Author: SMX (Security Matters)

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / January 16, 2026 / SMX (Security Matters) PLC (NASDAQ:SMX), a global pioneer in molecular-marker technology and blockchain-backed digital product passports, today announced that it has opened a corporate account with Kraken as part of a treasury strategy authorized by the Company’s Board of Directors.

The account opening represents a measured operational step supporting SMX’s broader treasury framework, which is being developed to align capital management with the Company’s long-term technology and verification roadmap. This initiative reflects the Company’s focus on secure digital infrastructure and disciplined balance sheet management.

SMX’s treasury strategy is being designed to support systems that connect verified physical activity to digitally represented value. The Company’s technology operates at the material level, enabling precise identification, tracking, and lifecycle verification of physical substances across global supply chains. The treasury infrastructure is being evaluated to ensure it can support these systems as they scale.

Engaging with Kraken

The selection of Kraken reflects SMX’s focus on institutional-grade platforms that offer operational controls, secure custody, and established compliance standards. The Company views this engagement as infrastructure-oriented rather than transactional, supporting future accounting and settlement mechanisms tied to verified activity.

A central component of SMX’s long-term roadmap is the Plastic Cycle Token (PCT), a virtual credit framework designed to represent verified recycled plastic activity. PCT is intended to function as a digitally represented unit linked to measured outcomes and is grounded in SMX’s material verification capabilities.

The Company believes that credible circular economy systems require verifiable data before value can be assigned. PCT has been designed to address this requirement by linking digital credits directly to authenticated physical material flows, rather than estimates or abstract reporting constructs.

Aligning with Evolving Digital Economies

To support such systems, SMX is preparing treasury and accounting infrastructure capable of handling digitally represented value units in a controlled and transparent manner. This preparation is occurring alongside the ongoing development of verification technology and partner engagement.

SMX also believes that broader market conditions have improved with respect to digital infrastructure maturity, institutional participation, and operational standards, and that these developments have created more favorable conditions for companies developing verification-based value systems tied to real-world activity, including recycling and materials recovery.

The Company’s primary focus remains on advancing material traceability, authentication, and transparency across global supply chains. Treasury-related initiatives are intended to support this mission by ensuring readiness for future verification-driven value mechanisms.

SMX will continue to advance its treasury strategy under Board oversight, supporting its long-term objective of turning verified sustainability performance into measurable, accountable outcomes.

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

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Full conversion of convertible notes reduces long-term liabilities, removes potential equity overhang, and helps position SMX to advance project development and circular-materials strategy

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / January 8, 2026 / SMX (Security Matters) PLC (NASDAQ:SMX; SMXWW), a global pioneer in material-embedded identity and digital traceability, today announced that all $20,625,000 face amount of convertible notes that it sold in December 2025 have been fully converted in accordance with their terms, into an aggregate of 1,230,698 ordinary shares of the Company.

This full conversion of the notes materially reduces SMX’s long-term liabilities, eliminates potential equity overhang associated with convertible instruments, removes restrictions on the Company’s ability to raise capital in the future, and strengthens the Company’s financial position as it advances project development across its circular-materials platform.

With this milestone, SMX enters its next phase of growth with no corporate-level convertible indebtedness and improved financial flexibility.

The Company believes that this is a meaningful balance-sheet inflection point for SMX, as eliminating its convertible debt enhances clarity for investors, reduces structural risk, and allows management to remain focused on executing the Company’s technology roadmap and commercial programs without this financing overhang.

Advancing Material-Embedded Identity at Scale

SMX’s platform is built on molecular-level markers embedded directly into physical materials during manufacturing. These invisible markers create a persistent, tamper-resistant identity that remains with the material throughout its lifecycle-manufacturing, distribution, use, recovery, and reuse.

Unlike external labels, barcodes, or documentation systems that can be removed or lost, SMX’s technology has been developed to allow materials themselves to carry verifiable data, enabling:

• Authentication and origin verification

• Regulatory and sustainability compliance

• Lifecycle traceability and accountability

• Circular recovery and reuse pathways

The Company believes that this approach is increasingly relevant as global industries face tightening environmental regulations, carbon-neutrality mandates, and supply-chain transparency requirements.

Large and Expanding Market Opportunity

SMX operates at the intersection of advanced materials, digital traceability, and sustainability infrastructure, addressing markets measured in the tens of billions of dollars globally.

Across plastics, rubber, and other industrial materials, the Company believes that regulatory pressure and corporate sustainability commitments are accelerating demand for technologies that can verify material origin, composition, and lifecycle outcomes. SMX’s platform is designed to serve manufacturers, brand owners, recyclers, and regulators seeking verifiable, data-anchored solutions rather than aspirational reporting.

