Author: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 8, 2025 / Global trade is built on commodities, yet most commodities still move without identity. Plastics, metals, minerals, and composites circulate through global markets worth trillions of dollars, but the materials themselves rarely carry verifiable memory. DMCC sits at the center of that reality. As one of the world’s most influential commodity hubs, DMCC processes massive flows of gold, metals, and industrial inputs. Their challenge reflects the broader market’s challenge. You cannot price what you cannot verify. You cannot manage risk inside a system built on assumptions.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) and the Plastic Cycle Token show how quickly that problem disappears once verification becomes infrastructure. Identity-backed materials behave differently. A verified polymer pellet is not the same as an unverified one. A verified recycled input commands 20% to 40% price premiums in many categories because it proves compliance, reduces manufacturing risks, and delivers measurable ESG value. A verified kilogram of circular plastic becomes a distinct product class. DMCC’s role, particularly in gold, demonstrates why this matters. When commodities carry identity, markets can price them correctly. When they do not, pricing is blunt, inefficient, and distorted by uncertainty.

The Plastic Cycle Token Levels the Field

This is where the Plastic Cycle Token (PCT) enters the narrative. The PCT represents the value layer that has been missing from sustainability markets for decades. Traditional carbon credits rely on models, projections, and assumptions that regulators struggle to validate. PCT is different. It converts verified recycling activity into a tokenized digital asset backed by measurable proof. Each kilogram of plastic recovered, authenticated, processed, and reintroduced into the circular economy is counted as a unit of value. That value can be traded, audited, and applied across supply chains. Proof becomes currency.

The numbers speak clearly. The plastics industry exceeds six hundred billion dollars. The world produces more than four hundred million metric tons of plastic every year, yet less than 10% is recycled at scale. Even small improvements in verified recovery generate enormous economic upside.

If identity increases global recovery rates by only 5%, the value of the materials captured exceeds $20 billion annually. With PCT, that value becomes visible, tradable, and financially aligned with circular incentives.

DMCC provides the global context for this shift. Commodity hubs require clarity. They require accurate chain-of-custody data. They require verification systems capable of supporting cross-border trade. SMX’s molecular identity meets those requirements by enabling materials to move with authenticated histories. The PCT then connects those verified materials to digital markets.

A recycler in Europe can generate tokens tied to recovered polyethylene. A manufacturer in Asia can acquire those tokens as part of its compliance and audit framework. A regulator can verify both sides of the transaction. The system becomes transparent end-to-end.

The Identity Models Will Work

The strategic implications are enormous. Identity-backed commodities reduce fraud. They reduce procurement risk. They strengthen national recycling sovereignty. They allow governments to implement circular policies based on actual data instead of paperwork. They create new markets where value follows proof, not declarations. SMX’s PCT closes the loop by turning verification into liquidity. Circularity becomes financially rewarding rather than financially burdensome.

This is why the identity economy is expanding toward commodity markets. DMCC shows the demand in metals. Global supply chains show the need across other sectors. With SMX, they get it.

SMX provides the verification layer. Its PCT provides the economic engine. Materials move. Identity follows. And value unlocks. Sustainability has always needed one thing: infrastructure. Now through SMX it has it. And as importantly, a waiting market to value and pay for it.

About SMX

As global businesses face new and complex challenges relating to carbon neutrality and meeting new governmental and regional regulations and standards, SMX is able to offer players along the value chain access to its marking, tracking, measuring and digital platform technology to transition more successfully to a low-carbon economy.

Forward-Looking Statements

The information in this press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, for example: successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber, plastic and other materials; changes in SMX’s strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects and plans; SMX’s ability to develop and launch new products and services, including its planned Plastic Cycle Token; SMX’s ability to successfully and efficiently integrate future expansion plans and opportunities; SMX’s ability to grow its business in a cost-effective manner; SMX’s product development timeline and estimated research and development costs; the implementation, market acceptance and success of SMX’s business model; developments and projections relating to SMX’s competitors and industry; and SMX’s approach and goals with respect to technology. These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this press release, and current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve a number of judgments, risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing views as of any subsequent date, and no obligation is undertaken to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws. As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, actual results or performance may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include: the ability to maintain the listing of the Company’s shares on Nasdaq; changes in applicable laws or regulations; the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations, and identify and realize additional opportunities; the risk of downturns and the possibility of rapid change in the highly competitive industry in which SMX operates; the risk that SMX and its current and future collaborators are unable to successfully develop and commercialize SMX’s products or services, or experience significant delays in doing so; the risk that the Company may never achieve or sustain profitability; the risk that the Company will need to raise additional capital to execute its business plan, which may not be available on acceptable terms or at all; the risk that the Company experiences difficulties in managing its growth and expanding operations; the risk that third-party suppliers and manufacturers are not able to fully and timely meet their obligations; the risk that SMX is unable to secure or protect its intellectual property; the possibility that SMX may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and other risks and uncertainties described in SMX’s filings from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 8, 2025 / Industrial waste has always been treated as a cost center. The global economy generates more than 2 billion tons of industrial and post-commercial waste every year, much of which contains plastics, composites, flame-retardant compounds, or carbon-black polymers that cannot be reliably identified. Between 60% and 80% of these materials never enter recycling streams at all. They are incinerated, landfilled, or downcycled. Not because they lack value, but because they lack identity.

REDWAVE, CETI, and CARTIF each highlight how quickly that truth changes when SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) brings molecular verification into the system.

REDWAVE’s sorting infrastructure serves as the industrial engine. Their systems process materials at nearly two meters per second across facilities that often handle hundreds of thousands of tons of waste per year. Historically, that speed came with structural limitations. Optical sensors cannot detect carbon-black plastics. Flame-retardant polymers confuse infrared systems. Composite materials break classification logic entirely. The result is predictable. Up to 30% of incoming material becomes unrecoverable because existing technologies cannot accurately categorize it.

