Author: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 25, 2025 / The DMCC Precious Metals Conference is one of the sector’s most influential gatherings, uniting global leaders across the gold, silver, and platinum markets to examine advances in transparency, regulatory integrity, and the emergence of tokenised assets.

Security Matters (NASDAQ:SMX) will participate in this year’s program as part of its ongoing collaboration with Dubai’s expanding role as a centre for verified, digital, and sustainability-focused trade. The company will present its latest advancements in Physical-to-Digital Link technology in a session titled “From Mine to Market: The Physical-to-Digital Link Powering Transparency in Precious Metals.”

SMX will highlight how its patented molecular-marking technology introduces a new standard of certainty across the precious metals value chain. By embedding each piece of metal with a unique molecular identity and recording that information on a secure digital ledger, the technology creates a permanent connection between a physical asset and its digital twin.

This capability enables the industry to evolve from traditional trust-based systems to scientifically verified provenance. It supports more rigorous digitalisation, enhances chain-of-custody visibility, and establishes the foundation for traceability and tokenisation of gold and silver throughout their lifecycle.

“For centuries, the precious metals industry has been built on trust – but in the new economy, trust must be verified,” said Haggai Alon, Founder and CEO of SMX. “SMX is creating a new industry standard for transparency and authenticity. Our technology aligns with World Gold Council best practices, advances LBMA guidelines, and meets the growing demand from clients for verified, traceable gold.”

By helping refiners, traders, logistics providers, and exchanges comply with the triangle of World Gold Council standards, LBMA guidance, and evolving client expectations, SMX enhances the infrastructure for verified, digitised, and ultimately tokenised gold – setting the foundation for a transparent and accountable global market.

This advancement mirrors SMX’s success in other sectors such as plastics, where its platform underpins the Plastic Cycle Token, a verified credit system that connects recycled materials to digital assets. The same model of verification, digitalisation, and monetisation is now being extended to the precious metals market through SMX’s trueGold and trueSilver programs.

“Just as we are transforming the plastics industry with verified circularity and tokenised credits,” added Oliver Buckle-Wright, Commercial Lead, SMX Precious Metals Division, “we are now enabling the gold and silver markets to move confidently into the digital era – with verified authenticity, sustainable sourcing, and trade-ready data.”

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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.

About Bio-Packaging

Founded in 2007 and headquartered at Woodlands Spectrum 1, Bio-Packaging Pte Ltd provides HDPE, PCR, biodegradable and certified-compostable carrier bags, produce rolls and industrial liners to supermarkets, food service, retail and industrial clients. The company is ISO 14001-certified and focuses on delivering high-quality, competitively priced, innovative and sustainable packaging solutions.

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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / November 24, 2025 / For thousands of years, gold has been the benchmark for permanence. It anchored empires, stabilized currencies, and stood as a universal symbol of wealth. Yet through every century of trade, every transfer of power, and every shift in global finance, one truth remained unchanged, the industry relied on belief. Buyers believed it was pure. Markets believed it was responsibly sourced. Institutions believed it moved through honest hands. Belief, however, is not verification.

Today, that era is ending. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) and Goldstrom are bringing scientific certainty to the world’s oldest store of value, transforming gold and silver into authenticated materials capable of proving their own origin, composition, and ethical path. Goldstrom’s global network, spanning bullion banking, trading, logistics, vaulting, and insurance, is integrating SMX’s molecular markers and digital-registry infrastructure into its operations. Together, they are rewriting how trust functions in a market built on legacy assumptions.

A New Identity for the Oldest Asset

For the first time in history, precious metals can carry an identity that cannot be lost or forged. SMX’s molecular markers embed a permanent chemical signature directly into gold and silver, creating a form of self-verifying material. No stamps. No surface labels. No paperwork that can be altered. Instead, the truth is built into the metal itself.

This changes everything. A ring, a bar, a chain, or a central bank reserve gains the ability to confirm exactly where it came from and how it moved through the world. Chemistry replaces speculation. Data replaces declarations. Trust becomes measurable.

Building Proof Into Every Gram

This collaboration is not a marketing alliance. It is an architectural shift. SMX’s patented molecular markers survive melting, recasting, refining, and every other industrial process metals undergo. Each time the metal is scanned, it reconnects to a secure blockchain registry that records its origin, lifecycle, and custodial history.

Goldstrom brings the global infrastructure to make this system operational at scale. Refiners, traders, insurers, and vaults can integrate the technology without altering their existing workflows. The result is a fully traceable ecosystem where every participant interacts with a living passport of proof.

This infrastructure also connects directly to SMX’s trueGold^™ and trueSilver^™ programs. A gold bar recycled in London retains the same verified identity it held when first refined in Dubai. No lost history. No broken chains of custody. Just uninterrupted truth.

Global regulation is moving in the same direction. The LBMA’s Responsible Gold Guidance, the UAE’s Good Delivery framework, and Europe’s Digital Product Passport all point to the same conclusion: traceability must be embedded into the material itself. SMX and Goldstrom are delivering a system built for that reality.

Compliance Becomes an Advantage

A verified metal moves differently through the world. It clears financing faster, satisfies regulatory checks sooner, and enters trade channels with fewer delays. Transparency reduces friction. Certainty reduces cost.

With SMX embedded into Goldstrom’s network, every ounce of metal carries a market price and a verified story. ESG commitments become provable. Recycling claims become measurable. And the difference between responsible and non-compliant sourcing becomes impossible to hide.

This turns transparency into value. Regulators gain visibility. Financial institutions gain confidence. Investors gain authenticated data. And the metals markets gain a new level of integrity that makes fraud, duplication, and gray-market activity dramatically harder to sustain.

A Global Architecture of Material Truth

The Goldstrom alliance extends SMX’s influence into one of the world’s most sensitive and high-value supply chains. But the company’s reach goes far beyond bullion.

In Spain, SMX works with CARTIF to bring molecular memory to packaging and industrial materials. In France, CETI applies similar technology to textiles and recycled fabrics. In Austria, SMX collaborates with BT-Systems and REDWAVE to power AI-driven recycling facilities with molecular verification. In Singapore, its work with Bio-Packaging certifies recycled plastics for global brands. Tradepro Group carries that same capability into U.S. recycling infrastructure.

Through every partnership, the message is the same: proof is now a universal requirement. Whether it’s packaging, rubber, textiles, or precious metals, the world is shifting from trust by declaration to trust by detection.

When Luxury, Ethics, and Science Converge

In today’s market, transparency is no longer a bonus feature. It is a demand. Consumers want to know the truth behind what they own, and companies want to prove it. trueGold gives miners, manufacturers, and jewelers a way to certify their materials molecule by molecule.

Buyers gain certainty. Creators gain credibility. And luxury gains integrity.

