The Albany Gazette - SMX Global Partnerships Making Gold Honest, Fashion Transparent, and Rare Earths Accountable

For years, SMX quietly refined its system. Molecular markers that live inside materials. Digital passports that travel with them through every transformation. What once sounded like futuristic science has become a necessity as industries scramble to verify what they produce and recycle. Global policies are catching up, and SMX's network of partnerships shows how verification is evolving into the next major layer of industrial infrastructure.

Singapore Turns Verification Into Policy

Singapore sits at the top of that evolution. In partnership with A*STAR, SMX is helping to create a national plastics passport system that assigns a permanent identity to materials from manufacture to reuse. This isn't a concept or a pilot. It's a functioning, government-backed standard that establishes digital continuity for every unit of plastic across its lifecycle.

For Singapore, it's a statement about national efficiency and compliance. For SMX, it's a validation of molecular verification at policy level. When a country known for precision engineering and regulatory rigor adopts your system, it elevates the conversation worldwide. What began as a scientific pursuit has turned into legislation in motion, and the rest of Asia is watching.

Turning Machines Into Proof Engines

The industrial shift is already visible. SMX's collaboration with REDWAVE and Tradepro is redefining how recycling operates. REDWAVE's high-speed sorting systems are being trained to detect SMX's molecular tags, verifying materials in real time as they move through production lines.

That kind of instant authentication eliminates the need for manual audits and late-stage paperwork. It transforms uncertainty into measurable data, improving margins and reliability across the supply chain. Tradepro completes the picture by distributing verified rPET into U.S. markets, supplying major brands that now face strict recycled-content mandates.

Together, these partners are proving that waste streams can become data streams and that the value of a material increases when its story can be verified from origin to reuse.

Spain Becomes Europe's Proof Accelerator

In Spain, SMX has partnered with CARTIF to integrate molecular tracking and analytics into next-generation circular-economy projects. CARTIF's testing centers act as launchpads for new technologies before they scale across the European Union, allowing SMX to demonstrate its system under real-world industrial conditions.

The alignment is perfectly timed. Europe's sustainability rules are becoming more exacting, and traceability is now a requirement for market participation. By working inside CARTIF's ecosystem, SMX gains faster routes to implementation across manufacturing and municipal networks. This partnership converts European climate policy into a measurable business opportunity and positions SMX at the intersection of compliance and commerce.

Precious Metals Learn to Speak

Gold and silver have symbolized trust for centuries, yet their authentication systems remain centuries old. Through trueGold and its collaboration with Goldstrom, SMX is embedding molecular proof directly into bullion. Each bar, coin, or refined lot carries a unique chemical signature that cannot be lost or replicated, creating an incorruptible record of origin and recycling history.

For traders and refiners, this changes the economics of trust. Verified metals can move faster, carry lower insurance costs, and command higher premiums because risk is reduced. In markets that measure value by confidence, molecular proof is becoming the new hallmark.

Textiles Add Accountability

Fashion's sustainability challenge has always been verification. Through its work with CETI in France, SMX is embedding its technology into textile production lines so fibers and fabrics can carry their own digital passports. CETI's facilities provide the scale and engineering discipline needed to take SMX's laboratory precision into everyday manufacturing.

Brands can now prove where materials come from, how much recycled content they contain, and how they perform over time. Regulators gain transparent data. Consumers gain confidence. And investors gain measurable metrics that align with sustainability-linked financing. In this model, transparency is not a marketing slogan. It's part of the product itself.

A Network That Defines the Category

Each SMX partnership represents a different layer of verification. A*STAR establishes a national template. REDWAVE and Tradepro bring industrial efficiency and distribution. CARTIF gives Europe a platform for proof at scale. Goldstrom integrates it into one of the oldest financial assets in history. CETI proves it can work at the consumer goods level.

Together they form the skeleton of a global proof economy, one that spans regulations, sectors, and geographies. SMX's ecosystem is not a collection of pilots. It's a coordinated framework where science, commerce, and compliance align.

Proof has become the language of modern industry, and SMX is the company teaching the world how to speak it. What started as molecular research is now a market infrastructure, and every partner it brings into the fold strengthens the same message: in the future of global trade, truth is the most valuable asset of all.

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.

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SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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