Patterns
Topics in this section introduce Move coding patterns that solve various logic needs in your package development.
Capabilities
A capability is a pattern that allows authorizing actions with an object. See Capabilities for an example of this pattern.
Witness and transferrable witness
A witness is a type with drop that proves that its owner was present at the time of some privileged operation, for example having access to the one-time witness (OTW) for a module proves that the code is being run at the time the module was first published. See the following topics for details.
Hot potato
A hot potato is a struct that has no capabilities, therefore you can only pack and unpack it in its module.
ID pointer
Objects can refer to each other by using their IDs as pointers. For example a capability that guards access to another object may store that object's ID to perform an authorization check.