Author: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / January 5, 2026 / SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), a leader in molecular marketing and digital tracing solutions, began 2026 fully-financed for the year and uniquely positioned to meet the needs of the expanding sector. The company’s verification and tracing platforms are being adopted across global marketplaces, and it continued the build out of its plastic cycle token.

That focus comes as scrutiny around materials, recycling, and carbon accountability continues to sharpen worldwide. Regulators are asking tougher questions, and companies are being pressed to show their work. SMX has positioned itself squarely in that gap, offering technology that embeds molecular markers directly into materials, creating a permanent, tamper-resistant identity that can be tracked and measured throughout a product’s life.

The approach speaks to a problem many industries now face. Sustainability and recycling claims are often based on estimates or self-reported data, leaving room for uncertainty and risk. SMX’s system replaces approximation with physical proof, giving manufacturers, brands, recyclers, and regulators access to data they can verify rather than take on faith.

The Plastic Cycle Token builds on that foundation. By converting authenticated material events into structured digital records, the token creates a clear, traceable account of recycling and reuse outcomes. In practice, this supports regulatory compliance, strengthens supply-chain accountability, and opens the door to new ways of assigning value to verified circular activity.

In 2025, SMX moved beyond theory and into the field. The Company expanded its international presence through partnerships and pilot programs across multiple regions, testing its platform under real industrial conditions. It also demonstrated that its molecular identity technology can extend beyond plastics, reinforcing a broader ambition to serve as a multi-material verification provider rather than a single-use solution.

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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / January 5, 2026 / SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), with 2026 funding secure, began the new year focused on what matters most: execution, technology rollout, and continued growth of its Plastic Cycle Token ecosystem.

As sustainability requirements shift from voluntary commitments to enforceable standards, companies across industries are being asked to back up origination and environmental claims with real evidence. SMX’s approach is built around that reality. By embedding molecular-level markers directly into materials, the Company makes verification part of the material itself, enabling continuous, reliable tracking through from sourcing the raw material to manufacturing, recycling, and reuse.

That built-in verification is the backbone of SMX’s digital platform and its Plastic Cycle Token framework. By connecting physical material events to structured digital records, SMX allows origination, recycling, recovery, and reuse activity to be documented with confidence. This replaces estimates and self-reporting with measurable proof, helping organizations meet regulatory requirements while opening the door to new models for circular value.

Over the course of 2025, SMX expanded its footprint through partnerships and pilot programs across multiple regions and industrial sectors. These efforts demonstrated that the Company’s technology can scale globally and integrate into existing supply chains without disrupting operations. SMX also extended its platform beyond plastics, reinforcing its broader vision for material verification across a wide range of regulated and industrial products.

Rather than treating verification as an add-on or reporting exercise, SMX is building it as core infrastructure. This approach reflects the growing need for trusted, auditable data as industries adapt to tighter regulations and a more accountability-driven, low-carbon economy.

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 31, 2025 / There’s a structural story playing out beneath the surface of the global supply chain, and it has little to do with trends or branding cycles. It’s about what happens when materials stop being anonymous.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) has been building a platform that embeds identity into matter itself, allowing materials to carry proof rather than rely on reputation. That same logic appeared in the expansion into industrial rubber gloves, where anonymity was the reason recovery and accountability never stood a chance. In fashion, denim, and luxury goods, the issue shows up differently, but the root cause is identical. Once materials lose their identity, trust becomes an assumption rather than a fact.

This is where SMX’s most recent deals fit together, not as isolated category plays, but as responses to a market that no longer accepts “trust me” as an answer.

Reputation Breaks When Supply Chains Stretch

Luxury was built on reputation. A storied brand, a heritage workshop, a familiar label for decades, that was enough. Today’s supply chains don’t stay close to home. Products move through multiple manufacturers, processors, logistics hubs, resale platforms, and secondary markets. Documentation ages, certifications detach, and provenance gets diluted along the way.

When proof lives on paper, it eventually separates from the product. When that happens, even authentic goods lose their certainty. Trust weakens not because brands are dishonest, but because the system no longer preserves truth as materials move.

That vulnerability is exactly what SMX is designed to address.

Denim Makes the Weak Spot Obvious

Denim is not couture, and that’s why it matters. It’s high-volume, heavily processed, blended, dyed, recycled, and reworked. Once cotton fibers are transformed, claims about recycled content or origin become impossible to verify unless the material itself carries that information forward.

SMX’s expansion into denim and recycled denim puts stress on the system in the most honest way. If identity can persist through denim’s complexity, it can persist anywhere. This turns a claim of recycled content into something measurable, enforceable, and verifiable, even after multiple transformations.

Denim becomes proof that scale does not have to destroy accountability.

Luxury Has More to Lose

Where denim exposes the flaw, luxury absorbs the consequences. In high-end fashion and couture, provenance is not a marketing add-on. It is part of the value. When authenticity cannot be verified beyond the point of sale, confidence erodes across resale markets, insurance underwriting, and long-term brand equity.

Traditional tools like certificates and audits were never designed to travel with the product indefinitely. They can be lost, forged, or separated. When identity is embedded directly into the textile or material, verification no longer depends on external documentation. It becomes intrinsic.

Luxury stops relying on assumptions and starts relying on evidence.

Embedded Identity Changes Expectations

Once identity lives inside the material, verification becomes the default rather than the exception. Products can authenticate themselves as they move across borders, platforms, and owners. Recycled content can be confirmed instead of estimated. Regulators can observe compliance rather than infer it. Resale platforms gain confidence. Insurers gain clarity. Consumers gain certainty.

This shift quietly changes the economics of trust. Proof becomes portable. Accountability becomes continuous. Materials no longer need to be explained; they can be examined.

That’s the architectural upgrade SMX is delivering across categories that were never designed for transparency.

Proof as Infrastructure

Viewed together, rubber gloves, denim, and luxury are not separate stories. They are iterations of the same thesis: proof has become infrastructure.

Modern commerce no longer revolves solely around physical goods. It revolves around certainty. Markets increasingly price confidence, not just craftsmanship. When materials carry persistent identity, they enable authentication across resale and reuse markets, verified recycled-content tracking, compliance that survives scrutiny, and risk assessment grounded in data rather than declarations.

