Author: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 5, 2025 / The market tends to categorize companies by the sector in which they operate. Gold companies go in one box. ESG infrastructure goes in another. Digital assets get their own lane entirely. That framework works for most organizations because most organizations only solve one problem at a time. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) never fit that model. The company built a molecular identity platform designed to operate across industries that, on the surface, look unrelated. Gold provenance. Sustainability verification. Digital-asset creation through the Plastic Cycle Token. Three massive arenas, all moving in different directions, yet all beginning to align around the same technological foundation SMX has spent years refining.

What makes this moment stand out is the speed at which these sectors are experiencing the same pressure point. The gold market is modernizing its authentication standards. ESG frameworks are tightening their requirements for measurable recovery. Digital-asset infrastructure is demanding real-world data instead of estimates. These are not parallel evolutions. They are symptoms of a global system running out of patience with unverifiable information. That is where SMX’s platform suddenly becomes the common denominator.

It is not a gold technology, a sustainability technology, or a digital token system. It is an identity engine that assigns a molecular signature to materials and preserves it through any transformation. One capability, three massive markets, all converging at once.

Interest is Broad, and Expanding Still
In the gold sector, the impact is already visible. When precious metals move through global trading hubs, they lose track of their origins the moment they’re melted or recast. SMX broke that barrier. Its system allows gold to carry a persistent identity that survives the entire refining lifecycle. That single breakthrough changes how authenticity is verified, how supply chains are audited, and how trading hubs align with emerging integrity standards. It allows the metals world to move past subjective trust and into scientific certainty. And the same technology powering that shift is simultaneously being deployed far beyond bullion.

Sustainability markets have long struggled with accuracy. Brands commit to recycled content targets. Regulators mandate circularity. Auditors request documentation. But none of it mattered if the material itself couldn’t prove its history. SMX entered that gap and brought molecular traceability to plastics, textiles, chemicals, and packaging. Materials that used to become anonymous the moment they were processed now retain identity from origin to recovery. That gives regulators harder evidence. It gives brands measurable performance. It gives recycling ecosystems a verification layer that eliminates uncertainty. ESG shifts from reporting to recording. And the very system enabling that shift is the same one redefining gold provenance.

Digital assets are undergoing their own reckoning. Markets want tokens tied to actual, verifiable activity instead of speculative value. SMX made that possible with the Plastic Cycle Token. The PCT is not a financial instrument built on sentiment. It is a digital asset built on authenticated material performance captured by SMX’s molecular identity system. When verified recovery events occur, they are expressed digitally through the PCT, creating a market signal anchored to real behavior. That connection between physical proof and digital value is something the broader sector has been chasing for a decade. SMX delivered it because the same infrastructure supporting gold and ESG verification seamlessly extends into digital markets.

A Convergence of Impact
The real story here is not that SMX participates in three sectors. It is that these sectors are beginning to operate like different expressions of the same system. Gold demands proof of origin. ESG demands proof of impact. Digital assets demand proof of performance. SMX built proof at the molecular level, and that capability scales horizontally across all three arenas without redesign, repositioning, or dilution of purpose. The markets are simply catching up to the fact that the same underlying technology is solving the problems they thought were unrelated.

This is the strategic inflection point. Not one market waking up, but three. Not a pivot, but a convergence. SMX is executing in gold, ESG, and digital assets simultaneously because the world is beginning to reorganize around a single requirement. Proof carried by the material itself. That is the engine SMX built. And that is why all three frontiers, and interest in the company, are accelerating at once.

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 / For most companies, visibility arrives when they reinvent themselves. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is the rare exception. It didn’t pivot. It didn’t rebrand. It didn’t sprint into the spotlight with a new campaign. It kept building the same core technology, the same infrastructure, and the same thesis it has carried since the beginning. What changed wasn’t SMX. What changed was the world’s ability to see the full picture.

For years, the market tried to place SMX into a neat category. Some saw a sustainability company. Others saw a metals-traceability company. A different group saw a digital-asset data engine. Each interpretation was partially true but incomplete, because SMX never belonged to a single lane. It was always a platform company operating beneath multiple industries that were too disconnected from one another to notice they were solving the same problem. Then those industries began colliding, and the SMX story that once looked fragmented suddenly came into focus.

Molecular Prints in Three Major Sectors
Gold proved to be the first arena where that clarity surfaced. The sector had pushed authenticity as far as paperwork and refinery records could take it. But once gold loses its shape, it loses its story. SMX erased that limitation by embedding identity directly into the metal, giving it a memory that heat and pressure can’t delete. The bullion world realized it now had a path out of centuries of uncertainty. That was one dot on the map.

