The Albany Gazette - Breakthrough Technologies Mature in Waves, Not Straight Lines

As part of a transformative 2025, SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) delivered that capability across plastics, metals, precious metals, packaging, and national recycling programs. Growing adoption naturally drew a wider audience. To anyone watching SMX's progress, the past week showed what a turning point looks like, marked by heightened attention and the kind of movement that appears when markets enter price discovery around breakthrough technologies.

SMX can control its part: the operations. It does not play analyst, set its own share price, or model for the future. What it does do, however, is build and deliver the assets those prices are ultimately based on. As more industries recognize the scale of what this technology enables, the path will include highs, lows, and periods of volatility as the market learns how to value a system that is creating a category rather than entering one. The increased interest is not accidental. It is a response to the depth and breadth of the partnerships SMX secured throughout 2025.

Finding the Equilibrium

Here is what those following SMX are beginning to recognize. When a verification technology starts transforming how multiple industries operate, the response does not unfold in a straight, predictable line. It builds in waves. Different sectors recognize value at different moments. Each successful deployment sends its own signal. And together, those signals form a pattern that reflects long-term transformation rather than short-term reaction. In SMX's case, many of these global adoptions came in close succession, creating an intense period both operationally and for stakeholders watching the expansion unfold.

What set that wave in motion was a series of partnerships and collaborations that demonstrated SMX's expanding global footprint. The company announced that it is working directly with plastics producers, precious-metals players, and textile manufacturers to embed its molecular identity into polymers, metals, and finished materials. This process turns ordinary inputs into authenticated assets capable of declaring rather than stating their origin, composition, and recycling history.

SMX advanced work in metals and precious metals with partners in Dubai and Europe, proving that identity can remain persistent through melting, recasting, and other high-intensity industrial processes. It also deepened collaborations across ASEAN in packaging, logistics, and recycling systems, validating how a national circularity model can function when every material carries its own verifiable truth.

Interest rose naturally. As industries observed identity surviving heat, pressure, chemical alteration, and cross-border movement, the underlying capability became easier to grasp. Attention increased because the technology delivered what many believed could not, and likely never would be, achieved.

As its unveiling shows, that interest did not rise in a neat, linear path. It increased in pulses, reflecting how different sectors discovered their own applications, how new data entered the ecosystem, and how partners shared results from real-world operations. The market's response mirrors that cadence. The energy around SMX is not artificial. It is rooted in the substance of what the company is providing across continents.

Why SMX Is Capturing the World's Attention

That is the nature of breakthrough technology. The world learns its potential in stages. Early results capture the imagination of one sector. Industrial validations draw in another. National programs unlock a third layer of visibility. Each milestone expands the story. Each collaboration expands the network. And each wave of interest reflects the growing realization that persistent material identity is not a theoretical goal. It is an operating system for the next generation of global supply chains.

As 2026 approaches, SMX's focus remains on the foundation built this year. The verification mesh forming across industries is not a concept stage. It is functioning inside factories, recycling facilities, metals hubs, and research institutes. The company's collaborations prove that identity can withstand industrial stress. They prove that materials can carry verified data without disrupting production. They prove that circularity becomes practical when the material itself provides the evidence.

This is the long-term value that defines SMX's trajectory. The technology is being adopted, tested, and scaled in environments that represent billions of tons of global material flow. Each industry sees a different benefit. Plastics see authenticated circularity. Metals see fraud-resistant identity. Gold sees traceability that survives recasting. Packaging sees compliance built directly into the material. Recycling sees forensic visibility for every output.

PROOF as the New Industry Standard

These sectors will continue to adopt at a pace that fits their operational and regulatory realities. Several are already moving quickly as new frameworks begin aligning with SMX's capabilities. Others are transitioning steadily as legacy systems give way to methods that offer clearer, verifiable data. Across all of them, the meaningful signal is not the day-to-day fluctuations in financial market terms. It is the structural value created when supply chains shift from documentation chains to memory systems, where materials themselves carry the truth.

For stakeholders, the message is increasingly clear. Breakthrough technologies mature in waves, and each wave brings new sectors, new validations, and new opportunities. SMX's progress in 2025 established the foundation for a 2026 shaped by scale, integration, and system-level adoption. The waves will keep coming, but they will do so over an architecture designed to support long-term, cross-industry transformation. In that environment, the value generated by persistent identity becomes cumulative rather than episodic.

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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Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, for example: matters relating to the Company's response to trading activity in its securities; the development, launch, and implementation of SMX's joint projects with manufacturers and supply-chain participants across plastics, metals, rubber, textiles, and other sectors; the Company's strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects, and plans; SMX's ability to develop and commercialize new products and services, including the Plastic Cycle Token; SMX's ability to integrate future expansion opportunities; anticipated growth and cost-efficiency; the Company's product development timelines and expected research and development expenditures; the adoption, market acceptance, or success of SMX's business model and verification technologies; developments relating to SMX's industry and competitive landscape; and the Company's technological objectives.

These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this press release and on current expectations, forecasts, and assumptions that involve a number of judgments, risks, and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements should not be regarded as predictions of future events, nor should they be relied upon as representing the Company's views as of any subsequent date. SMX undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.

Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in these forward-looking statements as a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties. These include, but are not limited to: the Company's ability to maintain its Nasdaq listing; changes in applicable laws or regulations; lingering or future effects of the COVID-19 pandemic; the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and expectations and to identify or realize additional opportunities; risks associated with downturns or rapid changes in the highly competitive industries in which SMX operates; the ability of SMX and its collaborators to successfully develop, commercialize, or scale products and services in a timely manner; the risk that the Company may not achieve or sustain profitability; the need for additional capital, and the availability and terms of such capital; risks associated with managing growth and expanding operations; risks of supply-chain disruption, manufacturing limitations, or delays; risks relating to securing, maintaining, or protecting intellectual property; and other economic, business, or competitive risks described in SMX's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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