Author: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 2, 2025 / Everyone has an opinion on artificial intelligence, but the conversation usually orbits around consumer apps, language models, and chat interfaces. The real transformation is happening far from the spotlight, inside factories, smelters, recycling plants, and industrial facilities that run machinery powerful enough to build nations. Industrial AI lives in a world where inputs can’t be guessed. They have to be right. A machine can’t optimize a process if it doesn’t understand what it’s touching. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is giving industrial AI the thing it’s been missing for years. It’s giving materials their own identity, so AI systems can operate with truth instead of assumptions.

Industrial environments are unforgiving. Temperatures fluctuate. Batches vary. Metals, plastics, and composites don’t arrive in neat data packets. They arrive as physical materials with histories nobody can see. AI systems fail when that history isn’t accurate. If a machine thinks it’s working with one grade of metal when it’s actually another, it makes the wrong decisions. If a recycling line can’t distinguish high-value polymers from low-value ones, its entire model breaks down. AI needs clarity at the material level, not generic metadata sitting on a clipboard. SMX solves that by embedding molecular-level identifiers inside materials, giving AI something it’s never had. Verified inputs.

This is why alliances with technology-forward partners have such an impact. REDWAVE in Austria connected SMX’s identity system directly to high-speed industrial sorting lines. Suddenly, AI didn’t have to guess what materials were entering the system. It knew. The same shift is emerging in Singapore, where the A*STAR collaboration ties SMX’s physical identity layer to national-scale circularity data. The AI reading those streams gets the real composition, not the reported one. When AI sees the truth about materials, everything changes. Throughput increases. Error rates fall. Predictive maintenance becomes accurate. Automation stops being theoretical and starts being profitable.

And behind this entire industrial intelligence layer sits a capital architecture built for scale. SMX recently secured a $111.5 million equity purchase agreement that gives the Company the ability to expand these AI-enabled verification systems across multiple continents on its own terms. For industrial partners that want long-term stability behind the tech stack they’re integrating into production lines, that kind of financial structure matters. It signals that SMX isn’t a pilot project. It’s becoming part of the infrastructure that modern AI will rely on.

Why AI Needs Verified Inputs

Industrial AI isn’t flexible the way consumer AI is. You can’t afford hallucinations when you’re managing smelter temperatures or adjusting extrusion pressures. Every industrial process depends on the physical reality of the materials running through it. If you don’t know the metallurgical profile of the alloy entering a furnace, no algorithm can correct the mistake. If you don’t know the polymer identity flowing through a plastic reprocessing line, machine learning becomes guesswork. AI is only as smart as the inputs it receives.

That’s the missing piece SMX provides. When identity is built directly into the material itself, AI doesn’t have to operate on approximations. It gets clean signals. It knows the difference between similar alloys that behave differently under heat. It knows which plastics can be reprocessed efficiently and which ones can’t. It knows how to route, blend, or sort materials in real time. That’s how AI becomes a force multiplier for industrial operations instead of another system that introduces risk.

The CARTIF collaboration in Spain is demonstrating how SMX’s identity layer performs in industrial R&D environments where materials go through multiple thermal and mechanical transformations. Even after those changes, the embedded identifiers remained readable. That persistence is exactly what AI systems need. They can analyze processes across full lifecycles without losing context. When materials carry their own truth, AI doesn’t drift. It improves. Industrial automation stops being a patchwork of systems and starts acting like a unified intelligence built on verified data.

A New Era of Intelligent Industry

The companies moving into AI-driven manufacturing are discovering a simple rule. You can’t automate uncertainty. When materials don’t carry identity, every process built on top of them inherits the same flaws. AI becomes a tool for smoothing edges rather than for transforming operations. Companies that embed verification at the material level flip the model on its head. They build automation on foundations that can withstand scale.

This is where the broader ecosystem begins to shift. Insurers start reducing coverage costs because AI systems built on verified inputs reduce operational risk. Regulators start trusting industrial reporting because the data isn’t self-generated. Manufacturers start running smarter lines that waste less energy and recover more usable material. Suppliers start differentiating themselves based on verified precision. Every node in the industrial chain becomes sharper because the information becomes real.

