Move is built around the concept of resource-oriented programming, a paradigm that treats assets as unique and irreplaceable resources. This approach ensures:

• Ownership Security: Resources in Move can never be accidentally duplicated or deleted, eliminating risks like double-spending or unauthorized asset transfers.
• Precise Control: Developers can define strict rules for resource creation, transfer, and destruction, enhancing contract integrity.

Real-World Alignment: Move’s resource model closely mirrors real-world asset management, making it ideal for financial applications such as DeFi, FTs, and NFTs.

Move was built with security at its core, making it an ideal choice for financial applications and decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystems. Its resource-oriented programming model ensures assets are treated as unique and irreplaceable, preventing double-spending and other common vulnerabilities.

Move introduces an innovative Ability feature that defines four key capabilities for smart contract data structures:

• Copy enables data duplication.
• Drop allows safe disposal.
• Key serves as a unique identifier.
• Store ensures persistent storage.

These abilities can be flexibly applied to different structures, empowering developers to design secure and scenario-specific smart contract structures, such as Resource types essential for FT and NFT use cases.

Move offers a complete set of formal verification tools, unmatched by other smart contract languages like Solidity. These tools allow developers to mathematically prove the correctness and security of their contracts, using the actual smart contract code as input data. This feature significantly reduces vulnerabilities and ensures a high level of trust in smart contract operations.