A fake crypto portfolio maker, and how to make the numbers add up

First, the line you don’t cross

A fake crypto portfolio is also a common prop in investment scams: gains that never happened, shown to pull people into an “opportunity” or to sell trading signals or a course. So, plainly: this is never for presenting as your real results. Not to sell anything, not to raise money, not to win followers for a signals group, and not to get anyone to send you money or crypto. Shown that way it’s a false claim about your money, and once it sells something it’s fraud, whichever tool drew it. Our acceptable use policy covers the rest, including proof of income for a lender or a landlord.

What it is for: skits, parody, memes, thumbnails, short films, pranks between friends, and a goal you keep on your own phone. A prank has its own conditions. Play it on someone who knows you, reveal it in the same scene, ask nobody for anything while they believe it, and get their consent before you post it. And keep it on the phone: a screenshot of the portfolio sent to someone as if it were your account has no reveal. It’s a fake record, joke or not.

What the portfolio maker is

Pozer’s crypto wallet is a Phantom-style wallet app, called Vault in the editor. We name the resemblance so you can find the kind of screen you need: the design is our own, it has no connection to Phantom, and it carries no Phantom name, logo or artwork. You set the coins, the amounts and the day, publish it, and open it from a link on the phone you film with. Building it, installing it and filming it are free.

It opens on Home. The wallet name sits at the top, over the total in large type, and under the total is the change in money followed by a period word such as Today. Then comes an optional Cash row, then a card for each coin: its name, how much you hold, what that’s worth and its move on the day. Home, Trade and Explore pills run along the top, and each coin opens a page of its own with its price, a chart with six ranges and your position.

Why an app beats a portfolio screenshot

A screenshot lasts until someone touches the glass or tries to scroll. An installed app answers: the list scrolls, every coin opens its page, the + button at the bottom right opens Send, Receive and Trade, and a trade moves the rows and the total. It opens fullscreen from its own icon, with no address bar, and it comes from a link, not an app store. The app vs screenshot comparison covers where each one is the right tool.

When a still really is all you need, for a thumbnail say, the editor has an Export PNG (3x) button. It saves whichever screen the preview is showing, at three times its size and without the phone frame. On the free tier the image carries the same SIMULATED · POZER.COM mark as the app.

Build it, field by field

Open the crypto wallet in the editor. The fields come in sections, all open, with a live preview of the phone beside them; on a phone the preview stays pinned above them. This is the order they come in.

Quick setup

1. App name (home screen), up to 30 characters. It goes under the icon on your home screen, and publishing needs one.
2. App icon (home screen). Upload your own artwork, or skip it and the editor makes a letter tile from the name. A real wallet’s name or logo is against the acceptable use policy.
3. Wallet name, up to 22 characters, is the line over the total inside the app. It starts as Main Vault.
4. Live prices decides who sets the numbers. It starts on; more on it below.
5. Total balance and Change amount only appear once Live prices is off. They are the big number and the line under it.
6. Currency, from a list of ten.

The other sections

• Header: Address, shown in Settings. Headline: Change period, the word after the change (Today, This week, This month or All time). Cash: Show cash and Cash balance. Chart: Trend, the shape the longer chart ranges follow. Theme: Accent and Background.
• Assets is the coins, up to fourteen. Each row has Symbol, Name, Holding, Value, 24h %, Tint and, for a coin the app doesn’t already draw, a Logo. Value and 24h % show when Live prices is off, or for a coin the price feed doesn’t carry.
• Transactions is the history, up to twenty rows of Asset, Type, Amount, From / To and When. It shows under Settings, then History, and on each coin’s page.
• Splash colour comes last: the colour shown while the app opens.

You don’t have to work down the list. As the editor’s tip says, you can tap a figure or a name on the preview to change it there: the wallet name and a coin’s holding, and with Live prices off a coin’s value, the total and the change. The preview moves between screens like the app, but Send, Receive and Trade only run in the published app.

How the total is worked out

With Live prices on, you type holdings and the market sets the rest. Each coin the price feed covers, about two dozen of the largest, is valued at its holding times the market price, with its real 24-hour move. The total is those rows plus cash, and the change is the rows’ moves added up (cash never moves, so it’s left out of the change). A coin the feed doesn’t carry, such as one you invented, keeps the Value and 24h % you typed. Use it for a scene set today, and leave Change period on Today, because the change is always the last 24 hours.

With Live prices off, every figure is the one you typed, the total included. The app doesn’t add the rows up: Total balance and Change amount show whatever is in them, so you do the sums. Use it when the script names a figure, when several takes have to match, or for a red day the market won’t give you.