As AI moves deeper into heavy industry, the advantage will belong to the companies that treat verification as infrastructure. SMX turned identity into something materials carry instead of something companies claim. That’s the breakthrough industrial AI needed. It finally has a way to engage with the physical world as accurately as it engages with data. The next evolution of manufacturing won’t be defined by bigger AI models. It’ll be defined by AI built on verified truth. SMX delivered that missing layer.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

The information in this press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, for example: 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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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 2, 2025 / Dubai didn’t just strengthen its gold market. It changed the competitive landscape for every major trading hub on the planet. Once the DMCC demonstrated that material-level verification could be embedded into precious metals and validated at global scale, the entire structure of international trade shifted. Traders now see what it looks like when a commodity carries its own identity. They see faster clearances, cleaner pricing, tighter compliance, and fewer disputes. And they see something else. They see that every other hub now has to play catch-up.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) helped catalyze that shift by delivering molecular identity that stays with gold across its entire lifecycle. When one region adopts technology that eliminates uncertainty, every other region has to respond or accept a weakened position.

For decades, London, Zurich, Hong Kong, Singapore, and New York competed for influence based on liquidity, heritage, and regulatory frameworks. Those advantages still matter, but they’re no longer enough. Verification has become the differentiator. Traders want to move assets with truth embedded, not truth assumed. Governments want imports and exports backed by evidence, not paperwork. Vaults want bars with scientifically validated lineage rather than variable documentation. The DMCC capitalized on this shift early and made verification part of its infrastructure. Other hubs now face a choice. Modernize or fall behind.

What Dubai showed at the DMCC Precious Metals Conference was simple and impossible to ignore. Markets move toward certainty. They migrate toward systems where authentication is built into the material and validated by technology rather than by reputation. Dubai didn’t wait for global consensus. It built the model first. That’s why the verification race has begun.

The Pressure on Global Hubs

Once Dubai positioned itself as the gold market’s verification authority, the implications became global. You can’t maintain leadership in precious metals if your verification model is weaker than your competitor’s. Traders are practical. They go where the risk profile is lowest, where compliance moves smoothly, and where they can confirm the truth faster than anyone else. Dubai gives them all three. That puts pressure on every other hub in the network.

London’s LBMA framework is world-renowned, but it wasn’t designed for a world where materials can carry forensic identity. Singapore’s bullion market is fast-growing, but it doesn’t yet offer molecular-level proof. Zurich brings stability, but its verification structure still relies on paperwork as the anchor. The moment Dubai showed that materials could carry their own identity, the benchmark shifted. Everything else now looks outdated, and that perception matters in a market where confidence and liquidity depend on certainty.

SMX’s involvement with Goldstrom and its trueGold suite compounds that pressure. When gold bars arrive authenticated at the molecular level and connected to their full lifecycle history, the bar itself becomes a verified digital-physical asset. There’s no interpretation. No debate. No missing information. That clarity creates higher-value metals because they enter the market with less risk attached. And it forces other hubs to acknowledge that their legacy systems don’t offer the same advantage.

The global market has seen what’s possible. Now it expects it.

The Beginning of a Global Verification Standard

What happens next is predictable because markets tend to reward systems that reduce friction. Verification will spread to every major hub, either because they implement it voluntarily or because participants demand it. Gold isn’t the only sector feeling the shift. The validation technology that lifted Dubai’s metals platform is the same technology SMX deployed across plastics with A*STAR in Singapore, textiles with CETI in France, and complex materials with CARTIF in Spain. Once the market sees that verification works in multiple industries, it stops being an experiment and becomes a standard.

Trading hubs won’t adopt molecular identity because Dubai did. They’ll adopt it because their traders, regulators, and institutional partners will refuse to operate without it. Imagine submitting a shipment to London that isn’t verifiable at the material level when Dubai accepts nothing less. Imagine competing for liquidity when one market offers proof, and another offers promises. Imagine global insurers lowering risk assessments for verified hubs while penalizing those that rely on legacy documentation. That’s how competitive gaps widen. Technology moves first. Markets follow. Institutions enforce it.

The verification race isn’t symbolic. It’s structural. It determines who leads the next era of global commodities trade. Hubs that embrace verification will attract liquidity, strengthen compliance frameworks, and build reputational advantage. Hubs that don’t will watch traders migrate toward markets that eliminate uncertainty instead of managing it.

Dubai set the pace. SMX delivered the technology. Verification will be the new standard, and the race to meet it has already begun.

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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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 2, 2025 / Recycled plastics should be one of the most profitable materials in the global supply chain. Every major brand wants more of it, governments are pushing mandates, and consumers expect companies to cut reliance on virgin polymers. Yet recycled plastics still sell at a discount. Markets don’t fully trust the labels, suppliers can’t prove what they’re shipping, and buyers assume they’re paying for content that might not be real. The spread between what recycled plastics should be worth and what companies actually earn has turned into a persistent profit gap. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is closing that gap by giving plastics something they’ve never had. They get a verifiable identity that survives every transformation.