This is not a premium feature reserved for luxury. It is becoming a functional requirement in global supply chains.

Brands, regulators, and consumers are not asking for traceability out of idealism. They are demanding it because reputation alone can no longer carry the weight of complex, globalized production. Identity embedded at the material level restores the link between what something claims to be and what it actually is.

That is the connective tissue across SMX’s recent deals. Materials should not lose their truth when they leave the factory; they should carry it with them. SMX’s pace of deal-making in 2025 shows that idea being put to work.

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

This information contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and assumptions regarding future events involving SMX (NASDAQ: SMX), its technologies, its partnership activities, and its development of molecular marking systems for recycled PET and other materials. Forward-looking statements are not historical facts. They involve risks, uncertainties, and factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, its announced capital facility and its terms, expectations regarding the integration of SMX’s molecular markers into U.S. recycling markets; the potential for FDA-compliant markers to enable recycled PET to enter food-grade and other regulated applications; the scalability of SMX solutions across diverse global supply chains; anticipated adoption of identity-based verification systems by manufacturers, recyclers, regulators, or brand owners; the potential economic impact of turning recycled plastics into tradeable or monetizable assets; the expected performance of SMX’s Plastic Cycle Token or other digital verification instruments; and the belief that molecular-level authentication may influence pricing, compliance, sustainability reporting, or financial strategies used within the plastics sector.

These forward-looking statements are also subject to assumptions regarding regulatory developments, market demand for authenticated recycled content, the pace of corporate adoption of traceability technology, global economic conditions, supply chain constraints, evolving environmental policies, and general industry behavior relating to sustainability commitments and recycling mandates. Risks include, but are not limited to, changes in FDA or international regulatory standards; technological challenges in large-scale deployment of molecular markers; competitive innovations from other companies; operational disruptions in recycling or plastics manufacturing; fluctuations in pricing for virgin or recycled plastics; and the broader economic conditions that influence capital investment and industrial activity.

Detailed risk factors are described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events, changes in circumstances, or new information, except as required by applicable law.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 31, 2025 / At first glance, the reaction is predictable. Gloves? Disposable rubber gloves used for minutes and discarded by the billions. The immediate question almost asks itself: why bother?

That reaction is exactly why SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is focused here.

The expansion of SMX’s molecular marking and digital identity platform into industrial rubber gloves is not about monitoring individual products or pretending that gloves are suddenly recyclable. It is about addressing the structural failure that has kept entire categories of material anonymous, unaccountable, and permanently excluded from any meaningful recovery or verification framework.

Gloves are not ignored because they are unimportant. They are ignored because once they are used, no one can safely or reliably decide what to do with them.

The Real Problem Isn’t Gloves, It’s Anonymity

Industrial gloves fail every recovery conversation for the same reason. Once discarded, they lose their identity. Latex, nitrile, neoprene, blended compounds, all become indistinguishable after use. Add the possibility of biological or chemical exposure, and recyclers are forced into a defensive posture.

Without verified information, the only safe assumption is the worst case.

That is why gloves are landfilled or incinerated at scale. Not because recycling demand does not exist, but because uncertainty creates risk, liability, and cost. No downstream operator can confidently determine what they are handling, where it came from, or how it should be processed.

SMX is not trying to override that reality. It is removing the uncertainty that created it.

Identity Comes Before Any Outcome

SMX embeds invisible molecular markers directly into rubber compounds during manufacturing. These markers persist through use, handling, washing, shredding, and downstream processing. Even after a glove has been used, its material identity remains verifiable.

That does not mean every glove should be recycled. It means every glove can be classified.

Classification is the missing step that most sustainability conversations skip. When material identity persists, waste streams can be segregated based on verified attributes rather than assumptions. Decisions become informed instead of precautionary. The system gains the ability to choose appropriate outcomes instead of defaulting to disposal.

That’s important. You cannot recover what you cannot verify. And this verification isn’t purely about recycling.

Safer Disposal Is Still Progress

One of the fastest ways this story gets misunderstood is by assuming success only counts if gloves are reused or recycled. That is not how industrial waste works, and it is not how SMX is defining success.

In many cases, the correct outcome for used gloves will still be destruction. Incineration is not a failure when it is intentional, controlled, and documented. What changes with traceable material is not the endpoint, but the quality of the decision that leads there.

When gloves carry verified identity, waste streams can be segregated properly, handled according to known risk profiles, and processed with confidence rather than blanket caution. Institutions reduce liability. Compliance reporting shifts from estimates to proof. Waste handlers stop treating everything as worst-case by default.

Accountability does not require reuse. It requires clarity.

Where Recovery Becomes Possible

Once identity clarification persists beyond first use, another door quietly opens. Not all glove waste is created equal. Gloves used in food processing, manufacturing clean rooms, and certain industrial environments often have well-defined exposure profiles, yet they are treated no differently than medical waste because there has never been a way to prove they are different.

Material-level identity changes that dynamic. When composition and origin are verifiable, selective recovery becomes feasible. Certain streams can be downcycled into secondary rubber applications. Others can be routed into certified non-medical reuse pathways. Decisions stop being theoretical and start being operational.

Just as important, identity creates feedback. Manufacturers gain visibility into which formulations survive recovery and which do not, informing redesign rather than marketing claims. This is how circularity actually forms, deliberately and grounded in evidence.

What’s Actually Being Built

The upcoming pilot programs bring together manufacturers, major end-users, waste handlers, and recyclers to validate these workflows under real operating conditions. The objective is not to promise universal recovery, but to prove that identity embedded at the material level survives reality and improves downstream decision-making without disrupting existing systems.

Gloves are not unique in their disposability. They are simply one of the clearest examples of how anonymity has limited accountability across entire classes of material.

SMX is not tracking gloves. It is removing the condition that forces waste to disappear without consequence. Once material stops being anonymous, every downstream option improves. Disposal becomes intentional. Recovery becomes selective. Redesign becomes informed. Claims become provable.

