Author: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 13, 2025 / There is a point in every technological shift when the idea stops sounding bold and starts sounding obvious. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) just crossed that line. For years, the company worked quietly at the molecular level, embedding memory, identity, and traceability into the world’s raw materials. Now those materials are waking up. The next internet is not digital. It is molecular. SMX is building its backbone, and the world is finally connecting.

The attempts that came before were only surface-level. Barcodes, QR codes, spreadsheets, recycling pledges, and sustainability reports. None of them ever touched the material itself, which meant none of them could be trusted. SMX changed that by teaching matter how to store information the way servers store code. The result is the first real Internet of Materials, a global network where every physical object can identify itself, verify its history, and interact with the systems around it.

The shift from idea to infrastructure is happening through SMX’s partnerships. Each one brings an entire sector online and gives this new network a shape that the world can start to see.

Singapore Connects a Nation

The story begins where the digital world usually begins. Policy. Singapore’s collaboration with SMX and A*STAR is not a testbed. It is a national platform built to give every piece of plastic a digital identity. When a country known for setting global standards decides that molecular traceability belongs inside its public infrastructure, it signals a turning point. Verification is becoming as fundamental as data storage, power, and connectivity.

This is the first phase of a genuine material internet. A country uploads its plastics economy and sets a template for everyone else. As other nations in Southeast Asia begin to follow, Singapore ceases to be a regional leader and becomes the origin point. SMX is writing the source code.

Recycling Joins the Network

In industry, SMX’s partnership with REDWAVE is the connection that brings recycling online. REDWAVE’s sorters can now read SMX’s molecular signatures in real time. What used to be a guessing game becomes machine-readable truth. Every flake of plastic becomes a data point. Every bale becomes a verified record. Every shipment becomes a transparent transaction.

Tradepro, a Miami plastics and resin dealer, closes the loop by pushing these authenticated materials back into U.S. supply chains where brands are under pressure to raise recycled content levels. This is where the Internet of Materials becomes a marketplace. Proof becomes margin. Waste becomes inventory. Verification becomes tradeable value.

Europe Logs On

Across the Atlantic, SMX’s partnership with CARTIF provides Europe with a gateway to the next generation of regulatory compliance. CARTIF’s facilities allow SMX to integrate molecular traceability directly into manufacturing lines, recycling plants, and material testing programs. This is Europe’s access point to the network. As the EU tightens circular-economy rules, industries need real-time verification to comply. SMX provides the capability, and CARTIF accelerates its adoption.

This is not validation from a distance. It is integration into a region that shapes environmental policy for much of the world. Once SMX’s system is woven into European operations, the rest of the continent follows.

Metals Become Digital Assets

Goldstrom pulls the Internet of Materials into one of humanity’s oldest storehouses of value. Precious metals have always depended on trust. Stamps, engravings, paper records. All of it can be forged. SMX embeds a molecular identity that cannot be removed or rewritten. Gold becomes more than a commodity. It becomes a digital asset with lineage, memory, and certainty.

This transforms how refiners price recycled metal. It changes how inventories are audited. It gives institutional buyers a new way to quantify risk. In the Internet of Materials, even gold has a login credential.

Textiles Enter the Network

CETI brings textiles into the system. Fashion is heavy on sustainability promises but light on proof. SMX’s markers enter the fiber stage, where they become inseparable from the fabric itself. Brands can verify content, sourcing, and durability without relying on marketing language. Investors see transparency. Regulators see compliance. Consumers see truth. Once textiles carry memory, they stop being disposable. They become certifiable. CETI and SMX are turning the fashion world into a verified supply ecosystem.

The Network Becomes Unstoppable

What SMX is building does not expand in a line. It expands like a network, one connection at a time, until the structure becomes impossible to overlook. Singapore forms the national layer and proves that verification can function as public infrastructure. REDWAVE and Tradepro activate the industrial layer by turning recycling plants into authentication hubs. CARTIF builds the regulatory layer across Europe where traceability becomes the foundation of compliance. Goldstrom adds the financial layer by giving metals identities that cannot be disputed. CETI completes the consumer layer by weaving memory into everyday materials.

Once these layers connect, the network gains its own momentum. It stops depending on any one region or sector and spreads because the logic of verification is stronger than the inertia of the old system. Proof shifts from optional to expected. The Internet of Materials shifts from concept to standard.

SMX spent years creating the molecular language that makes this world possible. Now the world is learning to speak it. The Internet of Materials is no longer an idea. It is infrastructure. It is forming in real time and, for the first time in history, every material can participate in the economy with a verified identity.

SMX did not just create a product. It created a network. The world is finally logging in.

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. Forward-looking statements include statements that are not historical facts and reflect current expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions, or strategies regarding future events. Words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intend,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “will,” “would,” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying terms.

Forward-looking statements in this editorial include, for example, statements regarding SMX’s partnership activities in Singapore, Europe, and the United States, the development and expansion of its molecular marking technology, the potential creation and growth of an Internet of Materials, expected benefits from collaborations with A*STAR, REDWAVE, Tradepro, CARTIF, Goldstrom, and CETI, the potential for national and industrial-scale implementation of SMX systems, the anticipated role of molecular traceability in global supply chains, and expectations relating to SMX’s future products, services, growth strategy, commercial adoption, and technology roadmap.

These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of publication and reflect current expectations, forecasts, assumptions, and judgments. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties, and factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Factors that may cause actual results to differ include changes in applicable laws or regulations, the ability of SMX and its partners to successfully develop, deploy, and commercialize molecular verification technologies, the timing and success of integration into manufacturing and recycling systems, market acceptance of SMX’s solutions, industry adoption rates for traceability and digital passport systems, the ability to protect and enforce intellectual property rights, the availability of financing to support future growth, competitive pressures within the verification and materials technology sectors, and economic or supply chain disruptions that could impact the industries SMX serves.

Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. SMX undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this editorial except as required by applicable securities laws.

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 14, 2025 / For decades, sustainability lived in the realm of aspiration. Ambitious global gatherings promised breakthroughs, governments drafted sweeping resolutions, and industries delivered polished reports declaring progress. Yet, beneath the speeches and statistics, a structural flaw persisted: none of these systems could verify themselves. Targets depended on trust. Compliance depended on declarations. Safety depended on assumptions.