The recycled plastics market is full of claims without certainty. Suppliers insist their pellets contain 30%-50% recycled content, but they lack molecular evidence to support that claim. Brands reveal sustainability commitments, but they rely on third-party forms that don’t reflect what happens across international recycling streams. Governments demand accuracy, but they’re stuck reviewing documentation that’s often outdated or fragmented. Companies lose money because they can’t prove value. Buyers discount prices because they can’t trust inputs. That cycle has held the entire sector back for years.

SMX changes that by embedding a molecular-level identifier into plastics that stays intact through every process. The identity doesn’t wash out during shredding. It doesn’t disappear during melting. It survives extrusion, molding, and reprocessing. When a batch of recycled pellets arrives at a manufacturer, identity confirmation verifies exactly what the plastic contains and where it originated. Suddenly, recycled content is no longer a claim. It’s proof. And proof commands a premium.

Why Trust Drives Value in Plastics Markets

The plastics sector, more than almost any other, depends on trust because recycled feedstocks are inconsistent across regions, processors, and collection systems. Two suppliers may list the same grade on a sheet, but the actual material can behave differently in production. That uncertainty costs brands time, money, and credibility. When buyers can’t verify recycled content, they reduce their bids. When manufacturers can’t guarantee consistency, they overengineer products to compensate. When regulators can’t validate reports, they add layers of reporting that slow down the entire system.

This is where strategic partnerships show the practical impact of material identity. SMX’s collaboration with Tradepro in the United States proves how authentication changes market behavior. Manufacturers that used to hedge against uncertainty can, if all goes as planned, choose verified recycled plastics that carry embedded truth. The material isn’t anonymous anymore. It arrives with evidence. That shift alone lifts margins for suppliers who previously watched their prices suppressed by doubt.

The REDWAVE collaboration in Austria shows another side of the advantage. High-speed optical sorting gains precision when the material entering the system carries its own identification. Instead of relying on shape or color, the line reads molecular identity. That allows more accurate separation, more consistent output, and higher-grade recycled plastics that fetch stronger pricing. Markets begin rewarding quality because quality becomes measurable.

When plastics tell the truth about themselves, the value follows the evidence. Buyers start paying more for verified content. Brands start meeting sustainability goals without fear of greenwashing allegations. Recyclers start commanding higher margins for authenticated outputs. Trust isn’t a belief anymore. It’s a property.

How Proof Rewrites Sustainability and Profitability

The plastics industry has spent a decade trying to balance sustainability with economic reality. Companies want to increase recycled content, but they can’t expose themselves to risk. Regulators want accuracy, but they can’t rely on reporting alone. Investors want transparency, but they need real data, not estimates. Every stakeholder wants the same thing. They want evidence without friction.

That’s why the A*STAR program in Singapore became a breakthrough moment. When SMX’s identity technology was deployed within national-scale circularity pilots, recycled plastics gained trackable lineage across collection, recovery, reuse, and manufacturing. The system didn’t assume accuracy. It verified it. A plastic bottle didn’t disappear into the system. It traveled through it with identity intact.

That level of truth gives governments a way to enforce recycling goals without slowing down industry. It gives brands a way to meet their commitments with confidence. It gives recyclers a way to get paid what their material is truly worth. The result is a plastics market that finally behaves like a real commodity market. Verified content sells at a premium because the risk disappears. Supply chains run cleaner because fraud becomes pointless. Regulators gain visibility without adding complexity. Investors see rising margins instead of structural discounts. Verification becomes the economic engine that the plastics market has been missing.

That closes the gap between what recycled plastics should be worth and what companies actually earn. SMX built the technology that transforms recycled plastics from a discounted material into a premium one. When the market knows the truth, the market pays for the truth. The companies able to prove it will redefine the economics of sustainability. And, more importantly, make money at the same 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.

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 25, 2025 / The gold market has always relied on external verification. Inspectors examined surfaces. Traders checked paperwork. Vault operators reconciled bar lists by hand. The technology behind those steps changed only marginally over the past century. That static approach created the environment where

The industry is finally moving from external checks to internal identity. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is entering the 2025 DMCC Precious Metals Conference with a system designed to embed verification into the material itself. It’s a technology-first shift that alters how the market can function.