Sustainability leaders uncovered another. ESG frameworks were tightening, regulations were hardening, and brands were running out of ways to prove recycled content with any degree of credibility. SMX’s molecular marking system stepped in as the missing verification layer. Plastics, textiles, chemicals, and industrial materials could now travel through the circular economy without losing their identity. What had been a reporting challenge became a measurement system. Another dot. Same technology.

Digital ecosystems connected the third. Markets wanted assets tied to real-world performance, not speculation. SMX had already built the bridge. Its Plastic Cycle Token takes verified recovery events and expresses them digitally, using authenticated material data as the source. Suddenly, the same identity system that helped gold speak for itself and helped ESG claims become measurable became the backbone of a new category of digital signals. A third dot. Same system.

What the world missed, until now, was that none of these dots were independent. They formed a pattern. Gold, ESG, and digital assets are not three distant markets. They are three sectors collapsing toward the same requirement: verifiable identity that survives transformation. SMX didn’t build three different solutions. It built one: a molecular identity platform flexible enough to live inside all three arenas without changing its core.

Connecting the Dots
Stakeholders across industries are connecting those dots faster than ever. Refiners see the same integrity engine that regulators see. Global brands see the same verification backbone that digital architects see. Institutions watching the metals world modernize see the same technology powering national circularity programs across Asia. The common thread is not what SMX says. It’s what the technology proves.

That is why the narrative around SMX feels different now. Not because the company changed its trajectory, but because the world finally stopped evaluating it in isolation. SMX’s value doesn’t come from any single vertical. It comes from the way those verticals reinforce one another. Gold’s demand for authenticity strengthens ESG’s demand for transparency. ESG’s demand for transparency creates data that powers the PCT. The PCT creates a digital expression that circles back and elevates the entire platform.

This is the moment where the disconnect disappears. The dots that once looked scattered now form a straight line pointing toward a unified system the market wasn’t ready to recognize, until the pressure across industries forced them to reevaluate what proof actually means.

SMX didn’t change its story. It didn’t have to. The world simply learned how to read 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

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 4, 2025 / ESG and supply chain integrity aren’t lacking because companies lack ambition. It’s lacking because the entire system ran on unverifiable claims. Corporations published emissions reductions without forensic tracking. Brands declared recycled content with no way to validate the number. Supply chains issued sourcing statements that fell apart the moment materials left their country of origin. Stakeholders wanted clarity but got guesswork. Regulators wrote tougher rules but couldn’t enforce them. No, these two didn’t lose credibility because they aimed too high. They lost credibility because they measured nothing accurately.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) built the one element ESG and supply chain never had: truth, and proof, anchored to the materials themselves. Not disclosures. Not affidavits. Not third-party certificates that collapse when a supplier changes hands. SMX gives materials a molecular identity that follows them through every transformation.

These two didn’t need a new narrative. They needed evidence. SMX built the architecture that produces it.

The System Collapsed Because the Data Was Never Real

Most ESG reports were built like a house on sand. A company could claim 40% recycled content, but nobody could confirm it after the plastic was shredded, melted, pelletized, and shipped across three borders. A copper supplier could declare ethical sourcing, but manufacturers had no way to verify anything that happened upstream. Paper trails were designed for a world with two-step supply chains. Today’s supply chains have dozens.

Global commerce outgrew ESG’s verification tools, and the charade eventually broke. Investors stopped believing the numbers. Consumers stopped trusting the labels. Regulators saw that they were enforcing frameworks with no forensic foundation. Even companies that wanted to do the right thing couldn’t prove their own compliance. ESG wasn’t fraudulent. It was blind.

That changes the moment materials can speak for themselves.

SMX Embedded Truth Into the Material, Not the Paperwork

SMX solved the credibility crisis by eliminating the weakest link. Its molecular markers go inside the plastic, metal, textile, rubber, or composite itself. They survive heat, pressure, melting, reprocessing, and recycling. They cannot be faked. They cannot be separated from the product. They act like a built-in passport that declares origin, composition, recycled content, and compliance without relying on any external document.

A polymer that becomes pellets retains its identity. A textile that crosses five factories keeps its history. And a metal alloy that gets welded, cut, or reformed still knows its composition. This is the moment ESG stops being a story and becomes a measurement.

These markers are tied to a digital ledger that provides an auditable chain of custody. Every step is logged automatically. Nothing relies on memory or narrative. ESG reporting becomes physical evidence rather than marketing copy.