It was a world built on optimism rather than evidence, and eventually the gap became impossible to ignore. When commitments outpaced the ability to confirm them, global sustainability stalled-not for lack of will, but for lack of tools.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is rebuilding the foundation. Instead of asking the world to trust claims, it gives materials the ability to prove themselves. Its molecular-level identity technology transforms plastics, composites, and flame-retardant products into verifiable data sources, allowing policies to function not as promises, but as measurable realities. In this model, sustainability stops being a narrative. It becomes a system that cannot lie.

The End of Assumptions, the Rise of Evidence

The reason sustainability faltered was not ignorance; it was invisibility. Regulators couldn’t see inside materials. Manufacturers couldn’t verify recycled content beyond paperwork. Safety authorities couldn’t confirm whether flame retardants were present or effective until after failures occurred.

SMX removes that blindness by embedding an invisible chemical signature directly into products at the molecular level. This identity survives processing, melting, shredding, and recycling. A quick scan reveals composition, origin, and compliance with a level of precision that renders old reporting models obsolete.

It is not oversight. It is an embedded truth. And it allows regulations to stop relying on self-policing, because materials can now carry their own evidence.

Where Reality Replaces Reporting

Singapore offers the clearest example of this shift. Working with A*STAR, SMX is building a plastics passport that links every item to a verified record of its own lifecycle. This system doesn’t ask companies what they recycled. It shows them. It shows regulators. It shows auditors. It shows the market.

In Europe, SMX’s planned collaboration with REDWAVE takes this one step further by integrating verification into production itself. The conveyor line becomes an enforcement mechanism. Each unit of material is validated in real time, creating a live reflection of compliance rather than a quarterly or annual claim.

And in North America, SMX’s work with the North American Flame Retardant Alliance introduces a safety framework rooted in measurable chemistry instead of paperwork. Regulators can finally confirm compliance inside the product, not after an incident. This turns safety into a proactive discipline rather than a forensic one.

The First System Where Materials Themselves Are the Source of Truth

With SMX’s technology embedded directly into products, enforcement is no longer adversarial. It becomes automatic. Manufacturers gain clarity rather than fear. Regulators move from policing to monitoring. Insurers get quantifiable risk instead of actuarial speculation. Consumers receive goods backed by data instead of marketing language.

In this system, sustainability is not an opinion. It is a reading. Safety is not a claim. It is a measurable property. Recycling is not a pledge. It is a trail of evidence.

Global promises failed because the world lacked visibility. SMX is rebuilding the sustainability framework with reality baked in, molecule by molecule. It is turning the physical world into a trustworthy one-not through speeches, but through chemistry.

The shift is already underway. And the future of sustainability will not be written on paper. It will be written inside the materials themselves.

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. These statements involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions about future events related to SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), its molecular marking technologies, and their potential adoption across regulatory, industrial, and commercial environments.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, without limitation, expectations regarding the scalability, performance, and market acceptance of SMX’s molecular identification systems; anticipated outcomes of its collaborations with A*STAR in Singapore, REDWAVE in Europe, and the North American Flame Retardant Alliance; the potential for SMX technology to enhance or replace existing verification, recycling, or safety frameworks; and assumptions about regulatory trends, sustainability mandates, industrial traceability standards, and demand for material-level authentication in global supply chains.

These statements are based on current assumptions and projections, which are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including changes in regulatory requirements, geopolitical conditions, supply-chain volatility, competitive technologies, partner implementation risks, operational challenges, and factors outlined in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.

Readers are cautioned that actual results may differ materially from those indicated in 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 or new information, except as required by law.

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SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 14, 2025 / For decades, industries have treated physical goods and digital systems as separate worlds. Software evolved. Data evolved. Connectivity evolved. But the materials that power global trade remained static, unverifiable, and silent. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is changing that divide by creating something unprecedented: a global operating system for physical matter.

This operating system is not installed on servers or devices. It lives inside the materials themselves. Through molecular marking and data-linked identities, SMX enables plastics, metals, textiles, and recycled inputs to behave like governed, trackable assets rather than anonymous commodities.

Six major partnerships across three continents are now running on this new layer, turning raw materials into data-ready participants in the world economy. This is not an upgrade. It is a full redesign of how materials work. Or, better said, material efficiency.

Singapore Installs the Public Sector Layer

Singapore’s collaboration with SMX and A*STAR functions like the first national deployment of the operating system. The country is assigning persistent digital identities to plastics as they move through production, consumption, and reuse.

This is not a pilot or a proof of concept. It is equivalent to installing the OS at the governmental level, enabling recycling incentives, compliance schemes, and industrial reporting to operate on verified data rather than estimated inputs. Singapore becomes the first nation where materials can run natively on the SMX architecture.

Austria Turns Machines Into System Nodes

In Austria, SMX and REDWAVE are pulling industrial automation directly into the operating system. Sorting machines that once separated plastics by type can now read and validate identity on the fly, turning conveyor belts into verification nodes and transforming recycling lines into real-time data streams.

Instead of producing material that must later be questioned or audited, these facilities generate output that is certified at the moment of processing. When this verified material enters Tradepro’s distribution network in Miami, it flows seamlessly into U.S. supply chains that increasingly require documented recycled content as a condition of participation.

Spain Deploys the Industrial Layer

Through CARTIF, Spain is installing the operating system inside the industrial environments that shape Europe’s circular-economy ambitions. The collaboration embeds molecular identity into pilot facilities that support packaging, construction materials, renewable components, and recycling technologies.

These locations function as installation zones where SMX’s architecture is woven directly into European manufacturing workflows. In a region where proof is rapidly becoming mandatory, the operating system shifts from an optional enhancement to the foundation that enables companies to stay compliant and competitive.

Gold and Silver Receive System-Level Identity

The financial layer is established through trueGold and Goldstrom, bringing precious metals into the operating system for the first time. Gold and silver can now carry a molecular ID that persists through melting, casting, vaulting, and resale, allowing the metals to behave as authenticated digital objects rather than static commodities.

Refiners gain precision in tracking provenance, banks gain certainty when assessing collateral, and auditors gain clarity in verifying inventory and movement. After centuries of reliance on stamps, certificates, and trust, gold and silver become system-aware materials whose identities cannot be forged or lost.

