No Visa Required: SMX Passport Moves Physical Assets into the Digital Economy

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 7, 2026 / SMX built its Digital Material Passport Platform to give physical materials something they historically lacked: an identity that can survive every stage of their economic life. Now, as war, oil volatility, inflation and persistent supply-chain pressure redraw the economics of manufacturing, that digital passport is becoming increasingly important to a market where knowing what a material is, where it came from and what happened to it can directly affect what it is worth.

The shift is part of the Age of Parity, the new economic environment in which recycled materials can compete with, and in some circumstances become more economically attractive than, newly manufactured virgin materials. War and geopolitical instability have disrupted energy and petrochemical markets. Oil volatility has increased uncertainty around virgin plastic production. Inflation has raised manufacturing, transportation and labor costs. Supply chains remain vulnerable to interruptions, tariffs and logistics pressures. Together, those forces are dismantling the assumption that virgin material will reliably be the cheaper and easier option.