The Albany Gazette - DMCC, Digital Commodity Markets, and the Plastic Cycle Token Turning Proof Into Value

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) and the Plastic Cycle Token show how quickly that problem disappears once verification becomes infrastructure. Identity-backed materials behave differently. A verified polymer pellet is not the same as an unverified one. A verified recycled input commands 20% to 40% price premiums in many categories because it proves compliance, reduces manufacturing risks, and delivers measurable ESG value. A verified kilogram of circular plastic becomes a distinct product class. DMCC's role, particularly in gold, demonstrates why this matters. When commodities carry identity, markets can price them correctly. When they do not, pricing is blunt, inefficient, and distorted by uncertainty.

The Plastic Cycle Token Levels the Field

This is where the Plastic Cycle Token (PCT) enters the narrative. The PCT represents the value layer that has been missing from sustainability markets for decades. Traditional carbon credits rely on models, projections, and assumptions that regulators struggle to validate. PCT is different. It converts verified recycling activity into a tokenized digital asset backed by measurable proof. Each kilogram of plastic recovered, authenticated, processed, and reintroduced into the circular economy is counted as a unit of value. That value can be traded, audited, and applied across supply chains. Proof becomes currency.

The numbers speak clearly. The plastics industry exceeds six hundred billion dollars. The world produces more than four hundred million metric tons of plastic every year, yet less than 10% is recycled at scale. Even small improvements in verified recovery generate enormous economic upside.

If identity increases global recovery rates by only 5%, the value of the materials captured exceeds $20 billion annually. With PCT, that value becomes visible, tradable, and financially aligned with circular incentives.

DMCC provides the global context for this shift. Commodity hubs require clarity. They require accurate chain-of-custody data. They require verification systems capable of supporting cross-border trade. SMX's molecular identity meets those requirements by enabling materials to move with authenticated histories. The PCT then connects those verified materials to digital markets.

A recycler in Europe can generate tokens tied to recovered polyethylene. A manufacturer in Asia can acquire those tokens as part of its compliance and audit framework. A regulator can verify both sides of the transaction. The system becomes transparent end-to-end.

The Identity Models Will Work

The strategic implications are enormous. Identity-backed commodities reduce fraud. They reduce procurement risk. They strengthen national recycling sovereignty. They allow governments to implement circular policies based on actual data instead of paperwork. They create new markets where value follows proof, not declarations. SMX's PCT closes the loop by turning verification into liquidity. Circularity becomes financially rewarding rather than financially burdensome.

This is why the identity economy is expanding toward commodity markets. DMCC shows the demand in metals. Global supply chains show the need across other sectors. With SMX, they get it.

SMX provides the verification layer. Its PCT provides the economic engine. Materials move. Identity follows. And value unlocks. Sustainability has always needed one thing: infrastructure. Now through SMX it has it. And as importantly, a waiting market to value and pay for 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

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SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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