1.  Security First

2026 is a new era in technology, and the con has been industrialized.  The voice on the phone can be cloned from thirty seconds of audio, the face on a video call can be worn like a mask, and the patient "support agent" in your inbox may be a model that has practiced on ten thousand victims before you.  Attacks that once needed a skilled human now run around the clock, in every language, for pennies.  So treat security not as a chapter to skim but as the posture behind everything else in this book — no yield strategy in these pages survives a stolen seed phrase.

The good news: defense does not require genius.  It requires a clean start and a few habits you never break — and if you are new to crypto, you hold an advantage over the veterans, because you have no bad habits to unlearn.  Build the fortress once, before there is anything inside it worth stealing:

1. One computer, one job.  Dedicate a machine to crypto and nothing else: wipe the disk, reinstall the operating system fresh, and add no app it does not strictly need.  Every program you never install is a door that can never be forced.
2. Harden the browser.  Install Firefox and apply the Arkenfox hardening template — our browser guide walks it step by step.
3. Keep the keys off the internet.  Buy a hardware wallet — a Trezor, or another model your own research convinces you to trust — so signing happens in your hand and your private keys never touch a connected device.  The wallet guide covers setup.
4. Choose your window to the chain.  Everything your wallet shows you — balances, prices, whether a transaction landed — arrives through an RPC gateway, and a bad one can lie to your eyes, log your addresses, or simply go dark.  It never holds your keys, but pick it deliberately and keep a spare — the RPC guide shows each gateway's live weather and which wallets let you switch.
5. Metal, not paper — and never pixels.  Stamp the seed phrase into stainless-steel plates or washers, or whatever your research shows survives fire and flood.  No photograph, no file, no cloud — the seed-phrase guide compares the options.
6. Only as complex as you can execute.  Shamir's Secret Sharing — splitting a backup into shares so no single one reveals the wallet — is worth considering, but a scheme too elaborate to carry out correctly protects no one.  People lock themselves out with no attacker in sight.  Simple and done beats perfect and abandoned.

From there, security becomes rhythm rather than architecture.  Bookmark the sites you use and open them only from those bookmarks.  Verify every contract address before you interact — Appendix A exists for exactly that.  Treat every DM as hostile until proven otherwise, because the legitimate ones almost never come.  The full checklist — device, browser, wallet, phishing, and the quantum question — lives in our Security Guide; the rest of this manual assumes the floor you just built.

Sources: our step-by-step guides — Security · Wallets · Seed-Phrase Storage · Hardened Browsers · RPC Gateways

2.  Taxes & Record-Keeping

Taxes are the least exciting page in any money book and the most expensive one to skip.  Before anything in this manual earns you a single token, find out what your jurisdiction expects of you — what is taxed, when, and at what rate.  Rules differ by country and change often, and nothing in this chapter is tax advice; when in doubt, pay a professional once instead of a penalty forever.

For the discipline itself, the best guidance we know is a century old.  George S. Clason put it into the mouth of a Babylonian money-lender in 1926, and it has not aged a day:

"Never touch your Principal.  Decide how much of the Yield you will take, and add the rest back to the Principal — and still, never touch the Principal.  This procedure will make you the richest man in Babylon."

Treat your crypto as the Principal in that parable, and the reasons are two.  The first is wealth: a base that is never spent, compounding while you live only on a chosen slice of its yield, is the oldest reliable path to becoming rich — that is the entire plot of the book.  The second is paperwork: a principal you never touch produces few, deliberate, well-spaced taxable events, and deliberate events are events you can document and explain.  The trader who touches everything constantly builds a smear of transactions that nobody — including him — can reconstruct in April.

Crypto tax software promises to do that reconstruction for you, and it may even be right.  But if you have not also written every trade, transfer, and move in a paper ledger book, you will never know — you cannot audit a black box with nothing to compare it against.  So record every time your wallet is used, because wallet activity is exactly what governments watch.  One line per transaction, chronologically:

If recording every transaction sounds tedious, try recollecting a year of them from memory — that is what waits for everyone who skips the ledger, and it is vastly more difficult.  Start on day one, when the ledger is one line long.

One more reason the ledger matters: everything your wallet has ever done sits on a public blockchain, forever.  A government does not need a quantum computer to crack your wallet — reading a public ledger for unreported gains is far cheaper revenue, and the computing power aimed at that job only grows (see quantum threats).  The chain already remembers everything; your own clean records are what let you tell the same story it does.

Sources: George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon (Signet / Penguin Books, 1926), paraphrased · the record-keeping practice is our own general guidance — verify your obligations with a licensed tax professional in your jurisdiction

3.  What Is Actuator.Finance?

Actuator.Finance is a decentralized protocol built on PulseChain that operates as a HEX bond market. It allows users to create HEX Time Tokens (HTTs) — tokens that represent future HEX claims, backed one-to-one by HEX stakes.  The protocol is built entirely on immutable smart contracts, meaning no admin keys, no upgrades, and no central authority can change the rules once deployed.  Before launch the contracts passed two security audits (Dedaub and SourceHat, Aug–Sep 2024); Dedaub's report additionally gave a formal financial argument that HTTs are always redeemable one-to-one for HEX, provided holders redeem within 14 days of the redemption day — reports are linked on the official audits page.

The protocol launched on PulseChain mainnet October 8, 2024 — with ACTR farming beginning the next day, October 9, 2024, the Year-1 start date in the official farm schedule — and has been evolving since.  Its core value proposition is enabling liquidity for staked HEX without requiring users to end their stakes early.  Where traditional HEX staking locks up your tokens for a defined period (from days to 15.2 years), Actuator creates a secondary market where that staked HEX can be represented as tradeable tokens.

Who runs it.  Actuator was built by two co-founders who go by C3Works ("C3" — self-described career institutional bond trader, on Wall Street from the mid-90s through the 2008 crisis) and RJ (self-described enterprise-software background, from the ETF industry).  The only legal-structure disclosure on record is theirs, from a public AMA in October 2024: "We're Actuator Finance LLC and we're domiciled in the US" — a dated, single-source statement we have not been able to verify independently.  Because the contracts are immutable with no admin keys, the team's ongoing role is education and front-end hosting, not control of funds; even so, knowing who built a protocol is part of doing your own research (interviews are linked in the Video Sources).

Actuator is sometimes described as a "HEX HELOC" (Home Equity Line of Credit) — by analogy, you are borrowing against your staked HEX position to access liquidity today, while your stake continues earning yield.  The protocol sits on PulseChain, and its primary liquidity pairs are on PulseX, an automated Decentralized Exchange (DEX).

The protocol uses HSIs (HEX Stake Instances) as the mechanism for creating stakes.  An HSI is essentially a Portable HEX Stake — a self-contained contract that wraps a HEX stake into a token that can be transferred (a design Hedron developed).  Actuator uses these HSIs to mint HTTs against them, creating a bond-like instrument with a defined maturity date.  There are three ways to start: 1) create a brand-new HSI stake from liquid HEX on the Actuator site, 2) delegate an existing HSI you already own, or 3) buy discounted HTTs or ACTR on the market and bring them to Actuator.  Either way, you can later unwrap and walk away, provided you have retired any HTTs you minted.