Where ESG Lost Trust, Proof Brings It Back

The world didn’t reject sustainability. It rejected unverifiable sustainability. SMX’s deployments show how quickly trust returns when evidence becomes the foundation.

Singapore’s A*STAR program is using SMX to build a plastics circularity system rooted in traceable identity. Recycling claims didn’t come from estimates. They came from scans. REDWAVE’s sorting systems showed that authenticated materials could be separated with higher precision, producing cleaner, higher-value recycled outputs. That means brands can publish sustainability metrics that regulators can validate and investors can trust.

When the reporting matches physical reality, the ESG and supply chain conversation shifts from persuasion to proof. And proof restores confidence faster than any regulatory overhaul.

SMX Technology Can Become the ESG’s New Infrastructure

That’s timely. The world’s sustainability frameworks are about to collide with global enforcement mandates that demand real data. SMX, now with the capital to meet that moment, stands at the precipice of transforming itself from a breakthrough technology company into a backbone provider capable of deploying verification across packaging, metals, textiles, electronics, and industrial supply chains at scale.

This is the turning point. ESG, and everything attached to it, can only function when verification becomes universal. Sustainability goals mean nothing without verification that can withstand cross-border supply chains and industrial processing. Investors cannot price risk when disclosures rely on trust. Regulators cannot enforce rules built on paperwork. And, today, more than ever, consumers will not choose products that can’t prove their own claims.

SMX gives companies the one thing ESG never had: material-level certainty. No estimates. No narratives. And no blind spots. Just proof. The companies that adopt this model will lead the next era of ESG because the market rewards transparency. Investors reward accuracy. Regulators reward evidence. And consumers reward truth. Get all that, and everyone wins, including the planet.

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: matters relating to the Company’s fight against abusive and possibly illegal trading tactics against the Company’s stock; successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber 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; any lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on SMX’s business; 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.

Contact: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 4, 2025 / There is a single moment that would hit the gold market harder than any interest rate shock, geopolitical headline or mining crisis. It is not a supply disruption. It is not a surge in demand. It is a policy decision. The moment a major bank, sovereign wealth fund or global exchange announces that it will only accept verified gold with persistent molecular identity is the moment the entire gold ecosystem splits in two. That announcement would not be symbolic. It would be seismic. It would turn legacy bullion into a discounted asset class overnight and elevate verified bullion into the only gold that truly counts.

The truth is that this moment is coming whether the industry wants to acknowledge it or not. Banks know their vaults contain bars they cannot fully authenticate. Sovereign funds know part of their reserves were acquired through systems that relied more on trust than science. Insurers know the risk model behind bullion storage is based on documentation that can be forged. The gold market has been operating on a fantasy of infallibility for decades, and the first institution to demand verifiable truth will force the entire world to face reality.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is positioned at the epicenter of that shift. Its molecular identity system turns gold into a material that can prove itself instantly, no matter how many times it has been melted or recast. And it’s showing itself at the right time.

One Institutional Mandate Could Change the World

Institutional mandates shape commodities more powerfully than market forces. When a major exchange changes acceptable standards, the entire global system realigns in days, not years. Gold is particularly vulnerable because its current verification system is built on assumptions rather than evidence. If Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, BlackRock or the Bank of England declares that only gold with embedded identity will qualify for trade, collateralization or reserve holdings, every bar lacking molecular proof becomes suspect instantly.

This is the beginning of a two-tier gold market. Verified gold becomes the premium tier, carrying higher prices, faster liquidity, and smoother cross-border movement. Unverified gold becomes the secondary tier, trading at discounts because no one can fully trust its origin, purity or legality. The spread between the two groups widens as institutions flee uncertainty. Once this dynamic begins, there is no going back. The market will never again value anonymous bullion the way it values verifiable bullion.

SMX is the force that enables the premium tier to exist. By embedding molecular identity inside the metal itself, the company gives institutions what they have never had: a forensic level of certainty that survives melting, splitting, and reuse. One scan reveals the truth. And in the world of institutional gold, truth is value.

Why Institutions Will Be Forced to Make the Call

The pressure building behind the scenes is relentless. Regulators are tightening anti-money-laundering rules. Sanctions agencies are tracking illicit gold flows with unprecedented scrutiny. Exchanges are reevaluating historical bars in their vaults. Insurers are rewriting policies to reflect authentication risk. Sovereign funds are under political pressure to ensure their reserves are clean. No institution wants to be the first to declare that legacy bullion is not fully trustworthy. But no institution wants to be the last to admit it either.

