The Albany Gazette - The Recognition Curve of Breakthrough Technologies

That's no longer the case. As 2025 progressed, SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) demonstrated how a verification architecture built directly into materials can change that equation entirely. Each deployment revealed a new capability. Each capability unlocked a new sector. And as those sectors began engaging simultaneously, attention followed.

That attention did not appear out of the blue. It emerged because SMX's capabilities expanded rapidly across plastics, metals, precious metals, textiles, packaging, logistics, and national circularity systems. In environments where transformation is driven by data, authenticity, and resilience, the technology gained traction for reasons that were evident to anyone closely following its progress.

The recent surge in outside interest reflects that momentum, as well as the natural volatility that accompanies breakthrough technologies while markets learn how to assess systems that did not previously exist. SMX does not control how the market responds, but it does control the development of the technological assets that underpin long-term value.

As more industries adopt material-level identity, the broader market continues its own process of discovery, recalibration, and understanding. That path includes periods of heightened attention and periods of reassessment, both characteristic of technologies that create new categories rather than compete within old ones.

A Growing Capability Footprint Across Global Industries
SMX's partnership trajectory steepened significantly in 2025. In plastics, SMX advanced new programs with global producers to embed immutable molecular identity into polymers at scale. Unlike at any other time, these materials can carry verified origin, composition, and recycling data across their entire lifecycle. This changes how circularity can be measured and how recycled content can be authenticated without relying on fragile paper trails.

In metals and precious metals, SMX's collaborations across Dubai and Europe provided evidence that identity can remain intact through intense industrial processes. Melting, recasting, alloying, and high-temperature refinement no longer erase provenance. This breakthrough has implications for fraud prevention, trade compliance, global standards, and the broader metals economy.

In textiles, packaging, and logistics systems across ASEAN, SMX deepened its work with partners to design national circularity infrastructure. These systems demonstrated how packaging, fabrics, and recycled materials can declare their own history, enabling governments and corporations to validate environmental compliance in real time. The ASEAN deployments confirmed something critical. When materials carry their own truth, the infrastructure supporting circular economies becomes transparent, traceable, and economically aligned.

Why the World Is Paying Closer Attention
Each expansion brought new insights. Identity surviving a melt cycle in Dubai sends a message different from identity surviving chemical processing in Europe, or multiple recycling loops in Asia. These are not isolated achievements. They are components of a capability stack spanning industries and continents. As deployments scaled, attention scaled with them.

The attention is not a fluke. It is tied directly to what the company is proving in real-world environments. And because SMX's technology intersects multiple industries, interest naturally arrives in waves rather than in a linear progression. The market learns one layer at a time. It watches plastics, then metals, then packaging, then textiles. Each validation adds another dimension to what the technology can support.

Toward a Larger System in 2026
As SMX enters 2026, the verification architecture it built in 2025 is not a conceptual model. It is unfolding across factories, recycling facilities, certification bodies, logistics frameworks, and industrial testbeds. The system is already functional. The next phase involves scaling, linking, and integrating these capabilities to support broader national and cross-industry programs.

In other words, driving the interest in SMX is this: The technology is moving from being evaluated sector by sector to being recognized as a unified verification system that can serve many. That system is where long-term value resides. It is where regulatory alignment becomes possible. It is where circular economies gain a practical footing. And it is where industries shift from assumption-based reporting to proof-based operation.

SMX's progress in 2025 created that foundation. The increased attention reflects the depth of those capabilities. The next wave lies in how the system scales. And from there, how it's valued when fully functional.

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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