By pairing embedded molecular identity with a digital platform, SMX enables materials to become data-bearing assets, supporting new commercial models tied to circularity, compliance, and resource efficiency.

SMX is positioned to advance:

• Ongoing and planned project deployments

• Expansion across industrial and consumer material categories

• Strategic collaborations and pilot programs

• Development of its digital traceability and circular-materials initiatives

The strengthened financial profile supports disciplined execution while preserving optionality as SMX continues to build its global platform.

Contact:

Jeremy Murphy
jeremymurphy@me.com

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

The information in this press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking.

Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, for example: successful launch and implementation of SMX’s existing or future joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber, fabric 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 involve a number of judgments, risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially. SMX undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements except as required by law.

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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / January 5, 2026 / SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) has entered 2026 fully financed through the first quarter, giving the Company the flexibility to stay focused on execution, expanding its platform, and continuing to develop its Plastic Cycle Token as a practical foundation for the circular economy. The Company is investing in the rollout of its molecular marking and material verification technologies, strengthening its digital platform, and driving real-world adoption across global supply chains where transparency, proof, and regulatory alignment are no longer optional.

As governments tighten requirements around origination, carbon, recycling, and materials disclosure, companies are being asked to prove what their data represents, not just report it. SMX addresses this challenge by embedding invisible molecular identifiers directly into materials, creating a durable record that travels with a product from manufacturing through reuse, recycling, and end-of-life.

That physical-to-digital connection is the foundation of SMX’s Plastic Cycle Token strategy. The token framework is designed to capture verified material lifecycle events and convert them into reliable, auditable data. This allows sustainability outcomes to be measured based on evidence rather than estimates, giving stakeholders a clearer way to demonstrate compliance, manage risk, and create value from circular activity.

In 2025, SMX made steady progress toward establishing verification as core infrastructure. The Company expanded internationally through partnerships and pilot programs, validating its technology across different regions, industries, and materials. These efforts showed that molecular-level identity can survive industrial processing and still deliver accurate tracking without disrupting existing operations.

SMX also extended its platform beyond plastics, reinforcing its evolution into a multi-material verification company with applications across manufacturing, recycling, and regulated supply chains. This broader scope supports the Company’s long-term goal of creating a unified verification layer that works for regulators, enterprises, and sustainability-focused markets alike.

With funding secured and key partnerships in place, SMX enters 2026 focused on disciplined growth, refining its platform, and advancing its verification and tokenization strategy. As sustainability expectations shift from ambition to accountability, the Company believes demand for trusted, verifiable material data will continue to grow, placing SMX at the center of that transition.

CONTACT:

Jeremy Murphy / jeremymurphy@me.com

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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / January 5, 2026 / Fully financed through Q1, tech pioneer SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) has begun 2026 with an eye on accelerating adoption of its Plastic Cycle Token and verification platform

As businesses worldwide face mounting pressure to meet carbon-reduction targets and comply with a growing patchwork of regional and governmental regulations, SMX has emerged as a practical solution provider across the value chain. The Company’s proprietary marking, tracking, measuring, and digital platform technologies allow materials to be authenticated and followed from where the raw materials are sourced to production through reuse and end-of-life, helping organizations move toward a low-carbon economy with greater confidence and clarity.

The company’s 2026 focus also includes building long-term enterprise value by expanding real-world deployment of its molecular identity technology and further strengthening its digital infrastructure. Its Plastic Cycle Token is central to this effort, translating real material lifecycle activity into verifiable, auditable data. By doing so, recycling, recovery, and sustainability outcomes can be measured more accurately, supporting regulatory compliance, transparent reporting, and new forms of value tied to verified circular practices.

During 2025, SMX established multiple international partnerships across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, extending the reach of its technology into manufacturing, logistics, and recycling environments. The Company also expanded the use of its molecular identity platform beyond plastics into additional industrial materials, underscoring the flexibility and scalability of its approach. At the same time, it continued to enhance its digital platform to support verification at scale. These advancements enable material identities to persist through processing, reuse, and recycling, reinforcing SMX’s role as an infrastructure provider at a moment when trust, traceability, and proof are increasingly required for market access and regulatory approval.

