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Dubai Built the Infrastructure, SMX Gave It the Proof and Now the World is Paying Attention

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / Dubai has spent years building the most sophisticated commodity ecosystem in the Middle East, but the real shift did not happen with new free zones or massive logistics hubs. It happened when the DMCC began redefining itself as the global center of material verification. That shift accelerated when SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) introduced molecular identity technology that gives metals, minerals, and industrial materials a permanent signature. Once Dubai recognized that identity could live inside the material instead of on a certificate, it understood the opportunity sitting in front of it. The future of global trade will belong to the region that can prove what moves through its ports.

SMX is Giving Plastics the One Thing the Market Never Saw: Proof

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / The global plastics system has lived with the same recurring flaw for decades. No one could reliably verify what was truly recycled, what was partially recycled, and what was simply being passed off as recycled. Brands made claims. Auditors tried to keep pace. Regulators issued mandates. Yet the underlying reality never changed. Plastic loses its identity the moment it enters the waste stream. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) introduced a permanent fix by embedding molecular-level memory into plastics. Once the marker is applied, the material retains its identity through collection, sorting, reprocessing, pelletizing, and remanufacturing.

The Rare Earth Industry Finally Has a Way to Prove the Truth Behind Its Materials: SMX

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / The rare earth sector has spent years trying to solve a problem that has grown more complicated as the supply chain expanded. Ores are mined in one region, processed in another, separated in a third, and upgraded again before reaching a magnet plant. By the time a finished component comes to market, the material's origin story is usually reduced to paperwork and assumptions. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) introduced a breakthrough that rewrites that reality. Its molecular-level verification system gives rare earth elements a permanent identity that carries through every transformation. Once a marker is embedded, it survives crushing, leaching, roasting, purification, and final manufacturing.

The Refinery Reset: How SMX is Becoming the Global Standard for Honest Recycling

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / Recycling has never been a trust-based system. It has been a belief-based system. Companies believe recycled content is accurate. Regulators believe declarations are honest. Buyers believe certifications reflect reality. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is ending that belief model by giving metals and plastics a molecular identity that survives every processing stage. It turns recycled materials into self-verifying assets that carry their truth from scrap yard to finished product.

The SMX Technology Driving Dubai’s Precious Metal's PROOF-Based Takeover

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / Dubai has been strengthening its position in global commodities for years, but something changed when the DMCC began evolving from a bustling marketplace into a center of verification. That evolution is fast because Dubai sees what others are still trying to grasp. Markets only operate at full velocity when certainty is built into the material itself. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is providing that certainty. Its molecular-level identification system gives metals, minerals, and industrial feedstocks a durable identity that survives extraction, refining, transport, and trading.

SMX Gives Strategic Rare Earth Minerals an Immutable Identity

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / The rare earth industry has spent years circling the same problem. Minerals move through too many borders, too many processors, and too many chemical transformations to maintain a trustworthy origin story. By the time a rare earth oxide becomes a magnet or an alloy, the truth behind it has been diluted by paperwork, assumptions, and gaps no one can independently verify. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) introduced a different path. It placed identity inside the material itself, embedding a molecular signature that survives every physical and chemical stage from mined ore to final component.

The Supply Chain Cold War: How SMX Gives Western Industries the Proof They Have Been Missing

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / The world has entered a supply chain cold war where data, authenticity, and material truth matter more than speed or scale. Western companies are discovering they cannot compete with state-controlled systems unless they can verify the origin and purity of the materials they depend on. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) stepped into this gap with molecular-level verification that embeds identity directly into metals, minerals, and industrial feedstocks. It gives Western manufacturers the clarity they have been missing for years.

The Anti-Counterfeit Industrial War: How SMX Builds the First Molecular Firewall for Global Trade

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / Counterfeit goods used to be a retail headache. Now they have evolved into an industrial threat that reaches deep into metals, electronics, automotive components, medical devices, and high-value engineered parts. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) stepped into this escalating crisis with a molecular-level solution that the market has never seen at scale. Its material marking technology transforms raw inputs into self-authenticating units that reveal whether a component is genuine, recycled, repurposed or substituted at any stage of the supply chain.