Eventually, one major player will break the silence. It will choose verified gold because the downside of staying with an unverifiable supply has become too large. The reputational risk is too high. The compliance burden is too heavy. The financial exposure is too opaque. And once that first domino falls, every other major institution will have to follow or risk holding assets the market no longer values equally.

SMX’s balance sheet helps position it to meet this demand at the exact moment the call is made. It is no longer a startup pushing innovation uphill. It is a verification backbone with the capital to deploy across continents.

The Global Gold Standard of the Future Will Be Molecular

For decades, analysts predicted the world might return to a monetary gold standard. They missed the real revolution. The next gold standard will not be about currency. It will be about identity. Gold that can prove its origin, its purity, and its legality will rule global trade. Gold that cannot will trade in a shrinking, risk-ridden ecosystem that investors and governments increasingly avoid.

SMX is building that future. Its technology turns bullion into a self-authenticating asset and transforms the entire gold market into a system governed by evidence rather than assumption. The day a major institution demands verified gold is the day the global metals market resets. When that moment arrives, the only gold that matters will be the gold that can prove itself.

And SMX will be the company enabling that new language.

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: matters relating to the Company’s fight against abusive and possibly illegal trading tactics against the Company’s stock; successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber 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; any lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on SMX’s business; 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.

Contact: info@securitymattersltd.com

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 4, 2025 / Gold markets are built on confidence. Vaults trust refiners. Refiners trust suppliers. Banks trust custody chains. Investors trust the entire system to uphold purity, legality, and origin with near-religious certainty. But that confidence is a façade, and it only takes one failure to expose it. The moment a major vault or global bank uncovers a counterfeit bar inside its inventory, the shock will hit the market like a blast wave. Trading will not slow. It will convulse. Prices will not adjust gently. They will whiplash as institutions scramble to determine which bars they can authenticate and which they cannot.

The gold industry knows this risk. It has lived through smaller versions of it. In past discoveries, adulterated bars were found with tungsten cores, falsified refinery stamps, or mismatched serial numbers. Those incidents were contained only because they were caught early and quietly. But the next one will not be quiet. The volumes are too large. The supply chains are too global. The trust layer is too thin. A counterfeit bar in a major Western vault would rip through markets, calling every legacy verification method into question.

The uncomfortable truth is that legacy bullion verification has no way to prevent this kind of shock. Once a bar melts, its identity melts with it. Once it is recast, its history resets. That fragility is the fault line running through the global gold economy. And it is the fault line that SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is now eliminating.

The Panic Doesn’t Start With Fraud, It Starts With Doubt

When the first counterfeit bar is discovered inside a major vault, the initial reaction will not be anger. It will be uncertainty. If one bar is compromised, how many others carry the same risk? If one supplier’s chain of custody breaks, how many others have been over-trusted? If one refiner’s stamp can be forged, how many others can be replicated? Markets do not panic when they see the problem. They panic when they can no longer measure it.

This is where the shock becomes systemic. Vaults will halt withdrawals to audit inventory. Banks will suspend bullion collateralization. Sovereign funds will call for emergency authentication of reserves. Exchanges will pause settlements to avoid taking contaminated metal. The freeze becomes global because no one wants to move gold that they cannot prove. Liquidity collapses, not because the gold is gone, but because the truth is.

This is exactly why SMX’s molecular identity technology matters. The company embeds an immutable molecular fingerprint inside the metal itself. Even if the bar is melted, the identity survives. Even if it is recast, the history remains intact. This prevents doubt from escalating into panic, as institutions can instantly authenticate their holdings rather than re-auditing decades of supply.

How SMX Turns a Market Crisis Into a Market Reset

But, if panic prevails, expect the market to separate into two groups: gold with verifiable identity and gold that must be trusted blindly. Verified bullion will become the safe haven within the safe haven, the only form of gold that banks, sovereigns, and exchanges will accept without hesitation. Unverified bullion will be treated like distressed inventory. Buyers will demand steep discounts. Liquidity will evaporate. Regulation will tighten. The maps of global gold flows will redraw themselves overnight.

This divide is not theoretical. It is already forming. The DMCC is building a verification-first ecosystem. Goldstrom and other advanced refiners are embracing molecular identity to eliminate risk. Vaults are preparing for future audits by integrating tech-driven authentication. These early adopters are positioning themselves on the right side of the coming reset, where proof replaces legacy trust networks.

That move is timely. Verification is no longer a boutique upgrade. It is becoming the global standard. The institutions that adopt it early will retain pricing power, liquidity, and regulatory confidence. The ones that delay will be left holding gold that the market no longer values equally.