CONTACT:

Jeremy Murphy / jeremymurphy@me.com

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Giving glove materials a verifiable “memory” to support safe recovery, traceability, and circular reuse

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 31, 2025 / SMX (Security Matters) PLC (NASDAQ:SMX; SMXWW), a global pioneer in material-embedded identity and digital traceability, today announced the expansion of its industrial rubber traceability platform into latex and rubber gloves. The initiative represents the sixth application within SMX’s growing circular-rubber program and targets one of the world’s largest and most complex post-use rubber waste streams.

Latex and rubber gloves are used globally across healthcare, laboratory, pharmaceutical, food-handling, industrial and consumer environments. While consumption has remained structurally elevated since the COVID-19 period, glove materials remain largely absent within recycling systems, resulting in low recovery rates and widespread disposal via landfill or incineration.

Recycling rates are estimated to be low due to contamination risk and mixed-origin gloves have not been shown to be able to be safely or reliably processed. Industry analysts note that most disposable gloves are diverted to landfill or incineration because processing potentially contaminated material is unsafe or uneconomical¹, while latex and nitrile gloves are considered recyclable only when they are completely contaminant-free-an assumption that rarely reflects real-world usage conditions².

Industry data indicate that the global rubber gloves market is substantial and growing, with total market value estimated at approximately USD 13.8 billion in 2024 and projected to exceed USD 21.6 billion by 2030 as demand continues across healthcare, industrial and hygiene sectors³. In terms of unit volume, global consumption of rubber gloves has exceeded 330 billion units annually, with the healthcare sector accounting for the majority of this demand⁴.

The decision to expand into glove-rubber and latex traceability reflects SMX’s strategy of applying its proven rubber-integrity platform to high-impact circular-material challenges where authentication, traceability and lifecycle accountability can unlock new recovery pathways. By embedding its invisible molecular identity directly into glove materials during production, SMX’s technology can enable each glove to be securely linked to a persistent, tamper-resistant digital record that can be verified throughout manufacturing, use and end-of-life handling.

Why Material-Level Identity Matters for Gloves

Unlike other rubber categories such as tires or engineered industrial components, gloves are typically collected as mixed, multi-source waste. Once used, they become difficult to sort, classify, or recover safely due to the absence of reliable material-level information.

As glove waste moves through disposal and handling systems, industry participants could face challenges related to:

• contamination risk from biological or chemical exposure

• inability to distinguish latex, nitrile, neoprene and blended formulations

• lack of verifiable origin, application type, or use history

• limited ability to separate recoverable material from restricted waste

These factors have made glove recycling largely impractical at scale, despite the underlying material value of rubber and latex compounds.

SMX’s approach addresses this challenge by embedding identity into the material itself, rather than relying on external labels, documentation, or visual sorting methods that can be removed, damaged, or lost.

Enabling Traceable and Risk-Aware Glove Recovery

SMX’s molecular markers are embedded directly into glove compounds during manufacturing, allowing the material to retain its identity even after use, washing, shredding, or processing.

Applied to gloves, this enables:

• persistent material-level identity and source attribution

• verification of formulation, category, and application class

• traceability across manufacturing, distribution, use, and recovery

• classification of waste streams into validated and safety-aligned pathways

This capability supports contamination-aware segregation and routing decisions, helping recyclers and waste handlers distinguish between material that can be safely recovered and material that must be restricted.

From Industrial Rubber to Gloves: A Natural Extension

SMX’s expansion into gloves builds on its successful use of its material-embedded identity technology across multiple industrial rubber applications, including bicycle tires, vehicle and truck tires, conveyor-belt compounds, and vibration-damping and inner-cabin rubber components.

Across these use cases, SMX has demonstrated that rubber materials can carry a persistent, verifiable identity throughout their lifecycle – supporting authentication, traceability, and end-of-life accountability.

Applying this platform to gloves could enable SMX’s circular-rubber strategy to extend into a high-volume, high-impact category where traceability has historically been absent.

Q1 Roadmap and Industry Collaboration

Beginning in Q1, SMX plans to commence work with:

• glove manufacturers and compounders

• healthcare, laboratory, and industrial glove users

• waste-handling and sorting partners

• recyclers and secondary-application developers

to advance SMX’s goal of implementing:

• traceable glove-material pilot programs

• safety-aligned segregation and handling workflows

• validated recovery and reuse pathways, where appropriate

• certification-ready digital material-identity frameworks

The initiative reinforces SMX’s broader roadmap of extending material-embedded identity across multiple rubber use cases, from mobility and industrial systems to emerging post-use recovery streams.

Giving Gloves Memory

SMX describes its platform as “Giving Materials Memory.” Applied to latex and rubber gloves, this means the material itself retains a secure identity that can be read and verified even after use.

