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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.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 8, 2025 / Industrial waste has always been treated as a cost center. The global economy generates more than 2 billion tons of industrial and post-commercial waste every year, much of which contains plastics, composites, flame-retardant compounds, or carbon-black polymers that cannot be reliably identified. Between 60% and 80% of these materials never enter recycling streams at all. They are incinerated, landfilled, or downcycled. Not because they lack value, but because they lack identity.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 8, 2025 / Fashion is one of the most complex supply chains in the world. It moves across continents, blends dozens of fiber chemistries, and generates more than one hundred million tons of waste every year. Only about 1% of that waste becomes new fiber. The rest is landfilled, incinerated, or downcycled into low-value fillers.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 8, 2025 / Plastics are a six-hundred-billion-dollar global industry operating on unreliable data. More than four hundred million metric tons of plastic are produced every year, yet less than 10% are recycled into meaningful second-life applications. The world is not short on plastic. It is short on verified plastic. Tradepro, REDWAVE, and A*STAR highlight how quickly that gap closes once SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) brings identity into the system. When materials carry molecular memory, recycling stops being a waste-management activity. It becomes an industrial supply chain.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 8, 2025 / Gold has always been a trusted store of value, but the systems that track it have never matched its economic importance. Every year more than 1,100 tons of recycled gold move through global markets. Yet provenance often relies on paper documentation, fragmented logistics, and reputation instead of measurable proof. Goldstrom's collaboration with SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) highlights how quickly that old framework is disappearing. The moment gold carries a molecular identity, the market stops operating on assumptions and starts operating on verification.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 5, 2025 / Markets have a history of overlooking foundational technology until the moment they cannot. It happened with semiconductors. It happened with mobile operating systems. It happened with encrypted payments. In each case, the market understood the products long before it understood the architecture that made the products possible. When the architecture finally came into focus, valuation frameworks changed almost overnight. And valuations in those companies bringing it soared.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 5, 2025 / In every major technological era, a single layer quietly becomes indispensable. The internet had TCP/IP. Smartphones had touchscreen operating systems. Digital commerce had encrypted payments. None of these layers were immediately understood by the market, but once adoption began, their value soared because they formed the foundation upon which every other system operated.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 5, 2025 / Market reactions that move this quickly rarely happen because of a single headline. They happen when investors, institutions, regulators, and commercial partners realize they have been looking at a company through the wrong lens. That is the moment unfolding around SMX (NASDAQ:SMX). What the market is responding to is not hype and not speculation. It is a recalibration that began when multiple industries recognized that SMX is not positioned within a single vertical. It is positioned beneath several of them.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 5, 2025 / Markets misprice companies when they believe the business sits inside separate, unrelated verticals. Eventually, a moment arrives when the market realizes those verticals share a common technological core. When that happens, interest accelerates rapidly because adoption in one sector automatically increases the value in the others. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is entering exactly that moment. Not just as a participant but as an engine.