According to IBM and PwC, more than 70% of global consumers will pay more for goods that are both sustainable and verifiably sourced. SMX positions gold and silver to meet that demand with scientific precision.

Transparency becomes the new premium. Proof becomes the new luxury.

The Metal That Now Speaks for Itself

At its core, this shift is not about technology. It is about people. Miners deserve safe and fair conditions. Jewelers deserve recognition for their integrity. Consumers deserve confidence in what they hold. And markets deserve mechanisms that reward honesty.

Gold has always symbolized permanence. Through SMX and Goldstrom, it can symbolize proof.
Not just a store of value, but a record of truth. Not just an asset, but a verified legacy. And through it all, authenticated gold may become the most valuable currency of all.

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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

This article contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other applicable federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements relate to expectations, beliefs, projections, future plans, strategies, anticipated events, or trends and similar expressions concerning matters that are not historical facts. These statements may be identified by words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “project,” “potential,” “seek,” “should,” “target,” “will,” and similar terminology, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words.

Forward-looking statements in this article include, without limitation, statements regarding SMX’s molecular-marking technology; the expected benefits, functionality, or performance of trueGold™, trueSilver™, and SMX’s broader digital-registry ecosystem; the anticipated impact of SMX’s collaboration with Goldstrom; the scalability and commercial viability of embedded molecular identifiers; the adoption of traceability systems within the global gold, silver, and precious-metals industries; the integration of SMX technology across mining, refining, logistics, insurance, and bullion-banking networks; and statements regarding regulatory trends, market demand for authenticated materials, and the potential for transparency to enhance financing, compliance, or global supply-chain integrity.

These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, estimates, assumptions, and projections that are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, regulatory, geopolitical, and other risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially due to factors including, but not limited to: changes in global economic conditions; volatility in commodity markets; shifts in consumer preferences or luxury-goods demand; delays or challenges in integrating SMX technology across Goldstrom’s operations; changes to international metals regulations, including those issued by the LBMA, the Dubai Good Delivery system, the UAE Ministry of Economy, or other national authorities; legislative or policy changes affecting traceability, digital-product passports, or ESG reporting; the performance and durability of SMX molecular markers throughout industrial processes such as melting, refining, or recycling; the accuracy and resilience of blockchain-based custody records; risks associated with cybersecurity, data protection, or system interoperability; and challenges related to financing, scaling, or deploying new verification technologies in established, highly regulated industries. Additional risks include the ability of SMX to maintain intellectual-property protections and patent coverage; the willingness of mining, refining, logistics, and retail partners to adopt new authentication systems; competitive developments in materials-verification or supply-chain-tracking technologies; fluctuations in global bullion trade; geopolitical instability affecting mining regions or trade routes; potential disruptions in logistics networks; the availability and cost of raw materials; labor and staffing constraints; the timing and success of third-party audits or certification processes; and the ability of SMX to expand into new jurisdictions or partner markets while satisfying local compliance and regulatory requirements.

Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these statements, which reflect current expectations but involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. SMX undertakes no obligation to update, revise, or supplement any forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events, new information, or future circumstances, except as required by applicable law. Nothing in this article should be construed as investment advice, an offer to sell securities, or a solicitation of an offer to buy securities. Investors should conduct their own independent evaluation of SMX and review all filings made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including risk factors and disclosures contained in annual and quarterly reports.

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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / November 24, 2025 / For centuries, gold has represented permanence, beauty, and wealth. It has been worn as power, traded as currency, and hoarded as security. But for all its brilliance, the truth about where it comes from has always been a matter of faith.

That era is over. trueGold, a majority-owned subsidiary of SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), is giving gold something it has never had before: proof. The company’s molecular-marking technology enables each gram of gold to retain a chemical record of its origin, purity, and ethical journey from mine to market.

This is not paperwork. It’s science. The proof is literally inside the metal. That means the gold in a wedding ring, a luxury timepiece, or a national reserve can finally verify its own story. It’s the convergence of transparency, technology, and humanity, and it may be one of the most important shifts in the global value chain this century.

A Technology Rooted in Responsibility

The marker that powers SMX’s trueGold is molecular, invisible, and permanent. Once embedded, it can be read in seconds without cutting, melting, or dismantling the gold. What once required weeks of testing to determine provenance now takes moments. And it comes with scientific certainty. SMX’s system instantly verifies authenticity, recycled content, and ethical sourcing, transforming gold into what it was always meant to be: a universal standard of trust.

The implications go beyond the lab. In regions where illicit mining funds conflict or force child labor, molecular verification becomes a line of defense. It creates a system where only verified gold enters legitimate markets. Accountability begins at the atomic level, cutting off exploitation at its source and forcing the industry to evolve toward fairness.

Independent testing by Intertek confirmed that SMX’s marker is chemically inert and non-toxic. It meets international safety standards, including EU REACH and RoHS compliance, the U.S. National Stamping Act, and Canada’s Precious Metals Marking Regulations. That means gold can now carry proof without altering its purity or its value. Traceability and consumer safety finally share the same space.

Partnerships That Humanize Proof

Proof, on its own, is just data. What gives it meaning are the people and systems that uphold it. SMX’s trueGold network is designed to make transparency practical, enforceable, and human.

Its partnership with Ava Global, a leader in high-value logistics, ensures that verification continues during every shipment. Marked gold maintains its verified identity from refinery to vault. Fingo, another collaborator specializing in digital identity, verifies that only authorized personnel handle the gold, securing the human side of the chain.

And in what may be one of the most significant commercial validations in the precious-metals industry, trueGold is partnering with Goldstrom, a global force in bullion banking, refining, and logistics. Through Goldstrom’s participation, molecularly verified gold is now entering real-world circulation. This is not a pilot. It is the industrial adoption of authenticated gold, proving that traceability can operate at the scale where global value is created.

Together, they turn the old process of “trust by declaration” into “trust by detection.” Every checkpoint becomes part of the proof itself. The result is a living ecosystem of accountability that safeguards both the product and the people connected to it.

The Global Network of Material Truth

The reach of SMX extends far beyond precious metals. In Europe, the company collaborates with the CARTIF Technology Centre in Spain and CETI in France. These partnerships apply molecular memory to textiles, packaging, and industrial materials, advancing Europe’s move toward measurable sustainability.

In Austria, SMX works with BT-Systems and REDWAVE, integrating molecular verification and artificial intelligence into automated recycling facilities. In Singapore, its partnership with Bio-Packaging is certifying recycled plastics for major consumer brands, while Tradepro Group in the United States brings the same technology into domestic recycling networks.

Each alliance forms another front in the global campaign to replace faith with evidence. Together, they reinforce the idea that proof is not limited to a single material or country. It is a universal language of accountability that can span industries, borders, and ideologies.