Dubai is the right stage for that transformation. The DMCC is a global center for modern commodities trade by prioritizing digital systems, traceable workflows, and higher standards for responsible conduct. Under the leadership of Ahmed Bin Sulayem, the organization has consistently adopted technologies that strengthen the integrity of the sectors it oversees. The precious metals industry within the DMCC ecosystem expects tools that keep pace with global trade.

Replacing Legacy Systems with a Technology-First Approach

That’s because legacy methods no longer keep up with the volume, speed, and regulatory expectations placed on the market. A technology capable of carrying identity through each step of movement is no longer a luxury. It’s a requirement for a system that has outgrown its traditional foundation. SMX addresses that requirement with technology that operates at the molecular level, embedding a Physical-to-Digital link that creates an identity inseparable from the metal.

It remains stable under heat, pressure, and long-term storage, providing every participant in the chain with a consistent reference point. Refiners can validate output without relying exclusively on surface markings. Vaults can confirm the authenticity of their inventory at any time. Traders can execute transactions with confidence that the asset they are handling is the same asset that entered the system.

Even established service providers in the region, including Brink’s, have shown interest in how identity systems like this can reinforce their own operational frameworks. The market is moving toward solutions that embed truth at the material level. SMX built its technology specifically for that purpose.

Identity as Infrastructure

The Physical to Digital Link operates as more than a verification tool. It becomes infrastructure the moment it enters the value chain. A bar marked at the refinery maintains its identity throughout transport, storage, and trade. That identity is not dependent on a label, a barcode, or a certificate. It is not influenced by inspection conditions or subjective interpretation. It is an internal characteristic. When the metal moves, the identity moves with it. That consistency gives the market a foundation that did not exist before, and it changes how organizations manage risk and design their workflows.

This type of identity infrastructure aligns with DMCC priorities. The center has invested heavily in raising global standards across the commodities it oversees. It attracts institutions that want confidence in the assets they handle and transparency in their operational environment. A technology that gives each bar a permanent identity supports every part of that strategy. It reduces friction between market participants. It minimizes disputes during settlement. It increases audit trail accuracy without requiring additional administrative layers. It is a bottom-up improvement that strengthens every top-down control.

This is also where SMX stands apart. Many companies in the metals ecosystem have attempted to solve visibility issues by adding additional documentation or digital recordkeeping. SMX approaches the challenge from within the material rather than around it. By starting at the molecular level, SMX technology bypasses the limitations that have historically led to inconsistent identity. It creates a system that the market can build on regardless of location, handler, or trading platform. As the global gold sector seeks to modernize without sacrificing efficiency, technologies that operate with this degree of permanence become indispensable. At the right time.

A New Standard for Precision in Precious Metals

Technological advancement in the gold market has always been incremental. Scales became more accurate. Testing methods improved. Reporting systems digitized. None of those developments changed the fundamental structure behind how identity was established. SMX’s technology does. It replaces a chain of subjective assessment with a chain of measurable facts. That redefines how institutions can evaluate risk, price assets, and manage operational exposure. It also serves the growing expectation that responsible sourcing and a clear chain of custody must be verifiable rather than assumed.

Dubai’s prominence amplifies this shift. The DMCC Precious Metals Conference draws institutions that recognize the market is entering a transition period. They understand that the next decade will be shaped by the technologies that provide certainty at scale. SMX is entering that environment with a system already demonstrated in major gold hubs, including Dubai, where even long-standing logistics partners have seen its value. The market does not need promises. It needs tools that function under the pressures of real trade flows. SMX’s identity technology delivers that reliability.

As the conference unfolds, one reality is becoming crystal clear. The gold market is no longer defined by how the metal looks on the surface. It’s defined by what the material carries within it. SMX built a system that gives the world’s most trusted asset a way to prove itself at every stage of its journey. It’s a technology-first approach that brings precision, accountability, and modern infrastructure to a sector ready for change. The next chapter of the gold market will be written by the companies that make verification part of the asset. SMX is arriving at DMCC prepared to lead that shift.

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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NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 1, 2025 / Every company has a year that separates “before” from “after.” A year that doesn’t just add progress to a timeline but redraws the entire arc. For SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), 2025 was more than a good year> It was better than a strong year. It was a transformational year. It was the year global systems finally demanded what SMX had spent years building. It was the year proof stopped being optional. It was the year verification became a global priority rather than a technical possibility.

And it was the year SMX positioned itself as a catalyst in that shift. Every region, every sector, and every compliance ecosystem made the same discovery. They couldn’t move forward without measurable, durable, molecular-level truth. Gold needed it. Plastics needed it. Textiles needed it. Minerals needed it. National recycling frameworks needed it. And for the first time, these systems all turned to the same Company.