Sources: protocol overview · official FAQ · audits · liquidity-mining docs

4.  HEX Time Tokens (HTTs) Explained

HTTs are ERC-20 tokens on PulseChain that represent a claim on one HEX at a future redemption date.  Each HTT is fungible with other HTTs that share the same maturity date.  For example, all HTT-3000 tokens share the same redemption day, all HTT-5000 tokens share a different redemption day, and so on.

Key properties of HTTs:

• One-to-one backing: Each HTT is backed by one HEX that will exist in a stake at maturity — the protocol only ever lets a stake mint up to its conservative, worst-case value, so the backing holds even if rewards disappoint.  One HTT equals one HEX at redemption.
• Fungibility by maturity: HTTs with the same redemption date are interchangeable.  HTTs with different redemption dates are different tokens with different prices.
• Discount pricing: Before the redemption date, HTTs typically trade at a discount to HEX. The discount reflects the time remaining until redemption — longer-dated HTTs trade at deeper discounts.
• Convergence: As the redemption date approaches, the price of an HTT converges toward 1 HEX. On the redemption date, 1 HTT can be redeemed for exactly 1 HEX — and redemption stays 1:1 for a 14-day grace window after that day; waiting longer can expose you to late-end-stake penalties on the backing stakes (official FAQ).  This 1:1-within-14-days guarantee is not just a docs claim: Dedaub's audit formally verified it as the protocol's core invariant (Sep 2024).
• Tradeable: HTTs are standard ERC-20 tokens.  They can be traded on PulseX, held, or used in liquidity pools.

The naming convention (HTT-3000, HTT-5000, HTT-6000, HTT-7000, HTT-7900, etc.) refers to the redemption day.  Higher numbers indicate later redemption dates.  The number after "HTT" corresponds to the HEX stake day on which the token can be redeemed — and every HEX day, and therefore every Actuator deadline, is calculated in UTC: HEX day N begins at 00:00 UTC on December 3, 2019 plus N days, which is the previous evening in the Americas (see UTC Time in the Glossary for the calculator).

Sources: official FAQ · audits

5.  "Super Bonds" & Protocol Evolution

Before Actuator launched, the concept was discussed as "HEX Super Bonds" — a way to create bond-like instruments from HEX stakes.  The protocol evolved from this concept into what is now Actuator.Finance.

Why "super" bonds?  A traditional bond (like a US Treasury) is a tradeable stream of future cash flows — but it is also a liability: someone else has to perform, so it carries counterparty risk.  A HEX stake is different.  It is a pure asset — the future HEX is guaranteed by the HEX contract itself, with no counterparty who could default.  So HTTs behave like bonds but without counterparty or (in the matched-date case) liquidation risk; you accept smart-contract risk instead.  That is the "super" part: a better vehicle for a tradeable stream of value because it is an asset, not a debt.

The motivation: when HEX staking APY dropped from highs of 38% to around 3.87%, there was less incentive to stake.  Actuator creates additional yield opportunities on top of HEX staking, making the staked HEX work harder without requiring unstaking.

Key points about protocol evolution:

• The protocol is built on immutable contracts — no admin keys, no ability to change rules after deployment
• Farm pools are fixed at deployment — weights cannot be changed
• The protocol uses HSIs (Portable HEX Stakes) as the staking mechanism
• Some newer HTT pools (like HTT-7900) may not be immediately visible on the dashboard but are accessible
• The founders emphasize education and transparency — always verify on docs.actuator.finance

Sources: HEX T-Share Report 90 — “Super Bonds” (Mar 22, 2025) · Degen Roundtable founders interview (Dec 18, 2024)

6.  Minting HTTs — the HTTM Factory — How It Works

The minting process creates new HTTs by locking HEX in a stake.  Here is the step-by-step flow:

1. Start with a stake — two ways in: either bring liquid HEX and let Actuator create a new stake for you (it spins up the HSI), or delegate an HSI you already hold to the Actuator contract.
2. Your wrapped stake: Once created or delegated, the stake is "wrapped" — an HSI held by Actuator.  You mint against its underlying HEX value, and you can unwrap it (revoke delegation) later, once all HTTs are retired.
3. Mint the HTT: The Actuator protocol allows you to mint HTTs against your wrapped stake.  You choose the redemption day when you mint: matching your stake's end date is the simplest and officially recommended path, a later day lets you mint into a more liquid HTT (at a slightly reduced extractable amount), and an earlier day is an advanced strategy with a hard repayment deadline — see the warning below (docs: choosing the redemption day).
4. 1% minting fee: When you mint, a 1% fee is charged.  This fee goes to ACTR vault stakers (see Chapter 11).  If no ACTR is staked in the corresponding vault, the fee is waived (official FAQ).
5. Receive HTTs: You receive HTT tokens (minus the 1% fee) that you can now trade, hold, or use in liquidity pools.

For example, if you mint 100 HTT-3000 tokens, you would receive 99 tokens (1 goes to the 1% fee, paid as 1 HTT to the vault).  The HTT-3000 tokens can then be redeemed for HEX on day 3000, or traded before that at the market price.

A corollary worth knowing: the very first mint at a brand-new redemption day is fee-free.  The 1% fee only flows to ACTR staked in that day's vault, and a vault can't have depositors before its HTT exists — so the first minter necessarily meets an empty vault, and the fee is waived (official FAQ; independently confirmed in the SourceHat audit, which found the fee is taken only when the vault holds deposits).  The catch: a brand-new HTT has no trading pool yet either, so those fee-free tokens have nowhere liquid to go until someone — usually you — seeds the market, and thin pools punish sellers hard (Chapters 9 and 15).  Being first is a real edge, but it isn't free for the ecosystem either — see Chapter 15 on what maturity sprawl costs the wider curve.

The contract doing all of this is the HEXTimeTokenManager (HTTM) — the single immutable contract at the center of Actuator.  It holds every delegated HSI, computes each stake's extractable value, mints and retires HTTs, and deploys the token contract for a redemption day the first time anyone mints it (its verified interface literally exposes a getOrCreateHEXTimeToken function — which is also why the vault, and therefore the fee, can't exist before the first mint).  This factory role is the ecosystem's anchor of trust: every genuine HTT at every maturity was created by this one contract, from one code template — so a token's creator, not its name, is what proves it real (see Appendix A for the address and the lookalike warning).

One more right the factory preserves: a delegated HSI can still mint its Hedron (HDRN).  The HTTM exposes its own mintInstanced function, and the verified contract source shows exactly what it does — checks that you own the delegated HSI, asks Hedron's contract to compute and mint the HDRN, and transfers every minted token to you: no cut, no fee on that path (read directly from the published source, 2026-07-10).  Because Hedron's contract computes the amount, whatever any interface displays — or doesn't — cannot change what the mint pays.  One community question remains open and we won't guess at it: whether Hedron's early-HSI bonus multiplier still applies under Hedron's own mint rules today.  The play itself is cataloged as strategy #29 on the Actuator Strategies page.

