Cryptomaxx: the fictional crypto wallet
By Larpmaxx teamUpdated
Cryptomaxx is Larpmaxx's fictional crypto wallet: you set the balances and tokens yourself, and nothing in it touches a real blockchain.
It is a prop, and it is built like one. Every number on the screen is a number you typed.
What Cryptomaxx is
A single screen that looks like a wallet home. At the top sits an avatar emoji, an @username and a wallet name. Under that, a large total balance in dollars, worked out from the token amounts you entered, with a dollar change and a colored percentage badge beside it. Then four action tiles, an optional Cash Balance card with its own Add Cash button, a token list, and a bottom navigation bar. Pull the screen down and it runs a refresh.
Of those four tiles, one is wired up: Buy opens the settings sheet. The other three do nothing when tapped, as do the bottom bar and the header icons. They exist so the screen reads as an app, not so you can navigate.
Token prices come from a fixed table inside the app. Pull-to-refresh nudges them by a small random amount so the figures visibly move, and the settings sheet says outright that each refresh varies by about a tenth of a percent either side of your baseline. There is no feed, no quote and no chain behind any of it.
Your setup saves to your account and to the browser on the device, so the wallet looks the way you left it. It installs to the home screen as a web app and launches full-screen from an icon.
What you control
Everything configurable lives in one settings sheet. Here is the whole of it.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Avatar emoji | The single emoji in the round badge at the top left. |
| Wallet name | The bold line in the header. |
| Username | The smaller @handle above it. |
| Direction toggle | Whether the day reads as up or down. |
| Base change | The percentage every token moves by, which drives the headline badge. |
| Simulate notch | Switches between a tall navigation bar with a dynamic island and a flat device. |
| Show cash balance | Shows or hides the Cash Balance card and its Add Cash button. |
| Active tokens | Which tokens appear, how much of each, and their order. Drag to move a row. |
| Available tokens | Tap the plus to promote one into the active list. |
Two honest notes. There is no theme picker: the wallet has one look. And the total is arithmetic rather than a field, so a particular headline figure is reached by setting token amounts until it lands there.
What people use it for
Mostly filming. A wallet screen establishes a character in two seconds of footage, which is why it turns up so often in larpmaxxing content: the viewer reads the numbers before the caption. Setting the direction toggle to red and the base change to something painful is its own genre.
The other common use is a bit among friends who already know. Passing your phone across a table is funny precisely because everyone present knows what it is. The step-by-step guide covers building the character the screen belongs to, and Notimaxx does the ambient version of the same trick with notifications instead of a screenshot.
Now the line, stated plainly, because it is the whole basis on which this exists. Cryptomaxx is for entertainment only, and it is never proof of anything, to anyone. Do not show it to a landlord, a lender, an investor or a partner as evidence that you hold money. Do not send it to somebody waiting on a payment. Do not present it as any real company, exchange or bank. Using a fictional screen to obtain money, trust or access from a person who does not know it is fiction is fraud in most places, and calling it a bit does not change that. A performance for an audience that is in on it is theater. The same screen shown to one person as evidence is something else.
Pricing
Cryptomaxx is part of the Larpmaxx pack rather than a separate purchase, so one plan covers it and everything else in the account. The cards list three tiers:
- Starter, $20 / week
- Premier, $50 / month
- Lifetime, $100 one-time
The full breakdown of what sits in each tier, and the checkout itself, are on the plans page.
Questions people ask
Is there any real money in it?
None. The app holds nothing, connects to nothing and cannot move anything. The balances are numbers in a settings form.
Do the prices update live?
No. Pulling down applies a small random wobble to the fixed prices, which is enough to look alive on camera. It is not a market feed.
Which tokens can I add?
A fixed set ships with the app. You choose which are active, set an amount for each, and drag them into whatever order you want. You cannot add your own.
Why do Send, Swap and Receive not work?
Because there is nothing for them to do. Nothing can be sent, swapped or received, so the tiles are left as scenery rather than wired to a pretend flow.
Does it work like a normal app on my phone?
Add it to your home screen and it opens from an icon with no address bar. Settings are saved to the account as well as the device, so a new phone picks up the same wallet once you sign in.
Can I post a screenshot of it?
Post it as part of a bit, yes. Present it as your actual holdings to someone making a decision about you, no. The test is simple: would you be comfortable if the person looking at it knew exactly how it was made?