2025 was the year SMX became the common denominator.

Global Interest Drives Global Expansion

It happened across continents. Singapore embraced national plastics circularity. Spain and France are on board to authenticate recycled materials. The Middle East advanced gold verification into a new era of integrity. The United States began transitioning regulated supply chains away from administrative declarations toward scientific evidence.

SMX didn’t chase these opportunities. They converged around it because industries that never shared common technical needs suddenly aligned on the same requirement. Identity. Proof. Integrity.

This is what makes the Company’s $111.5 million equity purchase agreement, announced Monday, the perfect capstone to a defining year. The agreement wasn’t only timely. It was symbolic. It confirmed that SMX had earned a financial architecture built for global scale and multi-sector deployment.

The agreement includes a $11.5 million promissory note and access to up to $100 million in capital at SMX’s discretion. There are no minimum drawdowns, no operational restrictions, and no penalties for maintaining discipline. It’s a capital structure aligned with ambition. And based on the initial capital injection, SMX will likely not issue new shares or draw on the facility until at least Q1 of 2026. It’s financial clarity that lets SMX maintain pace while preserving strategic freedom.

A Modern Treasury

The agreement also allows SMX to allocate part of the net proceeds to digital reserve assets, strengthening a treasury architecture designed for durability and alignment with decentralized supply chain systems. There are no restrictions whatsoever. So, with those assets having market value, they could also serve as a valuation floor.

Still, what makes this the capstone to 2025 is how perfectly it completes the year’s story. SMX didn’t simply collect partnerships. It built infrastructure. It didn’t chase projects. It shaped global standards. It didn’t follow trends. It anticipated the Proof Economy years before the world needed it.

The $111.5 million deal marks the moment when SMX’s global recognition, national deployments, industrial validation, and technological leadership converged into a structure that can support the next decade of authenticated commerce.

This agreement and the partnerships made aren’t the conclusion of SMX’s transformation. It’s the confirmation that SMX is ready for everything that follows.

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:the ability of SMX to satisfy the conditions under the Equity Purchase Agreement, the Promissory Note and related agreements; 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; 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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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 1, 2025 / There are years that mark progress and years that define direction. For SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), 2025 didn’t simply move the company forward. It changed what forward even meant. When this series began, the world was just starting to understand that supply chains couldn’t survive on declarations. Recycling programs couldn’t thrive on voluntary reporting. Commodity markets couldn’t rely on reputation. Global trade couldn’t depend on assumptions. Proof was becoming the centerpiece of modern commerce, and SMX stood at the center of the shift.

Across twelve monthly chapters in 2025, the story became unmistakable. SMX was doing more than building technology. It was building a new operating layer for global industry. And it wasn’t chasing markets. Those markets converged around it. It wasn’t trying to predict the future. It was meeting the future’s demands in real time.

Gold refiners needed identity that could survive geopolitical scrutiny. Plastics circularity frameworks needed recovery data that survived industrial processing. Mineral suppliers needed compliance structures that worked across borders. Textile manufacturers needed molecular truth to satisfy expanding regulations. Recycling ecosystems needed authentication capable of matching national climate policy. Every region reached the same realization for different reasons, but all of them met on the same terrain. The world needed proof that couldn’t be faked, lost, or diluted by process.

SMX became the Company that supplied it.

A Transformative 2025, and Still Going

Partnerships documented how Singapore stepped forward with a national plastics passport. How Spain and France validated high-grade recycled materials with molecular signatures. How the Middle East advanced authenticated gold identity. How the United States began shifting regulated supply chains toward scientific validation. These weren’t scattered wins. They were chapters of the same narrative. Proof wasn’t emerging as a feature. It was emerging as infrastructure.

And infrastructure requires capital. Capital that adapts. Capital that scales. Capital that strengthens systems rather than distorting them. Capital that accelerates global deployment.

That’s why the $111.5 million equity purchase agreement stands as a defining moment in a year filled with milestones.

It wasn’t just the largest financial development in SMX’s recent history. It was the most structurally important. A $11.5 million promissory note that establishes a foundation. A discretionary equity line of up to $100 million that gives SMX full control of its expansion. A design built for precision, flexibility, and long-term execution. A capital architecture capable of matching the company’s global momentum without forcing trade-offs or compromising strategic development.