When Luxury Meets Ethics

In today’s world, transparency is no longer a marketing advantage. It is a demand. SMX’s trueGold gives miners and brands the ability to certify their products molecule by molecule. Shoppers can verify a piece’s origin, composition, and recycled content with absolute confidence.

This new era of ethical luxury gives artisans and manufacturers something equally valuable: pride in provenance. When creators can prove their materials are responsibly sourced, they elevate craftsmanship into an act of integrity. Every finished product becomes a reflection of both beauty and honesty.

The result is a shift in consumer power. Studies from IBM and PwC show that more than 70% of buyers are willing to pay a premium for sustainable, traceable goods. trueGold doesn’t just meet that demand; it defines it. Within a marketplace where perception drives profit, accountability becomes the new gold standard.

The Human Dividend

At its core, trueGold is not a story about technology. It is a story about people. It is about the miners who deserve safe conditions, the jewelers who deserve credit for their integrity, and the consumers who deserve to trust what they own.

Proof brings fairness back to the table. It bridges the gap between developing nations that extract resources and the global markets that consume them. It gives investors confidence, but it also gives communities dignity.

Gold has always symbolized permanence. Now, through SMX’s science, it finally lives up to that promise. It becomes not just a store of value but a record of truth. One that repairs the divide between what is real and what is claimed.

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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 gold, 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.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 21, 2025 / Around the world, nations are discovering that security now has two fronts. The physical front that protects borders, and the institutional front that protects trust. Governments poured resources into the first. The second has been left exposed. Institutions built on access and openness are now confronting threats that move quietly, slowly, and deliberately. They don’t break rules. They use them. And that shift has created a global demand for a new kind of defense.

The exact type that SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) provides. Its technology closes the blind spots adversarial actors have exploited for years. The company has long warned that the next wave of security breaches would merge physical infiltration with digital manipulation, and today’s patterns confirm that warning with precision.

Notably, these vulnerabilities aren’t tied to any one country or ideology. They come from structural weaknesses in open systems built on participation and trust. That trust worked when threats were external, obvious, and easy to isolate. It doesn’t hold when influence can hide inside the routines of institutional life. The infiltration of today is about access, not intrusion.

In other words, the compromise can be subtle. It doesn’t trigger alarms or violate protocols. It enters through the everyday materials that move through supply chains, slipping in through components, parts, and products that appear routine. Once inside, it blends into operations until familiarity becomes its camouflage. That’s the problem.

Most institutions lack the tools to verify where those materials truly originate, how they were handled, or whether they carry hidden vulnerabilities. SMX, now gaining deal traction across continents, is helping companies, institutions, and governments ensure those vulnerabilities never reach the point of catastrophe.

Where Physical Inputs and Digital Systems Converge

That protection starts with the obvious. Every modern threat begins with the physical. Bad actors understand that the easiest path into an institution is not through code or policy, but through the materials used. A single compromised component can enter a factory, a data center, a government lab, or a defense contractor long before cybersecurity systems ever activate. Once inside, that material becomes a trusted object, and trust becomes the attack surface.

From there, infiltration evolves. A corrupted chip can alter data. A counterfeit sensor can distort measurements. A compromised module can open digital pathways that no firewall was built to monitor. Physical infiltration becomes digital influence, and digital influence becomes institutional vulnerability. The chain starts with materials and ends with systems that no longer know what to trust.

This merger of physical access and digital impact is the defining threat of the modern era. It’s not dramatic. It’s procedural. It uses supply-chain familiarity to validate inputs, and those inputs to manipulate downstream information and operations. To truly be secured, that chain must be fortified at every link. SMX provides the technology to do that.

The SMX System is Built for Both Dimensions of Modern Security

SMX secures the physical world by giving materials, documents, and products a molecular identity. It embeds memory and provenance into the item itself. It can be gold, rubber, liquids, or textiles. Virtually any material can benefit. Once embedded, tampering becomes impossible to hide. Counterfeits become easy to expose. Origins remain inseparable from the objects they belong to.

This has always been SMX’s foundation, and as new threats emerge, its technology is showing it can be an essential part of global stability protocols. No, SMX cannot control what people think. But it can eliminate the deception that enables influence. It verifies the provenance of the materials, credentials, and hardware entering a system, making manipulation transparent and infiltration visible. That is how it defends. And by securing every link in the chain, that capability becomes the impenetrable piece of the arsenal that protects both critical assets and the people who depend on them.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

This editorial contains forward-looking statements that involve significant risks and uncertainties. These statements reflect current views regarding the potential use of SMX technology to enhance institutional integrity, strengthen verification systems, and reduce the risk of infiltration by bad actors or nefarious networks. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding anticipated improvements in institutional security, the possible adoption of molecular-level verification, the ability of SMX systems to protect credentials, documents, or access pathways, and the broader market or regulatory conditions that may influence demand for such solutions. These statements are based on assumptions that may prove inaccurate and are subject to factors that are difficult to predict. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied due to a range of uncertainties, including changes in government policy, evolving threat landscapes, institutional readiness, regulatory considerations, funding cycles, technological constraints, and other risks detailed in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this editorial. Readers should not place undue reliance on them. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, future events, or changes in circumstances except as required by law. The purpose of this content is to explore potential applications of verification technologies within institutional environments. Nothing in this editorial should be interpreted as a guarantee of future performance or a prediction of specific security outcomes.

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 21, 2025 / Every headline about a cyberattack sounds the same: a breach, a leak, a compromise. Millions of files lost, systems paralyzed, trust shattered. But what if the problem isn’t in the code at all? What if the real threat starts before a single line is written?

The truth is that cybersecurity has been looking in the wrong direction. For years, the focus has been on protecting data instead of the devices that hold it. Every chip, every circuit, every sensor that powers our modern world arrives with an assumption of authenticity. And that assumption has become the soft underbelly of national security.

It takes only one compromised component to bring an entire system to its knees. A counterfeit microchip inside a satellite. A corrupted processor inside a power grid. A mislabeled sensor inside an aircraft. These are not hypotheticals. They are vulnerabilities hiding in plain sight, baked into the supply chains that feed every sector of the global economy. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) has built a way to eliminate those weaknesses at the source.

Curing the Problem, Not the Symptoms

Its molecular-marking technology embeds invisible chemical identifiers directly into materials during manufacturing. Once applied, each marker acts like a microscopic and immutable digital passport, unique to that material and instantly verifiable with a proprietary scanner. It gives matter itself a voice, one that cannot be forged, cloned, or erased.

And it replaces a flawed approach to cybersecurity, one where governments and corporations built firewalls around data but left the foundation exposed. Code can be patched and altered. Materials marked by SMX cannot.

A finished product embedded with SMX molecular-marking technology can authenticate itself the moment it is scanned. And it does not stop there. Every handoff, every processing step, and every shipment can be recorded and stored immutably on blockchain ledgers, creating a transparent chain of custody that follows the material from raw extraction to deployment. It turns supply chains into truth chains. Call it the Material Internet of Truth.

