NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 29, 2025 / In regulated markets, credibility is rarely established through presentations or promises. It is inferred from structure. Counterparties look first at stability, incentives, and endurance, then decide whether engagement is worth the effort. In sectors where enforcement matters, credibility is tested before management ever enters the room.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) operates in environments where that judgment is unforgiving. National agencies, industrial operators, and compliance-driven partners do not tolerate uncertainty, especially when regulated materials are involved. Whether the asset is plastic, textile fiber, or silver, the expectation is the same. Systems must hold up under scrutiny, not just explain themselves after the fact.

Silver makes that expectation unavoidable.

Serious Partners Read the Material First

Silver is not a narrative asset. It is traded, regulated, custody-sensitive, and historically vulnerable to substitution, dilution, and opaque sourcing. Once silver enters a supply chain, credibility stops being abstract. Provenance, custody, and continuity become enforceable requirements.

This is where SMX's molecular identity platform matters. By embedding verification directly into materials, silver can carry its own authentication across refining, transport, and custody changes. That removes dependence on paperwork and intermediaries behaving perfectly. Proof becomes testable, not assumed.

Sophisticated partners understand this difference immediately. They know which systems collapse under audit and which ones persist. When verification is embedded at the material level, credibility is no longer negotiated. It is confirmed.

National platforms do not tolerate ambiguity. Industrial systems do not pause for reconciliation. Precious metals supply chains do not forgive verification gaps. Partners operating in these environments look for structures that absorb complexity without fracturing.

The material answers that question quietly but clearly.

Partnerships Reflect Confidence

The breadth of SMX's partnerships reinforces how this signal is being received.

Collaborations with national research agencies, such as A*STAR in Singapore, involve long planning cycles and regulatory alignment. These initiatives advance only when continuity is expected to persist beyond initial deployment. Identity systems introduced here must function under oversight, not supervision.

Industrial integrations with sorting system providers like REDWAVE place verification inside operational machinery. These environments punish distraction. Identity must operate at speed and scale without interfering with throughput.

In Europe, work with CARTIF on textiles and circular economy initiatives is unfolding amid tightening enforcement. Recycled content claims, provenance assertions, and compliance standards are increasingly tested rather than accepted.

Silver and other precious metals initiatives reflect the same pattern under even higher scrutiny. Custody chains, refinery standards, and cross-border movement leave no room for improvisation. Participation itself implies confidence in durability.

None of these relationships depends on excitement. They depend on seriousness.

Credibility Compounds When Systems Hold

The long-term effect of operating inside these environments is compounding credibility.

When partners experience continuity, trust deepens. Systems get refined instead of replaced. Standards align around what works. Over time, the cost of switching increases because infrastructure adapts to proven mechanisms.

SMX's focus on verification, integration, and enforcement across materials allows that process to unfold without interruption. By staying anchored in systems that reward persistence, the company reduces perceived counterparty risk and increases relevance as scrutiny intensifies.

This is how credibility becomes embedded. Not through messaging, but through repetition under pressure. Materials that verify themselves. Systems that do not break when tested. Partnerships that mature instead of resetting.

In markets governed by enforcement rather than sentiment, these signals travel faster than narratives. Partners respond to what holds steady.

That is the quiet leverage at work. Not persuasion, but proof.

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.

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