France Installs the Consumer-Material Layer

CETI in France is integrating SMX identity into fibers and fabrics, giving the textile sector an operating system it has never had. For decades, fashion relied on labels, supplier declarations, and marketing narratives to explain where materials came from and how they were made. Now, identity is embedded at the fiber level itself, turning every thread into a carrier of verifiable truth. Sustainability claims become measurable rather than symbolic, fiber blends become certifiable rather than estimated, and recycled content becomes traceable with a level of precision the industry has never achieved.

This shift reaches far beyond compliance. It changes how brands design collections, how manufacturers qualify suppliers, and how retailers price goods tied to environmental performance. Investors gain access to datasets that withstand scrutiny, and regulators gain a mechanism to enforce standards without relying on voluntary disclosures. Consumers, meanwhile, gain something the fashion world has always promised but rarely delivered: transparency they can trust.

As identity becomes inseparable from the fabric, textiles stop living in the realm of slogans and start functioning as proof-bearing products. The result is a consumer-material layer in which every garment participates in the broader verification ecosystem, carrying its history, composition, and integrity throughout its lifecycle.

A Global Operating System Takes Shape

Each partnership adds a new layer to the operating system, and together they form a structure that behaves like a digital stack for the physical world. Singapore establishes the national layer, proving that a country can run its plastics economy on verified material identity rather than assumptions. In Austria and the United States, REDWAVE and Tradepro expand the system into the industrial and commercial layers, where machinery and distribution channels begin treating materials as certifiable data instead of anonymous inputs.

Spain’s CARTIF contributes to the regulatory layer, ensuring that verification becomes inseparable from European circular-economy standards and compliance frameworks. Goldstrom adds the financial layer by giving gold and silver a molecular identity that functions like a secure credential inside the metals market. And in France, CETI completes the consumer layer by weaving identity directly into the textiles people wear, buy, recycle, and return to the value chain.

Layer by layer, the operating system becomes fully dimensional, spanning nations, factories, regulators, investors, and consumers until the entire material world begins operating on the same foundation of verified truth.

As these layers link together, the world shifts from unverifiable supply chains to authenticated material ecosystems. The OS becomes self-propelling. Adoption accelerates because verified materials outperform unverifiable ones. Compliance becomes simpler. Fraud becomes harder. Waste becomes measurable. Value becomes traceable.

SMX is not simply scaling a technology. It is installing a global operating system for how physical materials participate in commerce. And for the first time, the world is ready to run on 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 the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include statements that are not historical facts and reflect current expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions, or strategies regarding future events. Words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intend,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “will,” “would,” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying terms.

Forward-looking statements in this editorial include, for example, statements regarding SMX’s partnership activities in Singapore, Europe, and the United States, the development and expansion of its molecular marking technology, the potential creation and growth of an Internet of Materials, expected benefits from collaborations with A*STAR, REDWAVE, Tradepro, CARTIF, Goldstrom, and CETI, the potential for national and industrial-scale implementation of SMX systems, the anticipated role of molecular traceability in global supply chains, and expectations relating to SMX’s future products, services, growth strategy, commercial adoption, and technology roadmap.

These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of publication and reflect current expectations, forecasts, assumptions, and judgments. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties, and factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Factors that may cause actual results to differ include changes in applicable laws or regulations, the ability of SMX and its partners to successfully develop, deploy, and commercialize molecular verification technologies, the timing and success of integration into manufacturing and recycling systems, market acceptance of SMX’s solutions, industry adoption rates for traceability and digital passport systems, the ability to protect and enforce intellectual property rights, the availability of financing to support future growth, competitive pressures within the verification and materials technology sectors, and economic or supply chain disruptions that could impact the industries SMX serves.

Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. SMX undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this editorial except as required by applicable securities laws.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / November 14, 2025 / E-commerce was built on speed, convenience, and volume – but not on certainty. As marketplaces grew into global giants, the one thing that never scaled with them was verifiable truth. Authenticity still depended on expert eyes, subjective judgment, and a network of verification centers that could barely keep pace with the digital economy they supported.

The world needed a new foundation, something more durable than labels, receipts, and visual inspection. It needed a way for physical goods to carry the same kind of identity that digital assets have enjoyed for years. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is building that missing identity layer, a molecular passport embedded directly into the materials that make up the products we buy, sell, and trade.

What emerges is a commerce ecosystem where physical objects behave like digitally verified entities. Every item becomes self-identifying. Every purchase becomes traceable. Every resale becomes trustworthy. The physical world, for the first time, starts to operate with digital clarity.

Identity Begins at Creation, Not Resale

Traditional authentication starts at the end of the supply chain, when an item reaches a marketplace or a resale platform. SMX’s system begins at the beginning. By embedding a molecular signature directly into the raw materials – leather, polymers, metals, fibers, and components – the company gives every product a birth certificate before it ever enters circulation.

Through ongoing integrations with innovation hubs like A*STAR, CETI, and Aegis Packaging, this identity layer is already being deployed where goods are designed and manufactured. The result is a global pipeline in which products travel with their own permanent resume, readable at any point in their life.

Once that molecular identity exists, verification ceases to be an interpretive act. It becomes a real-time confirmation tied to the material itself. Authentication moves from “What does this look like?” to “What does this prove?”

The Marketplace Becomes a Verification Engine

When identity is embedded at the source, online marketplaces evolve into something more powerful than listing platforms. They become trust engines. A product can be scanned the moment it enters the resale ecosystem, and the truth of its history is revealed in seconds – not through judgment or experience, but through chemistry.

Resale platforms, refurbishers, luxury markets, and third-party sellers can operate without ambiguity. The cost of manual authentication shrinks. Fraud becomes a technical dead end. And the flow of goods becomes more efficient because every item carries its own unalterable proof.

This is not a layer added on top of e-commerce. It is the infrastructure beneath it.

A New Lifecycle for Products With Memory

Once physical goods gain digital identity, their entire lifecycle transforms. A watch, a designer bag, a limited sneaker release – each can pass from one buyer to the next without losing its connection to its origin. The continuity of identity increases resale value, strengthens brand protection, and creates new economic opportunities for circular commerce.