This transforms gloves from disposable products into traceable, data-anchored materials – enabling safer handling, improved accountability, and the potential for circular recovery pathways that are not viable today.

Broader Industry Relevance

As healthcare, industrial, and consumer sectors face increasing scrutiny around waste management, safety, and sustainability, material-embedded identity could provide a new foundation for trust. The application of SMX’s technology to gloves demonstrates how advanced material science can be applied to address one of the most persistent challenges in global rubber waste.

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References:

1. Preserve Earth – The Environmental Impact of Disposable Plastic Gloves & Sustainable Alternatives in Healthcare
   https://preserveearth.co.uk/the-environmental-impact-of-disposable-plastic-gloves-sustainable-alternatives-in-healthcare

2. GloveNation – Are Disposable Gloves Recyclable?
   https://glovenation.com/blogs/news/are-disposable-gloves-recyclable

3. Grand View Research – Global Rubber Gloves Market Size & Outlook https://www.grandviewresearch.com/horizon/outlook/rubber-gloves-market-size/global Revenue estimated at ~USD 13,791 million in 2024, projected to reach ~USD 21,672 million by 2030 at a CAGR of ~7.9 % from 2025-2030.

4. MarketGrowthReports – Rubber Gloves Market Size, Share, Trends
   Global consumption of rubber gloves exceeded 330 billion units in 2023, with >70 % of demand from healthcare sectors. https://www.marketgrowthreports.com/market-reports/rubber-gloves-market-105857

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

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“Giving Materials Memory” enables denim to be authenticated, traced & reintroduced as a higher-value, verifiable input for reuse and recycling

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 30, 2025 / SMX (Security Matters) PLC (NASDAQ:SMX; SMXWW) (“SMX”), a global pioneer in material-embedded identity and digital traceability, today announced that it intends to enter the denim and recycled-denim segment in Q1 2026, extending its cotton-based material identity capabilities into one of the world’s largest apparel categories.

Publicly available market research estimates the global denim jeans market at approximately USD 86.66 billion in 2024, rising to USD 91.19 billion in 2025, and projecting growth to USD 121.50 billion by 2030 (CAGR ~5.9%). ² ³ ⁴

Separately, industry supply-chain analysis has estimated that more than 4.5 billion pairs of jeans are sold worldwide annually ³ ⁴, underscoring denim’s scale and cultural relevance across demographics.

Why Denim, Why Now

SMX believes that fashion brands are under increasing pressure to manage volatility in demand, minimize overproduction, and substantiate sustainability claims. McKinsey’s State of Fashion 2025 report estimates that the fashion industry produced 2.5 to 5 billion items of excess stock in 2023, worth $70 billion to $140 billion.¹

Denim has been reported to be central to youth and lifestyle markets, and SMX believes that denim sits at the intersection of high-volume production, premium brand positioning, and a growing consumer preference for recyclability, recycled materials, authenticity, and origin integrity.

Brands face increasing pressure to raise recycled-content percentages and substantiate claims with credible, auditable data.⁵⁶ And regulators are moving toward mandatory disclosure on excess stock, recycled content and product sustainability. ⁷

SMX Solution: Material-Embedded Identity for Denim and Recycled Denim

SMX provides a deployed physical-to-digital platform that embeds secure molecular identity into materials and links those materials to tamper-resistant digital records. This is the basis of SMX’s proposition of “Giving Materials Memory”-so that a material retains verifiable information about origin, composition, and lifecycle events even after transformation and movement through complex supply chains.

Applied to denim and recycled-denim, SMX’s platform can support:

• Authentication & origin verification for premium denim programs, including origin-linked and quality-linked claims

• Verified recycled-content integrity, helping prevent substitution, dilution, or misrepresentation of recycled inputs across blending and manufacturing steps

• Traceability across the denim lifecycle, from material input to finished garment and through downstream channels

Leveraging SMX’s Experience in Cotton-Based Material Systems

SMX’s expansion into denim builds on its existing experience in marking and authenticating cotton-based materials, where its material-embedded identity technology has been applied to support:

• persistent material identity across multiple transformation stages

• authentication and integrity verification in finished products

• alignment with responsible-sourcing objectives and value-chain transparency requirements

This denim-focused market entry represents a natural extension of that capability into a category where cotton remains the foundational fibre, while also opening opportunities to support recycled-denim and circular-material initiatives as adoption of recycled inputs continues to evolve.

Turning Denim Waste into a Higher-Value, Verifiable Input for Reuse and Recycling

A core challenge in scaling recycled content is that many post-industrial and post-consumer textile streams lose integrity once mixed, processed, or traded-reducing confidence in recycled feedstock quality and claims.

