NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 5, 2025 / Markets have a history of overlooking foundational technology until the moment they cannot. It happened with semiconductors. It happened with mobile operating systems. It happened with encrypted payments. In each case, the market understood the products long before it understood the architecture that made the products possible. When the architecture finally came into focus, valuation frameworks changed almost overnight. And valuations in those companies bringing it soared.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is entering that same moment. For years, the company was viewed as a niche player in recycling, a traceability tool for metals, or an ESG reporting enhancer. That is not unusual. Markets tend to assign narrow categories to technologies they do not yet understand. What changed is that several industries, all at once, discovered that SMX was not sitting inside their systems. It was powering the parts of those systems that had never worked correctly.

Gold exposed the first fracture. For generations, the bullion world accepted a simple reality. Heat erases history. A melted bar forgets where it came from. Paperwork tries to replace identity, but paperwork has limitations that every regulator understands. SMX broke that historical rule by giving the metal a memory that survives smelting, reshaping, vault rotation, and transport. Suddenly, the industry realized it had been solving authentication with the wrong layer of technology. The engine needed to be inside the material, not outside it.

Rare Earths, ESG, and Digital, Too

Rare earth minerals brought a second discovery. These materials support national defense, clean energy infrastructure, robotics, and aerospace. Entire nations depend on their supply. Yet once ore enters processing, origin becomes impossible to verify. Governments have treated this opacity as an unavoidable characteristic of the industry. SMX replaced inevitability with identity. Rare earths could now move from mine to magnet with origin preserved. The technology solves a geopolitical verification problem that no documentation system has ever touched.

ESG systems revealed a third discovery. Sustainability claims have matured faster than the tools available to prove them. Material recovery, recycled content, and lifecycle metrics relied heavily on approximation. SMX introduced a method for plastics, textiles, chemicals, and industrial inputs to retain identity through the entire recycling and repurposing cycle. ESG no longer depended on estimates. It began operating on scientific evidence. Industries that had accepted ambiguity were confronted with a path to measurable truth.

Digital assets completed the realization. Markets built on code still needed a bridge to real-world performance. SMX provided it. The Plastic Cycle Token (PCT) transforms authenticated physical activity into a digital signal that cannot be modeled or fabricated. Digital systems finally gained a source of trust anchored in material identity.

Recognition Came Late, But It Finally Has

These industries did not coordinate their recognition. They arrived at the same conclusion independently. Each sector confronted a weakness it believed was permanent. Each sector discovered that SMX can quietly remove that weakness. Markets reprice when that happens. Yes, partly because of speculation. But more importantly, because the architecture beneath the industry has changed.

This is the part that must be understood. SMX did not pivot. It did not release a new storyline. It did not expand into unrelated categories. It built one engine. That engine, as shown through partnership agreements, is now setting up to power the gold sector's first path to permanent authenticity, the rare earth sector's first path to verified origin, the ESG sector's first path to measurable circularity, and the digital asset sector's first path to authenticated physical input.

Markets set valuations, not companies. And markets revalue technology when they realize it is infrastructure rather than application. That is what happened with processors when the world understood they were the backbone of every modern device. It is what happened with mobile operating systems when people realized apps were simply expressions of a deeper architecture. It is what happened with digital payments when encryption became visible as the true foundation.

The same pattern is repeating. SMX removed structural weaknesses that industries had accepted for decades. Once the engine became visible, markets began correcting their view. That correction is not only predictable. History shows that it's justified.

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

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