SMX Secures the Backbone of the Global Critical Minerals Economy

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[{"type":"text","content":"NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / March 18, 2026 / As demand for rare earth elements and critical minerals accelerates beyond the influence of politics, tariffs, and geographic boundaries, SMX (Security Matters) PLC (NASDAQ:SMX) is establishing a new standard for trust, authentication, and transparency across global supply chains.These materials underpin the technologies shaping today's economy-from electric vehicles and renewable energy systems to semiconductors, aerospace innovation, and advanced defense platforms. With global competition intensifying, the ability to confidently verify origin, integrity, and movement has become essential to both industry and investment.SMX delivers that assurance by enabling materials to carry a persistent, verifiable identity throughout their lifecycle. Its traceability platform allows rare earth elements and critical minerals to be authenticated at every stage of production and distribution-protecting supply chains while safeguarding the significant capital tied to their extraction, processing, and commercialization.Elements such as neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium are indispensable to high-performance applications, including EV motors, wind turbines, and advanced electronics. As reliance on these materials grows, so does the urgency to ensure their provenance and maintain their integrity across increasingly complex supply networks.Those networks are often fragmented and multi-layered. Materials can pass through numerous stages-mining, chemical separation, refining, alloy creation, magnet manufacturing, and final integration-frequently spanning multiple countries and regulatory regimes. This complexity introduces exposure to substitution, mislabeling, compliance risks, and sanctions-related challenges.SMX addresses these vulnerabilities by embedding microscopic markers directly into physical materials. These markers remain with the material as it moves through each phase, creating a continuous, tamper-resistant identity that can be detected and authenticated at any point along the supply chain.Through its physical-to-digital platform, SMX connects these embedded markers to a secure verification infrastructure, generating a fully auditable record of a material's journey. This enables stakeholders to confirm origin, validate authenticity, and maintain transparent documentat...

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