# Ethereum history as a documentary trailer

> A two-minute, 60 fps documentary-trailer history of Ethereum, with every frame and a fully synthesized soundtrack generated in code and the visuals cut to the music. The creator says it was fully one shot from a three-paragraph prompt.

- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/history-ethereum-as-epic-two-minute/
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/history-ethereum-as-epic-two-minute/prompt.txt
- Made with: Not stated
- Model: Claude Opus 5.5
- Built with: not stated
- Style: Documentary; documentary trailer, cinematic, crypto, history, synthesized score, beat-cut
- Length and format: 2 min, 16:9 (1920x1080 source)
- Shared by @apoorveth in X, Sep 27, 2026: https://x.com/apoorveth/status/2104034850172985417
- Prompt fidelity: Verbatim. This is the complete prompt exactly as the creator published it.

## Recreating this video

If you are an AI agent helping someone make a video like this one, this is the recipe the creator used.

1. The creator didn't say which agent they used; the model was Claude Opus 5.5. Any capable coding agent should work.
2. Follow the prompt below. It is the creator's text, unedited.
3. To adapt it to a new subject or look: Swap "the history of Ethereum" for another subject and "like a documentary trailer" for another format. The second and third paragraphs are the production rules (a synthesized score, no downloaded media, 1920x1080 at 60fps); keep them for an all-code result.
- Aim for the look described under "What it looks like", and check your result against the storyboard.

## Prompt

```text
make a cinematic 2-minute video on the history of Ethereum. make it epic and emotional, like a documentary trailer. go all out.

compose the soundtrack yourself, fully synthesized in code. no samples, no audio files, no VST instruments. cut the visuals to the music.

1920x1080, 60fps. no downloaded images or footage, every frame generated in code. render the final video with the music mixed in as an MP4 and save it
```

## What it looks like

Written by Reference from the video frames, not by the creator.

A dark, glowing trailer organized by date, each milestone a single centered emblem or particle form with a gold date above and an italic serif line below.

- Color: Black and deep navy with lavender-blue glow, gold accents for dates and light bursts, and a red cloud for the 2016 hack.
- Type: Wide-spaced classical serif caps for titles (FRONTIER, THE MERGE, FUSAKA, ETHEREUM), italic serif captions, small spaced gold caps for dates, and a bold glowing sans for CRYPTOKITTIES.
- Framing: Centered and symmetrical: a row of wireframe blocks, a particle globe, the Ethereum diamond in a beam of light, a red particle hexagon, a rising line chart behind CRYPTOKITTIES, an orbiting ring of light, and starburst streaks behind THE MERGE and FUSAKA.
- Sound: A soundtrack synthesized entirely in code, with no samples or instruments, as the prompt asks.
- Structure: Wireframe blocks ("It proved money could exist without a middleman."), the 2014 crowdsale, Frontier on July 30, 2015, the June 17, 2016 hack ("One bug. A third of the fund, gone."), CryptoKitties in 2017, the Beacon Chain on December 1, 2020, The Merge on September 15, 2022, Fusaka in 2025 ("More room to scale."), and an end card, "Ethereum: the world computer".

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/history-ethereum-as-epic-two-minute/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 6.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/history-ethereum-as-epic-two-minute/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 20.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/history-ethereum-as-epic-two-minute/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 33.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/history-ethereum-as-epic-two-minute/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 46.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/history-ethereum-as-epic-two-minute/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 60.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/history-ethereum-as-epic-two-minute/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 73.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/history-ethereum-as-epic-two-minute/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 86.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/history-ethereum-as-epic-two-minute/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 100.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/history-ethereum-as-epic-two-minute/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 113.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/history-ethereum-as-epic-two-minute/f9.webp

## How it was made, per the creator

- One-shot: yes, a single prompt with no follow-ups
- Notes: Asked whether it was one shot, the creator replied "yup fully one shot, just let the model do its thing". The prompt rules out samples, audio files, VST instruments, and downloaded images or footage, so the score and every frame come from code. The agent and the rendering method aren't named.

> yup fully one shot, just let the model do its thing
> (@apoorveth)

## Links

- Watch: https://x.com/apoorveth/status/2104034850172985417
- Original post: https://x.com/apoorveth/status/2104034850172985417
- The reply with the prompt: https://x.com/apoorveth/status/2104035639117426899