US stock index futures close lower, Russell 2000 drops 1.69%

The standout here is the Russell 2000's outsized decline relative to the large-cap contracts, a divergence that points to pressure on smaller, more domestically geared names rather than a uniform risk-off move. That matters for crypto and RWA markets because small caps and digital assets have often traded as correlated expressions of the same risk appetite, so the breadth of the selloff is more informative than the headline index moves. Whether the small-cap underperformance persists or mean-reverts is the open question to watch.