On Tuesday, Helius Labs co-founder and CEO Mert Mumtaz wrote an article on why AI will change blockchains, stating that the cryptocurrency industry must follow aviation, spaceflight, and chip manufacturing engineering standards.

Mumtaz differentiated between two kinds of software. The vast majority of the industry, he said, is built on the loose, patch-it-later standards of low-stakes systems like e-commerce, where the worst that can happen is downtime or a fixable bug.

Blockchains are in the other category, along with aerospace and chip production, where code controls money in a way that is “irreversible, adversarial, and immutable” and where one bug means catastrophic, irrecoverable loss.

“Immutable financial code is akin to a…