Gloves may be short-lived, but the shift they represent is not. Circular systems do not begin with recycling; they begin with knowing exactly what is in hand. SMX provides the platform that makes that possible. Uniquely so.

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

This information contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and assumptions regarding future events involving SMX (NASDAQ: SMX), its technologies, its partnership activities, and its development of molecular marking systems for recycled PET and other materials. Forward-looking statements are not historical facts. They involve risks, uncertainties, and factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, its announced capital facility and its terms, expectations regarding the integration of SMX’s molecular markers into U.S. recycling markets; the potential for FDA-compliant markers to enable recycled PET to enter food-grade and other regulated applications; the scalability of SMX solutions across diverse global supply chains; anticipated adoption of identity-based verification systems by manufacturers, recyclers, regulators, or brand owners; the potential economic impact of turning recycled plastics into tradeable or monetizable assets; the expected performance of SMX’s Plastic Cycle Token or other digital verification instruments; and the belief that molecular-level authentication may influence pricing, compliance, sustainability reporting, or financial strategies used within the plastics sector.

These forward-looking statements are also subject to assumptions regarding regulatory developments, market demand for authenticated recycled content, the pace of corporate adoption of traceability technology, global economic conditions, supply chain constraints, evolving environmental policies, and general industry behavior relating to sustainability commitments and recycling mandates. Risks include, but are not limited to, changes in FDA or international regulatory standards; technological challenges in large-scale deployment of molecular markers; competitive innovations from other companies; operational disruptions in recycling or plastics manufacturing; fluctuations in pricing for virgin or recycled plastics; and the broader economic conditions that influence capital investment and industrial activity.

Detailed risk factors are described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events, changes in circumstances, or new information, except as required by applicable law.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 31, 2025 / Silver has never needed much attention to matter. It sits quietly inside the systems modern economies rely on: power generation, electronics, data infrastructure, and advanced manufacturing. That quiet importance is exactly why recent shifts in the silver market deserve a closer look.

Global silver supply chains are beginning to fragment. Not abruptly, and not catastrophically, but decisively. Fragmentation simply means that silver is no longer treated as a single, uniform global pool but as multiple parallel supply streams governed by different regulatory and commercial rules. As that shift takes hold, assumptions that once made the market efficient begin to lose their reliability.

China’s role in this evolution is often highlighted for its scale, not for controversy. As one of the world’s most influential silver processors and refiners, even incremental changes in oversight naturally ripple through global markets. Export licensing and tighter regulatory frameworks are not unusual when materials become strategically important. Similar dynamics would emerge if the United States applied comparable controls to semiconductors, aerospace alloys, or advanced battery materials.

The Weakness in Assumptions-Based Markets Exposed

The problem with the silver market is this: for decades, silver traded on assumptions that no longer hold. An ounce was an ounce. Refiners were trusted. Documentation was enough. Markets moved efficiently because they believed they could. That belief was not naïve; it was simply untested by geopolitical pressure.

Once geopolitics enters the equation, those assumptions erode. Export licenses do not apply evenly. Compliance scrutiny varies by jurisdiction. End-use controls introduce distinctions that paperwork struggles to keep up with. Supply chains that once felt interchangeable become tiered.

Tiered markets reward verification. That’s starting to show, with buyers responding differently to markets. Instead of treating silver as a single global commodity, industrial users are beginning to assess it by source, processing path, and regulatory profile. The question is no longer how much silver costs, but which silver can move without friction.

This is where SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) fits with precision.

SMX Offers Tools Over Force

SMX does not attempt to force fragmented markets back into uniformity. It does not rely on centralized oversight or layered paperwork to smooth over differences. Instead, it allows market participants to navigate fragmentation with clarity.

By embedding molecular identifiers directly into silver, SMX enables each batch to carry its own history. Origin, processing pathway, compliance status, and custody trail travel with the metal itself. Verification does not depend on counterparties or documentation. It depends on the material.

In fragmented markets, that history determines access.

Now, as supply chains splinter, a new distinction emerges. Preferred silver. Not as a label, but as a qualification. Silver that clears customs without delay. Silver that satisfies regulators without negotiation. Silver that does not trigger financing questions or audit risk. It simply moves.

SMX makes that preference possible without slowing trade or inserting gatekeepers. The verification lives in the metal itself, allowing regulators, banks, and counterparties to get answers without friction. That’s not all.

Fragmentation also accelerates pressure on recycling. As primary supply tightens, secondary silver flows increase. Without verification, recycled material introduces ambiguity that buyers and regulators increasingly reject. Claims become harder to validate, audits slow down, and risk builds quietly in the background. That need not be the case.

SMX Provides Immutable Identity

With SMX, recycled silver retains traceability. Virgin and secondary supply can be distinguished without guesswork or double-counting. This is not about sustainability branding or narrative alignment. It is about admissibility. Silver that cannot be qualified will not be welcomed into regulated supply chains, regardless of price.

Markets always assign premiums to certainty. In fragmented environments, certainty commands disproportionate value. That premium does not appear on a price chart immediately. It shows up in speed, financing terms, insurance costs, and access. Keep in mind, SMX does not create premiums by restricting supply. It enables them by reducing uncertainty. That distinction matters because it positions SMX to capitalize on open, inclusive silver markets rather than on artificial scarcity.

The long view is straightforward. Silver is not becoming rare. It is becoming regulated. Regulated materials do not move on trust. They move on proof. Supply chains that adapt early gain speed, credibility, and resilience. Those that do not slow down, even when the underlying demand remains strong.

SMX is not betting on fragmentation. However, it is built for it. And once fragmentation takes hold, markets will begin to reward proof over assumption, placing SMX technology exactly where the market, and all its players, need it.