Even categories long plagued by uncertainty can be verified at scale. Refurbished electronics. Specialty components. Artwork. Collectible goods. High-value packaging. Pharmaceuticals. Automotive parts. Any product that travels through multiple hands benefits from a system that doesn’t forget.

Circular economies thrive when memory becomes a material property.

The Business Model Behind a Verified World

SMX’s molecular identity isn’t just a security feature. It is a data network. Every scan, every resale, every confirmation becomes part of a larger ecosystem where verified information can be analyzed, monetized, and integrated into brand strategies and marketplace operations.

Manufacturers can track how their products flow through secondary markets. Platforms can certify goods instantly and reduce friction in high-volume authentication categories. Consumers can trust that what they’re buying is real, not because someone said it was – but because the object itself confirmed it.

This is not a cosmetic upgrade to e-commerce. It is the architecture for a new era in which digital identity extends beyond screens and servers into every corner of the physical world.

The Future of Commerce Has a Pulse

E-commerce was born without a reliable identity layer for physical goods. That gap now has a solution. By starting at production and following products throughout their lifespans, SMX turns authenticity into a system function rather than a matter of human judgment.

Marketplaces remain the checkpoints of global commerce, but SMX becomes the intelligence that makes those checkpoints unbreakable. Manufacturers gain protection. Platforms gain precision. Consumers gain confidence. And the global supply chain gains something it has been missing since the birth of digital trade – verifiable truth embedded at the material level.

In a world desperate for reliability, SMX isn’t just verifying what is real.
It is giving the physical world a digital identity of its own.

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, assumptions, and projections regarding future events involving SMX (NASDAQ: SMX), its molecular-marking technologies, and their potential applications across e-commerce, manufacturing, authentication, and global supply-chain systems. These statements are not historical facts. They involve risks, uncertainties, and variables that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, without limitation, expectations regarding the scalability and performance of SMX’s technology in industrial manufacturing environments; anticipated adoption of molecular identity systems by e-commerce platforms, resale markets, and authentication providers; potential commercial and operational benefits for manufacturers, brands, marketplaces, and consumers; assumptions about the expansion of SMX’s partnerships with organizations such as A*STAR, CETI, and Aegis Packaging; and projections related to market demand for verifiable products, digital identity ecosystems, data-driven authentication, and circular-economy participation.

These statements also involve assumptions about broader economic and regulatory conditions, including changes in consumer trust, intellectual-property enforcement, counterfeit-prevention strategies, sustainability expectations, and the evolution of global commerce and resale platforms. Risks that could cause actual outcomes to differ materially include but are not limited to changes in market adoption, competitive technology developments, integration challenges within manufacturing workflows, supply-chain volatility, macroeconomic pressures, regulatory shifts, capital availability, and the 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 any forward looking statements to reflect future events, new information, or changes in assumptions, except as required by law.

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 14, 2025 / For centuries, gold has existed outside the world of modern infrastructure. Digital identity systems have evolved. Financial instruments evolved. Global logistics has evolved. Yet gold, the very foundation of sovereign reserves and private wealth, remained an analog asset defined by trust, certificates, and manual verification.

That model is finally breaking.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), through its majority-owned subsidiary trueGold, has introduced the first technology that allows gold to function like a verified asset inside a modern financial system. The breakthrough comes not from a database or barcode, but from the metal itself. A molecular signature is embedded directly into gold at the earliest stage of extraction. That signature stays with the material through refining, casting, vaulting, trading, and recycling. It cannot be removed or forged. It becomes part of the infrastructure that governs the asset.

This shift is not theoretical. It is now operational.

trueGold’s technology has attracted a new strategic partner: Goldstrom, a global precious-metals group with operations spanning secure logistics, vaulting, trading, bullion banking, and wealth advisory. Their collaboration integrates trueGold’s molecular certification system into Goldstrom’s operational pipelines, transforming how gold is authenticated as it moves through institutional markets.

The combination forms a new infrastructure layer for the precious-metals economy. SMX provides the science. Goldstrom provides the scale. Together, they introduce a system in which verification is continuous and embedded, rather than external or discretionary.

The Backbone of a Verified Metals Network

trueGold’s platform consists of three elements: a molecular marker, a proprietary reader, and a digital registry that records each transfer. Once added, the chemical signature inside the gold becomes a permanent identity tag. It links physical matter to digital truth.

Independent testing by Intertek confirmed the marker’s safety and neutrality under the AnchorCert Pro 2 protocol, validating compliance across the United States, Canada, and the European Union. It does not alter the metal. It does not affect purity. It does not disrupt manufacturing or design. It simply turns gold into a self-identifying asset.

That capability now enters Goldstrom’s global footprint. Every movement through Goldstrom’s vaults, logistics centers, or banking channels can be tied to verified material identity. For the first time, a bullion ecosystem can operate with intrinsic proof instead of proxy documentation.

The value becomes clear when applied at scale. Regulatory frameworks shift from assumptions to evidence. ESG claims become measurable instead of declarative. Wealth managers gain the ability to prove provenance for institutional clients. Traders can validate recycled content, purity, and custody with unprecedented precision.

In a market where trust determines price, proof-based infrastructure is not a feature. It is an advantage.

The Regulatory Signal That Changes the Sector

The London Bullion Market Association has already recognized the significance of the technology by accrediting SMX’s molecular marker as a Gold Bar Security Feature. That endorsement is more than a technical milestone. It is an indicator that the world’s largest precious-metals authority accepts molecular proof as part of the authentication process.

With Goldstrom adopting the system, the infrastructure gains a runway for global deployment. A vault in Zurich, a refinery in Dubai, or a trading house in Singapore can operate on a shared identity layer that travels with the gold itself. Compliance becomes simpler. Fraud becomes harder. Market confidence strengthens.

And the timing aligns with global demand. IBM research shows that consumers are willing to pay substantial premiums for traceable products. PwC reports measurable margin expansion for verified sustainable sourcing. Those same behavioral patterns influence how bullion is valued, particularly among institutions that must justify ESG positions or provide transparent reporting.

trueGold and Goldstrom are not asking the market to imagine a future version of accountability. They are building the infrastructure today.

The Beginning of a Verified Financial Asset Class

This partnership represents more than a technology integration. It signals the emergence of a proof-ready asset class for precious metals.