One protection worth knowing: the rewards a stake accrues during the final 10% of its life are held in reserve and cannot be minted as HTTs.  This escrow is not forfeited — it funds the community's ability to end the stake on time if you don't, which keeps HTT redemptions honest and fully backed.  Both auditors independently corroborated this design: Dedaub's proof notes the community reward is paid from escrow, never from HTT collateral, and SourceHat describes the same escalating schedule.  The exact schedule charted below comes from the official redemption-process docs.

The minting process is executed through the Actuator dashboard at app.actuator.finance.  The app's pages — Dashboard, Stakes, Pools, Earn (Farms & Vaults), Portfolio, and More — are toured screen by screen in Chapter 17.  Everything is non-custodial — you retain control of your assets throughout.

Sources: choosing-the-redemption-day · official FAQ · vaults docs · redemption docs · extractable-stake-value · PulseChain explorer

7.  The HEX Bond Market & Yield Curve

The collection of all HTT tokens with different redemption dates creates what can be thought of as a HEX bond market.  Just as traditional bond markets have a yield curve showing yields across different maturities, the HTT market has a curve showing discounts at different redemption dates.

The yield curve gives signals about market expectations.  When some HTTs are cheap (deep discount) and others are expensive (near HEX parity), it creates opportunities for traders.  The curve shifts over time as redemption dates approach and as market demand for different maturities changes.

Key concepts for understanding the curve:

• Discount: The difference between 1 HEX and the current HTT price.  A 0.47 HEX price for an HTT represents a 53% discount.
• Convergence: The guaranteed price appreciation as an HTT moves from its current discount toward 1 HEX at redemption.
• Curve shape: Some HTTs may be "expensive" (near 1 HEX) while others are "cheap" (deep discount).  The curve is not always smooth — liquidity and demand vary by pool.
• Dashboard: The Actuator Finance dashboard provides tools to view current HTT prices, discounts, and yield curve information.

Two habits from bond markets transfer directly.  First, fair value: an HTT is zero-coupon paper, so its natural price is the 1-HEX endpoint discounted back at whatever annual rate you require — standard present-value math, and the basis of the benchmark price curves the community builds.  Second, curve shapes: the curve is not always upward-sloping.  As of HEX day 2409 (July 2026) it was inverted — short-dated HTT-3000 offered a 9.2% fixed APR against HTT-7000's 5.4% (see the live table in Chapter 17) — the same phenomenon bond markets exhibit.  Readers coming from traditional fixed income can find the full bond-to-HTT translation on the bond comparison page.

Sources: market-dynamics · official FAQ

8.  Discount HTTs & Fixed Yield in HEX Terms

One of the most compelling concepts in the Actuator ecosystem is the fixed yield of discount HTTs.  The community often calls this "risk-free yield" — a framing that comes from the co-founders, not from us — and it is not risk-free in any absolute sense: what is locked in is a fixed return relative to the underlying asset (HEX).

The logic: if you buy an HTT at a discount (say 0.50 HEX), and it will be redeemable for 1 HEX at maturity, you are locking in a guaranteed return measured in HEX terms.  Between now and the redemption date, the HTT price will converge from 0.50 HEX to 1.00 HEX. That convergence is your HEX-denominated yield.

The decision framework: would you get more yield by staking HEX directly, or by buying a discount HTT? If the HTT discount implies a higher effective APY than the current HEX staking APY, the HTT may be the better choice.  This comparison is the core of the fixed-yield thesis — and for dated, observed snapshots of what the play has actually paid, see strategy #1 on the Actuator Strategies page.

Remember: this yield is denominated in HEX, not in dollars.  If HEX price drops in dollar terms, your dollar return may still be negative.  The "fixed" aspect refers only to the HEX-denominated return being guaranteed by the protocol's one-to-one redemption mechanism — the same invariant Dedaub's audit formally verified (Chapter 4).

Sources: official FAQ · audits

9.  Trading the Curve

Trading the curve involves identifying HTTs that are relatively expensive and swapping them for HTTs that are relatively cheap.  This is not day trading — it is a strategic repositioning within the yield curve to capture better value.

The basic trade: if HTT-6000 is trading at a premium (expensive) and HTT-3000 is trading at a deep discount (cheap), you might mint the expensive HTT (or sell one you already hold) and swap into more of the cheap one — buying the expensive HTT at its premium just to swap it would surrender the very edge you're capturing. Since both will eventually be worth 1 HEX at redemption, you are effectively buying more future HEX for the same input.

Important considerations for curve trading:

• Liquidity matters: Each HTT pool has different liquidity depth, and larger swaps move the price against you.  HEXFire's on-stream rule of thumb is a "safe swap" of about 2% of the pool's liquidity (see the note below).
• Not financial advice: These are educational examples.  You are responsible for your own DeFi decisions.
• Long-term perspective: At today's pool sizes the absolute gains are small — what a curve trade mostly proves right now is the concept.  The opportunity scales with the market: as HEXFire put it on-stream about a $2,000 pool, "I talked to you about a $40 swap being a safe swap — but when it's $4,000, that's a whole different game.  That's only 100x from here" (Jun 29, 2026).  Whether the market ever grows that much is speculation, not a given.
• Methodology: Use the Actuator dashboard to identify which HTTs are cheap vs expensive relative to your own valuation model.

If you come from fixed income, the classic playbook maps over almost one-to-one. Discount capture is buying cheap maturities and holding to redemption (Chapter 8). Maturity rotation is this chapter's core trade — swap the rich maturity for the cheap one. Convergence harvesting rides the pull toward 1 HEX as a redemption day approaches.  Even the two-legged bond-desk trades exist here: a steepener when the curve looks too flat (mint or sell the long end, buy the underpriced short end) and a flattener when it looks too steep (the reverse).  HEXFire works through the zero-coupon framing on a live market in his June 2026 stream, and traditional-bond readers can start from the bond comparison page.  The strategy catalog documents four distinct curve plays — classic rotation, the "Time Travel" swap, maturity roll-ups, and dislocation trading — each with dated observed spreads, on the Actuator Strategies page.

Sources: HEXFire streams — Jun 26, 2026 · Jun 29, 2026 · Oct 23, 2025

10.  ACTR Token & Farming

ACTR is the protocol's revenue-sharing token — the docs describe it as "the revenue sharing token for Actuator… designed to have deflationary supply" (official token overview).  It has a total supply of 1 billion tokens, distributed over 3 years starting from October 9, 2024, and the distribution decreases each year (official tokenomics).

The emission schedule:

• Year 1: 350M to farms + 88M to team (438M total)
• Year 2: 250M to farms + 63M to team (313M total)
• Year 3: 150M to farms + 39M to team (189M total)

Approximately 75% goes to farms and 25% to the team side — and the team side has structure worth knowing (official tokenomics): 19% is time-locked and unlocks to the team on the same declining three-year schedule as the farms (the 88M/63M/39M above), 5% funds ACTR liquidity management, and 1% — 10 million ACTR — was sent at launch to The Forge, an airdrop for protocol reviewers and Forge-NFT holders.  That Forge slice is the third bucket you'll see in the app's ACTR Distribution Schedule chart (Chapter 17).  All farm pools are fixed at deployment — the docs are explicit that the farm list "can't be changed after deployment," precisely to eliminate admin keys (official liquidity-mining docs), and Dedaub's audit confirmed it in the deployed code: the farm contract hardcodes all six pools, day 3000 through day 8000.  The same audit raised exactly one centralization question — the team's ACTR pre-mint was originally unbounded — and the team closed it before launch by hardcoding the cap, a fix anyone can verify on-chain.

