The Albany Gazette - SMX Connects the World's Supply Chains Into a Single Network of Truth as Media Spotlight Intensifies

A new architecture is emerging, and SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is wiring the world into what can only be described as a verification supergrid. Its molecular marking system, already deployed across plastics, textiles, metals, and trade goods, is bridging continents and industries with one unifying feature: proof at the material level. The world is starting to notice.

When Rolling Stone highlighted that the era of slogans is collapsing under its own weight, the message was not about culture. It was about supply chains. Proof, not positioning, is becoming the benchmark. Weeks later, USA Today outlined how traceability technologies are reshaping border inspections and tariff policy by turning raw materials into self-identifying assets. Morning Honey added a lifestyle lens to the same trend, noting how brands can finally confirm what they have been claiming for years.

And in an extensive conversation with OPIS, SMX revealed how this system is already operating across Asia-Pacific, tagging recycled plastics at the molecular level and preparing for a future where every kilo of resin has a secure, auditable identity.

The media is not echoing hype. They are documenting a shift.

A System Designed to Replace Guesswork With Autonomous Truth

Carbon markets taught the world a hard lesson. Good intentions are not the same as measurable outcomes. Credits depended on extrapolation, modeling, and unverifiable reporting. As loopholes expanded, confidence shrank.

SMX is not fixing carbon markets. It is solving the underlying problem: the absence of objective material-level truth.

In the OPIS recap of Singapore's strategy, SMX's pilot with A*STAR clearly lays out the stakes. Nation-scale recycling programs can only scale when proof is native to the material. Singapore is pursuing measurable increases in recycling rates and sharp reductions in incineration because it is building its system on certified material identity rather than on administrative trust.

That is the quiet brilliance of SMX's model. Instead of certifying the process, it certifies the material.
Instead of hoping compliance occurs, it verifies that it did. And, instead of rewarding claims, it rewards confirmation.

This is how supply chains evolve from narratives to networks.

Where Verification Becomes Leverage

What makes the supergrid concept powerful is how it intersects with economics. In a global marketplace, identity creates advantage. Verified plastics clear customs faster. Verified textiles qualify for sustainability-linked financing. Verified metals bypass origin disputes that often trigger tariffs.

Morning Honey underscored how SMX's markers enable customs authorities to scan goods in seconds, reducing mislabeling, fraud, and accelerating clearance for companies that operate cleanly. It is transparency as propulsion, not punishment.

And SMX's reach is widening.

In the United States, its collaboration with Tradepro will turn verified rPET into a premium-grade commodity. In Spain, CARTIF is testing SMX technology in real industrial environments to help Europe meet its circular-economy benchmarks. In France, CETI is embedding molecular identity into textiles, enabling fashion and luxury houses to authenticate fibers and blends immediately.

In Singapore, Goldstrom is adopting SMX's technology for precious metals, giving gold and silver a permanent origin signature that persists from mine to mint to retail. And in Austria, REDWAVE is integrating SMX into automated sorting systems so factories can verify materials as they move along the belt.

Each node strengthens the larger network. Each adoption raises the global standard. And, each integration expands the surface area of truth.

Proof as the New Global Language

At a certain point, momentum becomes infrastructure. The acceleration of coverage from sources as varied as Rolling Stone, USA Today, consumer outlets, and commodity analysts is no coincidence. It is convergence. Different sectors are discovering the same solution from different angles.

SMX's platform gives plastics, textiles, metals, and electronics a persistent identity that does not wash off, wear out, or disappear under pressure. Paired with the Plastic Cycle Token, recycled content can be defined, valued, and traded across borders with the precision of a financial instrument.

Audits without accuracy and pledges without proof have tested the world's patience. SMX answers with something solid: a foundation supply chains can trust. The difference between intent and impact has always been the weak point. SMX is strengthening 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

This information contains forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward looking statements reflect current expectations, projections, and assumptions regarding future events that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements relate to SMX (NASDAQ: SMX), its molecular marker systems, its partnerships, its expansion into new sectors and geographies, and its technology's potential role in transforming global supply chains, recycling markets, and material authentication frameworks.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, expectations concerning the adoption, scalability, and commercial deployment of SMX technologies across plastics, textiles, metals, electronics, and other materials; the potential impact of SMX's systems on regulatory compliance, tariff enforcement, sustainability reporting, and cross-border trade; anticipated performance of SMX initiatives in the United States, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region; expectations regarding the effectiveness and continued development of SMX-integrated identity layers, automated sorting systems, textile authentication, and precious-metals traceability; and the potential economic or market benefits associated with digital verification instruments such as the Plastic Cycle Token.

These statements also reflect assumptions about regulatory developments, market demand for authenticated recycled content, corporate adoption of traceability technologies, global sustainability mandates, geopolitical influences on trade, technological performance under commercial conditions, and the ability of SMX to integrate its systems into diverse industrial workflows. Forward looking statements are subject to significant risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes to differ materially. These risks include, but are not limited to, changes in environmental or trade regulations; shifts in consumer or corporate behavior; competitive pressures from alternative traceability systems; scientific or technical challenges in molecular-level deployment; operational disruptions within SMX or its partners; macroeconomic volatility; supply chain changes; and conditions described in SMX's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and any subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.

Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward looking statements to reflect future events, changes in circumstances, or newly available information, except as required by applicable law.

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SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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