By giving denim materials persistent identity, SMX’s technology is designed to enable waste streams-such as production offcuts, unsold inventory, and end-of-life garments-to be recognized and transacted as a more credible, verifiable input for reuse and recycling. This could help convert waste from an opaque liability into a more valuable commodity within circular supply chains, supporting both sustainability outcomes and improved economics.

Timing and Commercial Focus

SMX expects its denim and recycled denim offering to enter the market in Q1 2026, to support engagement with denim ecosystem participants across fibre, mills, manufacturers, brands, and circularity partners.

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References

#1. Business of Fashion & McKinsey & Company
The State of Fashion 2025 – Inventory, excess stock and supply-chain inefficiencies in the global fashion industry.
https://www.businessoffashion.com
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/retail/our-insights/the-state-of-fashion

#2. Statista
Global Denim Jeans Market Size and Forecast (2024-2030) – Market value, growth projections and CAGR for denim apparel.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/734419/global-denim-jeans-market-retail-sales-value/?srsltid=AfmBOooQh4wzKPDwyEw9FEkHcSF7EeImY2HF1pfqRiEHpP98L0IZSO2O

#3. Grand View Research
Denim Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report – Global denim market valuation and outlook.
https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/denim-jeans-market

#4. Fortune Business Insights
Denim Jeans Market Size, Share & Industry Analysis – Global denim consumption and growth forecasts.
https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/denim-products-market-104514

#5. Textile Exchange
Preferred Fiber & Materials Market Report – Data on recycled cotton, organic cotton adoption, and sustainability trends.
https://textileexchange.org/app/uploads/2022/10/Textile-Exchange_PFMR_2022.pdf

#6. McKinsey & Company
Fashion on Climate and sustainability insights – Overproduction, inventory waste, recycled-content targets and circularity challenges.
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/retail/our-insights/fashion-on-climate

#7. European Commission
Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) and Digital Product Passport framework – Regulatory drivers for traceability, recycled content and excess-stock disclosure.
https://www.fitreach.eu/article/ecodesign-sustainable-products-regulation-espr-regulation-what-companies-need-know#:~:text=Information%20and%20Traceability%20(Digital%20Product,of%2Dlife%20and%20recycling%20information
https://www.manutan.com/blog/en/circular-economy/eu-ecodesign-regulation-the-eus-new-requirements#:~:text=Products%20must%20be%20designed%20to,Environmental%20footprint

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

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SMX, FinGo & Bougainville Refinery Ltd to Deliver Verifiable Identification for Gold

NEW YORK, NY; PORT MORESBY, PAPUA NEW GUINEA AND LONDON, GB / ACCESS Newswire / December 22, 2025 / SMX (Security Matters) PLC (NASDAQ:SMX; SMXWW), a leader in physical-to-digital authentication and traceability technology, today announced a joint initiative with FinGo, a secure digital identity provider, and Bougainville Refinery Ltd (BRL) to evaluate a combined technology framework for authenticating the gold supply chain from mine and miner through refinery and export.
The initiative reflects a shared objective to establish Bougainville as a global reference point for transparent, responsible, and technology-enabled gold trade, demonstrating how advanced authentication and digital identity infrastructure can be embedded at a national supply-chain level.

The parties will assess the deployment of an integrated material and human verification platform designed to deliver traceability, auditability, and transparency across the entire gold value chain. It brings together SMX’s molecular-level gold authentication, FinGo’s biometric digital identity and KYC/AML infrastructure, and BRL’s operational, compliance, and export capabilities as a licensed gold refinery and supply-chain operator.

Authenticating Both the Metal and the Human

The joint initiative addresses a challenge in global precious-metals markets: the ability to verifiably authenticate both the physical gold and the individuals handling it, in a manner that meets applicable regulatory, compliance, and ESG requirements.

SMX’s proprietary technology enables gold to be invisibly and permanently authenticated at the material level, creating a secure physical-digital link that remains intact through refining and downstream processing. This material identity is anchored to a tamper-resistant digital record, enabling continuous verification, auditability, and provenance assurance.

FinGo complements this capability through its Human Identity-as-a-Service (HIDaaS) platform, providing biometric identity verification, KYC/AML alignment, and secure authorization of individuals operating across the supply chain from miners and aggregators to refinery personnel and export counterparties. This is designed to enable actions, custody changes, and transactions to be confidently attributed to verified individuals, including in remote or infrastructure-limited environments.

