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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / January 15, 2026 / Infrastructure technologies are unforgiving by nature. They demand patience, sequencing, and alignment with systems that move deliberately and penalize disruption. When deployment is rushed or incentives favor speed over stability, failure is rarely subtle. It shows up quickly and publicly.

This disconnect is common. Many technologies are engineered for durability but introduced into environments optimized for acceleration. The resulting friction is not a flaw in the technology itself, but in the mismatch between how it is built and how it is deployed.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) operates differently. Its molecular identity platform is designed from the outset to function under inspection, enforcement, and repeated verification. That design choice becomes especially visible when applied to materials like silver, where oversight is constant and tolerance for error is minimal.

This alignment is intentional, not incidental.

Why Regulated Materials Expose Weak Systems

SMX embeds molecular-level identity directly into physical materials, allowing verification to remain intact as assets move through processing, custody transfers, and reuse. This approach only works when systems are introduced carefully and maintained over time.

Silver makes those requirements unavoidable. As a heavily regulated, custody-sensitive material, it quickly reveals weaknesses in provenance and chain-of-custody systems. Gaps are not hypothetical. They are enforced realities.

National platforms, industrial sorting frameworks, and cross-border trade systems subject silver to continuous validation. Identity technologies introduced into these environments must operate consistently, not episodically. Demonstrations are irrelevant. Persistence is the test.

This is why infrastructure adoption unfolds gradually but decisively. Early deployments inform standards. Repeated use refines systems. Verification that survives ongoing scrutiny becomes embedded rather than optional.

What Silver Reveals About Platform Scale

SMX’s technology is horizontal by design, capable of spanning multiple materials and industries. Silver sharpens that value proposition. While enforcement around plastics and textiles is accelerating, silver already exists inside a mature regulatory framework.

Applying the same identity logic across polymers, fibers, and precious metals demonstrates that SMX is not built for a single compliance cycle. It is built for regulated trade itself. The core requirement is universal: proof must endure regardless of material, jurisdiction, or handling.

Expansion under this model does not depend on customization. It depends on consistency. Each deployment reinforces the same verification architecture. Whether the material is recycled plastic, textile fiber, or refined silver, the logic holds. As applications accumulate, adoption friction declines. Silver, because of its sensitivity, accelerates credibility across less regulated categories.

Consistency Under Pressure Is the Signal

In regulated environments, credibility emerges from symmetry. Technology, process, and behavior must align when scrutiny intensifies.

SMX’s platform removes ambiguity by embedding proof directly into materials. Verification does not rely on reporting layers that weaken under audit. This consistency is especially valuable in silver supply chains, where custody rules, refinery standards, and cross-border movement leave no room for improvisation.

Performance in these conditions signals reliability everywhere else. That signal compounds. National programs, industrial integrations, and regulated marketplaces commit resources only to systems that demonstrate durability over time. Once embedded, infrastructure becomes difficult to replace.

The result is a platform designed to persist. Technology scales because it fits the environments it serves. Business reach expands as enforcement intensifies across materials and markets.

This is not a race for speed. It is a test of suitability. Infrastructure that survives scrutiny earns the ability to compound.

SMX was built with that reality in mind.

Contact: jeremy@360bespoke.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / January 15, 2026 / For generations, economists and market strategists debated when gold might reclaim its formal role in global finance. Theories cycled. Predictions resurfaced. Calls for a return to currency-backed bullion never quite materialized. While that debate continued, a more consequential shift emerged quietly. The next gold standard is not monetary. It is evidentiary.

Gold is entering a phase where its value is increasingly tied not to macroeconomic models, but to its ability to verify itself. The defining question is changing. It is no longer how much gold exists, but how much of it can prove where it came from, how it moved, and what it truly is.

Behind closed vault doors, stress fractures have been forming. Bars with incomplete histories. Inventories inherited through decades of undocumented transfers. Legacy record systems built for a slower, more trusting era. In a world shaped by sanctions, enforcement pressure, and geopolitical risk, assumption is no longer sufficient. Gold’s paradox is becoming visible: its reputation rests on certainty, yet much of it cannot independently verify its past.

That gap is what SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is addressing.

From Trust-Based Gold to Verifiable Gold

SMX has designed a framework that treats gold not as a passive asset, but as an accountable one. Its molecular identity technology embeds a persistent marker directly into the metal itself. The identity does not disappear when gold is melted, refined, divided, transported, or reshaped. The metal retains its history through every transformation.

This fundamentally alters gold’s role. It stops being an asset that relies on documentation and becomes one that carries its own proof.

For decades, bullion markets operated on a fragile assumption: that what institutions said they held was exactly what they held. Serial numbers, refinery stamps, and paperwork served as proxies for truth. That system functioned when supply chains were shorter and geopolitical oversight was lighter. Today, gold moves through complex global networks, passing through multiple jurisdictions, refineries, and custodians. Each step weakens paper-based identity. Each melt erases context.

Markets no longer fear gold scarcity. They fear uncertainty. A single discovery of compromised bars can cast doubt across entire inventories. No audit regime or certificate system can fully resolve that risk. You cannot anchor financial confidence to a material that can shed its past in a furnace.