Which farms exist — and at what weights — follows a three-year schedule set at launch, concentrating rewards on a few round-number maturities, with longer dates weighted heavier ("like 'Longer Pays Better'", as the docs put it).  Year 1 ran just three farms: HTT-3000, HTT-5000, and HTT-7000 at roughly 19%, 33%, and 48%.  The current Year-2 schedule (since October 9, 2025) runs five: HTT-3000 through HTT-7000 at 10/15/20/25/30% — the numbers you see in the app today (Chapter 17).  And from October 9, 2026, the Year-3 schedule retires the HTT-3000 farm and adds an HTT-8000 farm at 30%, shifting the whole reward curve one notch longer (full schedule table).  If you farm the short end, that switch date is worth a calendar entry.

How farming works:

1. Provide liquidity on PulseX by pairing HTT with HEX
2. Receive LP tokens from the liquidity pool
3. Deposit LP tokens into the Actuator farm (a MasterChef-style contract, modeled on PulseX's incentive-token farm)
4. Earn ACTR tokens as farming rewards

Farming rewards accrue continuously (every second), and you can collect them or withdraw your LP tokens from the farm at any time with no penalty. This is a key distinction from vaults (Chapter 11): farm LP tokens are penalty-free to withdraw, whereas ACTR staked in a vault has a 90-day lock-up.  Farms and vaults are two separate "earn" mechanisms that are easy to confuse — farms reward providing liquidity; vaults reward holding ACTR to capture mint fees.

The farm calendar has one dated changeover left — mark it.  On October 9, 2026 (Year 3 of the three-year schedule), farming rewards for HTT-3000 end and HTT-8000’s begin: the weights become 10% HTT-4000, 15% HTT-5000, 20% HTT-6000, 25% HTT-7000, and 30% HTT-8000, and the year’s total emissions step down from 250 million to 150 million ACTR.  The whole schedule was fixed at deployment — no admin can move the date; on-chain the switch is coded to the second (startTime + 730 days = October 9, 2026, 00:00 UTC — the evening of October 8, 8:00 PM EDT, in US terms) — so an HTT-3000/HEX LP position stops earning ACTR at that moment, and the first deep HTT-8000 farm incentives start.  If you farm, this is a calendar entry, not trivia.

Important: ACTR is a reward token, and reward tokens tend to be "always-sell" tokens.  Many users will sell ACTR as they earn it.  The speculative question is whether enough people hold ACTR (via vaults) to create buying pressure that supports the price.  For the farms' observed APR history — from triple digits at launch-week pool sizes to the double-digit range typical since — and the timing edge around farm-schedule switches, see strategies #5 and #21 on the Actuator Strategies page.

Sources: tokenomics · liquidity-mining docs · token overview

11.  Vaults — Earning from HTT Creation Fees

Actuator vaults are a fee-distribution mechanism, NOT auto-compounding vaults.  They distribute the 1% HTT creation fees to ACTR stakers (official vaults page).

How vaults work:

1. When someone mints HTTs, a 1% fee is charged (paid in HTT)
2. This fee is distributed pro-rata to ACTR holders who have staked their ACTR in the corresponding vault
3. Each vault is tied to a specific HTT redemption day — and you can split your ACTR across several vaults to earn a mix of maturities
4. Staking ACTR requires a 90-day lock-up period
5. Topping up resets the clock: any increase to your deposit restarts the full 90-day lock-up
6. Early withdrawal incurs a penalty that starts at 100% and decreases linearly to 0% over the lock-up — and the penalized ACTR is burned immediately (deflationary).  SourceHat's audit confirmed the mechanics independently: after 45 of the 90 days, the penalty is 50%
7. If no ACTR is staked in a vault, the 1% fee is waived entirely

The vault mechanism creates a deflationary pressure on ACTR supply (when people withdraw early and get penalized) and gives ACTR a revenue stream beyond just farming rewards.  This is fundamentally different from Yearn-style auto-compounders.  Know what you're signing up for: observed vault yields swing hard with mint activity — from triple-digit APR in busy months to low single digits in quiet ones — because a vault is essentially a bet on future minting at its redemption day.  Dated snapshots, and the "Self-Repaying Loan" play built on vault income, are strategies #6 and #18 on the Actuator Strategies page.

Sources: vaults docs · official FAQ

12.  HEX Amplification Strategies

Amplification (also called recursive staking) is an advanced strategy that uses Actuator to increase the number of T-Shares backing your HEX — without adding new outside capital.  Instead of one stake, you convert a single HEX position into several.

The amplification loop:

1. Start with HEX
2. Create a HEX stake via Actuator (an HSI / Portable HEX Stake), choosing an end date on a deep-liquidity HTT node (day 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, or 7000 — the five farmed maturities, Chapter 10)
3. Mint HTTs against the stake (a 1% mint fee applies — see below)
4. Swap the HTTs for HEX on the market
5. Restake the HEX into a new stake
6. Repeat, then finish with a final long stake

The key insight: each new stake adds T-Shares to your portfolio.  Over multiple rounds you accumulate more T-Shares — and lock up more HEX — than you would by staking your original HEX just once.  In one real walk-through (HEXFire's HTT-7000 stream, May 12, 2026), 1,000,000 HEX amplified into four stakes produced about 138.5 T-Shares, versus about 66 from a single stake.

When does it pay off?  Only when the HTT is overpriced.  This is the point most newcomers get backwards.  Amplification is favorable when an HTT is trading rich — its discount to HEX is smaller than the benchmark discount for that maturity (occasionally even trading at or above 1:1).  When an HTT is overpriced this way, minting and selling it returns more HEX than fair value, so each loop preserves more HEX to restake.  A deeply discounted (cheap) HTT is the opposite situation — better to simply buy and hold it for a fixed return, not to amplify.

Three questions before amplifying:

• Is the HTT overpriced?  Its discount should be smaller than its benchmark (trading rich).  Actuator's dashboard flags this as "best premium / best for selling."
• Is there enough liquidity?  The pool needs enough depth that your swaps don't move the price too much — the same safe-swap rule as Chapter 9: size each swap at roughly 2% of the pool's liquidity, and check the quoted price impact before confirming.
• How many rounds?  There is a point of diminishing returns; each round adds fewer T-Shares.  The published walk-throughs run from a single round up to four or five stakes (Chapter 13).

Recapturing the mint fee.  The 1% fee charged when you mint HTTs is paid to ACTR holders who have vaulted ACTR in that HTT's vault.  Many amplifiers first deposit ACTR into the matching vault so they earn back a share of their own mint fees (and everyone else's) — a use the official docs themselves recommend under "Recapturing Fees" (vaults page).  Vaulted ACTR has a 90-day lock-up, and early withdrawal is penalized (the penalized ACTR is burned).