One Counterfeit Bar Can Break Confidence

Confidence is the backbone of the gold market, but confidence without verification is a liability. All it takes is one compromised bar to expose the weakness of a system that still relies on documentation instead of material truth. The next counterfeit discovery will not be contained. It will be catalytic. It will expose the fragility of the entire global bullion chain.

SMX offers the firewall that the market has been missing. It gives gold a memory. It gives institutions certainty. It turns panic into precision. And it ensures that when the inevitable discovery of a counterfeit finally detonates, the world will not descend into chaos. It will pivot toward proof.

That’s the path of least resistance. Because the next era of gold’s value will not come from rarity alone. It will come from identity. The market will remember which companies made that transformation possible. It won’t be hard to remember: SMX is one of one.

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: matters relating to the Company’s fight against abusive and possibly illegal trading tactics against the Company’s stock; successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber 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; any lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on SMX’s business; 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.

Contact: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 4, 2025 / Every modern system relies on accurate inputs. Financial markets depend on audited disclosures. Manufacturing depends on precise measurements. Logistics depends on reliable tracking. Yet despite all the sophistication built into global industry, one problem has lingered for decades. The physical world has never had a universal truth layer.

Materials move through factories, recyclers, transport hubs, and suppliers without carrying definitive proof of where they came from, what they contain, or how they were handled. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is stepping directly into that gap with a verification infrastructure that allows physical goods to retain their identity from creation through recovery, and its Plastic Cycle Token (PCT) is emerging as the mechanism that expresses that proof in a usable digital form.

The reason this matters is simple. Industrial systems fail when information breaks down. Companies make decisions based on assumptions, estimates and declarations that cannot be independently validated. When input data is unreliable, every downstream decision becomes riskier.

A Frictionless Market Layer

SMX introduced a verification model built on molecular identity rather than paperwork or reporting. A material can now carry its own history, embedded at the molecular level, and that history can be confirmed at any point along the supply chain. When those verified events are captured through the Plastic Cycle Token framework, they become structured information that businesses can rely on.

This solves a structural limitation that has existed in manufacturing, recycling, and global trade for as long as those systems have operated. For generations, companies have wanted to create digital representations of physical events. They wanted to track recycled content with confidence. They wanted to authenticate sourcing. They wanted to measure recovery in ways that were immune to interpretation. But without accurate verification, none of that was possible. SMX removes that barrier by allowing materials to generate their own evidence. This is not a theoretical breakthrough. It is a practical and deployable system, and industries are responding to it.

The Plastic Cycle Token represents far more than sustainability auditing. It reflects a fundamental shift in how companies capture and transmit information about materials. Verified recovery becomes a reliable data point. Verified origin becomes a reliable data point. Compliance itself becomes a measurable record rather than a certified statement.

These events gain value because they remove uncertainty. Instead of asking stakeholders to trust that materials were responsibly handled, the PCT provides scientifically validated proof of what occurred.

Interest is Growing for the Right Reasons

Interest in SMX continues to grow because the company is not positioning itself as a niche solution. It is positioning itself as foundational infrastructure. Every sector that relies on materials can benefit from accurate verification. Consumer goods companies can reduce risk and improve brand protection. Manufacturers can meet rising compliance requirements without relying on inconsistent audits. Recycling operations can demonstrate outputs with traceable accuracy. Entire supply chains gain transparency that was previously impossible.

This is what gives the Plastic Cycle Token staying power. It is not a symbolic representation or a marketing tool. It is a format for capturing verified activity in a way that partners, regulators, and commercial systems can understand. It translates the physical world into structured information that can be shared, analyzed, and acted upon. As more industries look to modernize their reporting and strengthen resilience, the ability to rely on verified material-level truth becomes a competitive advantage.

SMX is delivering something that global commerce has needed for decades. It is building a truth layer for the real world. When companies can finally trust the data behind the materials they use, the entire system becomes more efficient, more accountable and more aligned with the expectations of modern markets. SMX is not imagining a future where this type of verification becomes standard. It is constructing the framework that brings that future into focus.

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: matters relating to the Company’s fight against abusive and possibly illegal trading tactics against the Company’s stock; successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber 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; any lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on SMX’s business; 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.

Contact: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 4, 2025 / Markets assign value to certainty. Every financial instrument trades according to how much confidence investors have in the data supporting it. Bonds rise or fall on creditworthiness. Equities react to visibility in earnings and operational performance. Commodities move on supply signals that traders believe are accurate enough to justify risk. What SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is demonstrating is that this principle applies just as strongly to physical materials.

