U.S. stocks opened higher, led by technology shares, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.14%, the S&P 500 rising 0.42% and the Nasdaq climbing 0.85%, according to MSX.COM data. The VIX fear index, a closely watched measure of expected market volatility, fell 1.96%. AI-related stocks broadly advanced at the open, with CoreWeave jumping 19.02%, Super Micro Computer up 8.52%, Astera Labs gaining 6.09%, Marvell rising 5.71% and Oracle adding 5.11%. MSX was described as a major RWA trading platform, with hundreds of listed RWA tokens tied to popular U.S. stocks and ETFs including Nvidia, GOOGL, MSFT, AMZN, META, TSM and AMD.