**Cryptocurrency News:**

- Artificial intelligence-related cryptocurrencies led the market gains on Monday, while altcoins continued to outperform Bitcoin (BTC).

- Layer-1 blockchain tokens Near (NEAR) and Render (RNDR) have both risen 18%-20% in the past 24 hours. The CoinDesk 20 Index has gained 1.5% in the same period.

- Decentralized machine learning protocol Bittensor (TAO) has climbed 17%, while Livepeer (LPT) has extended gains after a mention from Digital Currency Group CEO Barry Silbert.

- Bitcoin has gained less than 1%, struggling to reclaim a key 200-day moving average. Ether (ETH) has gained 3.5%.

- Celestia (TIA) has surged 12% on news of a $100 million investment from the Celestia Foundation.

- In traditional markets, gold hit new record prices and stocks continued to rally after the Fed cut interest rates by 50 basis points.

- 10x Research's Marcus Thielen predicts that Bitcoin could hit new record prices in the fourth quarter, citing several catalysts.

- The SEC has approved the listing of options for BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF, which could attract more institutional liquidity.

- Thielen noted that the US presidential election will not have a significant impact on Bitcoin, as government spending and deficits will continue to grow.