Author: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 16, 2025 / Every major transformation in technology begins with a simple idea. What if everything in a system could be identified, indexed, and retrieved with certainty? Google did that for information by mapping the internet into something searchable. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is now doing the same for materials by giving physical goods a permanent molecular identity that acts like a truth layer. Once a material can carry its own history, the entire supply chain becomes searchable, auditable, and verifiable.

This is why the world is paying attention. SMX has demonstrated authentication and traceability across plastics, metals, rubber, electronics, and now cotton. Each validation adds another category of global industry to an emerging ecosystem where materials behave like data. The result is a network that becomes more powerful with every sector added. This is the foundation of a search engine for the physical world.

SMX is not building a directory. It is building an index of truth. When a bale of cotton, a crate of recycled plastic, or a pallet of metal can be read like a digital object, industries gain visibility they never thought possible. And that visibility enables everything that comes next, from compliance to circularity to monetization.

Partnerships That Signal a Shift in Global Alignment

The rapid expansion of partnerships is not an accident. Leading manufacturers, recyclers, global brands, and government-backed institutions are approaching SMX because the company has something no one else can provide. A standardized, material-level verification system that integrates into existing operations while unlocking measurable economic, regulatory, and environmental value.

These relationships are forming across continents and across verticals. In plastics, the company has collaborated with industry leaders to validate material identity from waste collection to pellet production. In metals and precious resources, SMX has demonstrated authentication that supports circular recovery and reduces fraud. In hardware and sensitive components, it has proven identity solutions suited for national security supply chains. And with the latest cotton breakthrough, the textile sector has entered the fold.

Each partnership reinforces the next. The more industries adopt SMX’s system, the more valuable the index becomes. The global supply chain is moving toward a future where verification is not optional. It becomes infrastructure. Partners recognize that SMX is offering the backbone for that transition.

Institutional Interest Growing in Sync With Industrial Proof

Institutional interest has surged for a simple reason. SMX keeps delivering real-world validation in sectors that historically lacked credible, scalable traceability. Institutional capital tends to follow traction, not theory. And SMX is producing tangible progress in industries worth trillions. Investors see a company expanding outward across multiple verticals with a technology stack that becomes stronger each time a new material enters the network.

Institutions also understand the regulatory shift taking place. Europe is enforcing Digital Product Passports. The United States is tightening origin declarations. Asia is modernizing recycling frameworks. All these changes point toward one unavoidable reality. Verification will become mandatory. Companies positioned to deliver it at scale will become systemically important. SMX is stepping into that role.

This combination of sector expansion, regulatory alignment, and commercial readiness has placed SMX squarely on the radar of long-horizon institutional investors seeking exposure to infrastructure-level technologies. Verification is not a trend. It is the next decade’s foundation.

SMX Technology is Sought-After for Global Supply Chains

SMX has become popular for reasons that reach beyond sustainability. It is building a universal identification system that turns the world’s materials into searchable objects. It is proving that identity survives the stress of real production lines. It is integrating that identity into Product Digital Passports that feed compliance, trade, and circular economy systems. And it is constructing an economic value layer that monetizes verified materials through mechanisms pioneered by innovations like the Plastic Cycle Token.

The market is responding because this is not theory. It is operational. It works in plastics. It works in metals. It works in rubber. It works in hardware. And now, with the cotton breakthrough, it works in textiles. Each successful demonstration expands the reach and necessity of the SMX ecosystem. The more industries that plug in, the more indispensable the system becomes.

SMX is not positioning itself as a niche sustainability tool. It is positioning itself as the search engine, verification layer, and truth index for global materials. That is why partnerships are multiplying. That is why institutions are watching. And that is why the company is becoming one of the most strategically important players in the new era of supply chain transparency.

