What a larp wallet is

The term covers three different things, and most glossaries describe only the third. Here is the distinction, and where the line falls.

Last updated: 25 September 2026

Three meanings, routinely confused

Search the term and you will find definitions that contradict each other. That is not sloppiness on any one site — the word really is used for three different things, and they have almost nothing in common.

The first is a design artefact. The second is a real wallet and has nothing to do with mockups. The third is not a tool at all — it is a use, and the same image can fall on either side of it depending on how it is presented.

Where the line falls

Inventing the contents of a screen is normal and expected. Every app screenshot on the App Store shows invented data: the names, balances and dates were chosen by a designer, and nobody considers that dishonest. Apple’s own marketing images do it.

It stops being legitimate at a single, identifiable moment: when the image is presented as evidence of something real — a balance someone holds, a return someone made, a product someone shipped. The file is identical on both sides of that line. What changes is the claim attached to it.

Three practical consequences follow, and they are the reason this page exists rather than a definition alone:

• A mockup used in a portfolio, a deck or a store listing is fine, and labelling it costs nothing.
• A mockup used to solicit money — proof of funds, a track record, a screenshot in a sales pitch — is misrepresentation whatever the tool that made it.
• Reproducing another company’s interface, icon or product name breaches App Review guidelines 5.2.1 and 4.1(c), and that is a separate problem from honesty.

What a mockup cannot do

Worth stating plainly, because it is the practical difference between the first sense and the third:

• It cannot sign anything. There is no key, and no key is ever asked for.
• It has no address that resolves on an explorer.
• It produces no transaction, so nothing about it can be independently confirmed — by you or by anyone you show it to.

Anything that claims otherwise is not a mockup.

What we make

My Larp Wallet composes the first sense: a wallet screen you fill in yourself, opened on your own phone and screenshotted there at the phone's own resolution, for a design, a listing or a video. It is not a wallet, holds no funds and connects to no blockchain. That sentence sits under the illustration of every article on this site, and it is not a disclaimer added late. It is what the product is.

Questions

What is a larp wallet?

A crypto wallet interface with no chain behind it: the balances, tokens and history are typed in rather than read from a blockchain, and the output is an image or a video rather than a transaction. Nothing in it can be signed, sent or verified on an explorer.

Is a larp wallet the same as a fake wallet?

Not necessarily. The word is used for three different things: a mockup or prop, a real but separate on-chain wallet used as a privacy persona, and a fabricated screen passed off as evidence. Only the third is deception, and it is a use rather than a tool.

Is making a larp wallet screenshot legal?

Composing an interface and inventing its contents is ordinary design work — every app screenshot on the App Store does it. It stops being legitimate when the image is presented as a record of something real: holdings someone has, a return someone made, a product someone shipped. That is where the line falls, and it is about presentation, not about the file.