Changing the Identity Narrative

When SMX identity markers enter the material stream, this barrier disappears. Early demonstrations showed accuracy levels of 99% to 100% even at full throughput. Materials once doomed to disposal suddenly become traceable inputs for circular manufacturing.

CETI’s involvement in France extends the system downstream. The facility’s research into composite materials and multi-layer packaging demonstrates why identity is essential. A piece of industrial packaging might contain five different polymers layered for strength, insulation, or product safety. Without verified identification, that packaging becomes waste. With molecular identity, each layer becomes recoverable feedstock.

CETI’s analysis suggests that verified multi-material recovery can increase usable output by double-digit percentages, especially across Europe’s dense industrial zones. Increased accuracy also stabilizes input quality for manufacturers, reducing defect rates and improving production efficiency.

CARTIF’s work in Spain highlights the regulatory dimension. Governments across the EU are implementing mandatory recovery quotas for industrial materials, backed by compliance penalties that can reach millions per year. Regulators do not want reports. They want evidence. Identity-backed materials provide that evidence. A facility can confirm exact composition. A government can confirm exact recovery volumes. A manufacturer can prove circular content across all relevant inputs.

With that, the infrastructure becomes measurable. Compliance shifts from bureaucratic reporting to automated verification. That efficiency reduces compliance costs by up to 40% in early modeling scenarios.

Far-Reaching Economic Implications

The economic implications reach even further. Global industrial waste streams contain an estimated $200 billion to $250 billion in recoverable materials. Companies have attempted to access that value for decades, but without identity, recovery becomes speculative.

SMX solves that by embedding memory into the materials themselves. A recycler can certify every kilogram leaving the facility. A manufacturer can purchase feedstock with full quality assurance. A government can measure circular progress in real time instead of once per year. Industrial sovereignty strengthens because countries can retain high-value materials instead of exporting them as low-grade waste.

REDWAVE provides the industrial scale. CETI provides the scientific rigor. CARTIF provides the compliance architecture. SMX ties all three into a single circular system built on verifiable identity. This is not a marginal improvement. It is a structural redesign of how industrial materials move through an economy.

That matters. Because once identity enters the waste stream, it stops being waste. It becomes inventory.

About SMX

As global businesses face new and complex challenges relating to carbon neutrality and meeting new governmental and regional regulations and standards, SMX is able to offer players along the value chain access to its marking, tracking, measuring, and digital platform technology to transition more successfully to a low-carbon economy.

Forward-Looking Statements

The information in this press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, for example: successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber, plastic and other materials; changes in SMX’s strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects and plans; SMX’s ability to develop and launch new products and services, including its planned Plastic Cycle Token; SMX’s ability to successfully and efficiently integrate future expansion plans and opportunities; SMX’s ability to grow its business in a cost-effective manner; SMX’s product development timeline and estimated research and development costs; the implementation, market acceptance and success of SMX’s business model; developments and projections relating to SMX’s competitors and industry; and SMX’s approach and goals with respect to technology. These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this press release, and current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve a number of judgments, risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing views as of any subsequent date, and no obligation is undertaken to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws. As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, actual results or performance may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include: the ability to maintain the listing of the Company’s shares on Nasdaq; changes in applicable laws or regulations; the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations, and identify and realize additional opportunities; the risk of downturns and the possibility of rapid change in the highly competitive industry in which SMX operates; the risk that SMX and its current and future collaborators are unable to successfully develop and commercialize SMX’s products or services, or experience significant delays in doing so; the risk that the Company may never achieve or sustain profitability; the risk that the Company will need to raise additional capital to execute its business plan, which may not be available on acceptable terms or at all; the risk that the Company experiences difficulties in managing its growth and expanding operations; the risk that third-party suppliers and manufacturers are not able to fully and timely meet their obligations; the risk that SMX is unable to secure or protect its intellectual property; the possibility that SMX may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and other risks and uncertainties described in SMX’s filings from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 8, 2025 / Fashion is one of the most complex supply chains in the world. It moves across continents, blends dozens of fiber chemistries, and generates more than one hundred million tons of waste every year. Only about 1% of that waste becomes new fiber. The rest is landfilled, incinerated, or downcycled into low-value fillers.

The industry does not struggle because textiles are impossible to recycle. It struggles because it cannot measure what they are made of. CETI in France, CARTIF in Spain, and A*STAR in Singapore each highlight the same truth. The textile economy only works when materials have identity. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) delivers that identity.

CETI’s work with advanced fiber recovery exposes the central challenge. Most textiles contain blends. Cotton mixed with polyester. Elastane integrated into sportswear. Nylon reinforced with specialty dyes. Mechanical recycling systems cannot reliably separate these blends, and chemical recycling systems require accurate input data. A facility may receive 10 tons of material labeled as containing 70% polyester, but the actual content might be 50%. That discrepancy kills yield.

Verified, Not Speculated

With SMX’s molecular-level marking, the composition can be verified with near-perfect accuracy. A sorting line that once operated on assumptions can now classify inputs with measurable confidence. Recovery rates jump. Waste volume drops. Circularity becomes scalable.

CARTIF’s position in Spain reflects the downstream implications. Europe is moving toward mandatory thresholds for recycled content across fashion, packaging, and textiles. Brands will need to prove the recycled inputs used in garments, not simply declare them. CARTIF’s role in circularity R&D demonstrates what the system requires. Traceable fibers. Certified blends. Digital material passports that identify every component in a textile article from manufacturing to reuse. SMX’s identity markers allow that data to travel with the fiber itself. This is not a QR code printed on a hangtag. It is molecular memory embedded in the material. A resale platform gains authentic verification. A recycler gains precise classification data. A regulator gains transparency. A brand gains compliance without friction.