Industries evolve when truth becomes measurable. SMX is delivering that truth at the molecular level. The rest of the world is now aligning around it.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

The information in this press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, for example: matters relating to the Company’s fight against abusive and possibly illegal trading tactics against the Company’s stock; successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber and other materials; changes in SMX’s strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects and plans; SMX’s ability to develop and launch new products and services, including its planned Plastic Cycle Token; SMX’s ability to successfully and efficiently integrate future expansion plans and opportunities; SMX’s ability to grow its business in a cost-effective manner; SMX’s product development timeline and estimated research and development costs; the implementation, market acceptance and success of SMX’s business model; developments and projections relating to SMX’s competitors and industry; and SMX’s approach and goals with respect to technology. These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this press release, and current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve a number of judgments, risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing views as of any subsequent date, and no obligation is undertaken to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws. As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, actual results or performance may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include: the ability to maintain the listing of the Company’s shares on Nasdaq; changes in applicable laws or regulations; any lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on SMX’s business; the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations, and identify and realize additional opportunities; the risk of downturns and the possibility of rapid change in the highly competitive industry in which SMX operates; the risk that SMX and its current and future collaborators are unable to successfully develop and commercialize SMX’s products or services, or experience significant delays in doing so; the risk that the Company may never achieve or sustain profitability; the risk that the Company will need to raise additional capital to execute its business plan, which may not be available on acceptable terms or at all; the risk that the Company experiences difficulties in managing its growth and expanding operations; the risk that third-party suppliers and manufacturers are not able to fully and timely meet their obligations; the risk that SMX is unable to secure or protect its intellectual property; the possibility that SMX may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and other risks and uncertainties described in SMX’s filings from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Contact: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 15, 2025 / Markets have always rewarded certainty, but until recently, certainty was static. Verification lived in audits, reports, and compliance binders. Proof existed, but it could not move. It could not travel with assets. It could not be priced in real time. And because it was trapped on paper, it never fully entered the market’s value calculus.

That limitation is disappearing.

As materials become traceable at the molecular level and identity persists through transformation, proof stops being a compliance obligation and starts behaving like a financial primitive. The moment verification becomes portable, markets do what they always do. They reprice everything.

Static Proof Had a Ceiling, Tradable Proof Does Not

Traditional verification systems were designed to satisfy regulators, not markets. They answered yes-or-no questions after the fact. Was this compliant? Was that certified? Did the paperwork exist at the time of inspection?

What they could not do was dynamically differentiate assets.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) changes that by embedding identity directly into materials and linking that identity to digital infrastructure. Proof is no longer something you check periodically. It is something that travels with the asset, survives processing, and can be referenced continuously.

That shift matters because markets price what they can see and trust. Once proof becomes persistent and transferable, it stops being binary. It becomes gradable, comparable, and valuable.

Verified Materials Behave Differently in the Market

When two materials look identical, but only one can prove its identity, markets do not treat them equally.

Verified silver becomes preferred industrial input. Verified plastics command premium pricing and regulatory acceptance. Verified cotton gains access to restricted supply chains. Verified gold strengthens reserve credibility and collateral status. Verified hardware reduces risk across financial and security systems.

None of this requires mandates. It happens naturally. Insurers reduce premiums. Counterparties adjust terms. Financiers favor assets with lower verification risk. Over time, liquidity pools shift toward what can be trusted without friction.

Proof becomes a performance attribute.

SMX Is Converting Verification Into Value

SMX’s approach does not stop at proving origin or composition. It creates a foundation where verified materials can participate differently in markets.

By embedding identity at the molecular level, SMX enables materials to carry verifiable history, compliance status, and authenticity throughout their lifecycle. That identity can be referenced, enforced, and eventually monetized.

This is why SMX’s platform spans such diverse sectors. Plastics, textiles, precious metals, rare earths, and hardware all face the same economic inflection point. Once proof exists, it can be priced.

The company is not creating separate solutions for each industry. It is applying the same value logic everywhere proof was previously disconnected from economics.

Two Tiers Are Forming, With or Without Permission

Markets do not wait for regulation to settle. They move ahead of it.

As verified materials gain recognition, a two-tier system begins to form. Assets with persistent identity trade freely, attract capital, and integrate seamlessly into regulated environments. Assets without it face higher scrutiny, slower movement, and lower utility.

This is already visible in sustainability-linked supply chains, sanctions-sensitive commodities, and high-assurance manufacturing. It will expand as verification infrastructure becomes standard rather than exceptional.