The agreement gives SMX the financial resources to build gold identity programs and plastic passports simultaneously. It gives the company the strength to support national systems and industrial partners in parallel. It created a foundation for verification frameworks across minerals, textiles, agriculture, and industrial materials that can grow together rather than in sequence. It reinforced SMX’s ability to support the Proof Economy across continents with consistency and authority. That’s not all.

Modern Tech Coupled With a Modern Treasury

It also allowed SMX to strengthen its treasury by allocating a portion of its net proceeds to digital reserve assets. This aligned SMX’s financial architecture with the decentralized, data-driven nature of its technology and the future of global supply chains. The agreement wasn’t only financial strategy. It was a philosophical alignment. It mirrored the durability, adaptability, and permanence of the systems SMX builds. And it provides a solid valuation floor.

The story of 2025 isn’t simply that SMX entered new markets. It’s that global systems are aligned around the need for molecular identity just as SMX reached a point of technological maturity. It’s that regulation, commerce, national policy, and industrial sustainability began converging on the same requirement. It’s that material truth became a universal expectation.

The equity purchase agreement became the capstone because it ensures SMX can meet this rising global demand with strength, speed, and scale. It’s the structure that turns the company’s breakthroughs into a decade of acceleration. It’s the backbone behind a future where identity travels with every material, where circularity is measurable, where compliance is scientific, and where trade is anchored in verifiable integrity.

Across twelve monthly volumes, one conclusion became clear. The Proof Economy isn’t coming. It’s here. It’s advancing country by country and industry by industry. And SMX is one of the companies building the systems that will define it.

The final chapter of 2025 isn’t at an endpoint just yet. There are still 30 days left in December. As SMX proved with its Monday announcement, anything and everything is on the table. And they can accrue quickly without warning.

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: the ability of SMX to satisfy the conditions under the Equity Purchase Agreement, the Promissory Note and related agreements; 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; 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, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 1, 2025 / There is a difference between growth and acceleration. Growth expands what already exists. Acceleration changes the trajectory. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) has experienced both. But the $111.5 million equity purchase agreement announced on Monday is the moment acceleration becomes the defining force behind the company’s next decade. It’s more than funding. It’s architecture. It’s the structure that supports a world shifting toward verification as a core operating requirement.

In 2025, global systems finally acknowledged what SMX understood years ago. Materials needed identity. Supply chains needed truth. Circularity needed evidence. Commodity markets needed authentication. Compliance needed verification that couldn’t be questioned. Every region came to the same conclusion for different reasons, but all of them converged on the idea that the future of commerce will run on proof.

The equity purchase agreement sits at the center of this global shift. It provides a $11.5 million promissory note and access to up to $100 million in capital that SMX can deploy with precision. The company determines when capital enters the system. The company determines how it’s used. The company maintains full command over its expansion across continents and industries. That level of control creates the foundation for long-term acceleration.

Scaling With a Power Engine in Overdrive

Acceleration matters because SMX isn’t building a product or a service. It’s building infrastructure. Gold identity frameworks that reshape global integrity. Plastics passports that redefine national circularity. Textile and fiber authentication capable of meeting strict regulatory demands. Mineral verification designed to support geopolitical security. Industrial and agricultural systems that require molecular identity for compliance. None of these sectors share a timeline, yet all are advancing in parallel.

The equity purchase agreement allows SMX to match that parallel momentum with capital strength. It lets the company expand multiple verification systems at once. It ensures that SMX doesn’t have to choose which region or industry moves first. It removes the constraints that often separate early adopters from full adopters. It keeps the Proof Economy moving in a unified direction rather than competing for priority.

The agreement also supports the long-term financial resilience needed for global infrastructure through the option to allocate part of net proceeds toward digital reserve assets. This is an important strategic layer. It aligns SMX’s treasury with the broader evolution of decentralized supply chains and supports the durability of the systems the Company builds. And it can also create a rock-solid valuation floor.

Positioned to Accelerate Worldwide Mission

But the most powerful element of the equity purchase agreement is its positioning of SMX to define the next decade. Verification is no longer a subset of supply chain management. It’s becoming the structural requirement behind global trade, sustainability, compliance, and industrial transformation. Identity at the molecular level isn’t an enhancement. It’s the new minimum standard. And SMX is the Company positioned to deliver it at scale.

Acceleration happens when global adoption meets capital readiness. The $111.5 million equity purchase agreement ensures that SMX is ready for exactly that moment. It enables SMX to build permanent, interoperable, and expandable verification systems. It supports national programs that may operate for decades. It strengthens industrial partnerships that rely on long-term infrastructure. Most importantly, it positions SMX not as a participant in the shift to the Proof Economy but as one of its architects.

