The October 9 Farm Switch
At 00:00 UTC on October 9, 2026, Actuator's farms enter their third and final emission year. Two things change at once: the yearly ACTR flow to farmers steps down from 250M to 150M, and the pool weights rotate one rung — HTT-3000's farming rewards end, every other pool moves down a step, and HTT-8000 starts farming at the top weight. Both changes were fixed in the farm contract on deployment day; nobody can move, cancel, or reschedule them.
Two Mechanisms, One Date
The emission step-down is pure clock. The farm contract computes rewards from a three-year schedule (350M → 250M → 150M) measured in exact 365-day years from its start time — the moment the clock crosses the boundary, every new second pays at the 150M rate. No transaction is needed and none can change it.
The weight rotation is a scheduled transaction anyone can send. The new weights were written into the contract at deployment, and the first call to its public massUpdatePools() function after the boundary applies them. Before changing any weight, that call first banks every pool's rewards accrued up to that moment — so nothing earned is lost in the handover. Last year's rotation shows how quickly this happens in practice: it executed at 00:01:15 UTC on October 9, 2025 — 75 seconds after midnight.
What It Means for Each Pool
A pool's reward rate is its share of the year's emissions. Because the shares shift down a rung and the yearly pool shrinks, every continuing farm's rate falls — the table shows the combined effect if nothing else moved. In reality LP will migrate toward the new weights, so the live APRs on Farm & Vault Yields are the numbers to watch as the date approaches.
| Pool | Share through Oct 8 | Share from Oct 9 | Reward Rate, All Else Equal |
|---|---|---|---|
| HTT-3000 | 10% | 0% | ends |
| HTT-4000 | 15% | 10% | ×0.40 (60% lower) |
| HTT-5000 | 20% | 15% | ×0.45 (55% lower) |
| HTT-6000 | 25% | 20% | ×0.48 (52% lower) |
| HTT-7000 | 30% | 25% | ×0.50 (50% lower) |
| HTT-8000 | — | 30% | new — first rewards |
If You Farm HTT-3000
The boundary retires the HTT-3000 farm’s reward share — but not by itself. As the Two Mechanisms section above explains, the weight rotation waits for the first public massUpdatePools() call after October 9: until someone sends that transaction, the farm keeps its Year-2 share of the reduced 150M/year stream, and from that call onward it earns no new ACTR. Your LP tokens stay yours either way: they can be withdrawn at any time with no penalty, ACTR already earned remains claimable, and the LP itself keeps collecting PulseX swap fees inside the pair whether it sits in the farm or in your wallet. What ends is only the ACTR stream on top.
The Switch After This One Is the Last
The schedule has three years and no fourth. On October 9, 2027 farm emissions end entirely — the farms stop paying ACTR, and the 75% of supply reserved for farmers will have been fully streamed. Swap fees inside the pairs continue for as long as people trade; only the emission stream stops.
October 9 Farm Switch Questions
When exactly does the October 9 farm switch happen?
The emission step-down (250M to 150M ACTR per year) is exact: 00:00 UTC on October 9, 2026, measured as 730 days from the farm contract’s start. The weight rotation applies with the first massUpdatePools() transaction after that moment — a public function anyone can call. Last year’s rotation executed 75 seconds after midnight.
Do I lose my staked LP or unclaimed ACTR when the HTT-3000 farm ends?
No. The rotation banks every pool’s accrued rewards before changing any weight, so ACTR earned up to the switch stays claimable. LP tokens can be withdrawn at any time with no penalty, before or after the date, and they keep collecting PulseX swap fees either way. Only the new ACTR stream to HTT-3000 stops.
Will farm APRs drop after October 9?
The reward rate falls for every continuing pool if nothing else changes — between 50% and 60% lower, because each pool’s share shifts down a rung while yearly emissions shrink from 250M to 150M ACTR. But APR also depends on how much LP is staked, and liquidity tends to migrate toward the new weights. The live tables on the Farm & Vault Yields page show the actual APRs as they move.
Is the farm switch automatic, or does the Actuator team control it?
It is fixed. The emission schedule and every year’s pool weights were written into the farm contract when it was deployed — there is no owner function to change them, and the rotation itself is triggered by a public function anyone can call. This page’s figures were read from the contract, not from documentation.
What happens on October 9, 2027?
Farm emissions end entirely. The three-year schedule (350M, 250M, 150M ACTR) is complete, so the farms stop paying ACTR from that date. LP tokens keep earning swap fees inside the PulseX pairs for as long as trading continues.
Every figure on this page — the dates, the weights, the schedule — was read from the Actuator farm contract on PulseChain and is restated by the code that renders this page from one shared source. See the live yields on Farm & Vault Yields and the strategy notes on Actuator Strategies.