Farming is how 75% of all ACTR ever created reaches the public: a fixed, three-year emission stream paid to people who provide HTT/HEX liquidity and deposit it in the protocol’s farm contract. This guide walks the whole path — from holding HEX and HTTs to harvesting ACTR.
A correction, for the record: an earlier version of this guide described single-sided HTT staking, an ACTR/WPLS farm, and per-token “multipliers.” None of those exist in the deployed protocol, and this rewrite is checked line-by-line against the official documentation.
What Farming Actually Is
Actuator’s farm is a MasterChef-style contract (modeled on PulseX’s own) holding five pools, chosen at deployment and unchangeable — there are no admin keys to add, remove, or reweight them outside the hardcoded schedule. Each pool accepts exactly one asset: the PulseX V2 liquidity-pool token (PLP) for that series’ HTT/HEX pair.
That sentence carries the whole rule, so to say it plainly:
- You cannot deposit HTTs by themselves.
- You cannot deposit ACTR, or an ACTR pair.
- You can deposit the PLP token you receive for providing HTT/HEX liquidity on PulseX.
The Five Farms and Their Weights
Since October 9, 2025 (Year 2 of the schedule), 250M ACTR per year streams to the farms in these fixed shares:
| Farm | Share of emissions |
|---|---|
| HTT-3000 / HEX | 10% |
| HTT-4000 / HEX | 15% |
| HTT-5000 / HEX | 20% |
| HTT-6000 / HEX | 25% |
| HTT-7000 / HEX | 30% |
Longer maturities carry heavier weights on purpose — the docs describe it as working “like Longer Pays Better.” Live APRs for every farm are computed daily on the farm & vault yields page.
The schedule turns on October 9, 2026: Year 3 cuts the stream to 150M/year, retires the HTT-3000 farm, and adds an HTT-8000 farm at 30%. The mechanics of that switch — including why the weight rotation waits for a public transaction — are on the farm switch page.
Step by Step
- Hold both sides of the pair. You need HEX and the HTT of the series you want to farm — mint HTTs against a stake, or buy them on PulseX.
- Provide liquidity on PulseX. Add HEX and the HTT to that series’ V2 pair in equal value. PulseX gives you PLP tokens representing your share of the pool (and your share of its 0.29% swap fees).
- Deposit the PLP in the matching farm. Open the official app at app.actuator.finance — farming lives in its Earn section. Deposit the PLP token into the farm for the same series.
- Harvest when you like. ACTR accrues continuously by pool weight. There is no lock-up and no penalty: harvest, add more, or withdraw your PLP at any time. Withdrawing from the farm does not remove your PulseX liquidity — that is a separate second step on PulseX itself.
What You Are Earning
ACTR is the protocol’s revenue-sharing token: 1% of every HTT mint flows to ACTR vault stakers. It is not a governance token — the contracts are immutable, so there is nothing for holders to vote on.
Which leads to the natural next question: what to do with farmed ACTR. Compounding in Actuator means vaulting, not re-farming — deposit earned ACTR in an ACTR Vault (90-day lock) to earn HTT minting fees. There is no mechanism for staking ACTR back into a farm.
What to Weigh Before Farming
Providing liquidity means holding both HEX and the HTT, and your PLP position shifts between them as their ratio moves — the classic LP trade-off. HTT/HEX pairs are gentler than most: an HTT converges toward 1 HEX as its day approaches, so the two sides are correlated rather than independent. The farm ACTR and the 0.29% swap-fee share are the compensation; whether they cover the trade-off at today’s prices is exactly what the live yields page computes, honestly, every day.