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

This information contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and assumptions regarding future events involving SMX (NASDAQ: SMX), its technologies, its partnership activities, and its development of molecular marking systems for recycled PET and other materials. Forward-looking statements are not historical facts. They involve risks, uncertainties, and factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, its announced capital facility and its terms, expectations regarding the integration of SMX’s molecular markers into U.S. recycling markets; the potential for FDA-compliant markers to enable recycled PET to enter food-grade and other regulated applications; the scalability of SMX solutions across diverse global supply chains; anticipated adoption of identity-based verification systems by manufacturers, recyclers, regulators, or brand owners; the potential economic impact of turning recycled plastics into tradeable or monetizable assets; the expected performance of SMX’s Plastic Cycle Token or other digital verification instruments; and the belief that molecular-level authentication may influence pricing, compliance, sustainability reporting, or financial strategies used within the plastics sector.

These forward-looking statements are also subject to assumptions regarding regulatory developments, market demand for authenticated recycled content, the pace of corporate adoption of traceability technology, global economic conditions, supply chain constraints, evolving environmental policies, and general industry behavior relating to sustainability commitments and recycling mandates. Risks include, but are not limited to, changes in FDA or international regulatory standards; technological challenges in large-scale deployment of molecular markers; competitive innovations from other companies; operational disruptions in recycling or plastics manufacturing; fluctuations in pricing for virgin or recycled plastics; and the broader economic conditions that influence capital investment and industrial activity.

Detailed risk factors are described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events, changes in circumstances, or new information, except as required by applicable law.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 31, 2025 / Silver rarely announces itself. It lacks gold’s mythology and copper’s growth narrative, yet it quietly underpins the systems modern economies depend on: electricity, efficiency, and precision. That unassuming ubiquity is precisely why its recent behavior deserves attention.

Silver prices have surged to historic levels, and volatility has followed. That, on its own, is not unusual. Commodities move in cycles, and price discovery can be messy. What has drawn broader attention this time is not the volatility itself, but the moment when China naturally entered the conversation. Not as an adversary or disruptor, but as a reminder of just how central its role is in global silver processing and availability.

That visibility matters. When a country with meaningful influence over refining and export flows adjusts oversight or signaling, markets take notice. The response is not political. It is mechanical. Participants recalibrate assumptions that had long gone unchallenged.

This helps expose an important point. Silver’s recent surge is not purely a speculative episode driven by sentiment or momentum. It is also a stress test of how dependent global systems have become on materials that were once treated as fully interchangeable. As oversight, regulation, and strategic importance converge, the question shifts from how much silver costs to how reliably it can move.

When Trust Stops Scaling

China’s role is central. It is not merely a miner of silver, but one of the world’s most important processors and refiners. As export licensing and tighter oversight move from theory to policy, markets are confronting a reality they sidestepped for years. When a material is deeply embedded in energy systems, electronics, and advanced manufacturing, control over its flow becomes leverage.

That is why Elon Musk’s warning landed. Manufacturers are not unnerved by higher prices in isolation. They are unnerved by uncertainty. Once access to a critical input becomes conditional, planning breaks down quickly, and risk migrates upstream.

The bigger issue that has not been fixed is that for decades, commodity and precious metals markets have run on trust. Certificates, refinery stamps, and counterparties’ affirmations were enough to keep trade moving efficiently. That model holds only as long as incentives remain aligned.

The moment governments begin treating materials as strategic, trust-based systems start to strain. Paper trails turn into bottlenecks. Documentation becomes open to interpretation. Compliance slows, costs rise, and fragility creeps into what once felt routine.

Silver is now crossing that threshold.

This is no longer a debate about whether silver will remain in demand. That question has already been answered. The real issue is how silver will be qualified, verified, and allowed to move as oversight tightens and assumptions give way to controls.

Where SMX Fits

This is where SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) enters the discussion, not as a metals story, but as an infrastructure one. In this case, providing vital and much-needed technology.

SMX can uniquely embed a molecular-level identifier directly into physical materials. Once embedded, that identity becomes inseparable from the material itself. It cannot be removed, altered, or lost during processing, melting, or reuse. The material carries its own proof.

For silver, this changes the rules.

Instead of relying on documents to prove origin or compliance, the metal itself becomes verifiable. That distinction matters in a market moving toward licensing, audits, and end-use scrutiny. Remember the old adage that “information is power”? Well, in this case, it can mean competitive survival.

Why Silver is a Natural Candidate

That’s because silver finds itself at an unusual intersection. It is valuable enough to warrant controls, industrial enough to be indispensable, and globally traded enough to expose weak links in verification. The silver pool is shared now.

However, as oversight increases, silver can no longer be treated as a single undifferentiated pool. Export-approved silver, compliant silver, recycled silver, and unverified silver will not move with equal ease. Markets will price that difference whether spot prices reflect it or not.

SMX allows that differentiation to happen without slowing or even halting trade by providing verification as a functional result of physics rather than paperwork.

Infrastructure, Not Narrative

Don’t misunderstand what’s happening here. This is not an ESG argument, and it is not a pricing thesis. It is a recognition that modern supply chains stop scaling on trust alone once controls are in place. As silver becomes infrastructure rather than just a traded input, its users must demand identity. That is precisely what SMX is designed to provide, and why it favors broad, inclusive markets over artificial scarcity.

SMX does not benefit from silver being scarce. It benefits from silver being important enough to manage. As materials move from open markets to permissioned systems, identity stops being a feature and becomes a requirement. Markets tend to recognize these shifts late. Infrastructure gets built quietly, long before narratives catch up. Silver’s recent volatility is not the story. The story is that the metal has crossed a threshold and now sits at the center of industrial, financial, and regulatory systems that demand proof.

And proof, once required, never goes away. That’s fine. SMX provides that permanence.

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

This information contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and assumptions regarding future events involving SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), its technologies, its partnership activities, and its development of molecular marking systems for recycled PET and other materials. Forward-looking statements are not historical facts. They involve risks, uncertainties, and factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Forward-looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, its announced capital facility and its terms, expectations regarding the integration of SMX’s molecular markers into U.S. recycling markets; the potential for FDA-compliant markers to enable recycled PET to enter food-grade and other regulated applications; the scalability of SMX solutions across diverse global supply chains; anticipated adoption of identity-based verification systems by manufacturers, recyclers, regulators, or brand owners; the potential economic impact of turning recycled plastics into tradeable or monetizable assets; the expected performance of SMX’s Plastic Cycle Token or other digital verification instruments; and the belief that molecular-level authentication may influence pricing, compliance, sustainability reporting, or financial strategies used within the plastics sector.

