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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 15, 2025 / Markets have always rewarded certainty, but until recently, certainty was static. Verification lived in audits, reports, and compliance binders. Proof existed, but it could not move. It could not travel with assets. It could not be priced in real time. And because it was trapped on paper, it never fully entered the market's value calculus.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 15, 2025 / For decades, global markets optimized for speed, scale, and efficiency. Supply chains stretched across continents. Materials moved faster. Costs came down. Profits went up. What did not evolve was identity. The assumption was simple. If something passed inspection once, it could be trusted forever.

The sustainability movement didn’t collapse. It stalled. Not because stakeholders lacked motivation, but because the system couldn’t deliver the one thing it needed most. Proof. For years, manufacturers pushed to incorporate recycled content, regulators tightened expectations, and consumers demanded better. Yet the technical gap remained. How do you verify something that loses its identity the moment it enters the recycling stream?

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 15, 2025 / For more than a century, the global financial system has rested on an unchallenged assumption. Central banks believe they know what sits in their vaults. Sovereign wealth funds trust the numbers on their balance sheets. Bullion banks operate as if refinery stamps and certificates are enough. But no nation on earth has ever conducted a full, bottom-up forensic audit of its precious-metal reserves using modern verification tools. Not once.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 15, 2025 / As the market has paid increasing attention to, and begun revaluing, SMX's (NASDAQ:SMX) potential across plastics, gold, rare earths, and hardware authentication, one material has remained largely under-discussed.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 12, 2025 / SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is not an overnight sensation. For years, it's been building toward the moment that the global supply chain was not yet ready to confront. The idea was simple but disruptive. Materials should not rely on paperwork, declarations, or trust to prove their identity. They should be able to show it themselves with something far more persuasive: PROOF.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 12, 2025 / For decades, global industries kept moving forward on the assumption that supply chains were essentially reliable. The belief was that materials were what suppliers claimed they were, that certifications reflected real practices, and that sustainability metrics could be trusted because companies intended to act responsibly. That belief worked as long as no one looked too closely. Once governments and markets began demanding actual proof, the old system cracked open. Intention was no longer enough.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 12, 2025 / Whenever a technology shows the potential to reshape supply chains, people naturally lean in. They want to understand how it scales, how it fits, and how it operates within the industrial world already in motion. That level of curiosity is healthy. It reflects a market that recognizes when something new might redefine what's possible.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 12, 2025 / Industries rarely adopt new technology in a straight line. The process unfolds in stages that are predictable to insiders but invisible to the outside world. It begins with a demonstration, where a tool proves it can work under controlled conditions. From there, it moves into the dialogue phase, where industry leaders evaluate not just performance but the system-wide implications of integrating something new. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is now moving through that second stage. And it's happening faster than many expected.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 12, 2025 / The global economy spent decades running on assumptions, and it worked until it didn't. Supply chains expanded faster than verification systems. Companies sourced materials from regions they had never visited. Certifications became paperwork rather than proof. The entire system flowed because everyone agreed to trust what they could not see. That trust created efficiency, but it also created fragility. Now the bill for that fragility has come due.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 11, 2025 / The fashion industry has spent years promising circularity. Recycling initiatives, take-back bins, and ESG roadmaps have filled annual reports with optimism, but these efforts have struggled to scale because they have all relied on a single fragile assumption. The belief that recycled materials could somehow be tracked without a system capable of tracking them. That assumption has now reached its limit.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 11, 2025 / The market keeps trying to put SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) in a box. Plastics. Metals. Electronics. Rubber. Fashion. Every time a new industrial win lands, analysts scramble to guess which vertical SMX belongs to. The answer is simpler than anyone expected. SMX is involved with virtually all of them, building a molecular identity network capable of spanning every material class that moves through global trade.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 11, 2025 / For most of modern history, materials have been commodities with no memory. Cotton is grown, harvested, traded, blended, spun, and finished, and somewhere along the way, its identity disappears into the machinery. That anonymity has shaped the global textile industry for decades, limiting transparency and bottlenecking any serious effort toward circularity or responsible sourcing. The world accepted it as the cost of doing business.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 11, 2025 / Some breakthroughs feel inevitable in hindsight. SMX's (NASDAQ:SMX) latest industrial pilot is one of those moments. The kind of shift that forces an industry to redraw the map overnight. Cotton has long had a traceability problem. Once fibers are shredded, blended, spun, and transformed into fabric, the paper trail collapses. Brands rely on declarations. Regulators rely on hope. Consumers rely on whatever the tag says.

PARIS, FR AND SINGAPORE, SG / ACCESS Newswire / December 11, 2025 / SMX (Security Matters) PLC (NASDAQ:SMX), the global leader in molecular-based material authentication and digital product passports, today announced a successful multi-day industrial pilot validating SMX's ability to deliver full-chain traceability for cotton.

SMX's engagement with NAFRA spotlights increasing interest in systems that improve material efficiency and downstream certainty without altering existing infrastructure

NAFRA's renewed engagement places SMX on the radar of the operators who feel the impact most

SMX's second invitation from NAFRA signals a shift from proof to recognition

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 10, 2025 / Some invitations carry more weight because of what happened before them. SMX's (NASDAQ:SMX) new role as a featured presenter inside a NAFRA and American Chemistry Council program is one of those moments. It does not introduce the company to the sector. It confirms that the sector has already watched and liked how the technology performs. This is a return to a room that knows exactly what SMX brings to the table.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 10, 2025 / SMX (Security Matters) PLC (NASDAQ:SMX), a global pioneer in molecular marking, identification, and digital product passports for a circular economy, today announced that it has been formally invited to participate as a featured speaker in an upcoming industry webinar hosted by the North American Flame Retardant Alliance (NAFRA) and the American Chemistry Council (ACC).

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 10, 2025 / SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) has entered a defining moment in its evolution. The company's molecular marking technology is gaining global relevance at the same time industries are demanding authenticated materials, verified supply chains, and trusted digital documentation. The market is signaling that the era of unverifiable claims is ending, and SMX is positioned at the center of what comes next.

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 9, 2025 / The mission toward economic Circularity has spent years trapped between ambition and reality. Regulations expanded, sustainability pledges multiplied, and reporting structures grew more complex. Yet, the essential problem remained unchanged. The world lacked a way to verify circularity at the material level.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 9, 2025 / Across multiple global industries, the concept of material identity is shifting from a theoretical objective to an operational requirement. Companies are confronting the limits of documentation-heavy verification systems that cannot keep pace with the complexity of modern supply chains. It's not that they didn't want to overcome them during the past decade. It's that they didn't have a platform to fill the gaps in a system that wanted a lot but counted on an infrastructure that could do very little.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 9, 2025 / Across global supply chains, companies and regulators are rethinking how materials move, how they retain identity, and how circular economies can operate with integrity rather than assumptions. The past decade made one truth unmistakable. Documentation alone cannot carry the weight of modern circularity goals. Materials require verification that survives transformation. Supply chains require evidence that travels with the product. And industries require authentication that is resilient, scalable, and built into the material itself.