SMX Secures the Global Race for Rare Earths and Critical Minerals

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[{"type":"text","content":"NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / March 16, 2026 / SMX (Security Matters) PLC (NASDAQ:SMX) brings trust and authentication to global rare earth and critical mineral supply chains at a moment when demand for these materials has surged beyond politics, beyond tariffs, and beyond national borders. Rare earth elements and strategic minerals power the technologies that define the modern economy-from electric vehicles and renewable energy systems to semiconductors, aerospace systems, and advanced defense platforms. As global competition for these resources intensifies, SMX's traceability technology enables these materials to carry a permanent, verifiable identity as they move through global production networks-protecting supply chains and the massive investments behind them.SMX provides a powerful solution through its traceability technology, enabling rare earth elements and critical minerals to carry a permanent, verifiable identity as they move through global production networks. By ensuring the authenticity, origin, and chain of custody of these materials, SMX safeguards the enormous financial investments tied to their extraction, processing, manufacturing, and trade.Rare earth elements such as neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium are foundational to many of today's most important technologies. They are essential components in electric vehicle motors, wind turbines, high-performance electronics, and advanced semiconductor systems. As industries worldwide accelerate their demand for these materials, the ability to verify their provenance and integrity across complex supply chains has become increasingly important.Yet the pathways that deliver these resources are often highly fragmented. Rare earth elements typically move through numerous stages-including mining, chemical separation, refining, alloy development, magnet production, and final assembly into finished technologies-often across multiple countries and jurisdictions. These multi-stage supply chains can make it difficult to establish clear provenance or maintain a transparent chain of custody, creating potential risks related to substitution, mislabeling, regulatory exposure, and sanctions compliance.SMX addresses these challenges by embedding microscopic markers directly into physical materials. These markers remain with the material throughout its lifecycle,...

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