Once proof is tradable, unverified assets are no longer neutral. They are discounted.

From Compliance Cost to Strategic Advantage

For years, verification was framed as an expense. Something to manage, minimize, and tolerate. That framing is flipping.

Companies that adopt identity-backed materials early gain pricing power, market access, and operational flexibility. They reduce friction with regulators. They simplify audits. They strengthen trust with partners. Most importantly, they turn verification into a differentiator rather than a burden.

SMX sits at the center of that shift because it makes proof durable and usable, not just present.

Markets Always Follow the Signal

When markets recognize a new source of certainty, capital flows adjust quickly. Assets that can prove themselves attract demand. Assets that cannot are questioned. The rules do not change overnight, but the outcomes do.

Proof is no longer a checkbox. It is becoming a signal.

SMX is building the infrastructure that allows that signal to exist across physical materials. As proof becomes portable and tradable, markets will continue doing what they do best. They will reward what can be verified and penalize what cannot.

The repricing has already started.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

The information in this press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, for example: matters relating to the Company’s fight against abusive and possibly illegal trading tactics against the Company’s stock; successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber and other materials; changes in SMX’s strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects and plans; SMX’s ability to develop and launch new products and services, including its planned Plastic Cycle Token; SMX’s ability to successfully and efficiently integrate future expansion plans and opportunities; SMX’s ability to grow its business in a cost-effective manner; SMX’s product development timeline and estimated research and development costs; the implementation, market acceptance and success of SMX’s business model; developments and projections relating to SMX’s competitors and industry; and SMX’s approach and goals with respect to technology. These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this press release, and current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve a number of judgments, risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing views as of any subsequent date, and no obligation is undertaken to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws. As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, actual results or performance may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include: the ability to maintain the listing of the Company’s shares on Nasdaq; changes in applicable laws or regulations; any lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on SMX’s business; the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations, and identify and realize additional opportunities; the risk of downturns and the possibility of rapid change in the highly competitive industry in which SMX operates; the risk that SMX and its current and future collaborators are unable to successfully develop and commercialize SMX’s products or services, or experience significant delays in doing so; the risk that the Company may never achieve or sustain profitability; the risk that the Company will need to raise additional capital to execute its business plan, which may not be available on acceptable terms or at all; the risk that the Company experiences difficulties in managing its growth and expanding operations; the risk that third-party suppliers and manufacturers are not able to fully and timely meet their obligations; the risk that SMX is unable to secure or protect its intellectual property; the possibility that SMX may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and other risks and uncertainties described in SMX’s filings from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Contact: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 15, 2025 / For decades, global markets optimized for speed, scale, and efficiency. Supply chains stretched across continents. Materials moved faster. Costs came down. Profits went up. What did not evolve was identity. The assumption was simple. If something passed inspection once, it could be trusted forever.

That assumption no longer holds.

Across finance, manufacturing, energy, defense, and sustainability, the same failure point keeps appearing. Materials move, transform, blend, melt, shred, and re-enter circulation, but their identity does not survive the journey. Paper trails break. Certificates lose relevance. Declarations replace proof. What once felt like administrative inconvenience is now emerging as systemic risk.

This is the identity gap, and it is rapidly becoming the most expensive problem markets did not price in.

When Materials Lose Identity, Risk Multiplies Quietly

Gold bars in sovereign vaults carry stamps, not memory. Silver flows through industrial supply chains at speeds no audit system can follow. Cotton fibers lose origin the moment they are spun. Plastics become indistinguishable after shredding and recycling. Hardware components circulate globally with no persistent authentication.

Each of these systems relies on trust layered on top of documentation. That model worked when enforcement was light and incentives were aligned. It fails when regulation tightens, sanctions expand, and verification becomes mandatory rather than optional.

Unverified materials introduce invisible liabilities. They compromise ESG claims. They undermine sanctions compliance. They weaken reserve credibility. They expose manufacturers to recalls, fines, and reputational damage. The cost does not appear immediately. It accumulates silently until an audit, investigation, or geopolitical event forces the issue.