Leveraging BRL’s Operations and Bougainville’s Commitment to Transparency

Bougainville Refinery Ltd brings established refinery operations, export workflows, and regulatory compliance processes into the initiative. BRL’s role is to operationally integrate SMX and FinGo technologies within real-world gold sourcing, refining, and export environments, with a goal to strengthen chain-of-custody integrity while supporting robust AML, KYC, and responsible-sourcing standards.

SMX believes that the joint initiative both aligns with the Bougainville Government’s stated commitment to responsible resource management and the use of advanced technologies to enhance transparency, trust, and economic participation across the gold value chain, as well as demonstrates how public-private partnerships can embed next-generation compliance and traceability infrastructure directly into national supply-chain operations.

Together, the initiative has been designed to evaluate how an integrated framework can enhance:

• End-to-end provenance and chain-of-custody assurance from mine to export

• Alignment with international KYC/AML, responsible-sourcing, and ESG standards

• Digitised, auditable compliance records for regulators, counterparties, and financiers

• Reduced reliance on manual, paper-based verification processes

Aligning with Global Gold Market Standards and Responsible Sourcing Framework

The initiative is aligned with the direction set by leading global gold-market bodies, including the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA), the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC), and the World Gold Council, to advance transparency, responsible sourcing, and robust chain-of-custody expectations across international precious-metals markets.

As regulators, refiners, and market participants face requirements to demonstrate compliance with responsible gold guidance, AML/KYC obligations, and ESG frameworks, the initiative is being designed to evaluate how physical-to-digital authentication and biometric identity infrastructure can act as practical, scalable enablers of these global standards.

By embedding material-level gold authentication, verified human identity, and auditable digital records directly into supply-chain operations, the initiative is being designed to represent a concrete step toward supporting the objectives articulated in LBMA Responsible Gold Guidance, DMCC sourcing and compliance frameworks, and World Gold Council principles strengthening trust, accountability, and consistency across global gold markets.

Setting a Global Benchmark for Responsible Gold Trade

Beyond the single deployment expected in the initiative by the parties, it is intended to serve as a reference model for how jurisdictions can modernise gold supply chains, balancing commercial efficiency with transparency, accountability, and inclusion.

By combining material-level authentication, biometric human identity, and operational supply-chain controls, the initiative aims to demonstrate how next-generation physical-to-digital infrastructure can underpin trusted gold markets not only for Bougainville, but as a replicable framework for governments, refiners, and exporters globally.

SMX believes that the initiative represents what is possible when government commitment, operational capability, and advanced technology converge: a supply-chain environment where miners, refiners, regulators, financiers, and end-markets can participate with confidence, even amid the complexity of global precious-metals trade.

Executive Commentary Jonathan Kenneth, Director, Bougainville Refinery Ltd, said: “This initiative will evaluate the ability to support miners, gold dealers and the Bougainville Government with genuine end-to-end transparency across the gold supply chain. By combining advanced authentication and digital identity technologies, the refinery believes that it can assist in stronger resource management, clearer custodial ownership, and compliance with global best-practice frameworks aligned with the World Gold Council, LBMA, and DMCC. This is an exciting time for Bougainville as we continue to progress toward a more transparent, responsible, and internationally trusted gold industry.”

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About Bougainville Refinery Ltd (BRL)

Bougainville Refinery Ltd is a gold refinery and supply-chain operator focused on compliant sourcing, refining, and export of precious metals. BRL operates with a strong emphasis on regulatory compliance, responsible sourcing, and transparent supply-chain operations.

About FinGo

FinGo is a digital identity company providing secure, biometric-based identity verification through its VeinID technology. FinGo’s Human Identity-as-a-Service platform enables privacy-preserving KYC, authentication, and transaction authorization across complex and remote supply chains.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

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

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PARIS, FR AND SINGAPORE, SG / ACCESS Newswire / December 11, 2025 / SMX (Security Matters) PLC (NASDAQ:SMX), the global leader in molecular-based material authentication and digital product passports, today announced a successful multi-day industrial pilot validating SMX’s ability to deliver full-chain traceability for cotton.

The pilot confirmed that SMX markers, applied during the mechanical recycling process, remain detectable and stable through fibre mixing, carding, yarn spinning, fabric formation, and into the final finished textile product.

This establishes a verifiable, scientific method to authenticate both material origin and the percentage of recycled cotton embedded in fabrics, addressing one of the biggest challenges facing global apparel supply chains.

Full-Chain Validation Achieved

During the industrial pilot, SMX demonstrated that its molecular markers:

• Can be applied to recycled cotton during shredding and spraying without affecting fibre quality.

