Why Sovereign-Aligned Markets Are Forcing a Rethink of Gold VerificationNEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 16, 2025 / Gold does not change easily. Its rules, rituals, and trust frameworks have been built over centuries, reinforced by habit as much as by law. When gold markets do shift, it is rarely because of rhetoric or regulation. They move when infrastructure evolves so decisively that the old way of doing things starts to look inefficient by comparison. That is what is happening now, and Dubai is at the center of it.
SMX's Version of the New Gold Standard Is Less About Money and More About PROOFNEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 16, 2025 / For years, even decades, analysts kept waiting for gold to reclaim its role as the foundation of global money. They predicted a return to a monetary gold standard, a moment when central banks would peg currencies to bullion again. But while the world argued about economic theory, the real revolution arrived from an unexpected direction. The next global gold standard will not be financial. It will be forensic.
Gold Reserves Are About to Face the First Real Audit in History, And it Will Lack What's Most Needed: PROOF (NASDAQ: SMX)NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 16, 2025 / For a century, the world has operated on a comfortable illusion. Central banks believe they know how much gold they hold. Sovereign wealth funds assume their reserves are exactly what the paperwork claims. Bullion banks trust that what sits beneath their headquarters is perfectly authentic. But the truth is far more fragile. No country on earth has ever conducted a full, bottom-up authentication of its gold reserves. Not one. Reserve systems rely on certificates, refinery stamps, and legacy chain-of-custody documents that lose meaning the moment a bar is melted or restamped. The world's most important financial backstop has never been tested with modern tools.
SMX: A New Supply Chain Reality in the World's Four Largest MarketsNEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 16, 2025 / Most companies grow by drifting into adjacent markets. SMX (
NASDAQ:SMX) never needed that playbook. The company built a molecular identity platform that operates above traditional industry lines, becoming the engine behind a new era of verifiable supply chain integrity.
The Market Finally Woke Up: Why SMX Is Suddenly on the World's RadarNEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 16, 2025 / For more than a year, SMX (
NASDAQ:SMX) quietly built the kind of infrastructure companies talk about but rarely execute. Molecular identity for plastics. Traceability for metals. Verification that survives every transformation inside some of the world's most advanced bullion ecosystems. National circularity programs developed with leading research institutions. These weren't concepts on a slide deck. They were real systems deployed with real partners across multiple continents.
SMX's Global Collaborations Are Building the World's First Cross-Industry Verification MeshNEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 16, 2025 / The world has spent years talking about circularity, ESG integrity, and supply-chain transparency, but the truth is simple. No industry has ever had the verification infrastructure needed to make any of those goals real. Plastics lose identity when they melt. Metals lose identity when they move. Gold loses identity the moment it hits a furnace. Documentation has filled the gap, but documentation was designed for a slower, less interconnected world. Into this vacuum stepped SMX (
NASDAQ:SMX), and the company is not moving alone. It is collaborating across plastics, metals, gold, packaging, and national circularity programs to create the world's first verification mesh.
The Market Finally Gets It: SMX's PCT is Creating a New Asset ClassNEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 16, 2025 / Every market cycle introduces a new category of assets that feels almost inevitable in hindsight. Sometimes it is a technological leap. Sometimes it's a financial instrument. Sometimes it's a shift in how value is measured. Today, a growing number of investors are beginning to ask whether verified recovery is emerging as the next major asset class. The idea has been around for years, but no company has created a system capable of turning recovery into a measurable economic unit. SMX (
NASDAQ:SMX) has changed that conversation with its Plastic Cycle Token, and the market is starting to take note.
Why Market Interest in SMX Is Accelerating as the Plastic Cycle Token Comes Into FocusNEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 16, 2025 / There are moments when a company moves from being a name on a ticker to becoming a topic that keeps showing up in investor conversations. SMX (
NASDAQ:SMX) has entered that moment. What began as a quiet interest in its verification technology has turned into something broader, with traders, analysts, and crypto readers all starting to recognize the same thing. The Plastic Cycle Token is not a side project. It is the organizing layer for a new category of real-world assets built on verifiable truth rather than estimates or intentions.
SMX Is Becoming the Google of Materials, and Global Industries Are Taking NoticeNEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 16, 2025 / Every major transformation in technology begins with a simple idea. What if everything in a system could be identified, indexed, and retrieved with certainty? Google did that for information by mapping the internet into something searchable. SMX (
NASDAQ:SMX) is now doing the same for materials by giving physical goods a permanent molecular identity that acts like a truth layer. Once a material can carry its own history, the entire supply chain becomes searchable, auditable, and verifiable.
When Proof Becomes Tradable: How SMX is Rewriting Market RulesNEW 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.
SMX: The Identity Gap Is Becoming the World's Most Dangerous Blind SpotNEW 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.
SMX Is Doing Things No Other Company Could: Teach Materials to Tell the TruthThe 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?
Gold Reserves Are About to Face Their First Real Audit, Silver Will Force ItNEW 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.
Silver Is the Supply Chain Vulnerability the World Should Be Most Worried AboutNEW 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.
In the Moment: Why Global Markets From Plastics to Precious Metals Are Embracing SMX's TechnologyNEW 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.
Why Materials That Can Prove Their Identity Are Suddenly EssentialNEW 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.
SMX's Molecular Identity Technology Earns Serious Attention From World-Leading Decision MakersNEW 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.
From Demonstration to Integration: How Sectors Actually Adopt SMX TechnologyNEW 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.
Assumptions Created a Logistics Nightmare, SMX Is Waking the World to Proof as CurrencyNEW 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.
SMX Just Gave Cotton its First Circularity Engine, and the Fashion Industry Will Wear it WellNEW 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.
SMX Keeps Adding Mileage to Its Molecular Empire, and Cotton Is the Latest Proof That the Deal-Making Bonanza Is RealNEW 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.
Cotton Just Became a Digital Asset, and SMX Is Building its Market Where Proof Sets the PriceNEW 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.
SMX Cracked the Textile Code, and It Changes Everything for the Global Cotton Supply ChainNEW 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.
SMX Demonstrates End-to-End Breakthrough in Cotton Traceability: Proves Ability to Verify Origin and Recycled Content from Mechanical Recycling Through Yarn Spinning and Finished FabricPARIS, 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.
Industrial Traceability, Circularity, and Supply Chain Integrity Have Arrived, and Recyclers Are Paying Attention to the Provider Behind It (NASDAQ: SMX)SMX's engagement with NAFRA spotlights increasing interest in systems that improve material efficiency and downstream certainty without altering existing infrastructure