Markets do not tolerate unknowns forever. They eventually demand proof.

Regulation Did Not Create the Problem, It Exposed It

The identity gap did not emerge because regulators became aggressive. It existed long before enforcement caught up. What changed is that regulators, insurers, financiers, and counterparties are now aligned around one principle. Claims are no longer sufficient.

Carbon disclosures without verified inputs are being challenged. Recycled-content mandates are being scrutinized. Sanctions compliance now reaches backward through supply chains. Hardware authentication has become a national security issue, not an IT problem.

This shift exposes a hard truth. Legacy systems were never designed to carry identity at the material level. They were designed to record transactions, not preserve truth through transformation.

Once a material changes form, its history disappears.

SMX Targets the Gap Others Cannot Reach

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) approaches the problem from the only place it can be solved. The material itself.

Instead of tracking paperwork, SMX embeds molecular identity directly into physical materials. That identity survives melting, shredding, blending, recasting, and reuse. Gold retains its fingerprint. Silver carries its provenance. Plastics prove recycled content. Cotton maintains origin. Hardware components authenticate themselves.

This is not a software overlay. It is an infrastructure layer.

By giving materials a persistent, verifiable identity, SMX closes the gap that paperwork, stamps, and declarations never could. Proof becomes intrinsic, not inferred.

Why Every Sector Is Facing the Same Reckoning

The identity gap is not sector-specific. It is structural.

Precious metals face sovereign audits and sanctions scrutiny. Industrial metals face counterfeit risk and illicit sourcing. Textiles face forced-labor enforcement. Plastics face recycled-content mandates. Electronics face authentication and security concerns. Defense and aerospace face zero-tolerance requirements.

Different industries. Same vulnerability.

Once verification exists, anything without it becomes questionable. Markets do not wait for mandates. They preemptively discount risk. Materials that cannot prove identity lose mobility, pricing power, and financial utility.

This is how two-tier systems form. Verified materials become preferred. Unverified materials become constrained.

Proof Is Becoming Infrastructure, Not a Feature

What SMX is building is not a compliance tool. It is foundational infrastructure for a world that no longer accepts assumptions.

Identity that persists through transformation changes how markets behave. It enables pricing differentiation. It strengthens balance sheets. It supports enforcement without friction. It restores trust without reliance on belief.

Most importantly, it scales across industries without needing reinvention. The same identity framework applies whether the material is gold, silver, plastic, cotton, or silicon.

That universality is what makes the identity gap so dangerous and its resolution so valuable.

The Cost of Ignoring Identity Is Rising Fast

Markets punish late adopters. They always have.

Companies, institutions, and governments that move early to secure verifiable materials will gain credibility, access, and leverage. Those who delay will absorb the cost of forced transitions, rushed audits, and reputational damage.

The identity gap is no longer abstract. It is measurable. And it is closing.

SMX is not chasing trends. It is addressing the one structural weakness every modern system shares. When materials can prove who they are, markets can finally trust what they hold.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

The information in this press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, for example: matters relating to the Company’s fight against abusive and possibly illegal trading tactics against the Company’s stock; successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber and other materials; changes in SMX’s strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects and plans; SMX’s ability to develop and launch new products and services, including its planned Plastic Cycle Token; SMX’s ability to successfully and efficiently integrate future expansion plans and opportunities; SMX’s ability to grow its business in a cost-effective manner; SMX’s product development timeline and estimated research and development costs; the implementation, market acceptance and success of SMX’s business model; developments and projections relating to SMX’s competitors and industry; and SMX’s approach and goals with respect to technology. These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this press release, and current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve a number of judgments, risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing views as of any subsequent date, and no obligation is undertaken to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws. As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, actual results or performance may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include: the ability to maintain the listing of the Company’s shares on Nasdaq; changes in applicable laws or regulations; any lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on SMX’s business; the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations, and identify and realize additional opportunities; the risk of downturns and the possibility of rapid change in the highly competitive industry in which SMX operates; the risk that SMX and its current and future collaborators are unable to successfully develop and commercialize SMX’s products or services, or experience significant delays in doing so; the risk that the Company may never achieve or sustain profitability; the risk that the Company will need to raise additional capital to execute its business plan, which may not be available on acceptable terms or at all; the risk that the Company experiences difficulties in managing its growth and expanding operations; the risk that third-party suppliers and manufacturers are not able to fully and timely meet their obligations; the risk that SMX is unable to secure or protect its intellectual property; the possibility that SMX may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and other risks and uncertainties described in SMX’s filings from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Contact: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 15, 2025 / For more than a century, the global financial system has rested on an unchallenged assumption. Central banks believe they know what sits in their vaults. Sovereign wealth funds trust the numbers on their balance sheets. Bullion banks operate as if refinery stamps and certificates are enough. But no nation on earth has ever conducted a full, bottom-up forensic audit of its precious-metal reserves using modern verification tools. Not once.