Proof Is the Ultimate Flex

With it, a world is created where every chip in a defense system can prove it was built in a secure facility, where every sensor in a medical device can verify its origin, where every magnet inside a data center can confirm it came from an approved source. That level of certainty does more than prevent counterfeiting; it restores confidence in the infrastructure that modern life depends on.

The need has never been greater. Artificial intelligence, clean-energy grids, and defense systems are merging into one interconnected web of hardware and data. That web is only as strong as its weakest component. A single compromised part can ripple through entire economies, affecting hospitals, communication networks, and national defense in ways that no firewall could ever contain.

SMX delivers a solution built for this moment. It does not rely on algorithms or software patches. It relies on proof that is physical, verifiable, and permanent. By embedding identity into the materials themselves, SMX makes deception too expensive to sustain. Counterfeiters lose their profit motive. Hackers lose their entry point. And those with far more nefarious intentions lose their firepower. The advantage in all cases returns to the defender.

It’s Here and Ready to Use

While all of this sounds theoretical, it isn’t. Not by a long shot. SMX’s molecular verification is already being deployed across industries, including major sector players in gold, rubber, plastics, and textiles, who are now, at industrial scale, proving that transparency can coexist with profitability. Extending that system into semiconductors, critical minerals, and defense components is more than a critical patch to a vulnerable system; it can give nations the ability to rebuild infrastructure with the one thing it truly lacks: trust backed by proof.

Why does that matter? Because trust, once lost, is nearly impossible to recover. Every breach erodes confidence, and every failure makes the next one easier to exploit. That erosion cannot be patched with software updates or encrypted passwords. It can only be stopped by making authenticity inseparable from the material itself.

In that sense, SMX’s approach is deceptively simple: give hardware its own conscience. Let it prove what it is, where it came from, and how it has been handled. Let it speak truth in a world drowning in manufactured uncertainty.

The Stakes Are Higher Than Ever

As for the stakes? They could not be higher. The digital and physical worlds are now one, and the cost of deception is measured not just in data but in lives, infrastructure, and stability. Code can lie. With SMX embedded, hardware cannot – not anymore.

By turning materials into sources of truth, SMX has created something rare in cybersecurity: a foundation that cannot be faked. The hardware doesn’t lie. In fact, it can’t, even if it tried. And that is exactly why the future of security will depend on what is inside the product, not the label affixed to 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

This editorial contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of United States federal securities laws. These statements reflect current expectations, assumptions, estimates, and projections regarding future events, business strategies, market conditions, technological developments, and the anticipated performance of SMX in cybersecurity, supply-chain authentication, hardware verification, and related sectors. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “potential,” “project,” “seek,” “target,” “will,” and similar terminology. The absence of these terms, however, does not mean a statement is not forward-looking.

Forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain and involve risks, contingencies, and unknown factors that could cause actual results, performance, or outcomes to differ materially from those expressed or implied. These risks include, but are not limited to, changes in global cybersecurity regulations; evolving national security directives; shifts in semiconductor, critical-mineral, or electronics supply-chain conditions; geopolitical instability; disruptions in manufacturing or logistics; challenges in integrating SMX’s molecular-marking systems into existing industrial processes; and the pace at which hardware manufacturers, defense contractors, or infrastructure operators adopt new authentication technologies.

Additional risks include the performance, durability, and reliability of SMX’s molecular markers and scanning systems under industrial or extreme conditions; the scalability and commercial viability of its blockchain-based verification frameworks; the company’s ability to maintain and protect intellectual property; competitive developments in cybersecurity and materials authentication; the availability and cost of capital; customer adoption rates; fluctuations in global economic conditions; exposure to foreign exchange volatility; labor availability; and any delays, costs, or technical obstacles associated with expanding into new jurisdictions, industries, or regulatory regimes.

Forward-looking statements in this editorial also depend on SMX’s ability to secure and retain strategic partnerships across sectors such as defense, aerospace, energy, telecommunications, medical devices, advanced computing, and critical infrastructure. The timing and success of these collaborations may be impacted by factors beyond the company’s control, including procurement processes, regulatory approvals, geopolitical events, or shifts in national-security policy.

Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication and are based on information available at that time. SMX undertakes no obligation to update, revise, or supplement any forward-looking statements to reflect future events, new information, or changes in expectations, except as required by applicable law.

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SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 20, 2025 / Nobody saw it coming. Not the regulators writing ESG checklists. Not the brands chasing carbon offsets. Not the investors who dismissed traceability as a sustainability sideshow. Somewhere behind all that noise, a small publicly traded company called SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) was teaching the material world to not only speak but to always tell the truth.

Long before sustainability became a stage show at global conferences, SMX was quietly building the tools the world now depends on. In labs instead of boardrooms, its team was advancing a molecular marking system that could tag anything that moves through industry, from metal and rubber to liquids, plastics, and textiles, each with a hidden, indestructible ID. Those tags weren’t for inventory. They were designed to turn supply chains into fact-based monetizable content.

And that’s exactly what they’ve done. A product embedded with SMX markers can now tell you where it came from, what it’s made of, and how many lives it has lived. Those stories never lose a chapter. Every touchpoint stays recorded for life, the result of a system that blends chemistry, code, and credibility into one continuous chain of truth.

Traction Turned to Momentum

Then came 2023. The year the quiet company in the corner became the center of gravity. After years of building beneath the surface, SMX found itself perfectly aligned with a global reckoning. Regulators wanted verification. Brands wanted accountability. Investors wanted evidence. SMX was ready to deliver on all three, blueprint in hand. To each, it told the same message: its technology wasn’t just another traceability fix. It was the connective tissue of the global economy’s conscience.

What happened next was pure alchemy. SMX taught matter to speak in a universal language. Each invisible marker carries a molecular signature that survives every melt, mold, stretch, crush, and recycle. Connected to a blockchain registry, those molecules don’t just hold value; they hold memory. Scan a plastic bottle in Singapore, and it can talk to the same polymer scanned in Germany. A tire can confirm its origin. A gold bar can verify its purity and the conditions and location of its mining. A shirt can prove its recycled content.

For the first time, the material world could testify for itself. No translators needed. More importantly, nothing was lost in translation, ever.

From Proof to Platform

That single idea, proof as a universal language of compliance, transformed SMX from a quiet lab project into a global movement. In Singapore, the company partnered with A*STAR to build a national circularity platform capable of tracing plastics, rubber, and packaging through digital passports linked to molecular markers. What began as a pilot is now being watched across ASEAN as a potential blueprint for regional circular economies.

