NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / One of the most overlooked aspects of SMX's recent execution is how efficiently it is opening entire markets through partnerships rather than direct market entry. This is not expansion by brute force. It is expansion by design.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is using partnerships to bypass the slowest and most expensive part of scaling, earning trust market by market. Instead of selling identity verification from the outside in, SMX is embedding it from the inside out, through partners that already operate at scale within their respective ecosystems.

Each partnership functions as a gate. Once opened, that gate provides access to producers, processors, refiners, brands, and regulators that would otherwise require years of direct engagement. The value of that access compounds because the underlying technology does not change. The same identity framework applies across plastics, textiles, metals, and other material categories with minimal marginal adaptation.

From a valuation perspective, this approach matters because it converts what would normally be multiple high-cost market entries into a single reusable platform expansion. Capital efficiency improves as new markets are layered onto the same core system.

Different Markets, Different Value Drivers, Same Infrastructure

The second valuation insight lies in how each market unlocks value differently, while relying on the same infrastructure. In plastics, value is tied to recycled content verification, regulatory compliance, and circularity incentives. In textiles, it centers on provenance, sustainability claims, and supply-chain transparency. In metals, it extends to authenticity, chain of custody, and risk mitigation in high-value materials.

SMX does not need to rebuild its business model for each of these markets. The identity layer remains constant. What changes is how value is captured. That flexibility is critical. It allows the company to monetize differently across sectors while maintaining a unified technological foundation.

Partnerships accelerate this process by aligning SMX with market participants who already understand where value resides. Instead of guessing which use cases matter, SMX integrates where economic incentives are already defined. That shortens the path from validation to monetization.

Investors often underestimate this dynamic because they expect new markets to require new systems. In SMX's case, new markets require new relationships, not new technology.

Portfolio Effects Drive Valuation Beyond Any Single Vertical

The real valuation unlock emerges when these markets are viewed as a portfolio rather than in isolation. Each additional partnership increases the relevance of the entire system. Proof generated in one market reinforces credibility in another. Adoption in one sector reduces friction in the next.

This creates a portfolio effect that is difficult to model using traditional multiples. Value does not scale linearly with deal count. It scales with coverage. Once multiple major material categories are embedded with identity, SMX becomes a cross-market reference point rather than a sector-specific solution.

At that stage, partnerships stop being growth tools and start being defensive assets. They lock in access, normalize standards, and raise the cost of alternatives. The market typically recognizes this only after it becomes obvious.

SMX's recent partnership strategy suggests it is intentionally building toward that outcome. Not by dominating a single vertical, but by connecting many. For valuation, that distinction is critical. The upside is not confined to one market. It compounds across all of them simultaneously.

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, 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.

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited



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