That blind spot has persisted because the system was built on trust, paperwork, and inertia. Gold bars move. They are melted, recast, re-stamped, and re-certified. Every time that happens, identity collapses into assumption. Certificates do not survive heat. Stamps do not carry memory. Chain-of-custody documents only work until they do not.

That era is ending, and it will not end quietly.

Geopolitical tension, sanctions enforcement, and the rise of illicit metals flows are converging into a single pressure point. Nations are being forced to confront a question they have avoided for decades. Can their reserves actually prove what they are? When the first sovereign audit begins, the problem will not be hypothetical. It will be physical, visible, and impossible to ignore.

The Vaults Look Certain, The Data Is Not.

Most sovereign vaults hold bars with fragmented histories. Some were acquired during regime changes. Some were transferred during wartime evacuations. Others passed through refineries that no longer exist. Many have been melted and recast multiple times. On paper, they are pristine. In reality, their identities have been erased by time and process.

When one nation demands molecular verification of its reserves, the rest will have no choice but to follow. No central bank wants to be the outlier holding assets that cannot withstand forensic scrutiny. No government wants to discover that part of its monetary backstop traces back to sanctioned or illicit sources. Gold that cannot prove its origin becomes a liability, not a hedge.

This is not about curiosity. It is about compliance, credibility, and financial defense.

Silver Is the Catalyst the Market Overlooked

Gold will face the spotlight, but silver will force the issue.

Unlike gold, silver does not sit quietly in vaults. It moves constantly through industrial supply chains, electronics, energy systems, medical devices, and advanced manufacturing. It is refined, alloyed, consumed, and recycled at scale. That velocity makes silver the weakest link in the precious-metals trust chain, and therefore the most revealing.

TrueSilver, SMX’s (NASDAQ:SMX) molecularly verified silver platform, exposes the same flaw that exists in gold, but at industrial speed. Once silver can prove its identity through melting, refining, and reuse, the question becomes unavoidable. Why should gold, the world’s ultimate reserve asset, operate with less verification than industrial silver?

TrueSilver does not just authenticate silver. It sets the benchmark that gold can no longer escape.

A Two-Tier Reserve System Is Inevitable

Once molecular verification enters sovereign vaults, the reserve market will split instantly.

Tier 1 reserves will consist of metals that carry persistent, verifiable identity at the material level. Tier 2 reserves will consist of metals that rely on legacy documentation, assumptions, and trust. Physically identical bars will no longer be financially equal.

Central banks do not price uncertainty generously. Collateral rules will tighten. Inter-sovereign transactions will demand higher standards. Balance sheets will be reassessed. The moment verification exists, anything without it is discounted.

This is how markets always behave. Bonds, energy reserves, and even commodities all went through this transition. Once proof became measurable, the unverified paid the price.

SMX Is Building the Verification Layer that the System Lacks

SMX sits at the center of this transition because it solves the one problem the legacy system cannot. Identity that survives transformation.

Its molecular marking technology gives precious metals a permanent fingerprint that endures melting, casting, storage, and time. Gold remembers. Silver remembers. Provenance becomes measurable, not assumed.

With TrueSilver already demonstrating how verification works in high-velocity industrial environments, SMX is extending that same architecture into sovereign and institutional vaults. This is not theoretical infrastructure. It is deployable, scalable, and aligned with how regulators and financial institutions already operate.

