AI Agents Embrace Crypto, Pentagon Runs Bitcoin Node, and DeFi Crisis Response

In today's episode of Chain Reaction by Capital Copilot, we cover the emergence of agentic finance as AI agents execute financial transactions using cryptocurrency rails, the U.S. military's revelation that it operates a Bitcoin node for cybersecurity research, and the coordinated DeFi response to the two hundred ninety-two million dollar KelpDAO exploit. We also examine Bitcoin's stall below eighty thousand dollars amid rising geopolitical tensions, Wisconsin's sweeping lawsuits against major prediction market platforms, and a U.S. Army soldier charged with insider trading on Polymarket. Plus, Tether freezes three hundred forty-four million dollars in stablecoins, MicroStrategy declares the Bitcoin winter over, and OpenAI's new GPT-five point five model takes aim at the enterprise market.