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: the ability of SMX to satisfy the conditions under the Equity Purchase Agreement, the Promissory Note and related agreements; 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; 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, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 1, 2025 / Every company has a year that separates “before” from “after.” A year that doesn’t just add progress to a timeline but redraws the entire arc. For SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), 2025 was more than a good year> It was better than a strong year. It was a transformational year. It was the year global systems finally demanded what SMX had spent years building. It was the year proof stopped being optional. It was the year verification became a global priority rather than a technical possibility.

And it was the year SMX positioned itself as a catalyst in that shift. Every region, every sector, and every compliance ecosystem made the same discovery. They couldn’t move forward without measurable, durable, molecular-level truth. Gold needed it. Plastics needed it. Textiles needed it. Minerals needed it. National recycling frameworks needed it. And for the first time, these systems all turned to the same Company.

2025 was the year SMX became the common denominator.

Global Interest Drives Global Expansion

It happened across continents. Singapore embraced national plastics circularity. Spain and France are on board to authenticate recycled materials. The Middle East advanced gold verification into a new era of integrity. The United States began transitioning regulated supply chains away from administrative declarations toward scientific evidence.

SMX didn’t chase these opportunities. They converged around it because industries that never shared common technical needs suddenly aligned on the same requirement. Identity. Proof. Integrity.

This is what makes the Company’s $111.5 million equity purchase agreement, announced Monday, the perfect capstone to a defining year. The agreement wasn’t only timely. It was symbolic. It confirmed that SMX had earned a financial architecture built for global scale and multi-sector deployment.

The agreement includes a $11.5 million promissory note and access to up to $100 million in capital at SMX’s discretion. There are no minimum drawdowns, no operational restrictions, and no penalties for maintaining discipline. It’s a capital structure aligned with ambition. And based on the initial capital injection, SMX will likely not issue new shares or draw on the facility until at least Q1 of 2026. It’s financial clarity that lets SMX maintain pace while preserving strategic freedom.

A Modern Treasury

The agreement also allows SMX to allocate part of the net proceeds to digital reserve assets, strengthening a treasury architecture designed for durability and alignment with decentralized supply chain systems. There are no restrictions whatsoever. So, with those assets having market value, they could also serve as a valuation floor.

Still, what makes this the capstone to 2025 is how perfectly it completes the year’s story. SMX didn’t simply collect partnerships. It built infrastructure. It didn’t chase projects. It shaped global standards. It didn’t follow trends. It anticipated the Proof Economy years before the world needed it.

The $111.5 million deal marks the moment when SMX’s global recognition, national deployments, industrial validation, and technological leadership converged into a structure that can support the next decade of authenticated commerce.

This agreement and the partnerships made aren’t the conclusion of SMX’s transformation. It’s the confirmation that SMX is ready for everything that follows.

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:the ability of SMX to satisfy the conditions under the Equity Purchase Agreement, the Promissory Note and related agreements; 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; 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, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 1, 2025 / Some companies advance with steady progress. Others advance through pivotal moments that redefine what they can build. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) spent years developing the molecular identity technology that would become the backbone of the Proof Economy. But 2025 revealed something even more important. The world was finally ready for a global proof standard, and SMX stood at the center of the shift. The decision by industries and governments to adopt measurable, verifiable, scientific identity wasn’t theoretical anymore. It was operational.

In that context, the $111.5 million equity purchase agreement is more than an access point to capital. It’s the framework that lets SMX build a global movement around verified materials. It gives SMX the ability to turn emerging systems into permanent infrastructure. It supports multiple industries at once. It keeps SMX in command of its scale, sequence, and strategy. Most importantly, it ensures that the Proof Economy has a strong financial engine to match its global ambition.

The agreement begins with a $11.5 million promissory note and extends into a $100 million discretionary equity line. What sets it apart is the structure. SMX controls the pace. SMX controls the drawdowns. SMX controls how capital flows into the expansion of gold verification, plastics circularity, regulated supply chains, critical minerals, textiles, and industrial recovery. It’s capital that adapts to the Company’s strategy rather than forcing the strategy to adapt to the capital.

Capital With No Strings

This flexibility arrived at the exact moment the world began demanding systems that could connect regions and industries through a unified architecture of proof. Singapore advanced national plastics identity. Spain and France moved toward the use of authentic, verified recycled materials. The Middle East pushed gold toward a more secure and transparent future. The United States strengthened compliance across minerals and industrial materials.

These global moves weren’t following each other. They were happening simultaneously, and SMX needed a capital structure designed for concurrency. The equity purchase agreement gives them that.