The result is not just compliance. It is credibility.

The Vault Reset Is Coming

The first nation to authenticate its reserves will trigger a chain reaction. Others will move quickly to avoid reputational risk, financial discounting, and geopolitical exposure. Vaults that can prove their holdings will command trust. Vaults that cannot will be questioned.

Gold without identity will lose part of its luster. Silver without verification will lose its legitimacy. And reserves built on assumption will discover the cost of certainty arriving late.

SMX is not betting on panic. It is preparing for inevitability.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

The information in this press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, for example: matters relating to the Company’s fight against abusive and possibly illegal trading tactics against the Company’s stock; successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber and other materials; changes in SMX’s strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects and plans; SMX’s ability to develop and launch new products and services, including its planned Plastic Cycle Token; SMX’s ability to successfully and efficiently integrate future expansion plans and opportunities; SMX’s ability to grow its business in a cost-effective manner; SMX’s product development timeline and estimated research and development costs; the implementation, market acceptance and success of SMX’s business model; developments and projections relating to SMX’s competitors and industry; and SMX’s approach and goals with respect to technology. These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this press release, and current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve a number of judgments, risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing views as of any subsequent date, and no obligation is undertaken to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws. As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, actual results or performance may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include: the ability to maintain the listing of the Company’s shares on Nasdaq; changes in applicable laws or regulations; any lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on SMX’s business; the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations, and identify and realize additional opportunities; the risk of downturns and the possibility of rapid change in the highly competitive industry in which SMX operates; the risk that SMX and its current and future collaborators are unable to successfully develop and commercialize SMX’s products or services, or experience significant delays in doing so; the risk that the Company may never achieve or sustain profitability; the risk that the Company will need to raise additional capital to execute its business plan, which may not be available on acceptable terms or at all; the risk that the Company experiences difficulties in managing its growth and expanding operations; the risk that third-party suppliers and manufacturers are not able to fully and timely meet their obligations; the risk that SMX is unable to secure or protect its intellectual property; the possibility that SMX may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and other risks and uncertainties described in SMX’s filings from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Contact: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 15, 2025 / As the market has paid increasing attention to, and begun revaluing, SMX’s (NASDAQ:SMX) potential across plastics, gold, rare earths, and hardware authentication, one material has remained largely under-discussed.

Silver.

Not because it is unimportant. Because it has been taken for granted. Treated as a familiar input that feels benign, plentiful, and low-risk. The kind of material everyone assumes is already handled.

That assumption is wrong.

Silver represents one of the most significant and least examined vulnerabilities moving through modern supply chains today.

The Metal That Touches Everything and Slips Through the Cracks

Silver is certainly not a niche commodity. It does not sit quietly in vaults or move through narrow, controlled channels. It behaves like a utility and is embedded in nearly everything modern economies produce.

Electronics. Energy systems. Medical devices. Industrial equipment. Communications infrastructure. Defense hardware.

If it turns on, transmits, stores, senses, or connects, silver is almost certainly inside it.

That ubiquity makes silver indispensable. It also makes it dangerous when visibility fails. A material this widespread, moving this fast, without a persistent identity, creates blind spots that scale. And blind spots at scale do not stay benign for long.

The Most Important Metal No One Tracks Properly

Silver occupies a rare position in global supply chains. It is both precious and industrial. Valuable enough to matter, common enough to move continuously. It is melted, blended, reused, recycled, and redeployed over and over again. Each transformation strips away traditional forms of traceability.

For decades, the system compensated with paperwork. Declarations. Certificates. Estimates. Assumptions layered on top of assumptions. That approach was fragile even when silver prices were low.

With silver pushing into the ATH price territory, the cost of uncertainty has changed dramatically. Not purely from a financial perspective, but from a defense one as well.

When silver loses its provenance, supply chains lose visibility at the exact point where precision matters most. In electronics, especially, even small misrepresentations can cascade quickly. Components fail. Compliance gaps emerge. Entire product lines can be exposed.