A*STAR adds the global industrial dimension. Asia is the center of garment manufacturing, and Singapore’s ecosystem focuses on high-performance materials, fiber chemistry, and applied ESG technologies. Their work mirrors CETI and CARTIF but solves problems for the upstream side of the system. Manufacturers need process stability. They need to confirm real recycled content. They need to prevent counterfeit material substitution, which continues to drain billions from the global fashion economy.

SMX solves these challenges by applying an identity that cannot be removed, forged, or overwritten. A verified fiber retains 25% higher resale value in secondary markets. A verified garment moves through international trade with less documentation friction. A verified recycled feedstock becomes premium-grade input for manufacturers who must meet precise ESG commitments.

The Sum Total Can Be Massive

The financial implications are massive. The global counterfeit fashion market exceeds $500 dollars. The lack of traceability leads to double-digit efficiency losses for recyclers. The inability to verify blends prevents the recovery of billions of dollars in reusable fibers every year. CETI, CARTIF, and A*STAR all point toward the same solution. Give textiles identity. Once identity exists, authenticity becomes measurable. ESG claims become provable. Circularity becomes industrial.

SMX provides the backbone that ties these nodes together. France strengthens recovery. Spain strengthens compliance. Singapore strengthens manufacturing integrity. The common thread is verification. Without it, the global textile market continues leaking value at every stage. With it, the industry gains a circular architecture that preserves materials instead of discarding them.

Fashion has always communicated identity. Now the materials themselves finally have it.

About SMX

As global businesses face new and complex challenges relating to carbon neutrality and meeting new governmental and regional regulations and standards, SMX is able to offer players along the value chain access to its marking, tracking, measuring and digital platform technology to transition more successfully to a low-carbon economy.

Forward-Looking Statements

The information in this press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, for example: successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber, plastic and other materials; changes in SMX’s strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects and plans; SMX’s ability to develop and launch new products and services, including its planned Plastic Cycle Token; SMX’s ability to successfully and efficiently integrate future expansion plans and opportunities; SMX’s ability to grow its business in a cost-effective manner; SMX’s product development timeline and estimated research and development costs; the implementation, market acceptance and success of SMX’s business model; developments and projections relating to SMX’s competitors and industry; and SMX’s approach and goals with respect to technology. These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this press release, and current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve a number of judgments, risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing views as of any subsequent date, and no obligation is undertaken to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws. As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, actual results or performance may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include: the ability to maintain the listing of the Company’s shares on Nasdaq; changes in applicable laws or regulations; the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations, and identify and realize additional opportunities; the risk of downturns and the possibility of rapid change in the highly competitive industry in which SMX operates; the risk that SMX and its current and future collaborators are unable to successfully develop and commercialize SMX’s products or services, or experience significant delays in doing so; the risk that the Company may never achieve or sustain profitability; the risk that the Company will need to raise additional capital to execute its business plan, which may not be available on acceptable terms or at all; the risk that the Company experiences difficulties in managing its growth and expanding operations; the risk that third-party suppliers and manufacturers are not able to fully and timely meet their obligations; the risk that SMX is unable to secure or protect its intellectual property; the possibility that SMX may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and other risks and uncertainties described in SMX’s filings from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 8, 2025 / Plastics are a six-hundred-billion-dollar global industry operating on unreliable data. More than four hundred million metric tons of plastic are produced every year, yet less than 10% are recycled into meaningful second-life applications. The world is not short on plastic. It is short on verified plastic. Tradepro, REDWAVE, and A*STAR highlight how quickly that gap closes once SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) brings identity into the system. When materials carry molecular memory, recycling stops being a waste-management activity. It becomes an industrial supply chain.

Tradepro represents the upstream side of this shift. Their work across post-industrial and post-consumer plastics exposes a structural problem. Recyclers cannot command premium pricing when they cannot prove what they are selling. A bale that claims to be 85% polyethylene often trades at a discount because buyers assume the actual content may be closer to 60%.

SMX changes that by delivering identification accuracy that approaches 100% across complex polymers. In practical terms, a recycler that once sold commodity-grade feedstock can now sell certified, specification-verified material. Price differentials in that category often reach twenty to forty percent. Identity is not an attribute. It is revenue.

Building the Infrastructure

REDWAVE brings the scale. Their sorting infrastructure moves materials at nearly two meters per second. Historically, that speed came with a cost. Mixed plastics, flame-retardant compounds, and especially carbon-black plastics often went undetected in recovery because optical systems could not reliably detect them. That exclusion locks away billions in recoverable value.

When SMX markers enter the equation, identification becomes instant regardless of color, density, or chemical additives. Early tests have produced accuracy rates of 99% to 100% at full industrial throughput. That precision turns previously unrecoverable waste streams into supply-ready commodities. It also lifts recovery efficiency by double-digit percentages across facilities that process hundreds of thousands of tons per year.

A*STAR’s presence exemplifies how important this shift is for national-level strategy. Countries intending to reduce landfill dependency and strengthen recycling sovereignty need infrastructure that proves, not claims, circularity. A*STAR’s engagement signals how governments view data-backed materials. They become economic assets. They support manufacturing resilience, compliance readiness, and trade negotiation leverage. They also reduce reliance on imported petrochemicals by increasing the usable share of domestically recovered plastic. Circularity stops being a social initiative. It becomes industrial policy.

System-Level Benefits

The system-level benefits compound. Brand owners who must meet mandatory recycled-content quotas now have a technical path to real compliance. Regulators who historically relied on voluntary reporting can now measure actual recovered volumes. Manufacturers gain predictable feedstock quality, increasing production efficiency and reducing defect rates.

A verified plastic pellet does more than carry recycled content. It carries data. That data becomes the foundation for smarter pricing, circular incentives, and digital marketplaces where every kilogram converts into a monetizable unit.

This is why the plastics sector is moving toward identity infrastructure. Tradepro reveals the value locked in verification. REDWAVE provides the industrial engine capable of scaling it. A*STAR demonstrates why countries want it embedded in national systems. SMX supplies the molecular backbone that connects them.