Risks.  Amplification magnifies both upside and risk.  The main hazard is Early End Stake (EES): if a stake's end date falls far later than the redemption day of the HTT you minted, the protocol restricts further extraction, and you must repay those HTTs before the redemption day or risk a forced early end — the docs spell out this exact responsibility and recommend most users avoid it entirely by setting redemption on or after end stake (docs: Extractable Stake Value).  Doubling your HEX is not guaranteed — sometimes you get more, sometimes less — because the result depends entirely on the HTT price and liquidity depth at the moment you act.  That is not hypothetical: one dated check in the strategy research found the loop unprofitable at actual market conditions (August 2025) — the discount and fees ate more than the extra T-Shares were worth.  Run the numbers at today's prices before looping; dated observations live at strategy #9 on the Actuator Strategies page.

Amplification is not for everyone.  If you simply want exposure to discounted HTTs, you can swap into them directly without amplifying.  But for those who want to maximize T-Share count (believing HEX will appreciate significantly), it is a powerful tool.

The concrete figures and walk-throughs in this chapter are drawn from HEXFire's amplification streams of May 2026 — chiefly the HTT-7000 walk-through (May 12, 2026) — and reflect the creator's own forecasts and example-wallet demonstrations, not audited results or financial advice.  Chapter 13 links each walk-through individually.  Always confirm against the official Actuator documentation.

Sources: vaults docs · extractable-stake-value · HEXFire HTT-7000 walk-through (May 12, 2026)

13.  HTT-6000, HTT-7000 & HTT-7900 Deep Dives

HTT-6000 Strategy

HTT-6000 is one of the deepest HTT liquidity pools — roughly $44,000 in HEX/HTT-6000 liquidity at the time of the walk-throughs (May 2026), enough to absorb a swap of about $1,000 with modest slippage.  That depth is what makes it a practical amplification target.

The loop is the standard one: create a stake ending on day 6000, mint HTT-6000 against it (1% mint fee), swap the HTTs for HEX, and restake.  Amplification is worthwhile here only when HTT-6000 is trading rich — a smaller discount than its benchmark, which Actuator's dashboard flags as "best premium / best for selling."  In one single-round walk-through (HEXFire, May 19, 2026, continued in a Part 2 on May 24), 400,000 HEX produced about 45.1 T-Shares (26.4 from the first stake plus 18.7 from the amplified stake), versus about 26.4 from staking once.

HTT-7000 Amplified Stakes

HTT-7000 is the deepest amplification pool of all — roughly $60,000–$71,000 in liquidity — which keeps swap slippage low even on larger loops (a full-scale example held price impact near 2.85%).  The process matches HTT-6000; the trade-off is a longer time horizon before the stakes mature.

In a full walk-through (HEXFire, May 12, 2026), 1,000,000 HEX was amplified into four stakes yielding roughly 138.5 T-Shares (66 + 38.6 + 21.8 + 12.1) — about double the ~66 T-Shares a single stake would produce — while locking up close to 2,000,000 HEX in the process.  The T-Shares were acquired near the then-current rate of about 45,500–46,000 HEX per T-Share, a rate the creator expects to rise over time.

HTT-7900 Experiment

HTT-7900 is a newer, lower-liquidity pool.  At the time of HEXFire's experiment (May 30, 2026), it was trading at approximately 0.71 HEX, while his model suggested a fair value of about 0.47–0.48 HEX. With only about $2,200 in liquidity, a safe swap (2% of pool) was only about $45.  This makes HTT-7900 suitable for small experimental amplification to demonstrate the concept, but not for large trades.

Despite the small size, the amplification results can be surprising.  Even small swaps in low-liquidity pools can demonstrate how T-Shares accumulate across multiple rounds.  The key lesson: always check liquidity depth before attempting any swap or amplification.

Sources: HEXFire walk-throughs — May 12 · May 19 · May 24 · May 30, 2026

14.  Stacking Yield on Yield

One of the most powerful concepts in the Actuator ecosystem is the ability to stack multiple layers of yield.  This is not a single strategy but a combination of complementary approaches:

1. Layer 1 — HEX staking yield: Your underlying HEX stake earns the standard HEX APY (T-Share rewards, inflation yield, early end-stake penalties from others).
2. Layer 2 — Liquidity provision fees: By providing HTT/HEX liquidity on PulseX, you earn trading fees from people swapping through your pool.
3. Layer 3 — Farming rewards: By depositing your LP tokens in Actuator farms, you earn ACTR tokens on top of everything else.
4. Layer 4 — Vaulting rewards: Vault the ACTR you earned in the farms and it earns HTTs — a pro-rata share of the 1% minting fees at your chosen maturity (90-day lock; see Chapter 11).

The result is stacked yield: a base layer (HEX staking yield if you minted, or the fixed discount if you bought your HTTs on the market — Chapter 8) + liquidity fees + farming rewards + HTT vault rewards.  You can participate in any combination of these layers depending on your risk tolerance and strategy.  One honesty note before you add the layers into a single number: they pay in different assets — HEX, trading fees, ACTR, HTTs — each with its own risks, and no audited all-in figure exists; observed blends are recorded at strategy #7 on the Actuator Strategies page.

What you do with the ACTR you earn is up to you — you can sell it, hold it, or stake it in vaults for additional fee income.  In DeFi, you do what you want with your rewards.

Sources: derived from mechanics sourced in Ch. 3 · Ch. 10 · Ch. 11 · Ch. 15

15.  Liquidity Provision & Impermanent Loss

When you provide liquidity to an HTT/HEX pool on PulseX, you are creating a market where others can trade between HTT and HEX. You earn fees on every trade that goes through your pool.

The concept of "impermanent loss" is relevant here, but in the HTT context, it is relatively minor compared to typical DeFi liquidity pools.  The reason: both sides of the pair are HEX. Your liquidity is in HEX (today's HEX) and HTT (future HEX).  The only question is when you get your HEX — now or at redemption.

Since the HTT will eventually be worth exactly 1 HEX, the impermanent loss is bounded by the current discount and the time to redemption.  This is fundamentally different from providing ETH/USDC liquidity, where the two assets can diverge significantly in price.

However, there are still risks: if many people redeem HTTs simultaneously, the liquidity pool composition shifts.  And if HEX price drops in dollar terms, both sides of your LP position lose dollar value.  Always understand what you are providing liquidity for and how the pool rebalances.

Seeding a brand-new HTT pool.  The fee-free first mint (Chapter 6) has a flip side: a brand-new maturity starts with no trading pool, so the first minter who wants to sell must create the market.  Today's established HTT markets are V2-style PulseX pairs (Appendix A), and a V2 pool must be seeded with both sides — your HTTs plus matching HEX — so opening a market costs real capital beyond the mint itself.  Until the pool deepens, the safe-swap arithmetic from Chapter 9 is brutal: at about 2% of the LP per swap, a $2,000 pool supports roughly $40–50 trades.  V3-style concentrated liquidity can be seeded single-sided, which would lower this barrier for future HTT markets, but the deep pools today are two-sided.

