NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 29, 2025 / Capital gets a lot of attention in small-cap markets. Control gets far less, even though it is usually the deciding factor between companies that execute and companies that react. The difference rarely shows up in how much money is raised. It shows up in who dictates timing, sequencing, and purpose across real-world deployments.

SMX (NASDAQ: SMX) has been building around that distinction. Control, in this case, is not about financial engineering. It is about operational leverage across regulated supply chains where precision matters more than speed. National platforms, industrial integrations, and precious metals verification programs do not reward urgency. They reward alignment.

That framing becomes clearer when looking beyond capital mechanics and into where SMX is deploying its technology, including silver.

Control, here, is not theoretical. It is physical.

Control Shows Up in Materials, Not Headlines

Silver is not a marketing material. It is a regulated, traded, custody-sensitive asset with a long history of fraud, substitution, and opaque sourcing. Once silver enters industrial or financial supply chains, provenance stops being a narrative exercise and becomes a liability issue.

SMX's work in precious metals extends its molecular identity platform into this environment. Silver, like gold, requires verification that survives custody transfers, refining, and cross-border movement. Claims are not enough. Continuity matters.

This is where control becomes tangible. By embedding identity at the material level, SMX allows silver to carry its own verification rather than relying on paperwork, attestations, or counterparties behaving perfectly. That changes how custody is managed, how disputes are resolved, and how trust is established.

Silver does not tolerate improvisation. Systems operating around it cannot either.

Optionality Supports Sequencing, Not Speculation

Silver verification initiatives, like national plastics platforms or industrial sorting integrations, move through validation cycles. Capital drawn too early creates inefficiency. Capital drawn too late creates bottlenecks. Control over timing allows deployment to follow readiness rather than market noise.

This optionality gives management room to prioritize integrity over acceleration. Partnerships are supported as they mature, not rushed to satisfy external pressure. That discipline is rare in microcap markets, where capital structures often dictate behavior instead of responding to it.

Here, behavior dictates capital use, not the other way around.

Partnerships Reward Stability, Not Momentum

The same control dynamic shows up across SMX's broader partnerships.

National initiatives with agencies like A*STAR require regulatory calibration and phased rollout. Industrial integrations with partners such as REDWAVE depend on equipment cycles and operational validation. Textile and circular economy programs developed with CARTIF operate under tightening enforcement.

Silver fits naturally into this mix because it shares the same requirement. Continuity. Partners working with regulated materials want certainty that systems will remain in place as scrutiny increases. They are not looking for speed. They are looking for persistence.

Control signals seriousness. It reassures counterparties that projects will not stall due to distraction or instability. It reduces perceived risk and allows relationships to deepen rather than reset.

SMX's approach dampens noise instead of amplifying it. By preserving control across materials, partnerships, and sequencing, the company creates space for execution to compound, where enforcement rewards patience and punishes improvisation.

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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