In Europe, momentum multiplied. SMX joined forces with Austria’s REDWAVE to weave molecular data into automated sorting systems. It partnered with France’s CETI to bring verified sustainability to textiles. And with Continental AG, one of the world’s largest tire manufacturers, it helped trace the full life of natural rubber, from plantation to product, mapping every molecule from tree to tread. Transparency, once optional, became operational.

By late 2025, SMX’s name echoed through Spain’s innovation corridors. Its alliance with CARTIF in Valladolid turned the region into Europe’s circular-economy test track, where packaging, renewables, and construction materials are tagged and traced in real time. It’s not a demo; it’s infrastructure. If it scales, Valladolid could easily become recognized as the EU’s “capital of proof.”

The Gold Standard of Proof

Then came gold, the most ancient store of value redefined by modern chemistry. Through its majority-owned subsidiary, trueGold, SMX embedded molecular proof directly into precious metals. Its partnership with Goldstrom, a global leader in bullion banking and logistics, brings that science into commercial circulation.

The London Bullion Market Association has already accredited SMX’s molecular marker as a Gold Bar Security Feature, one of the industry’s highest endorsements. Gold no longer just holds worth; it proves it. And that kind of verification could reshape how trust is priced in trillion-dollar markets.

Proof Becomes the Product

Each partnership leads to the same conclusion. SMX has become the connective tissue of material truth, and it’s fair to say it also wrote the book on material efficiency. From Singapore to Spain, from refineries to fashion houses, it links chemistry, code, and commerce into one ecosystem of accountability. What once relied on paper and promises now runs on molecular evidence.

Proof, once an afterthought, has become the product. The circular economy is no longer a theory. SMX turned it into a working marketplace with built-in molecular memory. It didn’t follow the proof economy; it built it, molecule by molecule, receipt by receipt, until the world had to take notice.

And it is. But this time the people in it aren’t just seeing; they’re listening. Beneath the grind of regulation and the echo of decades of debate, a new frequency is taking hold. It’s the pulse of proof, the sound of materials speaking for themselves.

In that regard, SMX didn’t just find the signal. It sharpened the sound and amplified it for the world to hear. And benefit from.

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 Disclaimer

This editorial contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act and other applicable federal securities laws, and these statements reflect current expectations, assumptions, estimates, and projections regarding future events, the development and performance of SMX’s technologies, and the anticipated evolution of global regulatory and commercial environments. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words or phrases such as anticipate, believe, could, estimate, expect, intend, may, plan, potential, project, seek, target, will, and similar terminology, although the absence of such terminology does not mean a statement is not forward-looking. These statements involve substantial risks, uncertainties, and contingencies, many of which are beyond the control of SMX and which could cause actual results, performance achievements, or outcomes to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statement. Such risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to changes in global sustainability regulations including requirements relating to digital product passports molecular traceability plastic credit systems national circularity frameworks environmental compliance standards or gold market authentication rules the timing scope and success of governmental or institutional adoption of SMX technologies the ability of SMX to scale molecular marking systems across multiple industries such as plastics rubber textiles metals chemicals electronics and precious metals the performance reliability cost structure and commercial viability of SMX’s molecular markers scanners registries and digital passport systems and the company’s ability to convert pilot programs in regions such as Singapore Europe ASEAN and the United States into long term revenue generating deployments.

Additional factors that could affect forward looking statements include evolving geopolitical conditions supply chain disruptions trade restrictions economic instability foreign exchange fluctuations competitive pressures within the verification authentication and materials tracking industries challenges related to protecting intellectual property including patents and proprietary technologies the availability cost and sufficiency of capital resources the ability of SMX to maintain key partnerships with research institutions such as A*STAR, CETI, CARTIF, and REDWAVE or with commercial partners including tire manufacturers chemical producers recyclers refiners and precious metals processors and risks associated with its majority owned subsidiary trueGold including potential changes to bullion market standards security protocols or LBMA accreditation frameworks.

SMX’s ability to achieve or sustain commercial momentum may also be influenced by the pace of industry adoption of molecular marking systems the ability of legacy infrastructure to integrate new verification technologies potential resistance from entrenched market participants shifting regulatory enforcement priorities labor availability cyber threats data accuracy and integrity risks and challenges that may arise from expanding into new jurisdictions each with its own legal environmental and operational requirements.

Readers are cautioned that forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of publication and reflect current views that may change as new data events or circumstances emerge, and readers should not place undue reliance on any such statements, as actual developments may differ significantly due to factors known and unknown. Except as required by applicable law, SMX assumes no obligation to update, revise, or supplement any forward-looking statements to reflect future events, new information, changing circumstances, or shifts in strategic or operational direction, regardless of whether such changes arise from subsequent developments, newly available data, or internal reassessments of market conditions.

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 20, 2025 / Most institutions didn’t build ahead of the new rules for global trade and its supply chains. They never expected any to emerge. So they built for what they knew best, an antiquated world where supply chains behaved predictably, certifications were trusted by default, and threats followed the familiar contours of physical borders.

The past few years shattered that illusion. Infiltrated materials, falsified documentation, unverifiable recycling claims, and foreign influence operations created vulnerabilities so deep that regulators had no choice but to rewrite the playbook. Governments and corporations are now reacting, scrambling to seal gaps they never expected to exist. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) isn’t scrambling. SMX saw these fractures forming long before the market understood what they meant, and it built the one system designed to close every exposure these new rules have brought into the light.

Companies had time to stay ahead of the game. This shift in supply chain integrity didn’t happen in a single moment. It happened through accumulation, one breach layered onto another until the old assumptions finally collapsed. That’s the point where most organizations realized they were operating without the ability to authenticate the inputs flowing through their systems. They could monitor activity, but they could not confirm identity. They could measure output, but they could not prove origin.

SMX built its molecular identity platform before the blind spots became public weaknesses, creating a way for materials themselves to carry truth no matter how far they travel or how many times they change form. That’s the good news for everyone.

Countries Are Partnering Quickly in 2025

Singapore’s A*STAR is on board, selecting SMX to help build a national infrastructure for plastic circularity. This is a stark departure from the status quo. Countries like Singapore aren’t looking for more dashboards or better spreadsheets. They need real verification at the molecular level, full digital passports that hold up under pressure, and a financial system like the Plastic Cycle Token that assigns value to authenticated behavior rather than reported intentions. A*STAR recognized that SMX didn’t wait for regulations to force action. It built the infrastructure required to meet them the moment they arrived.

Industry after industry is now experiencing the same reckoning. Brands that once relied on loose certification frameworks-recycled plastics, natural rubber, textiles, electronics, luxury goods, semiconductors-have been pushed into a level of accountability they were never structurally designed to meet. They are retrofitting old processes to survive new expectations. SMX doesn’t retrofit. It embeds identity at the beginning of the chain, transforming compliance from an annual exercise into a living, persistent layer of truth.