The numbers tell the story. Recovery rates rise. Sorting accuracy strengthens. Market premiums widen. Landfill pressure declines. Circular output finally becomes competitive with virgin material.

Plastics circularity missions are not failing because they are unrecyclable. Plastics recycling efforts are failing because they are unverifiable. Now it can be both. Identity will rebuild the gold market. Identity will rebuild the textiles market. And identity is about to rebuild the world’s most challenging waste stream of all: plastic.

About SMX

As global businesses face new and complex challenges relating to carbon neutrality and meeting new governmental and regional regulations and standards, SMX is able to offer players along the value chain access to its marking, tracking, measuring and digital platform technology to transition more successfully to a low-carbon economy.

Forward-Looking Statements

The information in this press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, for example: successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber, plastic and other materials; changes in SMX’s strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects and plans; SMX’s ability to develop and launch new products and services, including its planned Plastic Cycle Token; SMX’s ability to successfully and efficiently integrate future expansion plans and opportunities; SMX’s ability to grow its business in a cost-effective manner; SMX’s product development timeline and estimated research and development costs; the implementation, market acceptance and success of SMX’s business model; developments and projections relating to SMX’s competitors and industry; and SMX’s approach and goals with respect to technology. These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this press release, and current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve a number of judgments, risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing views as of any subsequent date, and no obligation is undertaken to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws. As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, actual results or performance may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include: the ability to maintain the listing of the Company’s shares on Nasdaq; changes in applicable laws or regulations; the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations, and identify and realize additional opportunities; the risk of downturns and the possibility of rapid change in the highly competitive industry in which SMX operates; the risk that SMX and its current and future collaborators are unable to successfully develop and commercialize SMX’s products or services, or experience significant delays in doing so; the risk that the Company may never achieve or sustain profitability; the risk that the Company will need to raise additional capital to execute its business plan, which may not be available on acceptable terms or at all; the risk that the Company experiences difficulties in managing its growth and expanding operations; the risk that third-party suppliers and manufacturers are not able to fully and timely meet their obligations; the risk that SMX is unable to secure or protect its intellectual property; the possibility that SMX may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and other risks and uncertainties described in SMX’s filings from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 8, 2025 / Gold has always been a trusted store of value, but the systems that track it have never matched its economic importance. Every year more than 1,100 tons of recycled gold move through global markets. Yet provenance often relies on paper documentation, fragmented logistics, and reputation instead of measurable proof. Goldstrom’s collaboration with SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) highlights how quickly that old framework is disappearing. The moment gold carries a molecular identity, the market stops operating on assumptions and starts operating on verification.

Goldstrom is part of a much larger shift. Global hubs like DMCC handle enormous volumes of precious metals, and they face the same challenge. They need infrastructure that can verify material origin, confirm recycled content, and prove chain-of-custody integrity with accuracy that approaches 100%. SMX provides that layer. It upgrades gold from a passive commodity into an identity-backed asset. Fraud exposure, historically estimated at 2% to 5% in some bullion channels, becomes preventable. Every transaction becomes accountable.

The value difference is measurable. Traders can begin pricing verified metals separately from unverified inventory. Refineries can certify recovered gold without depending on declarations. Regulatory bodies can enforce responsible sourcing without slowing global trade. Even a modest 1% premium on fully verifiable gold creates billions in incremental market value across the ecosystem. That is what happens when materials have memory. Identity is not a label. It is a new economic variable.

Following The Path of Circularity

Circularity gains move in parallel. The gold recycling industry loses between 10% and 15% of potential value, not because of inefficiency in recovery, but because of uncertainty in documentation. When recycled gold cannot be proven, it gets discounted. When it can be proven, it becomes preferred feedstock. Goldstrom’s work with SMX demonstrates how quickly those losses can be reversed. Verified recycled metals trade on evidence, not trust. That helps redirect large volumes of secondary gold away from discount channels and back into certified high-grade supply. Circularity becomes a competitive advantage instead of a compliance checkbox.

DMCC’s position makes this even more consequential. As one of the world’s most influential trading corridors, DMCC sits at the center of global bullion flows. Its participants need clarity, speed, and confidence across cross-border movements. Identity-backed verification enables exactly that. Regulators can strengthen oversight without friction. Traders can reduce counterparty risk. Markets respond with stronger liquidity and more accurate pricing.

What once required manual auditing becomes automated and measurable.

Sector Shift is Shining Bright

This is why the precious-metals sector is shifting from partnership stories to infrastructure stories. The moment verification becomes technical rather than subjective, the market recalibrates. Risk declines. Transparency increases. Circular supply chains expand. Institutions that manage billions in metals can finally apply the same standards of accountability used in financial securities. The trust economy gets replaced by the proof economy.

Goldstrom showcases the upstream transformation. DMCC showcases the downstream transformation. SMX provides the connective fabric between them. As identity-backed gold becomes the norm, the global market will not move gradually. It will reprice itself. The assets that can prove their history will command the confidence premium. The assets that cannot will trade at a discount.

Gold has waited centuries for a verification layer worthy of its value. It just received it. From SMX.

About SMX

As global businesses face new and complex challenges relating to carbon neutrality and meeting new governmental and regional regulations and standards, SMX is able to offer players along the value chain access to its marking, tracking, measuring and digital platform technology to transition more successfully to a low-carbon economy.