Silver is not where supply chains break quietly. It is where vulnerabilities surface first.

Why Silver Exposes Systemic Risk Faster Than Anything Else

Most materials can hide inefficiency for years. Silver cannot. It moves too quickly and touches too many sectors. When sourcing is unclear, recycled content is overstated, or custody is obscured, silver reveals the problem earlier than plastics, earlier than gold, earlier than specialty metals.

That is why silver functions as a stress test for modern supply chains.

If a system cannot prove silver, it cannot prove anything.

SMX recognized this dynamic early. Rather than treating silver as a footnote to precious metals programs, the company approached it as a verification challenge that demanded material-level identity. The result is trueSilver, SMX’s framework for embedding invisible molecular markers directly into silver so it can carry its identity through melting, reprocessing, reuse, and recycling.

Under trueSilver, silver no longer depends on documents to explain itself. The metal becomes the record.

From Overlooked to Infrastructure-Critical

This shift extends far beyond sustainability narratives. Silver’s role in electronics alone makes it infrastructure-critical. As supply chains grow more complex and regulatory scrutiny intensifies, the inability to verify silver becomes a structural risk, not an accounting issue.

This is where SMX’s broader platform comes into focus. The same molecular identity layer that has proven effective across plastics, textiles, hardware, and rare earths applies cleanly to silver. The difference is urgency.

Silver does not tolerate ambiguity for long.

By giving silver a persistent identity, SMX closes one of the most exposed gaps in modern manufacturing. Verification becomes automatic. Audits become factual. Disputes lose oxygen. And critically, materials that once flowed anonymously through global systems become far harder to misuse, misrepresent, or divert for unintended purposes.

DMCC and the Path to Integration

Silver does not move in isolation. It moves through global trade networks that demand trust at scale. With its expanding presence in international verification frameworks, including engagement through hubs such as DMCC, SMX is already positioning silver for integration into a broader ecosystem of authenticated materials.

As silver pricing tightens and demand accelerates across electronics and advanced manufacturing, that integration becomes inevitable. The question is not whether silver will need verification. The question is whether the infrastructure will be ready when the pressure arrives.

SMX’s approach suggests preparation is already underway.

Proof Is the Difference Between Stability and Disruption

Silver’s recent price action has refocused attention on its value. Its role in electronics underscores its necessity. Together, those forces expose a truth that supply chains can no longer ignore.

Materials this critical cannot rely on trust alone.

Silver has been overlooked in the public narrative, not because it is secondary, but because it is foundational. And foundational materials have a habit of disappearing into systems until something breaks.

SMX’s work brings silver back into view, not as a commodity to be debated, but as a system to be verified. At a time when proof is becoming the baseline, that distinction matters. Not just for sustainability or compliance, but for security.

Because bad actors exist. And where supply chain vulnerabilities can be exploited, they eventually will be.

Silver without a verifiable record of where it came from and where it has been is one of those vulnerabilities. Not because its composition can be altered or its physical integrity compromised, but because its value can be. Untracked silver can move, change hands, and generate millions of dollars outside transparent systems. That is where risk accumulates. And worse, unleashed.

That is the problem. And it is one SMX, alongside its partners, takes very seriously.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