It lets SMX scale industrial systems without slowing national programs. It lets SMX build long-term frameworks while expanding commercial deployments. It ensures that SMX can operate across multiple continents with equal reach, supporting partners who need identity to survive transformation, processing, and regulatory inspection. That’s not all.

The ability to allocate net proceeds as it sees fit, including toward digital reserve assets, also strengthens SMX’s long-term financial architecture. It reflects a future in which supply chains are decentralized and identity systems are designed to be as durable as the materials they track. Financial structures that complement technological resilience matter because SMX is no longer building limited projects. It’s building permanent global systems.

Capital That Enables Scale

What makes the equity purchase agreement transformative is what it enables SMX to do next. The company can build a global proof standard across materials that define modern commerce. Gold. Plastics. Minerals. Textiles. Agriculture. Industrial feedstocks. Every one of these sectors is undergoing a shift from assumption to verification. Everyone is discovering that identity is no longer optional. And everyone is converging on the same need: a system that embeds truth at the molecular level.

The Proof Economy is rising because the world is no longer willing to rely on declarations. It needs evidence. It needs identity. It needs consistency. The $111.5 million equity purchase deal gives SMX the capital foundation to scale the systems that provide all of it.

In other words, this isn’t just capital. It’s the fuel behind a movement that will redefine how the world measures integrity, sustainability, and trust.

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:the ability of SMX to satisfy the conditions under the Equity Purchase Agreement, the Promissory Note and related agreements; 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; 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.

Media Contact:info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 1, 2025 / Industries once treated materials as interchangeable commodities. Steel was steel. Plastic was plastic. Gold was gold. Cotton was cotton. Identity rarely mattered because the systems relying on those materials weren’t built to authenticate them. But the world changed faster than supply chains did. Today’s markets require something materials never had to provide before. They require intelligence.

Material intelligence means that a material carries identity embedded at the molecular level. It means that proof travels with it from extraction to processing to reuse. It means industrial ecosystems can authenticate origin, verify compliance, and measure recovery with scientific certainty. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) built the technology that enables that capability. But deploying an era of material intelligence across continents requires financial architecture built for scale, speed, and stability.

This is where the $111.5 million equity purchase agreement, announced Monday, becomes transformational. The agreement provides a $11.5 million promissory note and access to up to $100 million in capital, all at SMX’s discretion. There are no mandatory issuances, and there are no penalties for deliberate pace. It’s financial alignment with the global rollout of molecular identity.

A Controlled Capital Infusion

This initial tranche is expected to keep SMX financially fortified until at least the first quarter of 2026. This creates non-dilutive stability through 2025’s execution cycle and reinforces that the agreement is a strategic resource rather than an immediate lever.

This timing, as well as the deal’s structure, is significant because industries signaled their need for material intelligence all at once. Gold refiners need immutable origin systems capable of reducing uncertainty in high-value markets. Mineral suppliers require molecular identity to meet compliance protocols tied to national security and cross-border trade. Textile manufacturers are preparing for global regulations that demand proof at the fiber level. Plastics circularity programs need authenticated recovery that survives the transformation processes intrinsic to recycling.

SMX operates at the center of all of these shifts.

The equity purchase agreement allows something else. It lets SMX direct a portion of net proceeds toward digital reserve assets. This strengthens the long-term durability of SMX’s treasury structure, can allow its balance sheet to be a value driver, and ensure its strategy aligns with the decentralized, data-driven nature of the Proof Economy. It’s financial infrastructure built for a world where verification itself becomes operational infrastructure.

Advancing A Global Agenda

The agreement enables SMX to scale national systems, industrial programs, and sector-specific frameworks without having to choose between them. Gold identity can expand alongside plastics passports. Textile authentication can grow alongside mineral verification. Agricultural and industrial supply chains can adopt molecular identity in parallel rather than in sequence.

Material intelligence isn’t a trend. It’s the next stage of global industry. Every sector that depends on authenticity, accountability, and circularity is moving toward systems where materials speak for themselves. SMX’s $111.5 million equity purchase agreement gives it the capital foundation to accelerate that shift, and the timing provisions ensure that capital deployment aligns with operational readiness.

This isn’t simply the expansion of a technology platform. It’s the start of a new chapter in how global materials behave, communicate, and integrate into a digital economy built on truth.

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:the ability of SMX to satisfy the conditions under the Equity Purchase Agreement, the Promissory Note and related agreements; 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; 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.

Media Contact:info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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