Forward-Looking Statements

The information in this press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, for example: successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber, plastic and other materials; changes in SMX’s strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects and plans; SMX’s ability to develop and launch new products and services, including its planned Plastic Cycle Token; SMX’s ability to successfully and efficiently integrate future expansion plans and opportunities; SMX’s ability to grow its business in a cost-effective manner; SMX’s product development timeline and estimated research and development costs; the implementation, market acceptance and success of SMX’s business model; developments and projections relating to SMX’s competitors and industry; and SMX’s approach and goals with respect to technology. These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this press release, and current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve a number of judgments, risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing views as of any subsequent date, and no obligation is undertaken to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws. As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, actual results or performance may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include: the ability to maintain the listing of the Company’s shares on Nasdaq; changes in applicable laws or regulations; the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations, and identify and realize additional opportunities; the risk of downturns and the possibility of rapid change in the highly competitive industry in which SMX operates; the risk that SMX and its current and future collaborators are unable to successfully develop and commercialize SMX’s products or services, or experience significant delays in doing so; the risk that the Company may never achieve or sustain profitability; the risk that the Company will need to raise additional capital to execute its business plan, which may not be available on acceptable terms or at all; the risk that the Company experiences difficulties in managing its growth and expanding operations; the risk that third-party suppliers and manufacturers are not able to fully and timely meet their obligations; the risk that SMX is unable to secure or protect its intellectual property; the possibility that SMX may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and other risks and uncertainties described in SMX’s filings from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 5, 2025 / Market reactions that move this quickly rarely happen because of a single headline. They happen when investors, institutions, regulators, and commercial partners realize they have been looking at a company through the wrong lens. That is the moment unfolding around SMX (NASDAQ:SMX). What the market is responding to is not hype and not speculation. It is a recalibration that began when multiple industries recognized that SMX is not positioned within a single vertical. It is positioned beneath several of them.

Gold markets were the first to show the shift. For centuries, authenticity depended on paperwork and trust because molten metal forgets its history the moment heat touches it. When SMX demonstrated that gold can retain a molecular identity through smelting, recasting, and storage, a structural problem that shaped the entire bullion industry effectively disappeared. That alone would have been enough to draw interest. What the market noticed next was far more important.

Rare earth minerals face the same identity problem, but on a geopolitical scale. These materials power electric vehicles, aerospace systems, robotics, defense platforms, and the global clean energy transition. Their supply chains are notoriously opaque because ore blending, separation, and processing erase all visible signatures of origin. When industry players realized SMX could track rare earth identity from extraction to alloy formation, an entirely different sector began reacting to the same technology gold markets were evaluating.

A Convergence of Interest

This convergence continued through ESG. Brands, regulators, and auditors have spent years wrestling with unverifiable recycling claims and lifecycle reporting. SMX allows plastics, textiles, chemicals, and industrial materials to retain identity through shredding, melting, and reprocessing. ESG suddenly becomes measurable rather than narrative-driven. Once again, a separate industry recognized the same capability that gold and rare earths were responding to.

Digital markets completed the picture. The Plastic Cycle Token translates authenticated physical performance into digital signals. Recovery becomes data. Data becomes value. A digital asset finally has a real-world anchor that cannot be guessed or modeled.

These sectors may appear unrelated, but they share one structural flaw: the world has never had a universal method to verify material identity after transformation. SMX solved that flaw. When a single capability resolves bottlenecks across multiple global systems simultaneously, markets move fast. They are not reacting to a company update. They are reacting to information about the scale of the technology and its addressable impact.

How is Infrastructure Priced?

It is the discovery phase, when the market begins pricing infrastructure instead of assuming it is looking at a niche product company. Gold validation strengthens rare earth demand. Rare earth validation reinforces ESG credibility. ESG validation feeds the digital economy. Every sector amplifies the others, creating a multiplier effect that forces rapid re-evaluation.

SMX is not defining its value. Markets do that. What is happening now is a recalibration that occurs when multiple industries align around a single foundational capability. The interest is not an accident. It is a recognition event.

About SMX

As global businesses face new and complex challenges relating to carbon neutrality and meeting new governmental and regional regulations and standards, SMX is able to offer players along the value chain access to its marking, tracking, measuring and digital platform technology to transition more successfully to a low-carbon economy.

Forward-Looking Statements

The information in this press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, for example: successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber, plastic and other materials; changes in SMX’s strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects and plans; SMX’s ability to develop and launch new products and services, including its planned Plastic Cycle Token; SMX’s ability to successfully and efficiently integrate future expansion plans and opportunities; SMX’s ability to grow its business in a cost-effective manner; SMX’s product development timeline and estimated research and development costs; the implementation, market acceptance and success of SMX’s business model; developments and projections relating to SMX’s competitors and industry; and SMX’s approach and goals with respect to technology. These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this press release, and current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve a number of judgments, risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing views as of any subsequent date, and no obligation is undertaken to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws. As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, actual results or performance may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include: the ability to maintain the listing of the Company’s shares on Nasdaq; changes in applicable laws or regulations; the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations, and identify and realize additional opportunities; the risk of downturns and the possibility of rapid change in the highly competitive industry in which SMX operates; the risk that SMX and its current and future collaborators are unable to successfully develop and commercialize SMX’s products or services, or experience significant delays in doing so; the risk that the Company may never achieve or sustain profitability; the risk that the Company will need to raise additional capital to execute its business plan, which may not be available on acceptable terms or at all; the risk that the Company experiences difficulties in managing its growth and expanding operations; the risk that third-party suppliers and manufacturers are not able to fully and timely meet their obligations; the risk that SMX is unable to secure or protect its intellectual property; the possibility that SMX may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and other risks and uncertainties described in SMX’s filings from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 5, 2025 / Markets have a history of overlooking foundational technology until the moment they cannot. It happened with semiconductors. It happened with mobile operating systems. It happened with encrypted payments. In each case, the market understood the products long before it understood the architecture that made the products possible. When the architecture finally came into focus, valuation frameworks changed almost overnight. And valuations in those companies bringing it soared.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is entering that same moment. For years, the company was viewed as a niche player in recycling, a traceability tool for metals, or an ESG reporting enhancer. That is not unusual. Markets tend to assign narrow categories to technologies they do not yet understand. What changed is that several industries, all at once, discovered that SMX was not sitting inside their systems. It was powering the parts of those systems that had never worked correctly.

