The Albany Gazette - SMX Technology Is a Circularity Engine That Values Materials Through Proof

Documentation could describe intent. But those words on paper or included on a tag could not survive heat, pressure, melting, blending, or any of the industrial transformations that define modern manufacturing. Because of that, and without a way to ensure persistent identity, circularity could not mature into a functional economic system. That's no longer the case. One company has single-handedly changed that narrative, creating molecular-level embedding technology that has the potential to reshape global trade by providing immutable identity to virtually anything passing through supply chains.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is that company. And it's demonstrated that this missing layer can now exist. By embedding molecular markers directly into polymers, metals, precious metals, textiles, packaging, and recycled materials, SMX enables each material to become its own record of origin, composition, and history. Circularity became measurable because the material itself provided the proof. That shift did more than close a technology gap. It opened the door to an entirely new economic architecture.

True Circularity in Real-Time

Circularity long relied on estimates, declarations, sampling, and audits that did not hold up under industrial realities. Recycled content claims could not be verified through multiple melt cycles. Compliance reporting depended on paperwork rather than evidence. Fraud and mislabeling persisted because verification systems were external to the material itself. In this environment, circularity remained a cost center. Something companies pursued to meet regulatory pressure or ESG expectations, but not a framework that generated economic value.

That model is beginning to change. The expansion of SMX's verification capabilities across continents demonstrated to governments, manufacturers, brands, and recyclers that circularity can operate with the same precision, auditability, and data integrity as traditional supply-chain economics. As more systems adopted material-level identity in 2025, the world moved closer to treating circularity as infrastructure rather than aspiration.

Turning Circularity Into Evidence

The demonstrations were not conceptual. In plastics, SMX is working with major producers to embed identity into polymers at scale and authenticate recycled content through repeated processing. In metals and precious metals, partners in Dubai and Europe showed how identity could withstand melting, recasting, alloying, and high-intensity refining. In textiles, packaging, and logistics programs across ASEAN, SMX presents national-scale frameworks where materials could declare their own truth at every stage.

These deployments proved that the challenge holding back circularity was not complexity. It was the absence of persistent identity. Once materials could carry their own verified history, circularity stopped depending on estimation and began functioning as a verifiable data system.

A measurable system changes how circularity is valued. Governments can enforce regulatory frameworks rather than rely on self-attestation. Manufacturers can validate recycled content as an authenticated commodity. Brands can prove environmental claims with data that survives transformation. Recyclers can produce output that carries forensic-level traceability.

In each case, circularity shifts from compliance reporting to economic participation. When materials carry proof, they are no longer anonymous inputs. They are verified assets.

This shift is also why interest around SMX grew noticeably throughout 2025. Attention rose not because circularity was a trending theme, but because stakeholders across several industries began recognizing a new economic system taking shape - one where verification is embedded, not inferred

A Foundation for 2026 and Beyond

As 2026 approaches, the architecture built in 2025 is poised to expand into broader market, regulatory, and industrial frameworks. Circularity can now be quantified. Compliance can now be audited. Material value can now reflect verified historical data rather than assumptions.

The transition from documentation-driven recycling to proof-driven circularity represents a structural change. It creates the conditions for new standards, new markets, and new economic models built on authenticated materials. And it positions SMX not simply as a technology provider, but as the infrastructure enabling circularity to function at scale.

When materials carry proof, circularity becomes measurable. When it becomes measurable, it becomes economic.
SMX spent 2025 demonstrating that this system works. 2026 will show how far it can grow.

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.

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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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