These forward-looking statements are also subject to assumptions regarding regulatory developments, market demand for authenticated recycled content, the pace of corporate adoption of traceability technology, global economic conditions, supply chain constraints, evolving environmental policies, and general industry behavior relating to sustainability commitments and recycling mandates. Risks include, but are not limited to, changes in FDA or international regulatory standards; technological challenges in large-scale deployment of molecular markers; competitive innovations from other companies; operational disruptions in recycling or plastics manufacturing; fluctuations in pricing for virgin or recycled plastics; and the broader economic conditions that influence capital investment and industrial activity.

Detailed risk factors are described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events, changes in circumstances, or new information, except as required by applicable law.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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Supporting Authentication, Traceability, and Recycled-Content Verification Across Fashion and Luxury

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 30, 2025 / SMX PLC (NASDAQ:SMX; SMXWW), a global provider of material-embedded identity and digital traceability solutions, is helping fashion and luxury brands shift from reputation-based trust to evidence-based certainty, a priority highlighted by recent findings from The State of Fashion 2025 report, which exposes excess inventory, stock-outs, and supply-chain volatility as core industry challenges.

Luxury was built on trust. Not the kind given lightly, but the kind earned over decades. A brand name, a logo, a lineage conveyed quality and authenticity. That model worked when products moved through controlled environments and supply chains were simpler. Today, materials circulate through a global network of suppliers, distributors, and channels, and products live far beyond their first sale.

In this new reality, trust without verification no longer offers reliable foundations. Brands that depend on implied credibility find it harder to defend authenticity, sustainability claims, and regulatory compliance. Those pressure points are precisely where certainty is now required.

When Trust Turns into Exposure

Across fashion, The State of Fashion 2025 report highlights how inventory pressures, from billions of excess units to a rise in discounting, are symptomatic of deeper structural weaknesses in how products are tracked and understood.

Regulators demand specific proof. Insurers want confirmable documentation. Resale platforms need confidence that goes beyond surface inspection. Each stakeholder tests trust differently, and each test exposes the limitations of reputation alone.

When claims about sourcing, composition, or authenticity cannot be verified consistently, brands revert to explanation mode, sometimes defending decisions months or years after production. Over time, what once worked as brand equity begins to behave like an unquantified liability.

The further products migrate from their origin, the more trust depends on assumption rather than evidence.

Why Reputation Alone No Longer Travels

That’s because trust does not transfer cleanly across borders, platforms, or ownership changes.

Luxury products now circulate in resale markets, secondhand channels, and cross-border commerce where brand reputation carries less weight than verifiable proof. Documentation fragments. Certifications age. Records disconnect from the product they were meant to describe.

This creates friction at moments where confidence matters most. Even authentic goods can face hesitation or discounting simply because verification is difficult or incomplete. Trust has to be re-established repeatedly, slowing transactions and raising exposure to uncertainty.

Without persistent, material-level identity, brands lose control over how trust is carried forward.

Denim as the Pressure Point

Viewed through this lens, SMX’s planned expansion into denim and recycled denim in early 2026 reads less like a category experiment and more like a deliberate stress test.

Denim operates at a scale few apparel categories can match. It is worn across demographics, price points, and geographies, while still anchoring premium brand identity. Tens of billions of dollars in annual sales and billions of units moving through global supply chains make denim both ubiquitous and unforgiving. Small inefficiencies compound quickly. Gaps in traceability widen fast.

That scale is precisely why denim exposes the industry’s structural strain so clearly. Demand is volatile. Overproduction is costly. Pressure to increase recycled content is rising, yet recycled-denim inputs frequently lose clarity once they are blended, processed, or traded. By the time fabric reaches finished goods, origin and composition often rely on assumptions rather than verifiable data.

Extending cotton-based material identity into denim allows SMX to bring persistence where the category historically loses it. Embedded identity enables denim materials, including recycled inputs, to carry verifiable information about origin, composition, and transformation across their lifecycle, even as they move through complex manufacturing and reuse pathways.

The impact goes beyond authentication. Production offcuts, unsold inventory, and end-of-life garments can be identified with greater confidence and redeployed with purpose. Materials that once became opaque liabilities gain the potential to re-enter supply chains as credible, auditable inputs. Inventory becomes classifiable. Waste becomes intelligible. Circularity becomes measurable.

In a category defined by volume, longevity, and cultural relevance, denim becomes the place where proof either holds or fails. That is why it matters.

Anchoring Trust in the Material Itself

Restoring confidence in a market shaped by excess inventory and volatile demand requires moving well beyond reputation and into concrete evidence.

By embedding identity directly into raw materials, SMX makes verification inherent rather than interpretive. Products carry their own proof through manufacturing, distribution, resale, and recycling. Trust moves from an assumption to something confirmable and enduring.

When identity is anchored at the material level, verification can happen anywhere the product appears, regardless of who owns it or how much time has passed. This reduces friction across resale, insurance, and compliance environments.

For luxury brands navigating tightening regulations and extended product lifecycles, this marks a shift. Trust stops being a vulnerability. It becomes an asset, and a valuable one in an industry where excess stock and misaligned supply chains have exposed the limits of traditional trust.

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

This information contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and assumptions regarding future events involving SMX (NASDAQ: SMX), its technologies, its partnership activities, and its development of molecular marking systems for recycled PET and other materials. Forward-looking statements are not historical facts. They involve risks, uncertainties, and factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, its announced capital facility and its terms, expectations regarding the integration of SMX’s molecular markers into U.S. recycling markets; the potential for FDA-compliant markers to enable recycled PET to enter food-grade and other regulated applications; the scalability of SMX solutions across diverse global supply chains; anticipated adoption of identity-based verification systems by manufacturers, recyclers, regulators, or brand owners; the potential economic impact of turning recycled plastics into tradeable or monetizable assets; the expected performance of SMX’s Plastic Cycle Token or other digital verification instruments; and the belief that molecular-level authentication may influence pricing, compliance, sustainability reporting, or financial strategies used within the plastics sector.