Gold exposed the first fracture. For generations, the bullion world accepted a simple reality. Heat erases history. A melted bar forgets where it came from. Paperwork tries to replace identity, but paperwork has limitations that every regulator understands. SMX broke that historical rule by giving the metal a memory that survives smelting, reshaping, vault rotation, and transport. Suddenly, the industry realized it had been solving authentication with the wrong layer of technology. The engine needed to be inside the material, not outside it.

Rare Earths, ESG, and Digital, Too

Rare earth minerals brought a second discovery. These materials support national defense, clean energy infrastructure, robotics, and aerospace. Entire nations depend on their supply. Yet once ore enters processing, origin becomes impossible to verify. Governments have treated this opacity as an unavoidable characteristic of the industry. SMX replaced inevitability with identity. Rare earths could now move from mine to magnet with origin preserved. The technology solves a geopolitical verification problem that no documentation system has ever touched.

ESG systems revealed a third discovery. Sustainability claims have matured faster than the tools available to prove them. Material recovery, recycled content, and lifecycle metrics relied heavily on approximation. SMX introduced a method for plastics, textiles, chemicals, and industrial inputs to retain identity through the entire recycling and repurposing cycle. ESG no longer depended on estimates. It began operating on scientific evidence. Industries that had accepted ambiguity were confronted with a path to measurable truth.

Digital assets completed the realization. Markets built on code still needed a bridge to real-world performance. SMX provided it. The Plastic Cycle Token (PCT) transforms authenticated physical activity into a digital signal that cannot be modeled or fabricated. Digital systems finally gained a source of trust anchored in material identity.

Recognition Came Late, But It Finally Has

These industries did not coordinate their recognition. They arrived at the same conclusion independently. Each sector confronted a weakness it believed was permanent. Each sector discovered that SMX can quietly remove that weakness. Markets reprice when that happens. Yes, partly because of speculation. But more importantly, because the architecture beneath the industry has changed.

This is the part that must be understood. SMX did not pivot. It did not release a new storyline. It did not expand into unrelated categories. It built one engine. That engine, as shown through partnership agreements, is now setting up to power the gold sector’s first path to permanent authenticity, the rare earth sector’s first path to verified origin, the ESG sector’s first path to measurable circularity, and the digital asset sector’s first path to authenticated physical input.

Markets set valuations, not companies. And markets revalue technology when they realize it is infrastructure rather than application. That is what happened with processors when the world understood they were the backbone of every modern device. It is what happened with mobile operating systems when people realized apps were simply expressions of a deeper architecture. It is what happened with digital payments when encryption became visible as the true foundation.

The same pattern is repeating. SMX removed structural weaknesses that industries had accepted for decades. Once the engine became visible, markets began correcting their view. That correction is not only predictable. History shows that it’s justified.

About SMX

As global businesses face new and complex challenges relating to carbon neutrality and meeting new governmental and regional regulations and standards, SMX is able to offer players along the value chain access to its marking, tracking, measuring and digital platform technology to transition more successfully to a low-carbon economy.

Forward-Looking Statements

The information in this press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, for example: successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber, plastic and other materials; changes in SMX’s strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects and plans; SMX’s ability to develop and launch new products and services, including its planned Plastic Cycle Token; SMX’s ability to successfully and efficiently integrate future expansion plans and opportunities; SMX’s ability to grow its business in a cost-effective manner; SMX’s product development timeline and estimated research and development costs; the implementation, market acceptance and success of SMX’s business model; developments and projections relating to SMX’s competitors and industry; and SMX’s approach and goals with respect to technology. These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this press release, and current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve a number of judgments, risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing views as of any subsequent date, and no obligation is undertaken to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws. As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, actual results or performance may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include: the ability to maintain the listing of the Company’s shares on Nasdaq; changes in applicable laws or regulations; the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations, and identify and realize additional opportunities; the risk of downturns and the possibility of rapid change in the highly competitive industry in which SMX operates; the risk that SMX and its current and future collaborators are unable to successfully develop and commercialize SMX’s products or services, or experience significant delays in doing so; the risk that the Company may never achieve or sustain profitability; the risk that the Company will need to raise additional capital to execute its business plan, which may not be available on acceptable terms or at all; the risk that the Company experiences difficulties in managing its growth and expanding operations; the risk that third-party suppliers and manufacturers are not able to fully and timely meet their obligations; the risk that SMX is unable to secure or protect its intellectual property; the possibility that SMX may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and other risks and uncertainties described in SMX’s filings from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 5, 2025 / In every major technological era, a single layer quietly becomes indispensable. The internet had TCP/IP. Smartphones had touchscreen operating systems. Digital commerce had encrypted payments. None of these layers were immediately understood by the market, but once adoption began, their value soared because they formed the foundation upon which every other system operated.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is entering that same category. The company is not being recognized for any one use case, but for creating a new identity layer for physical materials. One that sits beneath gold, rare earth minerals, ESG frameworks, and digital assets. The market is not responding to a story. It is responding to a realization: once materials carry their own identity, everything built on top of them changes.

Why Markets Are Interested

Gold is a prime example. For centuries, the bullion industry operated with the same weakness: once a bar was melted or reshaped, its origin became unprovable. SMX’s molecular identity system rewrites that rule. Gold can now retain its lineage no matter how many transformations it undergoes. That capability shifts an entire global ecosystem that depends on trust for its foundation.

Rare earth minerals reveal the same structural shift. These materials power electric vehicles, aerospace systems, robotics, defense technology, and clean energy. Yet their supply chains are notoriously opaque, with no reliable way to confirm origin through processing. SMX gives rare earths a traceable identity that travels from mine to magnet. That is not a product innovation. It is geopolitical infrastructure.

