Understanding ACTR Vaults

ACTR Vaults pay the ACTR deposited in them a share of the 1% fee charged when HTTs are minted, paid in the HTT being minted. What each vault has actually paid is measured daily on Farm & Vault Yields, and the tested record of buying ACTR to vault is strategy V1 on Actuator Strategies.

What Are ACTR Vaults?

ACTR Vaults provide ACTR token holders with a flexible way to earn rewards in HTTs. To participate, you deposit your ACTR into a vault controlled by the Actuator token contract. Each vault is distinguished by which HEX Time Token (HTT) it pays rewards in.

Think of it this way: when someone mints HTTs and that maturity’s vault holds ACTR, they pay a 1% fee. That fee is shared among the vault depositors. You choose which vault to deposit into — and that determines which HTT you’ll earn as your reward.

Choosing the HEX Day

When you deposit your ACTR tokens, you must designate which HTT rewards you want to participate in:

• HTT Choice: If you deposit in the vault that rewards HTT-3000, you’ll earn a portion of all fees generated from the creation of HTT-3000. If you deposit in the HTT-7000 vault, you earn HTT-7000.
• Flexibility: You can allocate 100% of your ACTR tokens to one vault, or spread them across multiple vaults to earn a variety of HTTs. Each vault pays only from minting of its own HTT, so its rewards rise and fall with that series’ minting.

Fees and Rewards

This mechanism ensures rewards are aligned with depositor contribution size and market activity. More minting activity on a given HTT maturity day = more rewards for that vault’s depositors.

Deposit and Withdraw

Lock-Up Period

• There is a 90-day lock-up period when you deposit ACTR into a vault
• Any increase in your deposit resets the 90-day lock-up for your whole balance in that vault. Adding even 1 ACTR to a position that has served 90 days puts all of it back at a 100% early-withdrawal penalty. Each vault keeps its own clock, so a top-up in one vault leaves your other vaults unchanged.
• This prevents manipulation where users deposit right before high-fee events and withdraw immediately after

Early Withdrawal Penalty

• If you withdraw before the 90-day lock-up ends, you incur a penalty that starts at 100% and falls linearly to 0% over the 90 days, counted to the second from your last deposit into that vault
• Penalized ACTR is burned immediately — it’s not sent to the team or redistributed, it’s permanently destroyed
• Farming mints new ACTR on a three-year schedule that ends 2027-10-09 00:00 UTC (8:00 PM EDT on 2027-10-08), and so far mints far exceed burns (see ACTR). After that date no new farm emissions accrue, so each early-exit burn lowers the total supply for good

Important: The penalty is on the ACTR you withdraw early, not on the HTT rewards you’ve already earned. Your earned HTTs are always yours.

Benefits of ACTR Vaults

1. Direct Rewards — Earn HTTs from HTT creation fees without needing to stake or provide liquidity
2. Recapturing Fees — ACTR deposited in a vault before you mint that HTT receives its pro-rata share of your own 1% fee (all of it only if yours is the only ACTR in the vault)
3. Flexibility — ACTR can be split across vaults; each vault’s rewards follow the minting of its own HTT

How Fee Recapture Works

1. You deposit ACTR into the HTT-5000 vault first. A mint’s fee is shared only among ACTR already in the vault when the mint happens.
2. You mint HTT-5000 against your HEX stake, and a 1% fee in HTT-5000 is taken.
3. That fee is shared among everyone in the HTT-5000 vault at that moment, including you.
4. You get back a share of your own fee equal to your share of the vault. ACTR deposited after a mint earns nothing from that mint.

The share of a mint’s fee that comes back equals your share of that vault at the moment of the mint: holding 10% of the HTT-5000 vault when an HTT-5000 mint happens returns 10% of that mint’s fee, your own included. The busiest vaults hold tens of millions of ACTR (the HTT-5000 vault held 40,448,630 ACTR on 2026-09-23), so a large share means locking a comparable amount of ACTR for 90 days, with ACTR’s price risk. Tested results for vaulting are on Actuator Strategies.

How to Acquire ACTR for Vaulting

You can acquire ACTR by:

• Farming — provide liquidity to HTT pools and earn ACTR rewards (see our How to Farm ACTR guide)
• Buying on the open market — ACTR is a PulseChain token and trades on PulseX (the ACTR/WPLS pair) and PHUX. Several other PulseChain tokens also use the symbol ACTR and names like “Actuator” or “Actuator Finance”. The real ACTR is 0x85DF7cE20A4CE0cF859804b45cB540FFE42074Da, listed on the official contracts page. Pasting that address into a DEX’s token search selects the real token, while choosing by name can select a copy.

Step-by-Step: Using ACTR Vaults

1. Acquire ACTR

Farm it or buy it on the open market.

2. Go to the Actuator App

Visit app.actuator.finance, connect a wallet set to PulseChain (each deposit, claim and withdrawal is a transaction paid in PLS), and open Earn › Earn HTTs - Vaults.

3. Choose Your Vault

Select the vault by its reward token (HTT-3000, HTT-5000, HTT-7000, or any other series that exists). HTT-N matures on HEX day N (HTT-3000: 2028-02-18 00:00 UTC, 7:00 PM EST on 2028-02-17). From that moment no more of that HTT can be minted, so its vault earns no more fees, while the ACTR in it stays under its 90-day clock, which restarts for the whole position with every added deposit. The app accepts deposits until that day, so a deposit made less than 90 days before its vault’s maturity day earns fees for only part of its lock.

4. Deposit ACTR

• Open the vault’s Actions menu and choose Deposit
• Enter the amount of ACTR and press Submit
• Confirm the one transaction in your wallet (there is no separate token approval; the ACTR contract moves your ACTR itself)
• Your 90-day lock-up timer starts now

5. Earn HTT Rewards

Your share of each mint’s fee is credited the moment the mint happens. The HTTs stay in that HTT’s contract until collected: the vault row’s Actions › Claim Pending Rewards sends them to your wallet in one PulseChain transaction, and the page’s Claim All button collects every vault with pending rewards, one transaction per vault. Adding to or withdrawing from a vault also pays out whatever is pending there.

6. Withdraw

• Wait 90 days for zero penalty, or
• Withdraw early and accept the linear penalty (penalized ACTR is burned)
• Your earned HTT rewards are always claimable regardless of lock-up status

Risks

• Lock-up — vaulted ACTR withdraws penalty-free 90 days after your last deposit into that vault; before then the linear penalty applies
• ACTR price risk — the vault pays in HTTs, but the deposit is ACTR, and ACTR’s price keeps moving while the deposit is locked. A fall in ACTR can outweigh the fees, and buying and later selling ACTR costs two swaps. Measured results for buying ACTR to vault are on Strategies → ACTR Vault.
• Early withdrawal penalty — withdrawing early burns a portion of your ACTR
• Reward variability — if no one mints the HTT you’re vaulted into, you earn no rewards, and once that HTT’s maturity day arrives no one can mint it
• Smart contract risk — vaults run on the ACTR token contract and each HTT’s contract, which have no owner and no upgrade path; Dedaub and SourceHat (both commissioned by the Actuator team) audited both in 2024, every rated finding was resolved before launch, and Dedaub’s nine advisories were acknowledged (see Risks)
• Public Data, Not Financial Advice

Useful Links

• Official Docs (Vaults): docs.actuator.finance/actuatorToken/vaults
• Actuator App: app.actuator.finance
• Related: How to Farm ACTR · How to Mint HTTs · Understanding the HTT Yield Curve