These forward-looking statements are also subject to assumptions regarding regulatory developments, market demand for authenticated recycled content, the pace of corporate adoption of traceability technology, global economic conditions, supply chain constraints, evolving environmental policies, and general industry behavior relating to sustainability commitments and recycling mandates. Risks include, but are not limited to, changes in FDA or international regulatory standards; technological challenges in large-scale deployment of molecular markers; competitive innovations from other companies; operational disruptions in recycling or plastics manufacturing; fluctuations in pricing for virgin or recycled plastics; and the broader economic conditions that influence capital investment and industrial activity.

Detailed risk factors are described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events, changes in circumstances, or new information, except as required by applicable law.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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SMX Plans Q1/2026 Expansion of Cotton Material Identity Into Denim to Support Authentication, Traceability, and Recycled Content Verification

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 30, 2025 / SMX PLC (NASDAQ:SMX; SMXWW), a global provider of material-embedded identity and digital traceability solutions, is helping fashion and luxury brands move from reputation-based trust to evidence-based certainty. That shift is no longer optional. It is becoming a prerequisite for value.

Luxury has always known how to manufacture scarcity. Limited runs. Controlled distribution. Materials sourced from specific regions and processed through tightly guarded techniques. For decades, product scarcity alone was enough to sustain pricing power and brand authority.

That equation is now under pressure. Products can be copied, referenced, and visually approximated at scale. What cannot be easily replicated is certainty. The ability to prove, without debate, what something is and where it came from has become the rarest asset in luxury.

This is where the next competitive divide is emerging.

From the start, SMX has approached this shift not as a branding challenge, but as a structural one. By embedding identity directly into materials, SMX reframes scarcity itself, away from how much exists and toward how much can be proven.

When Scarcity Moves Beyond the Object

In today’s luxury ecosystem, that’s vital. Especially with value tested far beyond the boutique.

Today, products move into resale markets, insurance portfolios, cross-border trade, and regulatory review. And each environment applies pressure not to appearance, but to verification. Scarcity that relies only on a limited supply begins to weaken when proof cannot travel with the product.

This is where traditional systems struggle. Labels detach. Documentation fragments. Digital records exist separately from the materials they describe. Over time, even authentic products can lose pricing power simply because certainty becomes harder to establish.

In other words, scarcity without proof becomes fragile. Worse, the scarcity of proof compounds. But that need not be the case.

Proof as Infrastructure, Not Storytelling

Material-level identity, precisely what SMX provides, changes the economics of scarcity. When an immutable molecular identity is embedded directly into raw materials, verification no longer depends on context, interpretation, or explanation. It becomes inherent. Products carry their own proof through manufacturing, resale, redistribution, and recycling, without requiring revalidation at each step.

This is not about telling a better story. It is about eliminating the need to tell one at all. Verification shifts from narrative to confirmation. Scarcity stops being aspirational and becomes enforceable, rooted in something that cannot be duplicated or inferred.

At scale, this fundamentally alters how value behaves. Products that can be proven retain credibility across markets and over time. Those that cannot face quiet erosion, regardless of craftsmanship or brand heritage. Certainty compounds. Doubt discounts.

The consequences of the latter are now visible in how fashion manages inventory. As highlighted in The State of Fashion 2025 report, brands are contending with billions of dollars in excess stock while simultaneously experiencing stock-outs in high-demand categories. Discounting has become a blunt instrument, clearing inventory at the expense of margin and brand equity.

This imbalance is not solely a forecasting failure. It reflects a deeper structural issue. Products lose identity as they move through supply chains, making it harder to sort, reclassify, resell, or redeploy inventory with confidence. When proof is absent, scarcity collapses at precisely the moment it should protect value. Products become harder to place, harder to price, and harder to defend.

Why Denim Becomes the Test Case

Against that backdrop, SMX’s decision to enter the denim and recycled-denim segment in Q1 2026 is not incidental. It is strategic.

Denim is one of the world’s largest and most culturally durable apparel categories, with global market estimates approaching $90 billion annually and more than 4.5 billion pairs of jeans sold worldwide each year. It sits at the intersection of high-volume production, premium brand positioning, and growing consumer demand for recyclability, authenticity, and origin integrity.

It is also where the industry’s structural pressures converge most visibly. Denim brands face demand volatility, pressure to reduce overproduction, and rising requirements to increase and verify recycled content. Yet recycled-denim streams often lose integrity once materials are blended, processed, or traded, undermining confidence in sustainability claims and circular-economy economics.

By extending its cotton-based material identity capabilities into denim, SMX is applying its “giving materials memory” framework to one of fashion’s most complex and consequential categories. Embedded identity allows denim and recycled-denim materials to retain verifiable information about origin, composition, and lifecycle events, even after transformation and reuse.

That has implications beyond authentication. It enables recycled feedstocks, production offcuts, unsold inventory, and end-of-life garments to be recognized as more credible, tradable inputs rather than opaque liabilities. Waste becomes identifiable. Inventory becomes sortable. Circularity becomes auditable. That ability is timely.

Scarcity That Holds Its Shape Over Time

Luxury has always prized longevity. Heritage gains value with age. Provenance becomes more important, not less.

Material-embedded proof behaves the same way. The longer a product exists, the more valuable certainty becomes. Identity does not decay. It accumulates relevance.

This is the difference between scarcity that must be protected and scarcity that protects itself.

As luxury navigates excess inventory, tighter regulation, and increasingly sophisticated secondary markets, the brands that anchor scarcity in proof will quietly separate themselves. Not through louder exclusivity, but through enduring certainty. The very thing SMX delivers.