When a material carries verified history, verified recovery, and verified reentry, it begins to claim something the market has never priced into supply chains before. It earns a proof premium. Investors across multiple sectors are beginning to recognize that this shift is not conceptual or futuristic. It is already taking shape around SMX’s Plastic Cycle Token (PCT).

Physical to Digital

For decades, the physical economy relied on assumptions. Manufacturers depended on supplier declarations with inconsistent oversight. Recyclers submitted volume reports that were difficult to validate beyond broad sampling. Brands relied on audits that varied in rigor depending on region, standards, and budget. These systems created a world built on approximations rather than certainties, and markets had no mechanism to reward accuracy or penalize ambiguity.

SMX changed that baseline by introducing molecular-level verification technology that gives every material a persistent identity throughout its lifecycle. It turns materials into traceable entities. Once the PCT expresses those events digitally, something new enters the market. Recovery is no longer an unpriced event. Certified content is no longer a grey zone. Proof becomes a measurable economic characteristic.

This is why interest in SMX continues to build. The PCT does not ask investors to imagine theoretical outcomes. It provides verified events that can be treated as market-ready units. A verified recovery is not comparable to an unverified recovery. A verified origin is not the same as a declared origin. These distinctions matter because markets reward certainty.

Stakeholders understand the logic intuitively. When ambiguity shrinks, value grows. SMX is not creating a token trend. It is creating a truth-driven environment where verified materials can assume financial relevance for the first time.

Aligning PROOF with the New World Economy

The momentum around SMX is driven by alignment between physical truth, proof, and digital markets. With the PCT, markets do not rely on sustainability reports, projections, or claims that cannot be independently validated. They are responding to data embedded inside the material itself.

For years, markets have tried to price sustainability, responsible sourcing, and circularity, yet none of those categories came with verifiable inputs. The PCT changes that. It provides an infrastructure where proof becomes the foundation for digital representation. That shift is why this concept is sticking with both traditional investors and digital asset participants.

What SMX built addresses a deeper need within the global economy. As supply chains become more complex, brands and regulators require higher levels of accuracy. Investors want transparency because transparency reduces risk. The PCT satisfies both expectations. It gives markets a way to measure what was once unverifiable. It allows companies to demonstrate performance instead of stating it. It enables materials to carry their own evidence rather than relying on third-party interpretation.

Proof has always been a form of currency in serious markets. SMX created the mechanism that allows that currency to move from the physical world into the digital one. As more participants understand the implications, the concept of a proof premium becomes harder to ignore. Verified materials are no longer just components in a supply chain. They are emerging as assets with definable economic identity. That realization is shaping how markets view SMX and why interest surrounding the PCT continues to rise.

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: matters relating to the Company’s fight against abusive and possibly illegal trading tactics against the Company’s stock; successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber 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; any lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on SMX’s business; 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.

Contact: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 4, 2025 / The world has always struggled to turn the physical into the digital with any degree of accuracy. Supply chains generate enormous volumes of activity every second, yet remarkably little of that activity becomes trustworthy information.

Manufacturers move materials across continents. Recyclers process tonnage that is rarely validated. Brands ship products through layers of logistics that obscure their origins. This long-standing visibility gap has restricted markets for decades, because data is the foundation stakeholders rely on to understand performance, value, and risk.

Without high-integrity data, markets hesitate. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is changing that equation. By assigning molecular identities to materials and tracking them throughout their life cycles, the company is converting matter into structured information. And its Plastic Cycle Token (PCT) becomes the vessel that delivers that information into digital markets.

Way Beyond Sustainability

This shift represents more than a sustainability story. It is a redefinition of how markets interpret physical goods. For the first time, a material can produce a continuous data signal tied directly to its production, use, recovery, and reintegration. That signal is not estimated or interpreted. It is generated through SMX’s verification system, which embeds identity into the material itself.

When the PCT captures those verified events, it transforms physical behavior into digital meaning. Markets are recognizing that this creates a new class of signals that reflect real-world performance. These signals carry economic value because they originate from proven actions, not projections.

Market interest is rising because these signals are actionable. Recyclers gain the ability to demonstrate verified output rather than reported output. Brands can authenticate their supply chains with evidence instead of compliance statements. Manufacturers can show verifiable adherence to standards without relying on conventional audits. And for stakeholders, the PCT provides a stream of data that behaves more like a financial disclosure than a sustainability claim. This is the alignment the digital economy has been missing. The PCT replaces uncertainty with measurable and auditable truth.