Gold has always held value. Now it can verify that value. By embedding molecular identity directly into the metal and linking that identity to a secure digital registry, SMX and trueGold convert gold from an asset that relies on external trust into one that carries trust internally. Goldstrom extends that capability across global supply lines.

What began as a scientific breakthrough at SMX is becoming a new architecture for how markets authenticate one of the world’s most important commodities. The vaults, transfers, trades, audits, and recycling streams all become synchronized through chemistry and digital certainty.

In this new model, gold does not exist solely within the financial system. It becomes part of the system’s infrastructure. Proof is no longer something attached to an asset. It is something engineered into it.

And in this case, and for the first time in its history, gold can prove itself.

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. Forward looking statements include expectations, projections, and assumptions about future events relating to SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), its majority-owned subsidiary trueGold, its partnership with Goldstrom, and the development and commercial expansion of molecular marking, digital registries, and supply chain verification technologies within the global precious-metals sector. These statements are not descriptions of historical facts. They are based on current beliefs, estimates, and assumptions that are inherently subject to risks, uncertainties, and factors that are difficult to predict.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, expectations regarding the integration of trueGold’s molecular-marking technology into Goldstrom’s operational framework; the potential widespread adoption of SMX-enabled verification across vaulting, logistics, bullion trading, banking, and wealth management; anticipated improvements in gold authentication processes; the potential for SMX systems to be recognized or mandated by regulatory bodies, including the London Bullion Market Association and other global metals authorities; and the anticipated value that verified provenance, traceability, and lifecycle tracking may bring to market participants, investors, and institutional clients.

These statements also encompass expectations about the potential scalability of SMX technology across refineries, recycling operations, manufacturing pipelines, and international metals markets; the ability of molecular identity markers to survive refining or remelting processes; the potential to enhance ESG reporting, sustainability claims, or compliance frameworks; and the possibility of establishing new economic models built on authenticated material identity. Forward looking statements further include assumptions about evolving consumer demand for transparent and traceable products; projected economic benefits from verified material flows; and the belief that proof-driven systems may influence commodity pricing, institutional adoption, and sector-wide operational standards.

These statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied. Such risks include, but are not limited to: changes in regulatory requirements affecting precious-metals trading and authentication; fluctuations in global commodity markets; geopolitical conditions; competitive technological developments; the pace at which institutional actors adopt new verification systems; technical limitations in deploying molecular markers at industrial scale; risks associated with integrating new technologies into established supply chains; general economic conditions; and other risks detailed 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 / Most technologies disrupt a single sector. A rare few create an entirely new layer that industries plug into. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is doing the latter. Its molecular-marking architecture is not simply validating materials. It is creating the world’s first “proof mesh,” a global network where plastics, metals, fibers, and commercial goods report their own histories without the need for declarations, audits, or guesswork.

This mesh is forming through six strategic partnerships that turn verification into a structural function of global supply chains. Each partnership represents a different entry point. Each one expands the surface area where truth becomes automatic instead of asserted.

What makes the moment remarkable is not the number of partners, but the coherence of the system they now share. For the first time, regulators, manufacturers, investors, and recyclers can operate within a shared layer of authenticated material identity.

Singapore: The First Country to Wire Itself Into the Mesh

SMX’s work with A*STAR in Singapore represents the clearest example of national integration. The collaboration is building a plastics passport system where resin does not “claim” its past. It carries it. Every processing step becomes a certified event, allowing recycling incentives, waste policies, and industrial reporting to function with real-time certainty rather than assumptions.

Singapore is not running a circular-economy pilot. It is installing a backbone for verified material flow. Once complete, the country will operate the first nationwide proof mesh for plastics, setting a standard the world can study and adopt.

Austria: Machines That Sort and Certify Simultaneously

In Austria, SMX and REDWAVE are linking industrial automation directly into the proof mesh. Sorting machines traditionally separate materials by type. Now they can separate by identity. Molecular markers embedded in plastics allow REDWAVE systems to verify recyclate on the line.

Instead of waiting for lab tests or documentation, manufacturers receive immediate confirmation. A facility becomes a self-auditing environment. Quality becomes measurable in motion, not on paper.

When coupled with Tradepro’s distribution network in Miami, verified resin moves from European sorting lines to American supply chains with a clear, auditable trail that satisfies tightening U.S. recycled-content mandates.

Spain: Turning Industrial Pilots Into Proof Engines

CARTIF in Spain is positioning Europe’s circular economy for its next stage of implementation. Through its collaboration with SMX, the research center is embedding molecular identification into industrial testbeds that serve packaging, construction, renewable energy, and material-recovery programs.

These pilots function as conversion labs. They turn research into standards and standards into workflows that companies can deploy immediately. In an EU market where proof is becoming a prerequisite for access, CARTIF is ensuring that adoption becomes achievable rather than theoretical.

Metals With a Verified Memory

Gold and silver now have a voice inside the proof mesh. Through trueGold and the partnership with Goldstrom, SMX is embedding molecular identity into bullion at the earliest stage of handling. The result is a market where precious metals can authenticate themselves through every melt, recast, and transfer.

Banks gain stronger collateral. Refineries gain cleaner audits. Insurers gain lower risk. Investors gain something the metals industry has never consistently offered: authenticated provenance rooted in chemistry instead of certificates.

France: Textiles With Native Identity

In France, CETI is converting textile traceability from marketing language into operational fact. Its work with SMX equips fibers and fabrics with molecular IDs that persist through dyeing, weaving, recycling, and product assembly.

This turns garments into self-reporting assets. Brands can certify origin, recycled content, and lifecycle integrity. Lenders can attach sustainability-linked financing to datasets that cannot be manipulated. Retailers can differentiate verified textiles from unverifiable blends.

Identity moves from label to fiber.

The Proof “Mesh” Becomes an Economic Layer

Individually, each collaboration is meaningful. Together, they form a distributed verification layer that can be expanded across industries and borders. The mesh does not care what material is moving. It only cares whether the material can authenticate itself.

This is how value shifts; this is how compliance becomes predictable; and, this is how efficiency replaces bureaucracy.

