NEW YORK, NY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 14, 2025 / Every major cultural shift starts the same way: someone not just saying, but proving what the rest only promised. That's exactly what happened when Rolling Stone jumped into the sustainability conversation and dropped a headline that hit like a verdict: "Plastic promises are dead and proof is the new flex."

For an industry built on good intentions and glossy pledges, that line marked the end of the performance. The world didn't need another recycling slogan. It needed receipts. And that's where SMX (NASDAQ: SMX) took center stage.

SMX isn't pitching ideals; it's embedding evidence. Its molecular marking technology gives plastics, rubber, textiles, and metals their own digital memory - an immutable fingerprint that survives the entire lifecycle from manufacturing to reuse. Why is that important? Because once proof becomes permanent, circularity stops being a theory and starts behaving like an economy.

From Pop Culture to Policy Frameworks
After Rolling Stone set the tone, the rest of the media chorus found its rhythm. USA Today quantified the story, pointing out that the $824 billion plastics market isn't short on ambition - just on traceability. That's the gap SMX fills. When a product can prove its origin, composition, and movement, the result isn't cleaner reporting; it's fewer disputes, tighter margins, and measurable ROI. Proof stops being compliance paperwork and starts becoming profit.

Meanwhile, The Straits Times covered Singapore's rollout of a digital passport for plastics - a real-world policy framework that mirrors SMX's tech footprint across ASEAN through Bio-Packaging, Skypac, and A*STAR. In the U.S., OPIS explained how digitalizing waste can flip landfill costs into verified assets, while Morning Honey made the consumer connection: transparent supply chains don't just build trust, they balance trade.

Even fashion picked up the signal. Sourcing Journal profiled SMX's molecular markers in lambskin and leather, proving that traceability isn't limited to packaging - it's redefining luxury itself.

From Carbon Credits to Verified Assets
Then came the headline that changed the economics. The Los Angeles Tribune declared, "Carbon Credits Had Their Day." The new era belongs to SMX's Plastic Cycle Token (PCT)- a digital ledger-verified proof system that transforms recycled materials into digital assets. It's not just greener policy; it's a new form of value creation.

Rolling Stone named the moment. USA Today measured the market. The Straits Times codified it into policy. OPIS modeled the economics. Morning Honey connected it to fairness. And the Los Angeles Tribune priced it. SMX is the infrastructure making the proof economy possible.

This isn't hype. It's convergence. Culture, commerce, and compliance are finally speaking the same dialect - and it's written in data. When Rolling Stone calls you a flex, USA Today calls you a market, and The Straits Times covers your blueprint, the narrative isn't being built. It's being verified.

SMX's molecular technology now spans industries and continents, giving every material its own verifiable identity in a world that's done accepting "trust us" as an answer. Governments see regulation that works. Brands see measurable accountability. Investors see scalability.

That's not just progress - that's permanence. SMX isn't chasing the spotlight; it's conducting the symphony. Every partnership, every passport, every proof point reinforces the same refrain: transparency isn't a promise anymore - it's the product.

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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