The Albany Gazette - Gold, Rare Earth Minerals, Digital Assets: The Market Just Realized SMX Sits in All Three

Gold authentication is being rebuilt. Rare earth mineral supply chains are being restructured. Digital assets are being redefined. And the connective tissue behind all three movements, which also informs much of the ESG discussion, traces back to one technology platform quietly reshaping how the world measures truth. It's built by SMX (NASDAQ:SMX).

SMX didn't create separate tools for separate industries. It built a molecular identity platform that gives physical materials a persistent signature, one that doesn't wash off, burn off, grind away, or disappear when materials are processed, separated, remelted, or transported. That matters because gold, critical minerals, and digital markets have all been wrestling with the same structural flaw: no one could verify material identity after transformation. Until now.

Valuing Verifiable Real-World Assets

Gold demonstrates how different the world looks when that barrier disappears. For centuries, trust has been the only real safeguard in the bullion trade. Bars cross borders, visit vaults, rotate through refineries, and lose their history along the way. SMX solved that problem by embedding identity into the metal itself. Whether a bar is cast, melted, or reshaped, its molecular signature remains intact. The metal becomes its own witness. Not a certificate. Not a stamp. The material itself. It is the most significant authentication upgrade the gold sector has seen in generations, and it didn't require reinventing the trading ecosystem. It required installing a new foundation beneath it.

Rare earth minerals reveal another dimension of the same breakthrough. These materials power clean energy, aerospace systems, robotics, semiconductors, and national defense. Yet they travel through some of the most opaque supply chains on Earth. Ores blend. Concentrates mix. Processing erases visual identity. Provenance becomes guesswork. SMX changes that dynamic by giving rare earths a molecular identity that survives extraction, separation, processing, and alloy formation. Governments, manufacturers, and critical-infrastructure providers finally gain what this sector has always lacked: verifiable lineage that stays intact through every industrial transformation.

Then comes the digital frontier. For years, digital-asset markets have searched for a bridge to the physical world that wasn't built on estimates or sentiment. SMX built that bridge through the Plastic Cycle Token (PCT). The PCT converts verified material performance into digital signals anchored in real-world activity. Recovery becomes data. Data becomes a signal. The signal becomes a digital asset rooted in measurable truth. What began as physical verification becomes a new class of digital proof that markets can trust.

Three sectors. Three long-standing structural problems: Gold needs authenticity that survives heat and recasting. Rare earth minerals need traceability that survives industrial processing. Digital assets need real-world anchors that cannot be gamed. Now they can get that through one underlying breakthrough.

SMX didn't pivot into these needs. These needs converged on the technology SMX already built.

The World is Discovering the Platform's Value

The implications are becoming clearer every week. Gold is discovering a future beyond legacy paperwork. Rare earth supply chains are discovering how transparency can be valued in a market defined by opacity. The digital economy is discovering how value can be tied to verified performance instead of narrative. And all of them are discovering the same molecular identity system engineered to survive any material transformation, in any industry, across any lifecycle.

That is what makes this moment fundamentally different. These industries once had nothing in common. Now they can function like interconnected chapters of the same global story. SMX isn't pursuing multiple markets. It's powering the shift pulling multiple markets into alignment. Gold becomes more trustworthy. Rare earth minerals are more accountable. Digital assets are more grounded. Proof becomes the platform linking them together.

SMX's technology is more than a tool. It is the engine moving these sectors into a new era of provable, persistent, material-level identity: the capability required for truly verifiable supply chains. When industries share that foundation, they stop behaving like isolated markets and begin emerging as a connected ecosystem.

What is an ecosystem like that worth? Markets will determine the value. But today's phase of price discovery reflects something important: stakeholders are recalibrating what "fair value" means as one platform begins to solve structural problems across gold, rare earths, sustainability, and the digital economy at the same time.

SMX is delivering that ecosystem. And only now is the world beginning to understand how far it extends.

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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