ESG is another frontier transformed by the same technology. Recycled-content claims, carbon reporting, and lifecycle metrics all depend on material-level verification that never existed. SMX fills that gap by allowing plastics, textiles, and chemicals to retain identity regardless of processing. ESG stops being a narrative. It becomes a measurable system.

Digital assets complete the convergence. For years, digital-asset markets have needed trustworthy, real-world data to anchor value. SMX delivers this through the Plastic Cycle Token (PCT), which digitizes authenticated material performance data. It is the missing link between physical verification and digital expression.

Four industries, Four Long-standing limitations, One Foundational Solution

The market is realizing that SMX is not diversifying; it is unifying. Gold’s need for certainty, rare earths’ need for provenance, ESG’s need for accuracy, and digital assets’ need for verified data all point back to the same technological root. When one root solves multiple structural problems at once, the market reprices aggressively because the total addressable impact expands far beyond any single vertical.

It is structural acknowledgment. And while SMX cannot define its own value, markets do. What is happening now is the recalibration that follows when stakeholders finally see the full footprint of a foundational technology.

SMX built the identity layer. The market is now discovering what that means.

About SMX

As global businesses face new and complex challenges relating to carbon neutrality and meeting new governmental and regional regulations and standards, SMX is able to offer players along the value chain access to its marking, tracking, measuring and digital platform technology to transition more successfully to a low-carbon economy.

Forward-Looking Statements

The information in this press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, for example: successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber, plastic and other materials; changes in SMX’s strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects and plans; SMX’s ability to develop and launch new products and services, including its planned Plastic Cycle Token; SMX’s ability to successfully and efficiently integrate future expansion plans and opportunities; SMX’s ability to grow its business in a cost-effective manner; SMX’s product development timeline and estimated research and development costs; the implementation, market acceptance and success of SMX’s business model; developments and projections relating to SMX’s competitors and industry; and SMX’s approach and goals with respect to technology. These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this press release, and current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve a number of judgments, risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing views as of any subsequent date, and no obligation is undertaken to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws. As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, actual results or performance may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include: the ability to maintain the listing of the Company’s shares on Nasdaq; changes in applicable laws or regulations; the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations, and identify and realize additional opportunities; the risk of downturns and the possibility of rapid change in the highly competitive industry in which SMX operates; the risk that SMX and its current and future collaborators are unable to successfully develop and commercialize SMX’s products or services, or experience significant delays in doing so; the risk that the Company may never achieve or sustain profitability; the risk that the Company will need to raise additional capital to execute its business plan, which may not be available on acceptable terms or at all; the risk that the Company experiences difficulties in managing its growth and expanding operations; the risk that third-party suppliers and manufacturers are not able to fully and timely meet their obligations; the risk that SMX is unable to secure or protect its intellectual property; the possibility that SMX may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and other risks and uncertainties described in SMX’s filings from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 5, 2025 / Markets misprice companies when they believe the business sits inside separate, unrelated verticals. Eventually, a moment arrives when the market realizes those verticals share a common technological core. When that happens, interest accelerates rapidly because adoption in one sector automatically increases the value in the others. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is entering exactly that moment. Not just as a participant but as an engine.

Gold authentication is where the shift started. For generations, the bullion market has depended on trust and documentation, neither of which survives heat. Identity disappears when a bar is melted or reshaped. SMX introduced a way for gold to retain its identity at the molecular level throughout its lifecycle. Authentication becomes intrinsic rather than external. A structural limitation dissolves. This alone commands market attention.

Four Markets All Needing Verification Infrastructure

Rare earth minerals bring a different set of pressures. These materials underpin modern technologies and national security. Yet their supply chains are notoriously opaque. Once ore is processed and refined, origin becomes impossible to prove. Manufacturers and governments have been calling for a solution for years because transparency affects defense readiness, economic independence, and technological competitiveness. SMX provided a mechanism for rare earths to retain identity from extraction through refining and alloy creation. A second global industry began moving toward the same technology.

ESG supply chains reveal a third dimension. Regulators and brands have shifted away from narrative sustainability toward measurable sustainability. But without material-level identity, recycled content claims, recovery percentages, and lifecycle data rely on estimates. SMX introduced scientific verification into a domain that had been defined by inference. Plastics, textiles, and industrial materials can now prove their journeys objectively. Auditors gain certainty. Regulators gain clarity. Brands gain credibility. ESG becomes a system grounded in truth rather than goodwill.

Digital assets complete the convergence. Markets have long needed a reliable source of real-world data to anchor digital value. The PCT turns authenticated physical activity into a digital signal with measurable integrity. A fourth industry begins responding to the same capability that transformed gold, rare earths, and ESG.

What looks like four distinct stories is actually one system creating a feedback loop. Gold validation increases confidence in rare earth validation. Rare earth validation strengthens ESG standards. ESG verification provides authenticated data for digital assets. The digital layer increases the visibility and demand for verified material identity. Each sector pushes value into the others because they all depend on the same underlying capability.

Understanding the Impact

The acceleration in interest is not the result of hype. It comes from markets paying attention. It is the product of cross-sector reinforcement. When adoption in one market improves the utility of the technology in another, interest multiplies. Markets are not responding to sentiment. They are responding to a discovery that SMX is not participating in four industries. It is foundational to all four.

This type of convergence has clear historical precedent. When the market realized cloud computing was not a niche service, adoption surged across unrelated sectors. When encryption standards unified payments, unrelated industries converged. When logistics systems standardized tracking, global supply chains reorganized. In each case, a shared layer created feedback loops that accelerated adoption.

SMX is experiencing the same dynamic. What changed is not the technology. What changed is the market’s perception of its reach. The interest is deserved. The feedback loop is real. And those evaluating the move should view it as the natural repricing that follows when industries recognize a unifying infrastructure layer.

About SMX

As global businesses face new and complex challenges relating to carbon neutrality and meeting new governmental and regional regulations and standards, SMX is able to offer players along the value chain access to its marking, tracking, measuring and digital platform technology to transition more successfully to a low-carbon economy.

