NEW YORK, NY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 15, 2025 / In e-commerce, trust is the ultimate currency. Buyers crave it. Sellers depend on it. Platforms across the industry have built empires on it. But as counterfeits evolve faster than human eyes can spot them, visual verification has finally reached its limit.

Not anymore.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), the company providing the invisible molecular infrastructure that turns trust into proof, has cured that limitation. And it's not a concept waiting for its moment; it's available right now. The potential impact could be enormous from day one.

Across the global resale landscape, where millions of products are traded daily - ranging from sneakers and handbags to luxury watches and electronics - SMX's molecular marker technology could eliminate the guesswork and hours of manual inspection with a scan that takes just seconds. That kind of precision doesn't just enhance the process; it could redefine integrity in e-commerce.

From Proof Source to Checkpoint

Here's the real breakthrough: SMX's system doesn't start at resale. It begins at the factory floor.

By embedding molecular markers directly into raw materials - such as leather, polymers, hardware, and even precious metals- SMX is building authenticity into products from the moment they're created.

Through partnerships with global manufacturing and technology leaders, including CETI, Aegis Packaging, and A*STAR in Singapore, this process is already underway, where each material gains a molecular passport that remains with it for life.

By the time that item reaches an online marketplace, verification becomes frictionless. No experts. No subjectivity. Just the ultimate flex: scanned proof

That shift from reactive to proactive authentication is the linchpin of a new trust economy. Instead of trying to catch counterfeits after the fact, platforms can confirm what's already known, using SMX's digital memory embedded in the material itself. It's the same principle that powers digital ledgers, but applied to the physical world, where molecules, not promises, hold the truth.

The End of "Buyer Beware"

For global platforms, this is the dream scenario. Authentication becomes instantaneous, scalable, and incorruptible. Human verification centers, a costly middleman of trust, give way to automation.

It's not a threat to existing business models; it's an upgrade. Marketplaces evolve into better checkpoints for proof, portals that connect buyers directly to verified chains of custody that began long before the product ever appeared online.

Luxury brands benefit, too. When authenticity starts at production, counterfeiting gets cut off at its roots. That proof of origin doesn't just protect the first sale; it compounds value across resales. A couture bag, a collector's watch, or a limited-edition sneaker can be passed through multiple owners, all tied to a single, continuous, and verified identity.

That's how circular economies grow, when proof flows as freely as the products themselves.

A New Marketplace for Trust

The ripple effect across commerce is massive. Once proof exists at the molecular level, verification can become universal.

Imagine refurbished electronics verified automatically before resale. Handcrafted items confirmed as genuine creations. Fashion marketplaces offering instant authentication not as a premium add-on, but as standard.

Every platform becomes a node in a global verification network, one anchored by SMX's industrial integrations at the source. This isn't a service layered on top of commerce. It's infrastructure, the backbone of a future where proof is built in, not bolted on.

The Business of Proof

SMX's partnerships with CETI, A*STAR, and Aegis show that this model is moving from lab to market. These organizations represent the manufacturing and materials layer, the very foundation where authenticity can be hard-coded before a single product ships. Once verified, materials enter global supply chains, and every subsequent transaction benefits.

And with each scan, verification, and resale, SMX provides validation, leveraging its technology as both a security feature and a data engine, transforming authenticity into analytics, a new category of value for brands, platforms, and consumers.

That's a business model designed to scale. From fashion and electronics to art, automotive, and pharmaceuticals. Anywhere value depends on proof; SMX is the system that makes it verifiable, not through educated assumptions, but with proof.

Proof at the Checkpoint

Marketplaces are the checkpoints. However, SMX is the system that strengthens them.

By starting at production and linking every stage of a product's life through molecular proof, SMX turns authenticity into infrastructure. It's a win for manufacturers protecting brand equity, a win for platforms by cutting costs and fraud, and a win for consumers who finally get a verifiable truth with every purchase.

The endgame? A digital trust economy where every object carries its own receipt for reality. SMX isn't just changing how the world verifies what's real. It's changing who it trusts to define it.

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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