The quiet cost of too many maturities.  Being first has real value — Chapter 6's fee-free mint — but every new series also asks the ecosystem to split itself one more way.  Liquidity that would have deepened an existing pool gets spread across more shallow ones, and newcomers face more tokens to evaluate with the same amount of attention.  The safe-swap arithmetic makes the cost concrete: $100,000 of liquidity in one pool supports roughly $2,000 swaps, while the same capital split across ten pools supports only ~$200 swaps in each.  The protocol's own design leans against sprawl — ACTR farm emissions reward only five maturities at a time, under a stated design goal of "incentivizing as few farms as necessary" so liquidity isn't "spread too thin" (docs: liquidity mining; Chapter 10), steering depth toward a few strong points on the curve — and the on-chain record shows why: of the roughly forty genuine maturities ever minted (Appendix A), only about ten have live markets; the rest sit illiquid.  Unless you have both a reason and the capital to make a market, minting into an existing liquid maturity is usually the better trade — the same conclusion the official docs reach when they recommend picking a redemption day that matches a liquid pool (docs: choosing the redemption day).

Sources: liquidity-mining docs · choosing-the-redemption-day · HEXFire stream (Jul 5, 2026) · on-chain census in Appendix A

16.  Active vs Passive Liquidity

"Active liquidity" is the community's name for what the protocol enables.  It was spelled out on a March 2025 T-Share Report stream featuring an Actuator co-founder: an LP earning fees on an HTT/HEX pool can pull liquidity out any day he needs it — "so now what I have is active liquidity, not passive liquidity" (Mar 22, 2025).  Traditional HEX staking creates passive liquidity — your HEX is locked and does nothing else.  With Actuator, you can maintain your stake while accessing liquidity through HTTs; the official use-cases list is essentially a catalog of this pattern.

Active liquidity means:

• Your HEX is still staked and earning yield
• You have HTT tokens that can be traded, used as collateral, or provided as liquidity
• Others can trade through your liquidity pool, and you earn fees
• The HEX ecosystem benefits from increased circulating liquidity without anyone ending stakes

Crypto sentiment tends to swing between two extremes — "long and strong everything" (over-leveraged) and "I'm not staking anything" (overly cautious).  Actuator's design aims at the middle of that swing: you can stay staked and still have access to market-based liquidity.

Sources: T-Share Report stream (Mar 22, 2025) · use-cases

17.  Reading the App: Dashboard, Charts & Tools

The app lives at app.actuator.finance and is organized into six navigation items.  Two details worth knowing before you click anything: the "Day" counter in the top bar is the current HEX day — the protocol's clock, and the number every HTT maturity refers to — and nothing on the site requires a connected wallet until you act. Browsing, charting, and even portfolio-watching are read-only.  The examples in this chapter are a snapshot from HEX day 2409 (July 2026); your numbers will differ, but the layout should not.

The Dashboard

The Dashboard opens with three highlight cards that pre-answer the three most common questions — and two of the three you can recreate yourself from the table below them. Best Total Return is the table's largest Total Return, where Total Return = 1 ÷ price − 1, your percentage gain from today's price to 1 HEX at redemption — inevitably a long-dated, deeply discounted token, hence its "Best For Buying Long-Term" tag (verified against the live app, 2026-07-10: HTT-7900's 105.98% led the table and the card). Best APR is the table's largest APR, where APR = Total Return ÷ years to redemption — a simple annualization, not compounded (verified the same day: HTT-3000's 15.30% total over 1.61 years → the displayed 9.49%); it is the number to compare against native HEX staking yield in the Chapter 8 decision framework, and note this site's Due Diligence table uses a compounded YTM, which reads lower on multi-year tenors. Best Premium is tagged "Best For Selling" — if you are minting new HTTs to sell (Chapters 9 and 12), it names what the market is paying the most for, and its button says Mint Now, not Buy Now — but its exact formula is not published and is not simple closeness to parity: on 2026-07-10 the card flagged HTT-4000 at "4.3%" while HTT-3000 traded closest to 1:1, so the app measures premium against a fair-value model of its own.  Treat that one card as the app's opinion rather than arithmetic you can check.

Below the cards, Actuator Metrics is the protocol's health panel: total HTT pool liquidity in dollars, total HTTs outstanding, total value ever extracted (minted) against stakes, and counts of delegated and extracted stakes.  Then comes the HEX Time Tokens table — the heart of the Dashboard, one row per maturity, sortable by any column:

• Price — current market price, toggleable between HEX and USD terms.  The HEX toggle is the one that matters for the mechanics in this manual.
• Discount To HEX — how far below 1 HEX the token trades (Chapters 4 and 7).
• Fixed APR — the discount converted into an annualized rate to redemption.
• Total Return — the full percentage gain from today's price to 1 HEX at redemption.
• Redemption Day — shown both as years remaining and a calendar date.
• Liquidity — the pool depth behind that price.  Read this column with the safe-swap rule from Chapter 9: about 2% of it is a realistic single-trade size.

Four charts round out the page. HEX Time Token Prices plots every HTT against HEX over time — Chapter 8's convergence story drawn by the market itself. HEX Time Token Liquidity shows each pool's depth (including the "HEX Time Complex" PHUX pool) — where exits are easy and where they are not.  The HEX Yield Curve chart is the decision tool: pick Total Return or APR, and it plots HEX Time Tokens against native HEX staking across every HEX day, so you can see at a glance which instrument pays more at your horizon — HEXFire walks through this exact tool in a dedicated stream (May 27, 2026). Finally, Total HEX Time Tokens Minted and HTT Discount To HEX show the curve being built: minting, redeeming, and retiring activity per maturity, and the live discount curve — the real version of Chapter 7's illustrative chart.

The Stakes Page

This is the working floor from Chapter 6, and it is wallet-gated — until you connect, every table reads "You have no stakes."  Once connected you get three lists: HEX Stakes – Actuator Delegated (your wrapped stakes, with Principal, Accrued Rewards, Available to Extract, and Extracted columns — plus the New Delegated Stake button and per-stake Mint actions — the Mint HDRN dialog now shows its math before you sign: base claimable, effective multiplier, and bonus HDRN, including the launch-bonus multiplier on HSIs from Hedron's first two weeks), HEX Stakes – HSIs (existing HSIs you could delegate), and HEX Stakes – Native (plain HEX stakes — shown for visibility, but a native stake can't be converted to an HSI; see Chapter 3).  Two histograms at the bottom show the distribution of stake end-days protocol-wide with their intrinsic HEX value — a picture of where future HTT supply can come from.

The Pools Page

Two families of liquidity live here. PulseX Pools are classic 50/50 pairs — ten HTT/HEX pools (every live maturity) plus ACTR/WPLS and ACTR/HEX — each showing Reserves, My Share, and TVL, with a Swap button up top. Phux Pools are a different animal: PHUX is a Balancer-style exchange where one pool holds several tokens at set weights.  Actuator lists two — ACTR-HEX-PLS (50% ACTR, 25% HEX, 25% WPLS) and HEX-COMPLEX, a basket of HEX (25%), HTT-3000, HTT-5000, and HTT-7000 (15% each), plus the Maximus tokens MAXI and DECI (15% each).  One deposit into HEX-COMPLEX spreads liquidity across several points of the yield curve at once.  PHUX now has its own entry in the site Glossary.