• Remain fully traceable after blending virgin and recycled fibres in multiple ratios.

• Survive fibre opening, carding, and sliver formation with consistent detectability.

• Endure spinning processes, allowing clear verification in finished yarn.

• Persist through fabric formation and finishing, enabling authentication directly on the final textile.

This end-to-end validation confirms that SMX technology integrates with existing textile operations and provides a reliable, scalable mechanism for verifying recycled content – which could help brands, regulators, and manufacturers meet ESG and Digital Product Passport requirements.

A New Standard for Evidence-Based Sustainability, Trade Compliance, and Export Advantage

SMX believes that this industrial pilot marks a decisive advancement for the textile sector, proving that cotton can now retain an authenticated and machine-readable identity throughout its entire transformation journey. Beyond strengthening sustainability claims, SMX’s material-level verification equips manufacturers and exporters with trusted data needed to secure preferential tariff treatment, avoid misclassification penalties, and streamline cross-border documentation under origin-dependent frameworks.

The ability to scientifically confirm where fibres come from – and the exact recycled percentage embedded in the finished product – directly supports eligibility for free-trade agreements, reduced-duty corridors, and sustainability-linked trade incentives. In parallel, the data generated by SMX’s molecular markers integrates into the Product Digital Passport (PDP/DPP) ecosystem, enabling automated, regulator-ready records that document provenance, recycled content, and compliance attributes required under certain EU, US, and emerging Asian regulations.

By providing tamper-resistant verification that replaces assumption-based reporting, SMX can enable brands to strengthen ESG transparency, reduce exposure to customs audits and shipment delays, and accelerate market access for sustainability-certified goods.

Commercial Rollout

With the successful industrial proof now completed, SMX is ready to scale commercial deployment with leading apparel brands, recyclers, manufacturing groups, and global buyers seeking verifiable origin and recycled-content assurance.

SMX further believes that its ability to authenticate materials from recycling through to finished fabric could enable SMX to support customers in securing preferential tariffs, strengthening export competitiveness, meeting Digital Product Passport obligations, and protecting ESG claims with scientific certainty.

This milestone positions SMX as the enabling infrastructure for a new class of premium, traceable textile products – unlocking commercial value, accelerating compliance-driven adoption, and establishing a trusted global standard for material verification across the textile sector.

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

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 10, 2025 / SMX (Security Matters) PLC (NASDAQ:SMX), a global pioneer in molecular marking, identification, and digital product passports for a circular economy, today announced that it has been formally invited to participate as a featured speaker in an upcoming industry webinar hosted by the North American Flame Retardant Alliance (NAFRA) and the American Chemistry Council (ACC).

The webinar, titled “Advancing Circularity: Tracer Technologies for Flame Retardant Identification in Plastics“, will bring together leading technical experts, manufacturers, recyclers, policymakers, and value-chain stakeholders to examine next-generation technologies that can enhance safety, compliance, and circularity for flame-retardant plastics.

The SMX technical team will introduce how SMX’s patented molecular-marker platform, combined with SMX’s digital passport and ecosystem technologies, can enable a new industry capability for identifying, certifying, and tracing BFR-containing plastics through their full life cycle.

Showcasing SMX’s Breakthrough in BFR Identification & Material Intelligence

During the session, SMX will outline how its technology – already demonstrated in a series of technical demonstrations with NAFRA and with A*STAR in Singapore – can transform how the industry verifies and manages flame-retardant plastics across production, sorting, recycling, and reuse.

SMX’s presentation will describe how its platform enables:

• Accurate, material-level identification of plastics containing brominated flame retardants (BFR)

• Marking and certification of plastics that can create confidence for recycling, safety, and compliance

• A digital product passport ecosystem designed to securely document composition, circularity, and material movement

• A scalable approach for responsible BFR management across manufacturers, recyclers, and brands

SMX believes that these capabilities directly support industry goals to improve recycling outcomes, enhance compliance with safety frameworks, and build trusted supply-chain systems for complex materials.

Advancing Circularity: How SMX Technology Answers Sector Trends, Regulatory Pressures & Industry Demand

As part of the broader discussion on “Advancing Circularity: Tracer Technologies for Flame Retardant Identification in Plastics,” SMX will demonstrate how its molecular marking and digital passport platform is uniquely positioned to address the evolving dynamics shaping the future of plastics end-of-life management.