Trust AND Verify

Without trustworthy inputs, even the strongest ledgers remain isolated from the physical world. SMX bridges that divide. It transforms physical events into validated data that can be recorded, traded, and built upon. When those events are tokenized, they become readable by decentralized systems and interoperable across platforms. The PCT sits at the center of this transformation because it assigns economic function to information that previously had no structured market value.

This is why interest in SMX continues to grow across both traditional markets and digital assets. The company is not merely tracking materials. It is creating an environment where materials behave like data-producing assets. That evolution has profound implications.

Markets reward clarity. They reward traceability. They reward systems that reduce ambiguity and reveal performance. SMX delivers all three. It is not projecting a future where the physical and digital worlds operate together. It is constructing the architecture that makes that future inevitable.

SMX is demonstrating that matter can generate market signals, and markets are responding. The company is not imagining a world where physical goods have digital identities. It is building it in real time.

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: matters relating to the Company’s fight against abusive and possibly illegal trading tactics against the Company’s stock; successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber 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; any lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on SMX’s business; 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.

Contact: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 4, 2025 / Everyone fears discovering a counterfeit bar in a major vault. But that is not where the real danger lives. The true weak point in the global gold ecosystem is not storage. It is transformation. Refineries are where gold becomes anonymous, where molten metal resets its identity, and where the world’s entire compliance infrastructure quietly collapses. The market obsesses over vault integrity, yet the refinery furnace is the exact place where legitimacy can evaporate into smoke. The next major gold scandal will not start with a vault audit. It will start with a melt.

Gold’s greatest vulnerability is the ease with which its history can be erased. The moment gold hits a furnace, every certificate, origin story, and serial number becomes meaningless. What emerges from the crucible looks identical whether it came from a secure mine or a sanctioned region. Refineries are expected to catch these discrepancies. But the truth is, most refineries rely on paperwork-based systems, trust networks, and legacy inspection tools that cannot withstand the modern threat landscape. If illicit gold wants to enter the global market, the refinery is the door it walks through.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) built the solution that finally locks that door. Its molecular identity system embeds a permanent fingerprint inside the gold itself. Melt it, blend it, mix it, or disguise it – the identity remains. Because of that, SMX technology is on track to become the de facto standard that refineries will need before the next meltdown-level scandal erupts.

The Melting Pot Is the Market’s Blind Spot

Every major gold scandal of the past twenty years has one thing in common: the refinery failed to detect compromised supply. Whether it was illicit African gold funneled through Middle Eastern refiners, sanctioned Russian bullion passed through intermediaries, or counterfeit alloys entering legitimate blends, the pattern is always the same. By the time the metal leaves the refinery, every trace of misconduct has been erased. The vaults only inherit the consequences.

No amount of certification oversight can fix this structural flaw. Auditors cannot watch every melt. Inspectors cannot test every input. Compliance officers cannot catch what molten metal can conceal. The gold industry has been pretending that refineries maintain strict origin integrity, but the reality is far more fragile. The entire system relies on processes that fail as soon as fraud becomes sophisticated.

That fragility is why regulators are shifting their focus. They know the refinery stage is where sanctions are evaded, where illicit mining hides, and where counterfeit metal becomes indistinguishable from legitimate supply. Enforcement frameworks are preparing to strike the industry at the melting point. When that reckoning arrives, refineries that cannot prove material identity will be forced into shutdowns, audits, or economic purgatory.

Refineries Will Need Proof, Not Paper, to Survive What Comes Next

When regulators tighten gold compliance requirements, and they will, refineries will face obligations they cannot meet with legacy systems. They will need to prove, not merely claim, that their output is legitimate. That means verifying origin, purity, and legality at the molecular level. This transition will not be optional. It will be the cost of doing business.

Refineries that embrace molecular verification will become preferred partners for sovereign buyers, bullion banks, and institutional markets. Their output will command better pricing because it carries no compliance risk. Their operations will run faster because fewer audits will disrupt throughput. And their credibility will rise because they are producing a self-authenticating asset, not a commodity with a questionable past.

Refineries that refuse or delay adoption will face the opposite fate. Slower clearances. Higher insurance premiums. Increased regulatory suspicion. Difficulty accessing global trading corridors. The market will not penalize them gently. Compliance pressure does not negotiate. It demands evolution.

SMX can help. It’s ready to deploy globally and support refineries in every major hub – Switzerland, Dubai, Singapore, South Africa, Toronto, Perth – by embedding identity into their output before enforcement descends.