When Gold Can Prove Itself

Embedding identity at the molecular level resolves the flaw entirely. Gold becomes self-verifying. It carries its origin, transformation history, and legitimacy within itself. It cannot forget where it came from. This is the gold standard that monetary systems never achieved-not because they lacked discipline, but because they lacked tools.

Once proof becomes intrinsic, gold divides into two clear categories. Verified bullion becomes the premium asset. Unverified bullion becomes a discounted risk. Markets will not debate this distinction; they will price it. Liquidity will follow certainty. Institutions will favor traceability. Regulators will enforce based on evidence rather than inference.

In this environment, gold evolves from a passive store of value into an active store of truth. That truth carries economic weight. Verified gold commands premiums because it minimizes seizure risk, compliance uncertainty, and rejection by counterparties. Gold without proof becomes harder to trade, harder to insure, and harder to trust.

This transition is not philosophical. It is already underway.

SMX is enabling that shift by giving gold something it has never had before: a durable memory. An identity that cannot be forged, misplaced, or erased. In the era ahead, gold’s importance will not be measured solely by ounces. It will be measured by certainty.

The next gold standard will not be backed by belief. It will be backed by proof.

Contact: Jeremy Murphy/ jeremy@360bespoke.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / January 15, 2026 / Don’t pay attention to the clickbait headlines that have no substance. Many of these so-called bear cases are written to grab attention, drive traffic, or frame a broader argument about an entirely different stock. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) just gets pulled into the headline because it’s volatile and misunderstood. That doesn’t make the analysis substantive. It makes it convenient.

They’re focused on volatility, structure, or short-term noise while missing what actually matters. SMX isn’t a speculative concept company. It’s a verification infrastructure business operating at the intersection of physical materials, digital identity, and regulatory demand.

How so?

Trust Built Into the Material, Not Layered on Top
SMX’s technology embeds permanent molecular markers directly into raw materials, creating immutable identity at the source. That identity’s then authenticated and tracked through secure digital systems across the supply chain. This isn’t software layered on top of trust. It’s trust built into the material itself.

That distinction matters because global commerce’s entering a proof-first era. Regulators, manufacturers, and brand owners aren’t willing to rely on paper audits, trust-based certifications, or self-reported ESG claims anymore. They need verifiable truth at the material level. SMX delivers that.

Real Deployments, Not Slide Decks
One reason the bear cases fall apart is that they treat SMX like a company still searching for relevance. It’s not. In 2025 alone, SMX expanded real-world deployments across multiple material classes, proving the platform isn’t confined to a single vertical.

That includes continued work in industrial, precious metals, and energy-linked supply chains, including its recent validation with Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC). That agreement followed expanded rubber traceability programs demonstrating end-to-end verification from raw input to finished product. These aren’t pilot concepts. They’re operational use cases solving compliance and sourcing problems companies already have.

SMX also moved deeper into recycled materials and circular supply chains, where verification isn’t optional anymore. Without authenticated recycled content, sustainability claims collapse under regulatory scrutiny. SMX’s technology makes those claims defensible.

Geographic Expansion Signals Institutional Interest
Another overlooked 2025 milestone, conveniently not mentioned in the “bear case,” is SMX’s expansion into Asia-Pacific, including collaboration frameworks with government-linked research and innovation bodies such as A*STAR. That matters because APAC is where plastic, rubber, and advanced manufacturing supply chains converge at scale.

Institutions don’t engage molecular traceability platforms for marketing reasons. They engage them because policy, procurement, and export markets are starting to demand proof that can’t be argued away. And all SMX markets present massive revenue opportunities.

In fact, more than massive, they present structural change opportunities as well. Counterfeiting, mislabeling, and fraudulent sustainability claims represent trillions of dollars in lost value globally. From luxury goods and precious metals to recycled plastics, rubber, pharmaceuticals, and critical components, industries are being forced to prove origin, composition, and chain of custody.

SMX’s platform’s sector-agnostic by design. Once the identity layer’s embedded, expansion isn’t about reinventing technology. It’s about onboarding the next material class. That’s another detail conveniently overlooked.

Verification Is Becoming Infrastructure
From a capital perspective, SMX’s $116 million equity purchase facility provides strategic flexibility rather than distress financing. It allows SMX to fund commercialization, partnerships, and geographic expansion without forcing operational shortcuts. That’s a value driver in and of itself, particularly in a market where trust-enabling technologies are becoming mandated rather than optional. Access to capital, and more importantly securing it, provides a tremendous competitive advantage.

Here’s the takeaway for any naysayer: the SMX investment thesis rests on one idea. Verification’s becoming infrastructure. Just as cybersecurity evolved from optional software to mandatory enterprise architecture, material authentication and traceability are following the same path. SMX is positioned as a foundational layer in that transition.

And with that responsibility, SMX’s building toward that eventual inflection point, quietly stacking validation across industries and regions. Because when proof becomes currency, platforms that can deliver it at the molecular level don’t remain optional for long. That’s the most potent supporting argument for the SMX bulls. SMX’s the only one operating at that level.

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.

Contact: Jeremy Murphy/ jeremy@360bespoke.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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