On January 16, 2026, SMX announced that its Board of Directors has formally approved a comprehensive treasury framework designed to integrate digital assets into the company’s balance sheet. As a first operational step under this policy, SMX opened a corporate account with Kraken, one of the world’s largest digital‐asset exchanges. This move follows a series of internal presentations—three during Q4 2025—outlining risk controls, custodial arrangements and liquidity protocols. By establishing this account, SMX gains direct exposure to blockchain‐based holdings while retaining oversight through multi‐signature authorization and monthly reporting to the Finance Committee.

SMX’s treasury framework is explicitly tied to its Material Verification Strategy, which leverages molecular markers and blockchain‐backed digital product passports to certify origin and authenticity across supply chains. The new policy allocates up to 5% of annual capital expenditures—approximately $3.2 million in 2026—to digital asset evaluation, including pilot initiatives to tokenize verification credits. Senior management projects that integrating tokenized verification units could reduce third-party audit fees by 15% over two years, while accelerating proof‐of‐origin processes from an average 14 days to under 48 hours.

Building on its circular materials expertise, SMX has extended its industrial rubber traceability platform into the global latex and rubber gloves sector, a market valued at roughly $11.5 billion annually. This marks the sixth distinct application of SMX’s circular‐rubber program, targeting both medical and consumer‐use streams where post‐use recovery rates have historically fallen below 20%. The initiative includes partnerships with three major glove manufacturers and aims to divert over 5,000 metric tons of waste rubber into verified recycling channels by the end of 2027, reinforcing SMX’s value proposition to investors seeking scalable, sustainability‐driven growth.