The Earn Pages: Farms and Vaults

The Earn menu holds the two reward mechanisms this manual keeps insisting are different (Chapters 10 and 11), and the app keeps them on separate pages. Farms ("Deposit PLP tokens and earn ACTR") lists five farms — HTT-3000 through HTT-7000 paired with HEX — showing each farm's Reward Share (10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, summing to exactly 100% — the Year-2 column of the three-year schedule fixed at deployment; the line-up shifts once more in October 2026 — Chapter 10), a fluctuating APR, and deposit columns.  Below sit a Farm Deposits history chart and the ACTR Distribution Schedule — the emission curve from Chapter 10, split into its three buckets: Farm Emissions, the time-locked Team Unlock, and the small "The Forge" slice (the 1% launch airdrop to protocol reviewers and Forge-NFT holders — Chapter 10). Vaults ("Deposit ACTR into vaults and earn HTTs") lists every live maturity with total ACTR deposited, your share, Remaining Lock Period (the 90-day lock from Chapter 11), and pending HTT rewards, plus earnings and deposit history charts.

The Portfolio Page

The quiet power tool.  It works without connecting a wallet — you can watch any address — and the Add Hypothetical Stake button lets you model a stake before committing real HEX. The My Stake Portfolio table tracks each position's Type, T-Shares, Progress, EES value (what an early end would surrender — the number behind Chapter 12's warnings), and Intrinsic Value, with portfolio totals underneath.  An All HEX Stakes histogram gives the same end-day distribution view as the Stakes page.  A sensible planning loop: model a hypothetical stake here, check the yield curve tool for the same horizon, then execute on the Stakes page if the numbers still make sense.

The More Menu

The last item in the navigation is a menu rather than a page — and as of this writing it opens empty: a placeholder, presumably for features to come (checked by hand, July 7, 2026).  The app's reference links — official docs, FAQs, Terms of Use, Privacy Policy — live in the footer of every page instead.

Sources: first-hand verification of app.actuator.finance (HEX day 2409, Jul 2026) · HEXFire yield-curve tool stream (May 27, 2026) · tokenomics

18.  Portfolio Strategy & Starter Guide

For those new to Actuator, here is a simplified starter approach using a hypothetical $500 portfolio:

1. Do your research: Visit actuator.finance and read the documentation.  Review the glossary, contracts, and guides.  Everything is immutable code — you can verify it yourself.
2. Start simple: Don't begin with amplification.  Start by understanding HTTs — what they are, how they work, and why they trade at a discount.
3. Buy discount HTTs: If you believe in HEX long-term, buying HTTs at a discount is a straightforward way to acquire more future HEX. Compare the HTT discount yield to the current HEX staking APY to decide which is better.
4. Provide liquidity (optional): Once comfortable, you can provide HTT/HEX liquidity on PulseX to earn trading fees.  This adds another yield layer.
5. Farm your LP tokens (optional): Deposit your LP tokens in Actuator farms to earn ACTR. This is an additional reward on top of your liquidity fees.
6. Consider vaults (advanced): If you want to hold ACTR, stake it in vaults to earn a pro-rata share of the 1% HTT creation fees.  Be aware of the 90-day lock-up.
7. Explore amplification (advanced): Only after you fully understand the basics should you consider amplification strategies to increase T-Share count.

Remember: this is DeFi.  Nobody asked these developers to create this protocol.  It exists as immutable code on PulseChain.  You are responsible for your own decisions.  Always start small, test your understanding, and never invest more than you can afford to lose.

When you are ready to go beyond this starter portfolio, the site maintains a living catalog of every documented strategy — dated observations, honest caveats and all — on the Actuator Strategies page.

Sources: an educational ordering of mechanics sourced in Ch. 6 · Ch. 8 · Ch. 10 · Ch. 11 · Ch. 12

19.  Risks, Considerations & Disclaimers

Actuator.Finance operates in the DeFi space, which carries inherent risks.  This manual is educational content compiled from video transcripts — it is not financial advice.

Key risks to understand:

• Smart contract risk: While contracts are immutable and audited, all DeFi carries the risk of undiscovered bugs or exploits.  The precise audit record: two firms (Dedaub and SourceHat, Aug–Sep 2024), zero critical and zero high-severity findings, one low and two medium — all resolved before launch — and the caveats that come with it: both audits were commissioned by the team, neither endorses HEX itself, and the underlying HEX and Hedron contracts were out of scope.  Review the reports at docs.actuator.finance/audits.
• HEX price risk: HTTs are denominated in HEX. If HEX drops in dollar value, your HTTs drop in dollar value regardless of the discount.
• Liquidity risk: Some HTT pools have low liquidity.  Large trades will move prices against you.  Always check pool depth before trading.
• Amplification risk: Amplification is an advanced strategy with diminishing returns, and doubling your HEX is not guaranteed — the result depends on the HTT price and liquidity depth at the moment you act.  Its main technical hazard is Early End Stake (EES): if a stake's end date falls far later than the redemption day of the HTT you minted, you must repay those HTTs before that redemption day or risk a forced early end.  Over-amplifying can also leave you with more stakes but less liquidity.
• Vault lock-up risk: Staking ACTR in vaults requires a 90-day lock-up.  Early withdrawal incurs a burn penalty.
• ACTR token risk: ACTR is a reward token with a fixed emission schedule.  Its price depends on demand for vault staking and speculation.  Reward tokens often trend toward zero.
• Impermanent loss: Providing liquidity carries the risk of pool rebalancing.  While HTT/HEX pools have bounded impermanent loss (both sides are HEX), it is not zero.

This chapter is the protocol's risks in its own terms — for the strongest criticisms published against Actuator, quoted and answered with the factual record, read What the Skeptics Say on the Risks page.  Always verify contract addresses against the official contracts page (and Appendix A below, which covers newer maturities the docs page hasn't listed yet).  Be skeptical of DMs.  Use multiple sources.  This is not financial advice.

Sources: official FAQ · audits · extractable-stake-value · contracts page

Index

This index provides quick links to key topics discussed in this manual.  Use the search box above to find specific terms, or browse the index below.

Video Sources

The streams and tutorials this manual draws on and was cross-checked against — each linked where a public copy exists.  This is a reference list, not line-by-line citation.  Written dev documents (a user-guide deck, HTT pricing and trading-strategy PDFs) also informed it.

• What Is Actuator Protocol: Built On PulseChain — Corey Costa's Crypto Coins (interview with co-founder C3Works) — Sep 28, 2024
• Special Guests: C3Works & RJ from Actuator — Degen Roundtable (both co-founders) — Dec 18, 2024
• HEX T-Share Report 90 — HEX "Super Bonds" with Actuator — HEXFire — Mar 22, 2025
• ACTUATOR ELI5 — Actuator Finance (official channel) — Sep 3, 2024
• How to Earn HEX Time Tokens — Actuator Finance (official channel) — Sep 30, 2024
• How to Farm ACTR — Actuator Finance (official channel) — Sep 6, 2024
• Minting HEDRON Made Easy: A Beginner's Tutorial — Crypto Hexplained — Jan 13, 2023
• HEX T-Share Amplification (Tip of the Day) — HEXFire — Oct 18, 2025
• Amplified HEX Stakes — Using HTT-7000 — HEXFire — May 12, 2026
• Update HTT-7000 / HTT-6000 Amplification — HEXFire — May 18, 2026
• Advanced HEX Amplification — HTT-6000 (Part 2) — HEXFire — May 24, 2026
• Advanced HEX Amplification — HTT-7900 Experiment — HEXFire — May 30, 2026
• 8 HEX Strategies — Yield Curves, HTTs & Amplification — HEXFire — Jun 2, 2026

Appendix A: Contract & IPFS Addresses

These are the live Actuator smart-contract addresses on PulseChain.  Contract addresses are immutable — they never change — so this table is safe as a static reference.  Still, use this site the way the home page says: to form questions and research further.  Before you ever connect a wallet, approve a contract, or send funds, verify every address against the official source.