Forward-Looking Statements

The information in this press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, for example: successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber, plastic and other materials; changes in SMX’s strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects and plans; SMX’s ability to develop and launch new products and services, including its planned Plastic Cycle Token; SMX’s ability to successfully and efficiently integrate future expansion plans and opportunities; SMX’s ability to grow its business in a cost-effective manner; SMX’s product development timeline and estimated research and development costs; the implementation, market acceptance and success of SMX’s business model; developments and projections relating to SMX’s competitors and industry; and SMX’s approach and goals with respect to technology. These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this press release, and current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve a number of judgments, risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing views as of any subsequent date, and no obligation is undertaken to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws. As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, actual results or performance may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include: the ability to maintain the listing of the Company’s shares on Nasdaq; changes in applicable laws or regulations; the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations, and identify and realize additional opportunities; the risk of downturns and the possibility of rapid change in the highly competitive industry in which SMX operates; the risk that SMX and its current and future collaborators are unable to successfully develop and commercialize SMX’s products or services, or experience significant delays in doing so; the risk that the Company may never achieve or sustain profitability; the risk that the Company will need to raise additional capital to execute its business plan, which may not be available on acceptable terms or at all; the risk that the Company experiences difficulties in managing its growth and expanding operations; the risk that third-party suppliers and manufacturers are not able to fully and timely meet their obligations; the risk that SMX is unable to secure or protect its intellectual property; the possibility that SMX may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and other risks and uncertainties described in SMX’s filings from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 5, 2025 / Market reactions that move this quickly rarely happen because of a single headline. They happen when investors, institutions, regulators, and commercial partners realize they have been looking at a company through the wrong lens. That is the moment unfolding around SMX (NASDAQ:SMX). What the market is responding to is not hype and not speculation. It is a recalibration that began when multiple industries recognized that SMX is not positioned within a single vertical. It is positioned beneath several of them.

Gold markets were the first to show the shift. For centuries, authenticity depended on paperwork and trust because molten metal forgets its history the moment heat touches it. When SMX demonstrated that gold can retain a molecular identity through smelting, recasting, and storage, a structural problem that shaped the entire bullion industry effectively disappeared. That alone would have been enough to draw interest. What the market noticed next was far more important.

Rare earth minerals face the same identity problem, but on a geopolitical scale. These materials power electric vehicles, aerospace systems, robotics, defense platforms, and the global clean energy transition. Their supply chains are notoriously opaque because ore blending, separation, and processing erase all visible signatures of origin. When industry players realized SMX could track rare earth identity from extraction to alloy formation, an entirely different sector began reacting to the same technology gold markets were evaluating.

A Convergence of Interest

This convergence continued through ESG. Brands, regulators, and auditors have spent years wrestling with unverifiable recycling claims and lifecycle reporting. SMX allows plastics, textiles, chemicals, and industrial materials to retain identity through shredding, melting, and reprocessing. ESG suddenly becomes measurable rather than narrative-driven. Once again, a separate industry recognized the same capability that gold and rare earths were responding to.

Digital markets completed the picture. The Plastic Cycle Token translates authenticated physical performance into digital signals. Recovery becomes data. Data becomes value. A digital asset finally has a real-world anchor that cannot be guessed or modeled.

These sectors may appear unrelated, but they share one structural flaw: the world has never had a universal method to verify material identity after transformation. SMX solved that flaw. When a single capability resolves bottlenecks across multiple global systems simultaneously, markets move fast. They are not reacting to a company update. They are reacting to information about the scale of the technology and its addressable impact.

How is Infrastructure Priced?

It is the discovery phase, when the market begins pricing infrastructure instead of assuming it is looking at a niche product company. Gold validation strengthens rare earth demand. Rare earth validation reinforces ESG credibility. ESG validation feeds the digital economy. Every sector amplifies the others, creating a multiplier effect that forces rapid re-evaluation.

SMX is not defining its value. Markets do that. What is happening now is a recalibration that occurs when multiple industries align around a single foundational capability. The interest is not an accident. It is a recognition event.

About SMX

As global businesses face new and complex challenges relating to carbon neutrality and meeting new governmental and regional regulations and standards, SMX is able to offer players along the value chain access to its marking, tracking, measuring and digital platform technology to transition more successfully to a low-carbon economy.

Forward-Looking Statements

The information in this press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, for example: successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber, plastic and other materials; changes in SMX’s strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects and plans; SMX’s ability to develop and launch new products and services, including its planned Plastic Cycle Token; SMX’s ability to successfully and efficiently integrate future expansion plans and opportunities; SMX’s ability to grow its business in a cost-effective manner; SMX’s product development timeline and estimated research and development costs; the implementation, market acceptance and success of SMX’s business model; developments and projections relating to SMX’s competitors and industry; and SMX’s approach and goals with respect to technology. These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this press release, and current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve a number of judgments, risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing views as of any subsequent date, and no obligation is undertaken to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws. As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, actual results or performance may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include: the ability to maintain the listing of the Company’s shares on Nasdaq; changes in applicable laws or regulations; the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations, and identify and realize additional opportunities; the risk of downturns and the possibility of rapid change in the highly competitive industry in which SMX operates; the risk that SMX and its current and future collaborators are unable to successfully develop and commercialize SMX’s products or services, or experience significant delays in doing so; the risk that the Company may never achieve or sustain profitability; the risk that the Company will need to raise additional capital to execute its business plan, which may not be available on acceptable terms or at all; the risk that the Company experiences difficulties in managing its growth and expanding operations; the risk that third-party suppliers and manufacturers are not able to fully and timely meet their obligations; the risk that SMX is unable to secure or protect its intellectual property; the possibility that SMX may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and other risks and uncertainties described in SMX’s filings from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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