if you don’t.

Make the coins look like somebody’s

After the headline, a viewer who pauses goes to the list. The Assets tab shows every holding in the order you entered it, with its price and move on the day on the left and the amount and value on the right, so every row has to make sense for the character:

• Amounts with some history in them. 2.84 BTC looks bought over time; 3 BTC looks typed.
• A mix that fits the person. A cautious character holds mostly Bitcoin and a stablecoin. A meme-coin character holds one coin nobody has heard of, with its own uploaded logo, and very little else.
• A stablecoin balance if they’re meant to trade. It’s what the Trade screen spends, and the ticket’s Avbl line shows it.
• Up to twelve rows. More than a screen’s worth means the list scrolls, which is fine if the scroll is part of the shot.

Account, beside Crypto on the same screen, puts the whole balance under Spot and zero against Earn, Funding, Futures and Trading Bots. A glance at it is a quick second angle on the same number.

Pace the beat

Most reveals run in four beats, and the app has a natural place for each:

1. The setup. The character says what they expect to see. Keep the phone out of shot, or face down on the table.
2. The open. A thumb taps the icon on the home screen. The app always opens on Home with the balance at the top, and the icon carries the name you gave your venue.
3. The hold. Stay on the number longer than feels natural. Eight decimals take a moment to read, and viewers will pause on it anyway.
4. The follow-up. Assets, for the list of what makes up the number, or Account for the one-line version.

Film the reveal

• Stage the hide with the camera. The eye beside the balance on the Assets screen is drawn but doesn’t blur anything, so start the shot off the screen, behind a thumb, or cut in from a wide shot.
• Reveal where the number is biggest. Home and Assets carry the balance in the same large type; Assets adds the list for the follow-up shot.
• Change the unit between takes, not during one. The ▾ beside the number doesn’t open anything. The unit is set in the editor, or on the phone through Edit, which two fingers held on the screen bring up.
• Use the refresh as a beat. A pull-down on the home screen spins a refresh indicator for a moment before the number settles, which reads as “let me check”.
• Plan around the mark. On a free app, SIMULATED · POZER.COM sits across the balance itself and will be in the reveal. Pro at US$12.99/mo removes it.

The reveal runs on the Binance-style exchange template. For the scene around it — the buy that went wrong, the swap before the crash — see how to film a crypto exchange scene.