U.S. stocks opened lower, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.75%, the S&P 500 down 0.34% and the Nasdaq Composite down 0.49%, according to MSX.COM data. The VIX, a gauge of expected stock-market volatility, rose 6.85%. AI-related shares also declined, led by drops in Arm, AeroVironment, CrowdStrike, Amazon and CoreWeave. MSX is described as a leading RWA (real-world asset) trading platform and has listed hundreds of RWA tokens linked to major U.S. stocks and ETFs, including Nvidia, GOOGL, MSFT, AMZN, META, TSM and AMD.