The Albany Gazette - Rolling Stone Dives Into the Science Behind SMX's Proof-Driven Circularity Platform (NASDAQ: SMX)

That's where SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) separates itself. While most of the industry talks about goals, SMX builds the systems that verify them. Its molecular marker technology embeds identity directly into materials - plastics, rubber, textiles, metals, and electronics - creating a digital memory that tracks each product through recycling, reuse, and resale. It's not just innovation; it's a scientific framework for credibility.

That framework is exactly what caught the attention of Rolling Stone, which declared that "plastic promises are dead." It wasn't a cultural quip. It was a recognition that proof now defines progress. USA Today, The Straits Times, Morning Honey, OPIS, and The Los Angeles Tribune all followed with the same conclusion: SMX is turning verification into infrastructure.

Where Science Becomes Trust

Traditional sustainability models rely on declarations - such as carbon credits, offset pledges, or recycled content targets - that sound good on paper but are difficult to audit in practice. SMX takes a different approach. By marking materials at the molecular level, it transforms every component into a self-reporting data point. The result: traceability without manual tracking, compliance without guesswork, and accountability that doesn't depend on anyone's word.

USA Today underscored this shift, noting that the $824 billion plastics market is now under pressure to prove every step of its supply chain. When materials carry their own identity, the reporting isn't just cleaner - it's conclusive. The same science that satisfies regulators also protects revenue, reducing losses, disputes, and fraud. SMX has turned proof into performance.

The Straits Times highlighted the global implications, detailing Singapore's plan for a digital passport for plastics - precisely the type of national infrastructure SMX's system makes possible. OPIS described how digitalizing waste transforms landfill costs into measurable assets. Morning Honey and Sourcing Journal extended the conversation into lifestyle and fashion, showing how the same traceability can reshape consumer trust. And The Los Angeles Tribune captured the economic evolution with one line that read like a thesis statement: "Carbon Credits Had Their Day."

When Chemistry Meets Credibility

This is where the story stops being theoretical. SMX isn't pitching sustainability - it's quantifying it. The chemistry is the credibility. The technology isn't background noise; it's the proof layer every circular economy needs to function.

Governments see in SMX a tool for enforceable regulation. Brands see the backbone for next-generation ESG reporting. Investors see a measurable moat. And scientists? They see elegance - a system that doesn't just measure change but enables it.

What used to be a question of trust has become a question of data. And SMX built the lab that answers both. Proof is now the story and the standard, and SMX is the science behind it.

About SMX

As global businesses face new and complex challenges relating to carbon neutrality and meeting new governmental and regional regulations and standards, SMX is able to offer players along the value chain access to its marking, tracking, measuring and digital platform technology to transition more successfully to a low-carbon economy.

Forward-Looking Statements

The information in this press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words "anticipate," "believe," "contemplate," "continue," "could," "estimate," "expect," "forecast," "intends," "may," "will," "might," "plan," "possible," "potential," "predict," "project," "should," "would" and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, for example: matters relating to the Company's fight against abusive and possibly illegal trading tactics against the Company's stock; successful launch and implementation of SMX's joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of gold, steel, rubber and other materials; changes in SMX's strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects and plans; SMX's ability to develop and launch new products and services, including its planned Plastic Cycle Token; SMX's ability to successfully and efficiently integrate future expansion plans and opportunities; SMX's ability to grow its business in a cost-effective manner; SMX's product development timeline and estimated research and development costs; the implementation, market acceptance and success of SMX's business model; developments and projections relating to SMX's competitors and industry; and SMX's approach and goals with respect to technology. These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this press release, and current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve a number of judgments, risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing views as of any subsequent date, and no obligation is undertaken to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws. As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, actual results or performance may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include: the ability to maintain the listing of the Company's shares on Nasdaq; changes in applicable laws or regulations; any lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on SMX's business; the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations, and identify and realize additional opportunities; the risk of downturns and the possibility of rapid change in the highly competitive industry in which SMX operates; the risk that SMX and its current and future collaborators are unable to successfully develop and commercialize SMX's products or services, or experience significant delays in doing so; the risk that the Company may never achieve or sustain profitability; the risk that the Company will need to raise additional capital to execute its business plan, which may not be available on acceptable terms or at all; the risk that the Company experiences difficulties in managing its growth and expanding operations; the risk that third-party suppliers and manufacturers are not able to fully and timely meet their obligations; the risk that SMX is unable to secure or protect its intellectual property; the possibility that SMX may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and other risks and uncertainties described in SMX's filings from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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