NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 6, 2025 / There's a difference between saying and showing. Between talking about change and proving it happened. For decades, the sustainability movement has been powered by optimism, slogans, and moral urgency. But somewhere along the way, the language of progress got tangled in the politics of promises. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) has stepped in to take the conversation to the next level. And it only requires a single word to describe how: PROOF.

When Rolling Stone declared that plastic promises are dead and proof is the new flex, it didn't sound like just another environmental feature - it felt like a reckoning. The magazine that spent half a century defining culture had just defined the next era of commerce. Proof, not pledges, is now the currency of trust.

And that shift isn't isolated to one outlet. From USA Today to The Straits Times, Morning Honey, OPIS, and The Los Angeles Tribune, a global media chorus is aligning on a single theme: SMX isn't selling sustainability. It's verifying it with PROOF.

Proof Has Replaced Faith

SMX's molecular marking technology operates like a truth serum for the material world. It embeds a digital memory inside plastics, rubber, textiles, metals, and electronics, giving each item a verifiable identity that stays intact through recycling, reuse, and resale. That means every piece of matter - from a soda bottle to a smartphone component - can now tell its own story, backed by science.

The result is a circular economy that no longer runs on declarations or audits. It runs on data. SMX's technology makes it possible to know, not assume, where a product came from, how it was made, and whether it truly re-entered the supply chain. It's sustainability without the guesswork - a blueprint for measurable accountability.

USA Today captured this transformation in plain language: the global supply chain is being rebuilt around verifiable data. Every shipment, every material, every recycled input can now carry its own identity. That shift doesn't just make reporting cleaner; it eliminates the loopholes that once allowed greenwashing to thrive. For corporations, the new reality is simple - accountability is no longer optional. It's built in.

From Policy to Pop Culture

The validation isn't just industrial - it's international. The Straits Times spotlighted Singapore's national framework for a plastics passport, a program developed in collaboration with A*STAR and powered by SMX's molecular markers. The system lets products carry digital proof of origin and composition, extending the lifespan of materials and reshaping how recycling is tracked across ASEAN.

Meanwhile, OPIS covered SMX's work in Asia-Pacific, adding to the value of its partnerships with CARTIF in Spain and CETI in France, two of the region's leading innovation hubs. CARTIF is using SMX's technology to help European industries meet new circular-economy reporting mandates, while CETI is embedding molecular IDs into fibers and fabrics, turning recycled-textile claims into verifiable data points. Sourcing Journal even followed SMX's trail into luxury fashion, where its molecular markers are being used in lambskin and leather to validate ethical sourcing.

In Austria, REDWAVE is bringing the technology to the factory floor, integrating SMX markers into its industrial sorters to verify recycled materials in real time. In the United States, Tradepro is closing the loop by distributing certified recycled resin that carries SMX's proof-of-signature to manufacturers under strict compliance targets.

Even the gold standard is being rewritten. Singapore-based Goldstrom is deploying SMX's molecular marker to give precious metals a permanent digital identity, allowing banks, refiners, and traders to verify authenticity across their entire supply chain. It's an unprecedented step for the metals market - proof where trust once relied on stamps and paper trails.

Together, these six 2025 partnerships - A*STAR, CETI, CARTIF, REDWAVE, Tradepro, and Goldstrom - form the world's first cross-sector network of verified commerce. Proof isn't siloed anymore; it's global. Morning Honey captured that cultural shift, showing how SMX's traceability technology connects sustainability, consumer fairness, and global trade. And The Los Angeles Tribune distilled the financial impact into one line: "Carbon Credits Had Their Day." Their replacement? SMX's Plastic Cycle Token (PCT), a blockchain-backed proof instrument that turns verified recycled content into a tradable digital asset.

The Market Has Spoken

All told, proof isn't a slogan anymore. It's infrastructure. It links regulation, reputation, and revenue into a single, measurable framework. Governments and regulators see SMX as the enforcement layer that sustainability has been missing. Brands see it as the technology that transforms compliance from a cost center into a competitive advantage. Investors see a platform with expanding global relevance, capable of tracing not only waste but value itself.

The world has grown skeptical of promises. But proof - measurable, verifiable, permanent proof - has value again. SMX gave it form. It gave it structure. And as headlines from Rolling Stone to USA Today to OPIS make clear, it gave it a future.

Because in the end, progress doesn't need another promise. It needs proof. And that's precisely what SMX was built to deliver.

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.

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