Total balance = the rows’ values + cash
Change amount = the rows’ moves added up
A row’s move = Value × 24h % ÷ (100 + 24h %)

A row’s move is the one figure the app still works out, printed under the coin’s value on Home. The percentage is measured from yesterday’s value, hence the 100 plus the percentage: a coin worth $4,389.00 that is up 4.5% was worth $4,200.00 yesterday, so its card reads +$189.00. The coin’s own page does the same sum on its price, which is Value divided by Holding.

Currency

Each of the ten currencies is written the way its own apps write it: rupiah with dots and no cents, rupees in lakhs. With Live prices on, the feed’s dollar prices are converted at a fixed, approximate rate, and cash is typed in the wallet’s own currency. With Live prices off nothing is converted: switching currency changes the symbol, and you retype the figures in the new currency.

A worked example

Here is a portfolio in the low tens of thousands, built with Live prices off and Show cash off. Each Value is the holding times a price: Bitcoin at $79,500, Ether at $2,480 and Solana at $104.50. Those prices are only for the example. Use the ones on the day you film.

• BTC: Holding 0.204, Value 16218, 24h % 2. Its card reads $16,218.00 and +$318.00.
• ETH: Holding 3.15, Value 7812, 24h % -0.8. Its card reads $7,812.00 and −$63.00, in red.
• SOL: Holding 42, Value 4389, 24h % 4.5. Its card reads $4,389.00 and +$189.00.
• USDC: Holding 1850, Value 1850, 24h % 0. Its card reads $1,850.00 and $0.00, in grey.

The rows add up to $30,269.00 and their moves to +$444.00, so those are the two typed figures: Total balance 30269 and Change amount 444, with Change period on Today. A viewer who pauses and adds up the cards gets the same two numbers.

Holdings like 0.204 and 3.15 look bought over time; 0.2 and 3 look typed. One coin in the red keeps the day from looking wished for, and the stablecoin sits at exactly a dollar with no move, which is what anyone who holds one expects.

Making it believable on camera

The example takes care of the arithmetic. A viewer who holds crypto checks a few more things.

• Prices they know. A coin’s page prints its price in large type and a market cap worked out from it. Put Bitcoin at a price nobody has seen and both give it away.
• A history that fits. The default Transactions list includes a DOGE swap. If your portfolio holds no DOGE, rewrite or delete that row: each coin’s page lists its own history.
• A take that moved. Send, Receive and Trade move the rows, and with Live prices off the typed total moves with them (a trade costs a 0.3% spread, so it dips a little). The typed change line stays put, so after a trade the cards no longer add up to it. Reset before the next take.

The full list of checks is in showing a crypto balance on camera. For the reveal scene itself (the setup, the hold on the number, the cut to the list), the portfolio reveal guide covers the pacing on the exchange app, and the wallet prank guide covers a prank played with this wallet.

Install it and film it

1. Tap Create home-screen app. The first time, it asks for your email and sends a six-digit code; type it in and the app goes live, with its link and a QR code.
2. Open the link on the phone you’ll film with. On iPhone, in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen; on Android, in Chrome, tap ⋮, then Install app.
3. Open it from the home screen rather than a browser tab, so there’s no address bar in the shot, and turn on Do Not Disturb.

• Your Edit button stays out of the shot. The installed app hides it while you film. Hold two fingers still on the screen for a moment and it comes back for five seconds; one finger never brings it up. On iPhone the installed app keeps its own sign-in, so the first two-finger hold asks you to sign in.
• Reset between takes. Whatever happens in the app is saved on that phone and is still there after you close it. Bring up Edit and tap Reset to published values to put every figure back.
• Know what the free tier shows. Free apps carry SIMULATED · POZER.COM in small print under the balance and its change, and on the other screens and sheets. In a skit it tells the audience what they’re looking at, and in a prank, pointing at it is the quickest reveal there is. Pro at US$4.99/wk or US$12.99/mo removes it.

An exchange or a stock portfolio instead

If the scene is about trading, two other apps carry a portfolio, and in both the total is worked out for you rather than typed, with live prices or without. Both are original designs, with no connection to Binance or Robinhood and no name, logo or artwork of either.

• The Binance-style exchange, called Bourse in the editor. Its headline, Est. Total Value, is your coins at their prices plus the futures wallet and its positions’ open profit, with Today’s PNL under it. Each futures position has a share card; the PnL card guide covers it.
• The Robinhood-style stock app, called Ticker, for stocks. The total is each position’s shares times its price, plus any options and your buying power, with prices live from the market or typed.

A goal on your own phone

Some people keep the portfolio they’re working toward on their own phone and open it as if it’s already theirs, a vision board in the shape of an app. That’s fine as long as it stays yours to look at; the money vision board guide shows how to set one up.