The Albany Gazette - SMX Can Provide the Ultimate Punch to Global Chaos...Before the Opening Bell

This is why SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) belongs at the center of the global security conversation. Its technology embeds invisible molecular markers directly into plastics, chips, metals, and telecom and computer hardware. Every component gets a permanent identity that can be verified in seconds. The moment identity becomes non-negotiable, scale without accountability dies. The most powerful advantage hostile actors have is anonymity. SMX makes anonymity impossible.

When investigators uncovered more than 300 servers and 100,000 SIM cards staged inside New York apartments, they weren't uncovering a fraud ring. They were looking at a dormant weapon system. One coordinated activation could have jammed cell towers, suffocated emergency response channels, and forced the United States to respond as if the country were under direct attack. The threat isn't foreign. The threat is local and assembled quietly, room by room, inside ordinary buildings.

History That Cannot Repeat

History keeps showing the cost of surprise. Pearl Harbor shocked the country into a four-year war. 9/11 took less than two hours and reshaped two decades of national policy. The pattern is simple. The first strike is never the climax. The first strike is the trigger. If those SIM cards had activated during a crisis window, hospitals would have scrambled, markets would have frozen, and federal agencies would have been thrown into a posture of immediate escalation. Silent attacks force loud responses. Escalation is always the real enemy.

This is the urgency SMX is built to solve. Supply chains have been treated like procurement paperwork for too long. They are the frontline of national defense. Forensics might eventually uncover the origin of a counterfeit component, but the damage is already baked in. Prevention is the only safety margin that matters. Prevention begins with proof at the component level.

Proof That Stops an Attack Before It Starts

SMX delivers that proof. Its technology embeds unique chemical signatures inside the material itself and links each part to an immutable ledger. Every device can answer three questions instantly. Where did it originate. Who handled it. Is it the same component that passed certification. A counterfeit router gets rejected at the loading dock. A cloned SIM card never activates. A critical sensor without a verified chain of custody never makes it into a national grid. Proof removes anonymity, and removing anonymity removes the ability to weaponize scale.

SMX calls this the doctrine of proof. The next great attack won't arrive with explosions. It will arrive in silence. Emergency channels drowned. Power grids stalled. Sensors blinded. But if every device enters the system with an auditable identity, the logistics behind these attacks fail before they begin. The opening bell of chaos never rings.

SMX has already demonstrated this model in industries where authenticity is currency. Recycled plastics, advanced materials, metals, and national supply chains run cleaner and stronger when identity becomes part of the material. The same molecular fingerprint that validates recycled polymers can validate telecom chips. The same ledger that authenticates industrial steel can authenticate sensors, switches, and grid-critical hardware. Proof moves between industries. Deterrence moves with it.

A Company Positioned to Take on the Threat

And now SMX is capitalized to scale. The company secured new funding that stabilizes operations and strengthens its ability to deploy these systems across high-risk sectors. This matters. Threats are not waiting for next quarter's budget cycle. They are already building. SMX's strengthened balance sheet means the company can move at the speed the threat landscape requires. The country won't win the next conflict with bigger weapons. It will win it with better verification.

The future of security belongs to whoever controls proof. SMX turns prevention into policy, certainty into a national strategy, and proof into the country's most valuable defense. The threats are already here. The difference between panic and prevention is whether we embed proof before an attack ever tries to arrive.

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

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SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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