The Albany Gazette - SMX Has Delivered What the Recycling Industry's Been Promising for Decades (NASDAQ: SMX)

We're not a technology company still chasing value. We already have it. The platform is built, the patents are issued, and the partnerships are active. From Aegis, Redwave, and BASF to A*STAR in Singapore and CETI in France, our footprint spans every link in the industrial chain. We're co-developing plastics traceability and circularity systems with Continental, Skypac Packaging, Tradepro, and Bio-Packaging Pte Ltd., advancing metal authentication through a 50:50 joint venture with W.A. Mint, and powering real-world manufacturing with BT-Systems and Tradepro.

Read the news in the link provided above. These companies and governments aren't turning to SMX because we can show them what needs to be done. They're turning to us because we can do it. We provide the proof that regulators demand and convert that same proof into currency for companies. It's not a theory, and it's not future tense. The system is operating today, delivering what no one else in the industry can: real-time verification that pays.

We're showing that every material can be traced, every product can be verified, and every action can be backed by data that carries the same weight as currency. The proof we deliver isn't for peace of mind. It's built to create value by allowing manufacturers across virtually any sector to turn what was once waste into measurable revenue - turning trash into cash. Because when proof becomes currency, markets don't just evolve, they create winners at every stage of the mining and manufacturing process.

A Smarter Kind of Recordkeeping

Think of our system as the universal recordkeeper of the material world. Every stage of a product's life is logged, sealed, and verified using digital ledger technology (block-chain). From mining to manufacturing, from reuse to recycling, every action is captured permanently and transparently, creating a digital record that tells the truth from start to finish.

This level of visibility means more than efficiency. It means security. It stops the next SIM card infiltration before it starts. It protects vital computer hardware from counterfeit components. It defends brand provenance by confirming that every product is authentic and sourced from where it claims to be. It verifies that the minerals pulled from the ground are ethically mined and responsibly processed. When every touchpoint is known, traced, and verified, the entire supply chain becomes harder to exploit - and impossible to fake.

Traditional recordkeeping was designed to track money. SMX built its platform to track matter. It's not about numbers in spreadsheets. It's about verifying that every step, every shipment, and every claim is true. This isn't data for compliance. It's protection for everything that depends on truth, from national infrastructure to global trade.

The Invisible Marker That Makes Matter Talk

No other company on earth offers this capability. SMX uses a molecular marker that can be embedded directly into raw materials from their virgin state all the way through the recycling process. Plastic, rubber, metal, textiles - it doesn't matter. Once added, the marker creates a unique fingerprint that links the physical item to its verified record. It cannot be removed, copied, or altered. It's immutable.

Better than a fingerprint, that marker gives every material its own digital passport that travels with it indefinitely. As products move from factory to warehouse to retailer, each scan adds another block to that material's verified story. When it reaches the recycler, SMX technology can show exactly where it came from, how it was used, and how much of it is genuinely recycled. This is precisely the data regulators want to see, manufacturers want to prove, and brands value when marketing through our Plastic Cycle Token (PCT) program.

This isn't theory. It's a global operation already advancing through partnerships with Continental, BASF, Redwave, A*STAR, and CETI. Chemistry meets verification. Proof meets economics. It's the combination that turns sustainability into something measurable, monetizable, and unstoppable.

The Global Ledger of Proof

That matters today more than ever. Why? Because our platform creates a single, verifiable source of truth that every stakeholder can rely on. Regulators can confirm compliance instantly. Brands can present verified sourcing data instead of marketing promises. Recyclers and manufacturers can finally prove the real value they've been creating for years.

The result is a system where verified data replaces assumptions. Everyone sees the same record, and the value of authenticated materials can flow freely through the supply chain. That transparency creates accountability, and accountability drives liquidity.

This isn't another reporting platform. It's performance infrastructure. The companies using SMX technology aren't trying to keep pace with sustainability standards. They're defining and outrunning their competitors at a time when traceability and accountability aren't optional. It's required.

But it's not all for show. There is enormous value associated.

Plastic Cycle Token (PCT): When Proof Becomes Value

Once materials are verified as authentic recycled content, our system generates a Plastic Cycle Token (PCT), a digital certificate that confirms the quantity of recycled material.

These verified credits can be used to meet sustainability goals, demonstrate compliance, or offset virgin material use. They turn what used to be an environmental cost into a financial opportunity. For the first time, recycling isn't just responsible. It's profitable.

We're not talking about a few plastic bottles being counted for goodwill. We're talking about metric tons of verified plastic waste being valued, sold, and brought back into the system as traceable, tradable commodities. The material, once written off as waste, is now an asset with measurable value, driving both accountability and liquidity across global supply chains.

The best part is that each token is built on PROOF, not speculation. It gives recycled materials an authenticated, measurable market value, which protects the intersection between circularity and profitability. Proof becomes value. Value becomes incentive. And the cycle accelerates every time a new partner joins the system.

The Big Picture

For decades, recycling has run on reports, trust, and good intentions. But intent doesn't move capital. Proof does. SMX delivers that proof, giving every player in the value chain a single system that verifies, records, and rewards what's real. Manufacturers can trace their production with certainty. Brands can stand behind every claim. Recyclers can convert verification into revenue instead of effort. Transparency becomes profitability the moment proof enters the equation.

Our mission is simple: give every material a memory. Everything made can be traced. Everything recycled can be verified. Everything verified can be valued. This is not a theoretical framework - it's a functioning system already connecting regulators, manufacturers, and recyclers in measurable ways across continents. From Singapore to France to Australia, SMX is proving that verified circularity isn't just possible. It's profitable.

We're not waiting for markets to evolve. We're driving that evolution. The technology is proven. The partnerships are global. The results are measurable. Proof is no longer the end of the story. It's the foundation of a new economy. One where transparency fuels value creation and proof becomes currency. For the latter, SMX is the mint.

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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