The Refinery Reckoning Will Split the Industry in Two

When the reckoning hits, the gold industry will divide into two categories: refineries that can produce verified bullion and refineries that cannot. Investors, banks, and sovereigns will only trust the former. The latter will suffer declining volumes and shrinking margins until they adapt or disappear.

The market has been tolerating refinery opacity for decades, but that era is collapsing under geopolitical and compliance pressure. Gold cannot remain the world’s safe haven if its birth point is the world’s most exploitable loophole. SMX can close that loophole by turning every ounce into a carrier of proof.

The only question is which refineries will be ready when the industry is forced to confront the truth. With SMX’s molecular identity platform, the path to survival is clear. Refineries that embrace proof will define the future. Those that don’t will see assets burn in the reckoning.

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: matters relating to the Company’s fight against abusive and possibly illegal trading tactics against the Company’s stock; successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber 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; any lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on SMX’s business; 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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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 3, 2025 / The market pays attention in strange ways. It can ignore a breakthrough for years, then recognize its value in a single week. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) has seen that shift firsthand. The company does not comment on price fluctuations, but it acknowledges a clear surge in global interest. That interest is not random and it is not speculative noise. It is the natural reaction to something the world has been missing for decades. Proof. Industrial-level verification that does not break when metals melt, plastics reform, or supply chains cross borders. SMX built the missing architecture and the world finally noticed the moment it could see it in action.

The turning point arrived when SMX began showing its work in the places where verification failures hit hardest. The company demonstrated molecular-level identity for gold inside one of the world’s most respected precious metals ecosystems. It showed that a bar can move across handlers, storage facilities, and even through recasting without losing its origin. That caught the industry off guard because it removed the long-accepted blind spot that sits between a refinery and a vault. The moment that blind spot closed, conversations shifted. This was not another technology pitch. This was an infrastructure that could reshape a global commodity.

Those demonstrations traveled quickly. Traders, refiners, auditors, and regulators began asking the same question. Why has no one done this before. The answer is simple. They couldn’t. The technology did not exist. Now it does, and the reaction has been strong.

The Catalyst Was Not a Story, It Was Validation.

Every sector that relies on materials faces the same weakness. The moment a material changes form, it loses its memory. That is where fraud thrives. That is where compliance breaks. That is where ESG collapses under its own promises. SMX removed that weakness by giving metals, plastics, packaging, and industrial inputs a persistent identity that survives real-world production conditions. That is not a press release achievement. It is a systems-level breakthrough that industries have been trying to solve for more than twenty years.

Take metals. SMX collaborated with advanced European research partners to test molecular identity through extreme heat and mechanical processing. The markers survived. Materials could be authenticated after smelting, alloying, reprocessing, and blending. That result alone changes the economics of critical minerals. It means governments can verify origin, manufacturers can verify purity, and miners can verify ethical sourcing without guesswork. Markets function better when truth is immediate, and SMX delivered exactly that.

In plastics and packaging, a different ecosystem reached the same conclusion. Identity embedded at extrusion gives brands and regulators evidence that survives recycling cycles. Asia’s circularity initiatives, including national R&D programs and large-scale industrial partners, saw how this changes policy execution. Circularity stops being an aspirational model. It becomes a measurable system where recovery, content, and compliance are physically verifiable. Proof becomes part of the product instead of part of the paperwork.

Capital Followed the Momentum Because Execution Became Possible

The world noticed another important detail. SMX secured a $111.5 million equity purchase agreement (“EPA”). That agreement provides the financial depth required to expand global deployment rather than tiptoe around budgets. Investors rarely offer that scale of capital without serious due diligence. They saw the same validation that industry partners saw. A technology that works, partners that matter, and a roadmap that can scale across metals, plastics, and national-level circularity platforms.

A verification economy cannot grow on prototypes. It needs the ability to deploy, integrate, and withstand demand across continents. The EPA gives SMX that capability. It also signals to the market that SMX is not positioned as a niche participant. Instead, it’s positioning itself as a core infrastructure provider for industries that cannot function without trust. As attention increased, investors responded to that posture. And it’s not surprising.

Proof is becoming a universal requirement. Regulators want it. Brands need it. Commodity markets depend on it. SMX stands at the center of that shift because it built what the world was missing. A way for materials to declare their own truth. The market is not reacting to hype. It is reacting to verification becoming real.

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: matters relating to the Company’s fight against abusive and possibly illegal trading tactics against the Company’s stock; successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber 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; any lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on SMX’s business; 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.

Contact: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

View the original press release on ACCESS Newswire