According to @MikeBacina, AI-driven testing is now essential for smart contract code and increasingly vital for other security-critical code, signaling a shift toward automated audits in crypto projects, source: @MikeBacina on X, Dec 2, 2025. He warns that legacy software is likely to be broken into quickly, implying rising exploit risk for unaudited or outdated on-chain systems, source: @MikeBacina on X, Dec 2, 2025. For traders, this indicates higher tail-risk premiums for tokens tied to protocols with legacy codebases and potential positive repricing for projects that adopt AI-powered audits and timely security disclosures, source: @MikeBacina on X, Dec 2, 2025.