This distinction matters. Monitoring tools track behavior after it happens. SMX verifies identity before it happens. Monitoring can be gamed, evaded, or manipulated. Molecular identity cannot. That is the line now dividing the companies prepared for the future from the ones still patching the past.

Not Just Material Products Like Gold, Textiles, and Rubber

National security agencies are arriving at the same realization. Modern infiltration isn’t defined by force; it’s defined by deception. The most damaging breaches don’t come through broken gates. They come through trusted doors. They come disguised as legitimate materials, credentials, certifications, and narratives that slip into environments assumed to be safe. Once inside, the damage is already done.

No worries for those paying attention. SMX closes that entry point. It authenticates every input, whether it is a shipment of metals, a recycled plastic bale, a computer processor or component, a precious metal bar, or a digital credential entering a system. It makes infiltration visible not after an incident but before it becomes one. And it does so in seconds, not days, weeks, or months, through a proprietary scanner designed for one purpose, to tell the truth.

Still, verification is just part of the SMX coverage. Its Plastic Cycle Token takes it to the next level. It’s not a speculative asset. It’s a value layer that emerges directly from verified material. Once authenticated, every unit of recycled plastic becomes a tradable, enforceable representation of real circularity. That changes compliance. It changes economics. And best of all, it changes how countries enforce environmental policy without crushing industry under impossible reporting burdens. SMX built this before regulators began the global shift toward enforcement. Now the world needs it.

And that is the point organizations must understand. The institutions acting now, including the six partnerships SMX secured so far in 2025, will lead the next era of supply-chain power. They will set the standards others follow, shaping the very definition of authenticity, accountability, and resilience. The ones who delay will spend years trying to retrofit systems that were never meant to withstand this level of scrutiny. They will face more than delay. They will face decay in brand perception, consumer trust, and regulatory pressure.

It’s No Secret… SMX Is Shouting the Answer

The message is no longer a secret. SMX is doing everything it can to shout from global rooftops that vulnerabilities are exposed and capable of causing catastrophic results. The grid, national security, counterfeiting, and defense systems are all at risk, not once in a while but 24/7/365.

It’s time for the world to pay attention to what SMX has been saying. The rules have changed. And the only way to win this new game is to be the leader who never gives up ground. SMX built the system that makes that possible.

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

This editorial contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of United States federal securities laws, and these statements are based on current expectations, assumptions, estimates, and projections regarding future events, business conditions, market dynamics, and the anticipated performance of SMX. Forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain and are not guarantees of future performance, and they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that are difficult to predict and may be beyond the control of SMX. Actual results performance or achievements may differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward looking statements due to a variety of factors including but not limited to changes in domestic or international regulatory requirements shifts in global supply chain conditions fluctuations in market acceptance and adoption of emerging verification technologies variations in economic or geopolitical environments competitive developments operational challenges in scaling new systems or partnerships and the ability of SMX to execute on its strategic initiatives commercial goals and research and development programs. Additional risks that could impact forward looking statements include changes in customer demand the timing and success of product deployments or pilot programs the availability of financing or capital resources industry wide disruptions shifts in sustainability reporting standards or auditing requirements evolving national security directives updates to environmental or materials traceability frameworks and the capacity of SMX to attract retain and collaborate with key partners governments corporations and research institutions. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which reflect only the information and views available as of the date of publication and which may change as new events emerge or as underlying assumptions evolve. Except as required by applicable law, SMX undertakes no obligation to publicly update, revise, or supplement any forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events, new information, or future circumstances, regardless of whether such changes arise from newly available data, subsequent developments or shifts in strategic direction

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 18, 2025 / There are moments in history when emerging threats move faster than the systems built to defend against them. Today, we are in one of those moments. As global supply chains grow more complex and interconnected, new forms of infiltration are quietly taking shape inside the very infrastructure that powers modern life. These risks are not theoretical. They are structural, and they are accelerating.

Recent concerns about compromised devices and unverified components reflect a broader challenge facing every modern nation: critical infrastructure often depends on materials and technologies that pass through lengthy, opaque supply chains before reaching the people who rely on them. In an environment this interconnected, even a single blind spot can become an entry point. That is the issue the world must understand clearly and calmly.

For years, SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) has worked at the molecular level to help provide that clarity. By embedding identity and traceability directly into materials at the point of origin, SMX enables end-to-end verification that follows a product throughout its entire lifecycle. This ability to authenticate materials is not a concept and not a future aspiration. It is an operational system currently used across industries such as natural rubber, precious metals, recycling, advanced manufacturing, and hardware supply chains.

These capabilities exist. They are proven. And they are available to any sector that needs them.

A Global Challenge Without a Villain

Don’t underestimate the SMX touch points. Every sector can benefit. The vulnerabilities in supply chains and critical infrastructure are not tied to any one actor, nation, or group. In a globalized economy, infiltration can originate from anywhere and travel through any unverified device, material, or component. A system without transparency creates unintentional opportunities for misuse.

The objective is not to blame or accuse. It is to strengthen resilience.

Complex supply chains, from consumer products to industrial materials to advanced electronics, now sit at the heart of national stability. Safeguarding these systems requires traceability that starts at the source and verification that is foundational, not superficial.

Why This Matters Now

The consequences of a compromised infrastructure reach far beyond inconvenience. Modern society depends on electricity, water systems, transportation networks, logistics, communication platforms, and digital coordination. If any part of this network is disrupted at scale, the effects can cascade rapidly.

If the grid goes down, essential systems become vulnerable. Gas distribution stops. Water treatment facilities stall. Grocery shelves can empty within days. Hospitals face critical shortages. Truckers struggle to move feedstock. Refrigeration fails. Electric vehicles cannot charge. Before long, millions confront conditions that strain every aspect of modern life.

These scenarios are not predictions of doom. They are practical examples of why supply chain integrity is essential to national resilience.

Awareness, Understanding, and the Role of New Tools

This is why understanding emerging tools matters. SMX’s molecular identity system is already supporting partners across several industries, providing transparent material verification from the outset of the supply chain. It’s proving a vital resource for strengthening resilience wherever it is needed.

That’s because molecular-level verification does more than improve transparency. It ensures that materials have memory, that supply chains have accountability, and that infrastructure has the foundational protection required for a connected world. These are not theoretical benefits. They are measurable, operational, and available today.

The risks facing modern infrastructure are real, but so are the technologies capable of mitigating them. This moment calls for clarity, cooperation, and thoughtful engagement across both public and private sectors. Strengthening supply chains is no longer an abstract discussion. It is a practical, achievable step toward safeguarding essential systems.

The Path Forward

The path ahead requires more than awareness. It requires decisive steps to strengthen the systems on which modern life depends. Supply chain transparency is no longer a technical preference. It is an essential component of national resilience.

