Larp wallet tutorial: five steps, and the four mistakes that give a clip away

Most wallet clips fail for reasons decided before anyone pressed record: an address bar in frame, a total that does not match its rows, round numbers nobody holds, and a still image where movement was needed. Five steps, each one fixing one of those, and the labelling rule at the end that is not optional.

Published: 14 November 2026

What you are actually making

A prop, and treating it as one from the first minute saves the three hours people lose trying to make a picture do something a picture cannot do.

It holds nothing, it reaches no chain, and it proves nothing about anybody. Its only job is to be believable for the few seconds it is on screen. Everything below is about those seconds.

Step 1. Plan the screen from the script, not the other way round

Write the line the screen has to support, then decide what it shows. People do this backwards: they compose something impressive, then try to find a sentence that fits it, and end up narrating the screen instead of using it.

Three questions settle the shot:

• One number, or a list? A single large total and a list that somebody will pause on are different compositions and fail differently.
• Still or moving? If it is still, any drawing tool will do. If it moves, nothing drawn will survive.
• Could a viewer read it as a claim about you? That answer decides the labelling at step five, and it is easier to decide now.

Step 2. Compose it so the arithmetic holds

Set the quantities first and let the total follow. Starting from a round total and working backwards produces quantities that look reverse-engineered, because they are.

Three details carry most of the credibility:

1. Nothing round. Real holdings are the residue of transactions. Nobody owns exactly 10 of anything.
2. Mixed sizes. One large position, two medium, one small. A flat list reads as generated.
3. At least one red percentage. A portfolio where everything is up on the same day is a portfolio nobody believes.

Let the prices come from the market rather than inventing them. An asset sitting at a figure anyone can check against an exchange survives the kind of viewer who checks, and that is the only kind whose opinion travels.

Step 3. Open it full screen

Add the page to your home screen from Safari or Chrome, then launch it from that icon. It opens without an address bar, without a toolbar, filling the screen.

Launched from the browser instead, the bar stays in shot, and an address bar in a wallet clip is the single most common giveaway in footage that is otherwise careful. It costs one minute to avoid and no amount of editing fixes it afterwards.

Step 4. Record the screen, not the phone

• Use the screen recorder. A camera pointed at a display picks up a moire pattern, whatever is reflected behind you, and an autofocus that hunts at the worst possible second.
• Vertical, at native resolution. Resizing afterwards softens every edge, and a wallet screen is almost entirely edges.
• Let it move. Scroll once. Open something. Let a price drift. Three seconds of motion does more than an hour of styling.
• Watch it back on a phone. What is invisible at desk size is obvious at thumb size, and thumb size is where it will be seen.

Step 5. Label it, in the frame

Where the clip could be read as a claim about your own money, the word has to be inside the picture. Captions do not survive a reupload, a stitch or a screenshot, and those are the forms in which a clip usually reaches the person who will misread it.

In an obvious sketch, the frame already does that work and you can relax. In anything that looks like a personal statement about money, it does not.

And the rule that has no exception: never beside a request. A balance screen attached to an ask for money, an investment, a loan or trust is the shape of a fraud whatever you meant by it.

The tool we make

Flexdger Wallet composes a hardware wallet app screen from the assets and amounts you set, with market prices that keep moving, and adds to your home screen so it opens full screen. You can open the interface without an account.