Gold’s Transparency Reckoning: How SMX is Eliminating the Shadow Zones Inside the Global Bullion Trade

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / Gold's reputation has always depended on confidence. Investors trust that bars are pure. Banks trust that sourcing is ethical. Exchanges trust that origin records are accurate. Yet the global bullion system still has gaps large enough for uncertainty to hide. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is closing those gaps by embedding molecular identity directly into gold and silver, giving each bar a signature that survives melting, recycling, and recasting. It turns bullion from a belief-based asset into a self-authenticating material.

Precious Metals are Becoming Data Assets: How SMX Turns Bullion Into Self-Reporting Materials

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / For most of history, gold has behaved like a silent asset. It sits in vaults. It moves through refineries. It trades between institutions. Yet it never carries its own proof. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) changed that by embedding molecular-level identifiers directly into gold and silver, turning them into materials capable of confirming their own origin, purity, and recycling history. It gives precious metals a digital truth woven into their physical structure.

Rare Earth Reality Check: How SMX Finally Gives Strategic Minerals a Proven Identity

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / The rare earth sector has spent the past decade trying to answer a question that never had a reliable solution. How do you prove where a mineral truly comes from when it passes through multiple countries, multiple processors, and multiple stages before it becomes a usable component? SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) stepped into that uncertainty with molecular-level identity for rare earth elements, giving them a signature that survives crushing, separation, purification, and final manufacturing.

SMX Brings Verification to the Metals That Keep the World in Motion

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), the new standard for aerospace metals, does not tolerate uncertainty. Titanium, vanadium, and specialty alloys carry the weight of industries that cannot afford inconsistencies in origin, purity or processing. SMX stepped directly into this high-stakes environment with molecular-level verification that survives every melt, cut, forge, and heat treatment in the aerospace chain. It introduced a model where the material proves itself instead of relying on documents that can be separated, duplicated or lost.

DMCC and the Rise of Verified Gold: How SMX Turned Dubai Into the Epicenter of Metallic Trust

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / Gold has always been the world's confidence asset. People buy it because they trust it. Banks vault it because they believe it is pure. Exchanges trade it because they assume its origin is legitimate. That belief held for centuries because no one had a better system. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) shattered that ceiling by giving gold a molecular identity that cannot be forged, diluted or re-stamped. Dubai immediately understood the impact. The DMCC recognized that the future of precious metals is not belief-based. It is verification-based.

BullFrog AI and Myriad Uranium Interviews to Air on the RedChip Small Stocks, Big Money(TM) Show on Bloomberg TV

ORLANDO, FL / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / RedChip Companies will air interviews with BullFrog AI, Inc. (Nasdaq:BFRG) and Myriad Uranium Corp. (OCTQB:MYRUF) on the RedChip Small Stocks, Big Money™ show, a sponsored program on Bloomberg TV this Saturday, November 29, at 7 p.m. Eastern Time (ET). Bloomberg TV is available in an estimated 73 million homes across the U.S.

How SMX Turned Identity Into the Most Valuable Asset in Global Trade

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / For decades, global supply chains operated on a simple assumption. If the paperwork looked right, the shipment must be legitimate. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) shattered that assumption by proving that materials should verify themselves instead of relying on certificates that travel in separate folders. By embedding molecular-level identity into metals, minerals, plastics, and industrial components, SMX introduced something global trade has never had. It introduced materials that carry their own truth.

SMX Supplied the Proof and Now DMCC is Rewriting the Gold Standard

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / Dubai has been expanding its influence in global commodities trade for more than two decades, but the world finally noticed when the DMCC shifted from a marketplace to a verification authority. That transition is accelerating because Dubai understands a crucial truth. Markets only move at full speed when trust is not an estimate. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is supplying that trust. Its molecular verification technology gives metals, minerals, and industrial materials a permanent identity that follows them from origin to refinery to trade floor.

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