Infiltration may be a quiet threat, but the solutions are tangible and ready for deployment. Technologies that provide material identity and verification at the source give industries and institutions the tools to reduce risk, reinforce infrastructure, and prepare for an increasingly complex global environment. These are practical measures that can be put to work today, not distant concepts waiting for future progress.

SMX has built technology designed for this moment, technology that proves resilience is achievable when verification becomes foundational. As the world grows more interconnected, the need to secure what we depend on will only intensify. Strengthening supply chains is not a matter of caution. It is a matter of responsibility.

The time to act is now.

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

This editorial contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of U.S. federal securities laws, including the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements reflect discussions concerning global security conditions, supply chain vulnerabilities, international regulatory environments, and the potential capabilities and future adoption of SMX technologies. Forward-looking statements are not historical facts. They are based on current expectations, beliefs, estimates and projections about future events that remain uncertain and that may differ materially from actual outcomes.

Words such as “expect,” “believe,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “estimate,” “could,” “should,” “may,” “will,” “project,” “potential,” “future,” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements include these identifying terms. Such statements include, but are not limited to, expectations regarding global threats to infrastructure, the evolution of international supply chain standards, regulatory adoption of material-level verification technologies, and the potential for SMX’s molecular identity platform to address national security, sustainability, traceability, and circular-economy challenges.

These statements involve risks, uncertainties, and factors outside SMX’s control, including geopolitical developments, legislative decisions, market adoption rates, technological advancements, enforcement practices, shifts in global trade policy, and third-party reliance on unverifiable data systems. Actual results and developments may differ significantly from those expressed or implied in these forward-looking statements. Readers are encouraged to review the risk factors and disclosures contained in SMX’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and Current Reports on Form 8-K.

Forward-looking statements in this editorial are made only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events, changes in circumstances, or new information, except as required by applicable law.

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 14, 2025 / Every region that grows eventually confronts a question it cannot ignore: who can prove what actually happened. Europe hit that point the moment regulators began tying economic incentives to measurable sustainability. Suddenly, recycling claims were not enough. Companies needed evidence. Industries needed confidence. Governments needed traceable performance.

Spain answered that call first. In Valladolid, a new model for industrial growth is taking shape through a collaboration between SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) and CARTIF,one of Europe’s most influential applied research hubs. Their work is turning the idea of a circular economy into something concrete and accountable, functioning as both a scientific system and an economic engine.

The Castilla y León region has long been an industrial heavyweight, with an annual output of billions. Now it is positioning itself as something deeper. Growth will not hinge on volume. It will hinge on verifiable value. That shift begins with the way materials are traced, authenticated, and reintegrated into production cycles.

Where Spain’s Industrial Base Meets Molecular Truth

SMX provides the foundation. Its molecular tracing system allows materials to carry their own identity, a physical signature that stays embedded throughout manufacturing, reuse, and recycling. It functions like a memory. Once applied, the marker bonds at the molecular level, creating a digital passport that travels with the material at every stage.

This gives companies something that never existed at scale in Europe. A way to confirm the origin. A way to audit real-world movement. A way to verify return into the value chain with scientific certainty.

CARTIF then turns that capability into performance. With SMX embedded across its pilot plants and applied research programs, Spain gains a real-time measurement loop that links innovation to documented results. Data that once took years to gather through surveys and audits now appears instantly through verified material activity. Companies can qualify for grants faster. They can meet compliance targets faster. They can validate R&D faster. Evidence becomes a growth strategy.

Innovation That Speeds Up the Economy Instead of Slowing It

The pace of verification is the real breakthrough here. For decades, businesses treated sustainability as something that consumed time and margin. Now the opposite is true. Once a material carries a verifiable passport, its journey becomes a bankable metric. Lenders can underwrite it. Regulators can trust it. Markets can reward it.

SMX and CARTIF effectively connect environmental behavior to financial upside, turning transparency into a competitive lever instead of an operational burden. A circular economy with credible measurement does not drain resources. It compounds them.

Spain stands on the shoulders of global proof. SMX demonstrated this model at the national scale in Singapore through its work with A*STAR. That initiative tracked waste streams, verified recycled content, and established a tradable digital framework for circular materials. The success of that effort created a blueprint that now connects Asia and Europe through a shared layer of traceable, measurable sustainability.

Proof That Scales Beyond Borders

The system demonstrated in Singapore and Valladolid is not local. It is universal. A molecular signature embedded in Spanish packaging can function the same way inside an Italian food processor, a German automotive plant, or a French construction project. Verification travels without friction.

Every new material added to the network strengthens its resonance. The result is a distributed web of authenticated activity that gradually reshapes how Europe measures industrial performance.

CARTIF plays a central role in this expansion. Its sustainability programs span packaging, renewables, mobility systems, construction materials, and critical resources. With SMX feeding verified data into those programs, Spain becomes a proving environment that links research, industry, and public policy into one loop of measurable progress.

Deputy General Manager Sergio Sanz has been clear. The technology delivers exactly what companies need to prove their claims, refine their processes, and demonstrate circular performance with scientific precision. That alignment is what transforms proof into actionable value.

Europe’s New Industrial Playbook Begins in Spain

Spain is not just deploying technology. It is defining a new framework for European industry. One where innovation is tied to measurement, and measurement is tied to growth. Academics, startups, manufacturers, and local governments now operate with a shared layer of data they can all trust.

This creates a coordinated marketplace of evidence. It removes uncertainty. It creates incentives for verification instead of incentives for vague declarations.

Circularity only becomes meaningful when it is measurable. It is not enough to say a product was recycled or reused. The world needs confirmation that the cycle occurred. SMX supplies the identity. CARTIF supplies the scale. Together, they convert the circular economy from promise to proof and from proof to economic performance.

This moment marks the beginning of Europe’s next industrial chapter. A shift toward regenerative growth powered by verifiable action. Each traced material adds measurable worth. Each verified transaction acts as an economic weight. Each validated process tightens the loop of material efficiency across the continent.

Circularity in Europe is no longer just a concept. Thanks to the partnership between SMX and CARTIF, it is becoming functional, profitable, and 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

This editorial contains forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward looking statements reflect expectations and assumptions regarding future events involving SMX (NASDAQ: SMX), its collaborative initiatives with CARTIF, its molecular tracing technologies, and the development and expansion of verified circularity programs in Spain, the European Union, and other global regions. Forward looking statements are not historical facts. They are based on current beliefs, estimates, and assumptions that are subject to risks, uncertainties, and variables that are difficult to predict.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, without limitation, expectations concerning the continued integration and performance of SMX’s molecular physical-to-digital technology; anticipated commercial deployment across industrial sectors in Castilla y León and Europe; the potential scalability of SMX’s material-level verification systems into research programs, supply chains, and pilot plants operated by CARTIF; and the projected ability of these systems to enhance grant qualification, regulatory compliance, material recovery, and sustainability-linked financing. These statements also include expectations regarding advancements in Spain’s circular economy infrastructure; the potential for SMX and CARTIF to create new economic efficiencies through verified material flows; anticipated alignment with European Union regulatory frameworks, including the Digital Product Passport, sustainability reporting standards, and ESG-linked financing mechanisms; and the potential for global replication of systems demonstrated in Singapore and Europe.

