Obligation

Before engaging in any borrowing-related activities, you must have an Obligation object. An Obligation is an object used to record your collateral and debt. Therefore, you need to create at least one Obligation to perform any actions related to borrowing.

It’s possible to have multiple obligations.

Each obligation is independent of the others, meaning that depositing collateral in one obligation does not allow you to borrow an asset using another obligation—even if you are the owner of both obligations.

Understanding Obligation in deep

An Obligation is a shared object. instead of holding the Obligation object in your wallet, you will possess an ObligationKey. This ObligationKey serves as proof that you own a specific Obligation linked to this key. Consequently, what you will find in your wallet is an NFT of the ObligationKey.

Essentially, your Obligation can be included in any transaction. However, for certain actions that require proof of ownership, others cannot use your Obligation because the function requires ownership proof. This is where your ObligationKey plays a crucial role.

For instance, when you want to borrow, the borrowing function will require you to provide both the Obligation and ObligationKey objects. In this scenario, anyone could pass your Obligation in this function, BUT only you can use the correct ObligationKey. This mechanism secures your Obligation against unauthorized use.

This is what we leverage from Sui Object-centric Model https://docs.sui.io/concepts/object-ownership/address-owned