The session is expected to explore macro trends in sustainability, including:

• Rising regulatory pressures both nationally and internationally requiring verified identification of flame-retardant additives and certified end-of-life pathways

• Automotive-sector demand for traceable, compliant recycled materials that meet stringent safety and performance standards

• Recyclers’ growing need for accurate, real-time identification technologies to increase yield, reduce contamination, and create commercially viable recycled streams

• Corporate commitments to recycled content, driven by ESG targets, supply-chain resilience, and brand reputation

• Shifting consumer expectations, with the public increasingly demanding transparency, environmental responsibility, and verifiable data

• Initiatives from industry bodies and coalitions, which are pushing toward harmonized certification systems and standardized material passports

SMX will illustrate how its platform provides the missing link needed to progress from aspiration to implementation.

By embedding an invisible molecular tracer into materials and pairing it with a blockchain-backed digital passport, SMX offers:

• Certainty of composition – confirming whether plastics contain specific flame retardants

• End-to-end traceability – enabling recyclers, OEMs, and brands to verify material origins, additives, and recycling pathways

• A pathway for certified circularity – ensuring plastics are not just sorted, but can be recertified and reintroduced into high-value applications

• A harmonized documentation system aligned with emerging global frameworks such as DPPs, EPR schemes, and national recycling mandates

SMX believes that these combined capabilities directly support what lies ahead on the road to a more circular plastics economy:
A future where every plastic item carries a verifiable identity, every material flow is documented, and circularity can be measured, trusted, and commercialized.

A Platform to Accelerate U.S. Progress in Plastic Circularity

SMX’s invitation to the NAFRA / ACC webinar underscores the company’s growing role as a global technology partner for governments, regulators, and industry associations working to improve sustainability and traceability standards.

“The opportunity to present at the NAFRA webinar we believe reflects the industry’s increasing recognition that material-level intelligence is essential for safe and sustainable plastics management,” said Oliver Buckle-Wright, Vice President Client Success, SMX. “We look forward to sharing how molecular marking and digital passports can help the sector unlock a new generation of recycling, documentation, and circularity solutions.”

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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 the North American Flame Retardant Alliance (NAFRA)

The North American Flame Retardant Alliance represents the world’s leading producers of flame retardants, which are on the cutting edge of fire-safety chemistry and technology, and are dedicated to improving fire safety performance in a wide-range of products. The industry is also committed to strong chemical safety regulation, to protect users and those who may be exposed to our products, while also protecting that same population from the dangers of fire by promoting fire safety. For more information, please visit: https://www.flameretardantfacts.com/.

About the American Chemistry Council (ACC)

The American Chemistry Council’s mission is to advocate for the people, policy, and products of chemistry that make the United States the global leader in innovation and manufacturing. To achieve this, we: Champion science-based policy solutions across all levels of government; Drive continuous performance improvement to protect employees and communities through Responsible Care®; Foster the development of sustainability practices throughout ACC member companies; and Communicate authentically with communities about challenges and solutions for a safer, healthier and more sustainable way of life. Our vision is a world made better by chemistry, where people live happier, healthier, and more prosperous lives, safely and sustainably – for generations to come. Learn more at: https://www.americanchemistry.com/.

Forward-Looking Statements

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

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Increases Convertible Note Component by Additional $5 Million,

For Total Proceeds of up to $116.5M

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 9, 2025 / SMX (Security Matters) PLC (“SMX”), the pioneer of molecular “physical-to-digital” marking for supply-chain transparency, announced today that it has entered into an amendment (the “Amendment”) to its previously announced standby equity purchase agreement (the “Agreement”) with accredited investors, to increase the size of the facility by an additional $5 million. In addition, the Agreement was further amended to remove certain obligations of SMX to acquire bitcoin or another cryptocurrency with a portion of the proceeds under the Agreement, as amended, so long as SMX’s ordinary shares close above $10/share. The transactions contemplated by the Agreement originally closed on December 3, 2025.

Under the terms of the Amendment, the investors will purchase a new convertible promissory note from SMX in the aggregate principal amount of $5.0 million (with an OID of 20%, for a face value of $6.25 million).

The closing of the issuance and sale of the new convertible note is expected to occur prior to the end of 2025, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

RBW Capital Partners LLC is acting as the exclusive placement agent for the offering.

A copy of the Amendment and the new promissory note will be available in the Company’s Report on Form 6-K that will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).

The promissory note and the shares available upon conversion of the promissory note, were offered in a private placement pursuant to an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), and have not been registered under the 1933 Act, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration with the SEC or an applicable exemption from such registration requirements. SMX has agreed to file a registration statement with the SEC covering the resale of the ordinary shares issuable upon conversion of the promissory note.

This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.

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

Forward-Looking Statements

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

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters)

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