Additional forward looking statements relate to broader market and industry conditions, including the belief that verifiable traceability may increase brand value, reduce compliance costs, accelerate adoption of circular supply chains, and unlock new revenue opportunities tied to authenticated material movements. Assumptions concerning future demand for verifiable recycled content, the maturation of circular economies across global markets, and the potential for SMX technologies to enable transparent material ecosystems also fall within the scope of these statements.

These forward looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes to differ materially from those expressed or implied. Factors that may impact results include, but are not limited to: changes in European Union regulatory requirements; shifts in consumer, corporate, or governmental sustainability priorities; macroeconomic conditions; geopolitical developments; supply chain disruptions; competitive technological advancements; scientific or technical challenges in large-scale deployment of molecular markers; operational risks in pilot or commercial settings; and other factors described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.

Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward looking statements to reflect subsequent events, changes in circumstances, or new information, except as required by applicable law.

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 14, 2025 / For decades, global supply chains have operated like disconnected islands. Each country, each industry, each regulatory body ran its own version of oversight. Data lived in silos. Transparency came from paperwork. And risk was absorbed as a cost of doing business.

A new architecture is emerging, and SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is wiring the world into what can only be described as a verification supergrid. Its molecular marking system, already deployed across plastics, textiles, metals, and trade goods, is bridging continents and industries with one unifying feature: proof at the material level. The world is starting to notice.

When Rolling Stone highlighted that the era of slogans is collapsing under its own weight, the message was not about culture. It was about supply chains. Proof, not positioning, is becoming the benchmark. Weeks later, USA Today outlined how traceability technologies are reshaping border inspections and tariff policy by turning raw materials into self-identifying assets. Morning Honey added a lifestyle lens to the same trend, noting how brands can finally confirm what they have been claiming for years.

And in an extensive conversation with OPIS, SMX revealed how this system is already operating across Asia-Pacific, tagging recycled plastics at the molecular level and preparing for a future where every kilo of resin has a secure, auditable identity.

The media is not echoing hype. They are documenting a shift.

A System Designed to Replace Guesswork With Autonomous Truth

Carbon markets taught the world a hard lesson. Good intentions are not the same as measurable outcomes. Credits depended on extrapolation, modeling, and unverifiable reporting. As loopholes expanded, confidence shrank.

SMX is not fixing carbon markets. It is solving the underlying problem: the absence of objective material-level truth.

In the OPIS recap of Singapore’s strategy, SMX’s pilot with A*STAR clearly lays out the stakes. Nation-scale recycling programs can only scale when proof is native to the material. Singapore is pursuing measurable increases in recycling rates and sharp reductions in incineration because it is building its system on certified material identity rather than on administrative trust.

That is the quiet brilliance of SMX’s model. Instead of certifying the process, it certifies the material.
Instead of hoping compliance occurs, it verifies that it did. And, instead of rewarding claims, it rewards confirmation.

This is how supply chains evolve from narratives to networks.

Where Verification Becomes Leverage

What makes the supergrid concept powerful is how it intersects with economics. In a global marketplace, identity creates advantage. Verified plastics clear customs faster. Verified textiles qualify for sustainability-linked financing. Verified metals bypass origin disputes that often trigger tariffs.

Morning Honey underscored how SMX’s markers enable customs authorities to scan goods in seconds, reducing mislabeling, fraud, and accelerating clearance for companies that operate cleanly. It is transparency as propulsion, not punishment.

And SMX’s reach is widening.

In the United States, its collaboration with Tradepro will turn verified rPET into a premium-grade commodity. In Spain, CARTIF is testing SMX technology in real industrial environments to help Europe meet its circular-economy benchmarks. In France, CETI is embedding molecular identity into textiles, enabling fashion and luxury houses to authenticate fibers and blends immediately.

In Singapore, Goldstrom is adopting SMX’s technology for precious metals, giving gold and silver a permanent origin signature that persists from mine to mint to retail. And in Austria, REDWAVE is integrating SMX into automated sorting systems so factories can verify materials as they move along the belt.

Each node strengthens the larger network. Each adoption raises the global standard. And, each integration expands the surface area of truth.

Proof as the New Global Language

At a certain point, momentum becomes infrastructure. The acceleration of coverage from sources as varied as Rolling Stone, USA Today, consumer outlets, and commodity analysts is no coincidence. It is convergence. Different sectors are discovering the same solution from different angles.

SMX’s platform gives plastics, textiles, metals, and electronics a persistent identity that does not wash off, wear out, or disappear under pressure. Paired with the Plastic Cycle Token, recycled content can be defined, valued, and traded across borders with the precision of a financial instrument.

Audits without accuracy and pledges without proof have tested the world’s patience. SMX answers with something solid: a foundation supply chains can trust. The difference between intent and impact has always been the weak point. SMX is strengthening 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

This information contains forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward looking statements reflect current expectations, projections, and assumptions regarding future events that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements relate to SMX (NASDAQ: SMX), its molecular marker systems, its partnerships, its expansion into new sectors and geographies, and its technology’s potential role in transforming global supply chains, recycling markets, and material authentication frameworks.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, expectations concerning the adoption, scalability, and commercial deployment of SMX technologies across plastics, textiles, metals, electronics, and other materials; the potential impact of SMX’s systems on regulatory compliance, tariff enforcement, sustainability reporting, and cross-border trade; anticipated performance of SMX initiatives in the United States, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region; expectations regarding the effectiveness and continued development of SMX-integrated identity layers, automated sorting systems, textile authentication, and precious-metals traceability; and the potential economic or market benefits associated with digital verification instruments such as the Plastic Cycle Token.

These statements also reflect assumptions about regulatory developments, market demand for authenticated recycled content, corporate adoption of traceability technologies, global sustainability mandates, geopolitical influences on trade, technological performance under commercial conditions, and the ability of SMX to integrate its systems into diverse industrial workflows. Forward looking statements are subject to significant risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes to differ materially. These risks include, but are not limited to, changes in environmental or trade regulations; shifts in consumer or corporate behavior; competitive pressures from alternative traceability systems; scientific or technical challenges in molecular-level deployment; operational disruptions within SMX or its partners; macroeconomic volatility; supply chain changes; and conditions described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and any subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.

Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward looking statements to reflect future events, changes in circumstances, or newly available information, except as required by applicable law.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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