The Albany Gazette - SMX: The $1 Trillion Opportunity Hidden in Every Material

While the world chased carbon credits and certification stamps, SMX was hard-coding honesty into the materials themselves. Its molecular marking technology lets metal, plastic, rubber, and textiles carry their own embedded proof, a permanent molecular ID that stays with them through every melt, mold, and recycle.

The next time someone talks about supply-chain transparency, they're talking about SMX without realizing it. The company didn't just build a product. It built a memory system for the physical world.

From Obscurity to Operating System

For years, SMX looked like a curiosity, a small-cap science project chasing an impossible idea. Then the world caught up. Regulators started demanding traceability. Global brands began facing lawsuits over recycled-content claims. Investors wanted receipts, not promises.

SMX was already there. Its molecular platform connects to blockchain registries, converting every marked material into a self-verifying record. A tire can confirm its natural rubber origin. A plastic bottle can prove it's recycled, not just recyclable. A bar of gold can attest to its ethical origin.

This isn't traceability as paperwork. It's traceability as architecture, proof built into the product itself.

Proof in Motion

Once the technology hit the radar, momentum took off. In Singapore, SMX partnered with A*STAR to create a national circularity platform that tracks plastics, packaging, and rubber through digital passports linked to molecular data. The system connects recyclers, manufacturers, and regulators into one verifiable network. What began as a pilot is now being studied across ASEAN as a model for regional circular economies.

Europe followed quickly. SMX's alliance with Austria's REDWAVE links molecular data to automated sorting systems. In France, the company is working with CETI to embed verified sustainability into textiles. In partnership with BASF, chemical traceability is moving from the lab to large-scale production. And with Continental AG, SMX proved something once thought impossible: full traceability of natural rubber from plantation to product.

Then came Spain. In Valladolid, SMX and CARTIF turned the region into a live circular-economy test zone where packaging, renewables, and construction materials are tagged, tracked, and verified in real time. It's no longer theory. It's infrastructure.

Turning Gold Into Data

SMX took its next leap through trueGold, its majority-owned subsidiary focused on the precious-metals market. By embedding molecular verification directly into bullion and partnering with Goldstrom, SMX brought material integrity to one of the world's oldest stores of value.

The London Bullion Market Association has now accredited SMX's molecular marker as a Gold Bar Security Feature. Gold no longer just shines. It speaks. It can prove where it came from, how it was refined, and whether it truly deserves the label "clean."

That's not marketing. It's accountability at the molecular level.

The Economy of Evidence

SMX isn't just changing how materials are tracked. It's redefining how they're valued. Its system creates a universal language for global trade, one written in chemistry and translated through blockchain.

In a marketplace drowning in ESG checklists, SMX delivers something tangible: proof. The kind that can't be forged or faked. Every verified material becomes a living digital asset that carries its own story of compliance, origin, and authenticity.

What began as molecular science is now a new kind of infrastructure. Proof has become the product. SMX didn't wait for the world to demand it. It built it, molecule by molecule, until the world had no choice but to notice.

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.

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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