SMX is not positioning itself as a tool supplier. It is emerging as the provider of the global proof layer that modern markets require. The mesh is growing, one connected partner at a 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

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, estimates, forecasts, and assumptions about future events involving SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), its molecular marker technologies, and its partnerships across multiple geographies and industry sectors. These statements are not historical facts. They involve risks, uncertainties, and factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, expectations regarding the continued development, adoption, and scalability of SMX’s molecular identification systems across plastics, metals, textiles, recycling facilities, and automated sorting environments; anticipated outcomes from collaborations with A*STAR in Singapore, REDWAVE in Austria, Tradepro in the United States, CARTIF in Spain, CETI in France, and Goldstrom in Singapore; projected improvements to supply chain transparency, regulatory compliance, and circular-economy performance; potential impacts on material quality, financing structures, insurance risk, and sustainability-linked reporting; and assumptions regarding the emergence of a global verification layer or ecosystem built around authenticated materials.

These statements also include assumptions about regulatory developments in the European Union, Asia-Pacific, and the United States; expected industry demand for verified recycled content; commercial viability of molecular-level tracking systems; adoption rates within the metals, textile, plastics, and recycling industries; macroeconomic conditions affecting supply chains; technological performance in industrial environments; and the ability of SMX to integrate its systems into diverse manufacturing workflows at scale.

Risks and uncertainties that could cause outcomes to differ include, but are not limited to, changes in environmental or trade regulations; disruptions in global supply chains; competitive technological developments; delays in partner implementation; limitations in scaling molecular markers across high-volume systems; economic volatility; shifts in consumer or manufacturer behavior; and other risks described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the 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 future events, new information, or changes in circumstances, except as required by applicable law.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 14, 2025 / A new kind of global contest is unfolding, one that is not powered by territory, ideology, or even traditional economic leverage. It is powered by certainty. Nations can invest in new mines, expand refineries, and build strategic reserves, yet none of it secures the future if no one can verify the origins of the materials driving modern industry. In this environment, truth becomes the rarest commodity of all. And into this vacuum steps SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), with a technology designed to act as a neutral referee for a world that no longer trusts its own supply chains.

For years, physical goods lived in a parallel universe to digital systems. The digital world advanced with verification, identity, and audit trails. The physical world advanced with paperwork, declarations, and good faith. That gap became a structural fault line. Critical materials-the elements that power defense systems, energy grids, renewable technologies, and industrial manufacturing-moved through opaque channels that left governments and corporations to rely on trust instead of evidence.

SMX is closing that gap by giving physical commodities a permanent, molecular identity. Its technology embeds microscopic chemical markers directly into materials, allowing them to carry an immutable record of their own origin and lifecycle. Plastics, metals, textiles, rubber, timber, and strategic minerals can now behave less like anonymous inputs and more like authenticated assets with built-in documentation.

A System Built for a Post-Trust Economy

This shift is happening because the old system simply cannot support the demands of the new world. Supply chains optimized for speed and outsourcing collapsed under geopolitical pressure. Trade disputes exposed the fragility of documentation. Sanctions and export bans revealed how easily materials could be mixed, relabeled, or substituted. Even the most advanced nations discovered they were dependent on unverifiable flows of critical goods.

SMX offers a counterweight to this instability. Its molecular markers survive heat, pressure, remelting, and full-scale industrial processing. Each material carries a verifiable signature that is readable in seconds, anywhere in the world, by any authorized scanner. Verification becomes the property of the material itself, not the paperwork surrounding it.

This changes the game. It allows investors to fund assets with confidence. It allows governments to enforce regulations with accuracy. It allows manufacturers to certify their supply chains without relying on declarations. It turns proof into an infrastructure layer, not an afterthought.

Why Global Powers Are Suddenly Paying Attention

Across Europe, Asia, and the United States, governments and financial institutions arepouring capital into rebuilding and reshoring supply lines. But investment alone cannot fill the void left by decades of fragmented verification. Mines can produce ore, refineries can process concentrates, and smelters can ship metals, but unless every step is authenticated, the system remains vulnerable.

SMX enters at this exact inflection point. Its technology is not nationalistic, ideological, or proprietary to any political bloc. It is neutral. It gives all participants-producers, regulators, distributors, auditors, and financiers-the same access to verifiable truth.

That neutrality is what gives SMX geopolitical gravity. It levels the playing field in a moment when trust between economic powers is at its lowest point in decades.

Where Verification Becomes Advantage

The real disruption lies in what happens after authentication becomes a built-in feature of materials. Supply chains stop behaving like chains and start behaving like transparent systems. Products stop needing to be proven. They prove themselves.

A shipment of rare earths can be verified before it crosses a border. A bale of recycled plastic can justify its premium instantly. A gold bar can confirm its lineage regardless of how many times it has been melted or recast. A textile can reveal its composition, durability, and sustainability claims without relying on marketing language.

Refiners gain precision. Banks gain confidence. Auditors gain clarity. Manufacturers gain integrity. And regulators gain enforcement mechanisms rooted in chemistry rather than documentation.

Textiles, metals, plastics, and critical minerals stop being debatable assets. They become self-evident.

The Stakes Are Now Structural, Not Just Economic

As the world races to stabilize supply chains and reduce reliance on fragile or adversarial sources, one weakness still threatens everything: the inability to verify origin. A single mislabeled shipment can contaminate an entire production line. A single fraudulent batch can undermine compliance reports or trigger geopolitical conflict.

SMX’s molecular system resolves this risk at its core. It eliminates ambiguity. It erases the gray zones. It replaces reliance with evidence and turns materials into transparent, traceable participants in the global economy.

This is not a theoretical promise. SMX is already operating across metals, textiles, plastics, rubber, and luxury goods, and is now being adapted to the rare earths and strategic minerals that will define the next industrial era.

A Neutral Referee in a Fractured World

The old global system was built on trust. The new global system requires verification. SMX’s technology-simple in function but profound in impact-offers exactly that. Not in service of one nation or ideology, but in service of stability itself.

In an era defined by geopolitical tensions, supply chain uncertainty, and escalating competition for strategic resources, neutrality is not a weakness. It is an anchor. SMX has built the infrastructure that allows global industry to operate without collapsing under its own doubt. It has created a way for nations to compete without destroying the integrity of the system they all rely on.

This is not a battle for dominance. It is a battle for credibility.
SMX built the technology that finally makes credibility measurable.