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

This information contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and assumptions regarding future events involving SMX (NASDAQ: SMX), its technologies, its partnership activities, and its development of molecular marking systems for recycled PET and other materials. Forward-looking statements are not historical facts. They involve risks, uncertainties, and factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, its announced capital facility and its terms, expectations regarding the integration of SMX’s molecular markers into U.S. recycling markets; the potential for FDA-compliant markers to enable recycled PET to enter food-grade and other regulated applications; the scalability of SMX solutions across diverse global supply chains; anticipated adoption of identity-based verification systems by manufacturers, recyclers, regulators, or brand owners; the potential economic impact of turning recycled plastics into tradeable or monetizable assets; the expected performance of SMX’s Plastic Cycle Token or other digital verification instruments; and the belief that molecular-level authentication may influence pricing, compliance, sustainability reporting, or financial strategies used within the plastics sector.

These forward-looking statements are also subject to assumptions regarding regulatory developments, market demand for authenticated recycled content, the pace of corporate adoption of traceability technology, global economic conditions, supply chain constraints, evolving environmental policies, and general industry behavior relating to sustainability commitments and recycling mandates. Risks include, but are not limited to, changes in FDA or international regulatory standards; technological challenges in large-scale deployment of molecular markers; competitive innovations from other companies; operational disruptions in recycling or plastics manufacturing; fluctuations in pricing for virgin or recycled plastics; and the broader economic conditions that influence capital investment and industrial activity.

Detailed risk factors are described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events, changes in circumstances, or new information, except as required by applicable law.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

View the original press release on ACCESS Newswire

SMX Plans Q1/2026 Expansion of Cotton Material Identity Into Denim to Support Authentication, Traceability, and Recycled Content Verification

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 30, 2025 / SMX PLC (NASDAQ:SMX; SMXWW), a global provider of material-embedded identity and digital traceability solutions, is helping fashion and luxury brands move from reputation-based trust to evidence-based certainty. That shift is no longer optional. It is becoming a prerequisite for value.

Luxury has always known how to manufacture scarcity. Limited runs. Controlled distribution. Materials sourced from specific regions and processed through tightly guarded techniques. For decades, product scarcity alone was enough to sustain pricing power and brand authority.

That equation is now under pressure. Products can be copied, referenced, and visually approximated at scale. What cannot be easily replicated is certainty. The ability to prove, without debate, what something is and where it came from has become the rarest asset in luxury.

This is where the next competitive divide is emerging.

From the start, SMX has approached this shift not as a branding challenge, but as a structural one. By embedding identity directly into materials, SMX reframes scarcity itself, away from how much exists and toward how much can be proven.

When Scarcity Moves Beyond the Object

In today’s luxury ecosystem, that’s vital. Especially with value tested far beyond the boutique.

Today, products move into resale markets, insurance portfolios, cross-border trade, and regulatory review. And each environment applies pressure not to appearance, but to verification. Scarcity that relies only on a limited supply begins to weaken when proof cannot travel with the product.

This is where traditional systems struggle. Labels detach. Documentation fragments. Digital records exist separately from the materials they describe. Over time, even authentic products can lose pricing power simply because certainty becomes harder to establish.

In other words, scarcity without proof becomes fragile. Worse, the scarcity of proof compounds. But that need not be the case.

Proof as Infrastructure, Not Storytelling

Material-level identity, precisely what SMX provides, changes the economics of scarcity. When an immutable molecular identity is embedded directly into raw materials, verification no longer depends on context, interpretation, or explanation. It becomes inherent. Products carry their own proof through manufacturing, resale, redistribution, and recycling, without requiring revalidation at each step.

This is not about telling a better story. It is about eliminating the need to tell one at all. Verification shifts from narrative to confirmation. Scarcity stops being aspirational and becomes enforceable, rooted in something that cannot be duplicated or inferred.

At scale, this fundamentally alters how value behaves. Products that can be proven retain credibility across markets and over time. Those that cannot face quiet erosion, regardless of craftsmanship or brand heritage. Certainty compounds. Doubt discounts.

The consequences of the latter are now visible in how fashion manages inventory. As highlighted in The State of Fashion 2025 report, brands are contending with billions of dollars in excess stock while simultaneously experiencing stock-outs in high-demand categories. Discounting has become a blunt instrument, clearing inventory at the expense of margin and brand equity.

This imbalance is not solely a forecasting failure. It reflects a deeper structural issue. Products lose identity as they move through supply chains, making it harder to sort, reclassify, resell, or redeploy inventory with confidence. When proof is absent, scarcity collapses at precisely the moment it should protect value. Products become harder to place, harder to price, and harder to defend.

Why Denim Becomes the Test Case

Against that backdrop, SMX’s decision to enter the denim and recycled-denim segment in Q1 2026 is not incidental. It is strategic.

Denim is one of the world’s largest and most culturally durable apparel categories, with global market estimates approaching $90 billion annually and more than 4.5 billion pairs of jeans sold worldwide each year. It sits at the intersection of high-volume production, premium brand positioning, and growing consumer demand for recyclability, authenticity, and origin integrity.

It is also where the industry’s structural pressures converge most visibly. Denim brands face demand volatility, pressure to reduce overproduction, and rising requirements to increase and verify recycled content. Yet recycled-denim streams often lose integrity once materials are blended, processed, or traded, undermining confidence in sustainability claims and circular-economy economics.

By extending its cotton-based material identity capabilities into denim, SMX is applying its “giving materials memory” framework to one of fashion’s most complex and consequential categories. Embedded identity allows denim and recycled-denim materials to retain verifiable information about origin, composition, and lifecycle events, even after transformation and reuse.

That has implications beyond authentication. It enables recycled feedstocks, production offcuts, unsold inventory, and end-of-life garments to be recognized as more credible, tradable inputs rather than opaque liabilities. Waste becomes identifiable. Inventory becomes sortable. Circularity becomes auditable. That ability is timely.

Scarcity That Holds Its Shape Over Time

Luxury has always prized longevity. Heritage gains value with age. Provenance becomes more important, not less.

Material-embedded proof behaves the same way. The longer a product exists, the more valuable certainty becomes. Identity does not decay. It accumulates relevance.

This is the difference between scarcity that must be protected and scarcity that protects itself.

As luxury navigates excess inventory, tighter regulation, and increasingly sophisticated secondary markets, the brands that anchor scarcity in proof will quietly separate themselves. Not through louder exclusivity, but through enduring certainty. The very thing SMX delivers.