PulseChain Mainnet

The three entries marked · new (HTT-3690, HTT-7900, HTT-8000) are newer maturities not yet listed on the official contracts page as of 2026-07-07.  Their addresses were verified on-chain instead: each token contract was created by the official HEXTimeTokenManager listed above (check any token's "creator" on the PulseChain explorer).  That check is not optional: a full on-chain sweep (2026-07-07) found lookalike tokens that were not created by the manager — including a fake "Hex Time Token 8000" and an "HTTP-3690" — alongside dozens of unrelated tokens squatting on HTT-style names.  We deliberately do not print fake addresses (nothing to copy, nothing to find); the durable protection is a rule, not a blacklist: a token named like an HTT is not an HTT — a token created by the HEXTimeTokenManager is.

The same sweep confirmed the protocol's long tail: because any day with extractable value can be minted (Chapter 6), roughly thirty genuine maturities exist beyond this table — mostly a band of small, largely matured 30-day-ladder tokens (days 1773–2970) plus HTT-7909 — nearly all without a trading pool.  This table lists the maturities with live markets.

Testnet contract addresses (for developers) are on the official docs: docs.actuator.finance/contracts. Full protocol documentation, audits, and FAQ live at docs.actuator.finance.

HTT Maturity Calendar — Dates & Times in UTC

Every series' redemption moment, in one chart.  An HTT-N becomes redeemable when HEX day N begins — always at midnight UTC.  Mark the date; the note under the table explains why the app may show it one day earlier in your local time.

App Access via IPFS

Websites are only doorways to the protocol — the safety net behind them is IPFS, a peer-to-peer network where a file is found by its cryptographic fingerprint (its hash) rather than a domain name.  Both apps are published there in full.  If actuator.finance — or every website, including this one — ever became unavailable, these addresses would still open the apps with every function intact: delegate, mint, trade, farm, vault, and redeem.  This is the part of the appendix that makes a printed copy of this manual worth keeping.

To launch an app, open its hash through any public IPFS gateway — for example https://<hash>.ipfs.dweb.link/ — or run your own IPFS node.  One-click launch buttons and downloadable copies of the app files are kept on this site's Frontends page. The verification rule from the contracts above applies here too: an IPFS hash is a fingerprint of the exact code it names, so confirm it against an official source before connecting a wallet.

Appendix B: Frequently Asked Questions

These answers are adapted from the official Actuator documentation at docs.actuator.finance/faq. They summarize how the protocol works — always verify against the official docs, and remember this is educational content, not financial advice.

Why would I want to buy HTTs?

• Get HEX-stake-like growth while staying in a liquid token.
• Take advantage of mispricing — a discounted HTT can offer a greater expected return than an equivalent HEX stake.
• Lock in a fixed return in HEX terms, since 1 HTT redeems for exactly 1 HEX on redemption day — unlike ordinary HEX staking, where the end-stake payout is indeterminate and depends on other stakers.

How is this different from pooled HEX staking protocols (e.g. Maximus)?

• Pooled protocols socialize staking; Actuator gives you personal control over your own stakes.
• Pooled tokens represent an indeterminate amount of HEX at a future date; HTTs represent a determinate amount — 100 HTT-2500 is backed by exactly 100 HEX unlockable on day 2500.
• Pooled protocols aren't compatible with existing HSIs.
• Pooled protocols resemble "closed-end funds" (a limited minting window); Actuator is more like an "open-end fund" since HTTs can be freely minted.

What are the risks of buying or holding HTTs?

• Smart-contract risk — vulnerabilities could cause loss of funds.  Mitigation: audits and open-source, community-reviewable code.
• End-stake gas costs — holders may need to end a stake and pay gas to free up HEX for redemption.  Mitigation: the community end-stake incentive (up to 10% of rewards after a 3-day grace period).  The tool itself is the app's Community End Stake page — an empty queue there means nothing is overdue.
• Mispricing risk — an HTT trading at an unusually large or small discount.  Mitigation: two-way arbitrage — buy underpriced HTTs for higher returns, or amplify (mint and sell) overpriced ones — keeps pricing efficient.
• Underlying-stake penalties — the backing stake being penalized affects redemption after the 14-day grace period.  Mitigation: the community incentive makes timely ending likely.
• Liquidity risk — thin markets for some HTTs.  Mitigation: ACTR staking rewards incentivize liquidity providers.

Sources: adapted wholesale from the official FAQ

Appendix C: Glossary of Key Terms

• HTT (HEX Time Token): An ERC-20 token representing a claim on 1 HEX at a future redemption date.  Backed 1:1 by HEX.
• HSI (HEX Stake Instance): A Portable HEX Stake — a self-contained contract that wraps a HEX stake into a transferable token (a design Hedron developed).  Used by Actuator to mint HTTs.
• ACTR: The revenue/farming token of the Actuator protocol. 1B supply over 3 years. 75% farms, 25% team.
• Discount: The percentage below 1 HEX at which an HTT trades.  Reflects time value and market demand.
• Convergence: The pull of an HTT's market price from its discount toward 1 HEX as the redemption date approaches — anchored by the guaranteed 1:1 redemption on the day itself.
• Redemption: The process of exchanging 1 HTT for 1 HEX on the redemption date.
• Amplification: A strategy of repeatedly minting HTTs, swapping for HEX, and restaking to accumulate more T-Shares.  Most worthwhile when an HTT is overpriced (trading rich).
• Vault: A staking mechanism where ACTR holders lock their tokens (90-day lock-up) to earn 1% HTT creation fees pro-rata.  Not auto-compounding.
• Farm: A MasterChef-style contract where LP token deposits earn ACTR rewards.  Pool weights are fixed at deployment.
• T-Share: The unit of mining power in the HEX contract.  More T-Shares = more yield from the HEX inflation pool.
• Yield Curve: The pattern of HTT discounts across different redemption dates, analogous to a bond yield curve.
• HELOC: Home Equity Line of Credit.  Used as an analogy — Actuator is like a "HEX HELOC" because it lets you access liquidity against your staked HEX.
• PulseX: The primary DEX on PulseChain where HTT/HEX liquidity pools exist.
• Active Liquidity: The concept that staked HEX can still provide market liquidity through HTTs, as opposed to passive liquidity that sits locked.

Sources: each definition is sourced in its home chapter; full site-wide definitions in the Glossary

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