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 marking technologies, its commercial partnerships, and their potential application across critical minerals, metals, plastics, textiles, and global supply-chain verification systems.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, anticipated developments in the scalability, adoption, and commercial performance of SMX’s technology; potential integration of molecular-marking systems into national or industrial supply chains; expected benefits related to traceability, authentication, compliance, and lifecycle tracking of strategic materials; and assumptions regarding regulatory trends, geopolitical dynamics, sustainability mandates, and demand for verifiable supply-chain data across global industries.

These statements also involve assumptions about market acceptance of molecular authentication, investment activity within critical-materials infrastructure, technological performance under industrial conditions, and SMX’s ability to expand commercial deployments across multiple sectors and jurisdictions. Risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially include changes in geopolitical conditions, supply-chain disruptions, regulatory shifts, partner implementation risks, competitive technologies, macroeconomic volatility, and the factors described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the 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 these statements to reflect future events, new information, or changes in circumstances, except as required by law.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 14, 2025 / For decades, plastics have moved through the world without an identity. They were manufactured, used, discarded, shredded, melted, and remade, but the material never carried a history. Once waste entered the recycling stream, its past vanished. And without origin, plastics could not carry value.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is changing that paradigm by bringing identity to the material itself. In a new U.S. partnership with a respected Miami-based plastics distributor, Tradepro, the company is embedding its FDA-compliant molecular markers directly into recycled PET resin. The marker adheres to 21 CFR standards for Food Contact Substances, making it viable for one of the most highly regulated categories in the entire materials landscape.

In simple terms, SMX is giving rPET something it has never had before: a persistent, verifiable identity that survives every melt and remanufacturing cycle. Food-grade packaging made from recycled content can now prove that it is legitimate, compliant, and authentic, not because a supplier claims so, but because the material itself carries the proof.

This shifts recycled plastic from a commodity defined by risk to a material defined by credibility.

The U.S. Becomes a Launchpad for Identity-Driven Recycling
The partnership marks SMX’s first major foothold in the American plastics ecosystem, but it is part of a larger global plan. Across Southeast Asia, SMX has already embedded markers during extrusion, ensuring traceability at the moment plastic takes shape. In Europe, the company demonstrated that even the most challenging polymers, including flame-retardant and carbon-black plastics, can be identified through molecular reading.

Together, these programs map out a universal identity layer for recycled plastics. Geography no longer dictates credibility. Application no longer dictates limitations. If a material carries an SMX identity, its origin and lifecycle can be confirmed anywhere, at any time, by anyone with the appropriate reader.

This is the first step toward a world where recycled plastics are treated as certified commodities rather than discounted substitutes.

Identity Converts Waste Into a Financial Product
For recycled plastics, the missing piece has never been supply. It has been trust. Governments are imposing quotas. Global brands are pledging recycled content. But without a mechanism to verify the material itself, these targets have been impossible to meet at scale.

SMX closes that trust gap. Once a molecular marker is added, every batch of recycled resin becomes a traceable asset. Its movements can be logged. Its integrity can be affirmed. Its recycled content can be priced accurately.

And when tied to digital instruments such as SMX’s Plastic Cycle Token, rPET transforms from a downstream cost into an upstream financial product. Recycled content becomes measurable. Measurable content becomes tradeable. And, tradeable content becomes investable.

This redefines the economics of recycling. Proof no longer lives in paperwork. Proof becomes intrinsic to the material itself, creating a pathway for rPET to compete directly with virgin resin in the highest-value markets.

Food-Grade rPET Becomes the Turning Point
The ability to operate in compliance with FDA regulations is a watershed moment for the entire industry. Food-grade packaging has historically been the most difficult category for recycled content to enter. It requires consistent quality, stable chemistry, and absolute confidence that the material is safe.

By passing FDA-related compliance thresholds through molecular marking, SMX shows that recycled plastics do not need to live in low-margin, low-performance tiers. They can move into premium applications where oversight is strict, margins are higher, and credibility is everything.

In this context, rPET is no longer a second-class material. It becomes a certified input with a documented history and a verifiable identity.

The opportunity is enormous. The global plastics market sits above $800 billion. The recycling segment alone is valued at around $50 billion, yet it is underdeveloped due to verification bottlenecks. SMX’s technology helps clear that bottleneck by turning recyclate into a fully traceable asset that can be monetized, certified, and standardized.

So, no, this isn’t a recycling story. It is an identity story. And it signals the beginning of a materials economy where every product can carry its own 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
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. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and assumptions regarding future events involving SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), its technologies, its partnership activities, and its development of molecular marking systems for recycled PET and other materials. Forward looking statements are not historical facts. They involve risks, uncertainties, and factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, expectations regarding the integration of SMX’s molecular markers into U.S. recycling markets; the potential for FDA-compliant markers to enable recycled PET to enter food-grade and other regulated applications; the scalability of SMX solutions across diverse global supply chains; anticipated adoption of identity-based verification systems by manufacturers, recyclers, regulators, or brand owners; the potential economic impact of turning recycled plastics into tradeable or monetizable assets; the expected performance of SMX’s Plastic Cycle Token or other digital verification instruments; and the belief that molecular-level authentication may influence pricing, compliance, sustainability reporting, or financial strategies used within the plastics sector.

These forward looking statements are also subject to assumptions regarding regulatory developments; market demand for authenticated recycled content; the pace of corporate adoption of traceability technology; global economic conditions; supply chain constraints; evolving environmental policies; and general industry behavior relating to sustainability commitments and recycling mandates. Risks include, but are not limited to, changes in FDA or international regulatory standards; technological challenges in large-scale deployment of molecular markers; competitive innovations from other companies; operational disruptions in recycling or plastics manufacturing; fluctuations in pricing for virgin or recycled plastics; and the broader economic conditions that influence capital investment and industrial activity.

Detailed risk factors are described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the 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.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 12, 2025 / The Cold War never really ended. It just changed shape. What once played out in missile silos and diplomatic cables now unfolds in supply chains, trade networks, and industrial policies. The new battlefield is not ideological or territorial. It’s economic, technological, and invisible. And the weapon every side is fighting to control is: proof.

From critical minerals to recycled plastics, from luxury goods to defense components, the world is engaged in a silent struggle over authenticity. Nations throw tariffs like grenades, corporations build redundant supply lines as fortresses, and regulators issue sustainability decrees like cease-fires. Yet under all that noise, one truth remains unchanged: no one can genuinely verify where materials come from or how they move through the system.