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

This information contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and assumptions regarding future events involving SMX (NASDAQ: SMX), its technologies, its partnership activities, and its development of molecular marking systems for recycled PET and other materials. Forward-looking statements are not historical facts. They involve risks, uncertainties, and factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, its announced capital facility and its terms, expectations regarding the integration of SMX’s molecular markers into U.S. recycling markets; the potential for FDA-compliant markers to enable recycled PET to enter food-grade and other regulated applications; the scalability of SMX solutions across diverse global supply chains; anticipated adoption of identity-based verification systems by manufacturers, recyclers, regulators, or brand owners; the potential economic impact of turning recycled plastics into tradeable or monetizable assets; the expected performance of SMX’s Plastic Cycle Token or other digital verification instruments; and the belief that molecular-level authentication may influence pricing, compliance, sustainability reporting, or financial strategies used within the plastics sector.

These forward-looking statements are also subject to assumptions regarding regulatory developments, market demand for authenticated recycled content, the pace of corporate adoption of traceability technology, global economic conditions, supply chain constraints, evolving environmental policies, and general industry behavior relating to sustainability commitments and recycling mandates. Risks include, but are not limited to, changes in FDA or international regulatory standards; technological challenges in large-scale deployment of molecular markers; competitive innovations from other companies; operational disruptions in recycling or plastics manufacturing; fluctuations in pricing for virgin or recycled plastics; and the broader economic conditions that influence capital investment and industrial activity.

Detailed risk factors are described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events, changes in circumstances, or new information, except as required by applicable law.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

View the original press release on ACCESS Newswire

Material-embedded identity gives materials “memory,” enabling waste to become a verifiable, reusable, and valuable commodity

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 30, 2025 / SMX PLC (NASDAQ:SMX; SMXWW), a global provider of material-embedded identity and digital traceability solutions, has positioned its physical-to-digital platform as a way for fashion brands to confront the structural challenges highlighted in The State of Fashion 2025 report, including excess inventory, overproduction, supply-chain inefficiency, and the growing requirement to increase and verify recycled content in products.

Those challenges are often framed as operational failures or forecasting mistakes. In reality, they point to something more fundamental. Fashion and luxury have a memory problem.

The materials that define premium products carry critical information long before they reach a runway or retail floor. Where they originated. How they were processed. What was blended, substituted, or recycled along the way. Yet once those materials enter global supply chains, that information begins to fade. Not because brands are careless, but because the systems meant to preserve identity were never designed for today’s scale and complexity.

When materials forget who they are, everything built on top of them becomes harder to manage.

When Memory Breaks, Inventory Follows

The most visible symptom of this failure is inventory imbalance.

Fashion brands are holding excess stock while simultaneously missing demand in the products and sizes consumers actually want. Warehouses fill, margins compress under discounting, and perfectly usable inventory becomes a liability rather than an asset.

This is not only a planning problem. It is a visibility problem. When materials and products lose their identity as they move through supply chains, brands lose precision. They may know how much inventory they hold, but not always what it truly is, where it belongs, or how it can be used in a compliant and profitable way.

Without persistent identity, inventory stops behaving like something that can be managed intelligently. It becomes noise that must be cleared before it creates more risk.

Why Documentation Can’t Keep Up

Traditional inventory and compliance systems rely on documentation that fragments over time. Labels detach. Records live in disconnected databases. Attributes that matter most, recycled content, sourcing, and regulatory eligibility, are separated from the product itself.

For luxury and premium fashion, this creates a dangerous imbalance. Products are designed to endure, but the proof of what they are often expires far sooner than the product. As time passes, uncertainty grows, even around authentic goods.

That uncertainty forces brands into reactive behavior. Broad discounting replaces precision. Overstock is cleared quickly to reduce exposure, often at the expense of brand equity, sustainability commitments, and long-term value.

Restoring Identity at the Material Level

Addressing excess inventory and recycled-content requirements requires more than better forecasting. It requires preserving identity from the start.

By embedding identity directly into raw materials, precisely what SMX does, continuity is maintained through production, distribution, resale, and recycling. Information no longer needs to be reconstructed or revalidated. It remains attached to the material itself.

When products retain material-level identity, inventory behaves differently. Brands can identify what they have, what meets regulatory thresholds, and what can move confidently into resale, redistribution, or recycling channels. Compliance becomes verifiable rather than assumptive.

Within a fashion and luxury market defined by overproduction, margin pressure, and tightening regulation, the ability to remember what was made is no longer optional. Memory is becoming a prerequisite for control.

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

This information contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and assumptions regarding future events involving SMX (NASDAQ: SMX), its technologies, its partnership activities, and its development of molecular marking systems for recycled PET and other materials. Forward-looking statements are not historical facts. They involve risks, uncertainties, and factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, its announced capital facility and its terms, expectations regarding the integration of SMX’s molecular markers into U.S. recycling markets; the potential for FDA-compliant markers to enable recycled PET to enter food-grade and other regulated applications; the scalability of SMX solutions across diverse global supply chains; anticipated adoption of identity-based verification systems by manufacturers, recyclers, regulators, or brand owners; the potential economic impact of turning recycled plastics into tradeable or monetizable assets; the expected performance of SMX’s Plastic Cycle Token or other digital verification instruments; and the belief that molecular-level authentication may influence pricing, compliance, sustainability reporting, or financial strategies used within the plastics sector.

These forward-looking statements are also subject to assumptions regarding regulatory developments, market demand for authenticated recycled content, the pace of corporate adoption of traceability technology, global economic conditions, supply chain constraints, evolving environmental policies, and general industry behavior relating to sustainability commitments and recycling mandates. Risks include, but are not limited to, changes in FDA or international regulatory standards; technological challenges in large-scale deployment of molecular markers; competitive innovations from other companies; operational disruptions in recycling or plastics manufacturing; fluctuations in pricing for virgin or recycled plastics; and the broader economic conditions that influence capital investment and industrial activity.

Detailed risk factors are described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward looking statements to reflect subsequent events, changes in circumstances, or new information, except as required by applicable law.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

View the original press release on ACCESS Newswire