The Albany Gazette - Inside SMX's Global Rise From Molecular Marker to the Company That Taught Matter to Speak

Long before sustainability became a stage show at global conferences, SMX was quietly building the tools the world now depends on. In labs instead of boardrooms, its team was advancing a molecular marking system that could tag anything that moves through industry, from metal and rubber to liquids, plastics, and textiles, each with a hidden, indestructible ID. Those tags weren't for inventory. They were designed to turn supply chains into fact-based monetizable content.

And that's exactly what they've done. A product embedded with SMX markers can now tell you where it came from, what it's made of, and how many lives it has lived. Those stories never lose a chapter. Every touchpoint stays recorded for life, the result of a system that blends chemistry, code, and credibility into one continuous chain of truth.

Traction Turned to Momentum

Then came 2023. The year the quiet company in the corner became the center of gravity. After years of building beneath the surface, SMX found itself perfectly aligned with a global reckoning. Regulators wanted verification. Brands wanted accountability. Investors wanted evidence. SMX was ready to deliver on all three, blueprint in hand To each, it told the same message: its technology wasn't just another traceability fix. It was the connective tissue of the global economy's conscience.

What happened next was pure alchemy. SMX taught matter to speak in a universal language. Each invisible marker carries a molecular signature that survives every melt, mold, stretch, crush, and recycle. Connected to a blockchain registry, those molecules don't just hold value; they hold memory. Scan a plastic bottle in Singapore, and it can talk to the same polymer scanned in Germany. A tire can confirm its origin. A gold bar can verify its purity and the conditions and location of its mining. A shirt can prove its recycled content.

For the first time, the material world could testify for itself. No translators needed. More importantly, nothing was lost in translation, ever.

From Proof to Platform

That single idea, proof as a universal language of compliance, transformed SMX from a quiet lab project into a global movement. In Singapore, the company partnered with A*STAR to build a national circularity platform capable of tracing plastics, rubber, and packaging through digital passports linked to molecular markers. What began as a pilot is now being watched across ASEAN as a potential blueprint for regional circular economies.

In Europe, momentum multiplied. SMX joined forces with Austria's REDWAVE to weave molecular data into automated sorting systems. It partnered with France's CETI to bring verified sustainability to textiles. And with Continental AG, one of the world's largest tire manufacturers, it helped trace the full life of natural rubber, from plantation to product, mapping every molecule from tree to tread. Transparency, once optional, became operational.

By late 2025, SMX's name echoed through Spain's innovation corridors. Its alliance with CARTIF in Valladolid turned the region into Europe's circular-economy test track, where packaging, renewables, and construction materials are tagged and traced in real time. It's not a demo; it's infrastructure. If it scales, Valladolid could easily become recognized as the EU's "capital of proof."

The Gold Standard of Proof

Then came gold, the most ancient store of value redefined by modern chemistry. Through its majority-owned subsidiary, trueGold, SMX embedded molecular proof directly into precious metals. Its partnership with Goldstrom, a global leader in bullion banking and logistics, brings that science into commercial circulation.

The London Bullion Market Association has already accredited SMX's molecular marker as a Gold Bar Security Feature, one of the industry's highest endorsements. Gold no longer just holds worth; it proves it. And that kind of verification could reshape how trust is priced in trillion-dollar markets.

Proof Becomes the Product

Each partnership leads to the same conclusion. SMX has become the connective tissue of material truth, and it's fair to say it also wrote the book on material efficiency. From Singapore to Spain, from refineries to fashion houses, it links chemistry, code, and commerce into one ecosystem of accountability. What once relied on paper and promises now runs on molecular evidence.

Proof, once an afterthought, has become the product. The circular economy is no longer a theory. SMX turned it into a working marketplace with built-in molecular memory. It didn't follow the proof economy; it built it, molecule by molecule, receipt by receipt, until the world had to take notice.

And it is. But this time the people in it aren't just seeing; they're listening. Beneath the grind of regulation and the echo of decades of debate, a new frequency is taking hold. It's the pulse of proof, the sound of materials speaking for themselves.

In that regard, SMX didn't just find the signal. It sharpened the sound and amplified it for the world to hear. And benefit from.

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 Disclaimer

This editorial contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act and other applicable federal securities laws, and these statements reflect current expectations, assumptions, estimates, and projections regarding future events, the development and performance of SMX's technologies, and the anticipated evolution of global regulatory and commercial environments. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words or phrases such as anticipate, believe, could, estimate, expect, intend, may, plan, potential, project, seek, target, will, and similar terminology, although the absence of such terminology does not mean a statement is not forward-looking. These statements involve substantial risks, uncertainties, and contingencies, many of which are beyond the control of SMX and which could cause actual results, performance achievements, or outcomes to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statement. Such risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to changes in global sustainability regulations including requirements relating to digital product passports molecular traceability plastic credit systems national circularity frameworks environmental compliance standards or gold market authentication rules the timing scope and success of governmental or institutional adoption of SMX technologies the ability of SMX to scale molecular marking systems across multiple industries such as plastics rubber textiles metals chemicals electronics and precious metals the performance reliability cost structure and commercial viability of SMX's molecular markers scanners registries and digital passport systems and the company's ability to convert pilot programs in regions such as Singapore Europe ASEAN and the United States into long term revenue generating deployments.

Additional factors that could affect forward looking statements include evolving geopolitical conditions supply chain disruptions trade restrictions economic instability foreign exchange fluctuations competitive pressures within the verification authentication and materials tracking industries challenges related to protecting intellectual property including patents and proprietary technologies the availability cost and sufficiency of capital resources the ability of SMX to maintain key partnerships with research institutions such as A*STAR, CETI, CARTIF, and REDWAVE or with commercial partners including tire manufacturers chemical producers recyclers refiners and precious metals processors and risks associated with its majority owned subsidiary trueGold including potential changes to bullion market standards security protocols or LBMA accreditation frameworks.

SMX's ability to achieve or sustain commercial momentum may also be influenced by the pace of industry adoption of molecular marking systems the ability of legacy infrastructure to integrate new verification technologies potential resistance from entrenched market participants shifting regulatory enforcement priorities labor availability cyber threats data accuracy and integrity risks and challenges that may arise from expanding into new jurisdictions each with its own legal environmental and operational requirements.

Readers are cautioned that forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of publication and reflect current views that may change as new data events or circumstances emerge, and readers should not place undue reliance on any such statements, as actual developments may differ significantly due to factors known and unknown. Except as required by applicable law, SMX assumes no obligation to update, revise, or supplement any forward-looking statements to reflect future events, new information, changing circumstances, or shifts in strategic or operational direction, regardless of whether such changes arise from subsequent developments, newly available data, or internal reassessments of market conditions.

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SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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