That gap has become the world’s soft target. It fuels counterfeiting, corruption, waste, and inefficiency. It’s the hidden tax on progress that costs trillions each year. SMX (NASDAQ: SMX) exists to eliminate that tax.

SMX Offers a Universal Non-Lethal Arsenal

SMX has built a molecular-marking system that embeds traceable, inert chemical identifiers directly into raw materials. Those identifiers, invisible to the naked eye but scannable by proprietary optical sensors, give matter its own memory. Every product, mineral, or polymer becomes self-verifying, carrying a record of its journey from creation to consumption.

It’s not blockchain. It’s not paperwork. It’s chemistry that can prove itself, the foundation of the proof economy. And that changes everything.

When molecules hold memory, global trade transforms. Material efficiency is no longer a theory; it’s a measurable outcome. Waste decreases because diversion becomes detectable. Fraud collapses because substitution leaves a chemical fingerprint. Sustainability moves from claim to confirmation.

The Industrial Cold War’s Front Lines

The world’s new Industrial Cold War isn’t about who makes what, but about who can prove it. Proof has become the new power, and SMX’s technology delivers it. Imagine gold that can prove it wasn’t mined in conflict zones, textiles that verify their recycled fibers, or recycled plastics that confirm every molecule of recovery. SMX is creating a world where authenticity is embedded, not declared.

That system is already spreading across continents. In Japan, SMX’s partnership with Sumitomo Corporation enables molecular traceability for metals, minerals, and energy networks, aligning supply-chain transparency with national security priorities. In Singapore, the company is developing a national plastics-passport platform with A*STAR, connecting recyclers, producers, and regulators through a unified data infrastructure for the circular economy.

In Europe, SMX controls the TrueGold Consortium and partners with Goldstrom, a global metals group operating in New York, Singapore, and the UAE, to authenticate precious metals from mine to market. It works with CETI in France to embed molecular memory into textiles, enabling certified recycling in line with Europe’s evolving sustainability mandates. In Spain, SMX collaborates with the CARTIF Technology Centre in Valladolid, applying its molecular marker technology across multiple industrial fronts, from construction materials and packaging to energy and circular manufacturing, all reinforcing Europe’s move toward verifiable, data-backed sustainability.

Additional front lines are also forming. In Austria, collaborations with BT-Systems and REDWAVE integrate molecular verification and artificial intelligence into automated recycling facilities. In Singapore, SMX partners with Bio-Packaging to certify recycled plastics for major consumer brands. In the United States, its collaboration with Tradepro Group brings the same level of molecular verification to domestic recycling networks. Each alliance strengthens the same global campaign to replace faith with evidence. Each alliance strengthens the same global campaign to replace faith with proof.

But SMX isn’t about proof as a gesture of goodwill toward sustainability. It’s about transforming proof into the foundation of global commerce: a measurable, verifiable layer that holds every material, transaction, and claim accountable.

Proof Becomes a Currency

As SMX’s network expands, proof itself begins to take on financial value. The company’s Plastic Cycle Token is a tangible expression of that principle, assigning measurable economic worth to verified recycling. It converts circularity into a tradable asset, rewarding compliance and transparency in ways that programs like carbon credits never achieved. The larger vision is clear: when transparency becomes currency, material efficiency becomes a global market driver.

Meanwhile, the fragility and dangers within the old system are still on display. At Utah’s White Mesa Mill, rare earths are refined in enormous acid tanks to supply clean-energy industries, networking, and national defense. Yet even there, among America’s most strategic assets, traceability gaps persist. The metals powering the modern world can still disappear into gray-market channels before regulators ever see them. Every unverified material is a potential point of failure.

Proof, then, is not just about sustainability or governance. It’s about sovereignty. Governments can spend billions on reshoring production, and banks like JPMorgan can pledge billions more to rebuild critical mineral supply chains. Still, none of it secures the system if the materials themselves cannot prove their truth.

Molecular Proof Speaks a Universal Language

That’s the problem SMX solves. Its molecular-marking technology makes matter accountable, creating a universal language of trust that transcends borders, politics, and policy. It is both a deterrent and an equalizer; a way to restore fairness and confidence to a global economy built on doubt.

The new Cold War is no longer about territory; it’s about industry. It’s about everything else: trade, materials, technology, and truth. The nations and companies that master proof will control not just markets but meaning. SMX has already built the system that makes that possible.

Proof isn’t patriotic. Proof isn’t optional. Proof is survival. And SMX has the arsenal that turns chemistry into certainty in a world where every industry has become a battlefield.

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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 release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws regarding SMX (Security Matters) plc (NASDAQ: SMX) and its technology initiatives, including statements concerning its molecular-marking system, partnerships, and the expansion of its verification ecosystem across global supply chains. Forward-looking statements are not historical facts and are generally identified by words such as “believe,” “anticipate,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “estimate,” “project,” “may,” “should,” “could,” “will,” “potential,” “target,” “continue,” and similar expressions.

These statements include, but are not limited to, expectations regarding SMX’s ability to scale its molecular-marking technology across multiple industries, including metals, minerals, plastics, textiles, and defense components; the commercial and strategic outcomes of its collaborations with Sumitomo Corporation, A*STAR, Goldstrom, CETI, CARTIF, BT-Systems, REDWAVE, Bio-Packaging, and Tradepro Group; the future development, adoption, and market acceptance of the Plastic Cycle Token as a verifiable circular-economy instrument; and SMX’s role in enabling transparent, traceable, and verifiable material flows that align with national and corporate sustainability and security priorities.

These forward-looking statements reflect SMX’s current expectations and are based on information available as of the date of this release, as well as management’s current forecasts, assumptions, and estimates, which are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those projected due to factors including but not limited to: global economic and geopolitical instability; regulatory changes impacting supply-chain transparency or digital-verification frameworks; SMX’s ability to execute partnerships and commercialization strategies effectively; fluctuations in commodity or energy markets; and other risks described in the company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. SMX undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they are made, except as required by law.

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 11, 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 allows each gram of gold to hold a chemical memory of its origin, purity, and ethical path 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.

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 one material or one 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 enables miners and brands 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 reflects 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.

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