The information in this press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, for example: matters relating to the Company’s fight against abusive and possibly illegal trading tactics against the Company’s stock; successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of gold, steel, rubber and other materials; changes in SMX’s strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects and plans; SMX’s ability to develop and launch new products and services, including its planned Plastic Cycle Token; SMX’s ability to successfully and efficiently integrate future expansion plans and opportunities; SMX’s ability to grow its business in a cost-effective manner; SMX’s product development timeline and estimated research and development costs; the implementation, market acceptance and success of SMX’s business model; developments and projections relating to SMX’s competitors and industry; and SMX’s approach and goals with respect to technology. These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this press release, and current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve a number of judgments, risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing views as of any subsequent date, and no obligation is undertaken to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws. As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, actual results or performance may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include: the ability to maintain the listing of the Company’s shares on Nasdaq; changes in applicable laws or regulations; any lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on SMX’s business; the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations, and identify and realize additional opportunities; the risk of downturns and the possibility of rapid change in the highly competitive industry in which SMX operates; the risk that SMX and its current and future collaborators are unable to successfully develop and commercialize SMX’s products or services, or experience significant delays in doing so; the risk that the Company may never achieve or sustain profitability; the risk that the Company will need to raise additional capital to execute its business plan, which may not be available on acceptable terms or at all; the risk that the Company experiences difficulties in managing its growth and expanding operations; the risk that third-party suppliers and manufacturers are not able to fully and timely meet their obligations; the risk that SMX is unable to secure or protect its intellectual property; the possibility that SMX may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and other risks and uncertainties described in SMX’s filings from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 12, 2025 / SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is not an overnight sensation. For years, it’s been building toward the moment that the global supply chain was not yet ready to confront. The idea was simple but disruptive. Materials should not rely on paperwork, declarations, or trust to prove their identity. They should be able to show it themselves with something far more persuasive: PROOF.

That idea is no longer theoretical. And the market is finally responding. Yes, its stock surged. But that’s backstory now. The real interest in SMX should be about what is ahead for a company that has the technology to change supply chain landscapes across the board.

Again, not new to many. Its molecular identity technology has been in development, testing, and real-world demonstration well before 2025. The company spent years embedding molecular markers into materials and proving that identity can survive manufacturing, processing, recycling, and trade. What changed is not the technology. What changed is the environment around it.

Supply chains are now under pressure from both regulators and consumers to evolve. Neither is willing to rely on assumptions anymore. They want something far more credible. Truth. More importantly, they want that truth backed by proof.

From Trust to Proof

With it, global commerce can change the default setting from “trust” to “verified.” Suppliers can confidently certify materials. Brands can rely on supporting documentation. And regulators can accept declarations as proof points. In other words, through a simple-to-embed SMX molecular marker, supply chains can be held to their highest standard.

Regulators that demand verifiable evidence get it. Investors who reject ESG claims that cannot be substantiated no longer have to. Consumers who expect transparency that goes beyond marketing language get what they want. Everyone can win. And they come through SMX technology, which closes the gap between what companies believe is happening in their supply chains and what they can actually prove, making it impossible to ignore.

This change is also structural. Supply chains built on trust are fragile. Supply chains built on proof are resilient.

SMX anticipated that shift long before it became fashionable to talk about it.

Years of Work Before Recognition

Well before the recent surge in attention, SMX was doing the unglamorous work. Embedding molecular markers into plastics. Validating identity retention in rubber. Demonstrating traceability in metals. Testing whether proof could survive the harsh realities of industrial processing.

Each material presented different challenges. Each required a solution capable of operating at commercial scale, not just in a lab. SMX methodically expanded the scope of its platform, proving that identity could persist where traditional tracking systems fail.

The most recent demonstration involving cotton crystallized that effort. Cotton has long been one of the hardest materials to trace. Once fibers are shredded, blended, and spun, origin disappears. SMX showed that molecular identity can survive those transformations, turning one of the most opaque materials in global trade into a verifiable asset.

That was not a sudden breakthrough. It was the result of years of groundwork.

And cotton is not standing alone.

In precious metals, SMX has demonstrated that molecular identity can survive refining and trading processes, including work connected to the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre. That capability introduces the possibility of identity-backed bullion and verified metals markets where provenance has historically been assumed rather than proven.

In plastics, deployments with partners such as REDWAVE and A*STAR have shown how molecular marking can verify composition, recycled content, and material history at industrial scale. These are not isolated pilots. They are sector-level validations that show the technology works across fundamentally different material systems.

Together, these milestones place SMX well beyond early-stage experimentation. They show the platform is gaining traction across multiple high-value global industries.

Why the Market Reacted Now

Here’s the part causing all the interest. The market’s reaction is not about novelty. It is about necessity.

What SMX offers aligns directly with the pressures facing modern supply chains. Governments are tightening import controls. Brands face legal and reputational risk from unverifiable claims. Investors are allocating capital toward companies that can demonstrate real accountability.

In that environment, SMX’s technology stopped looking like future infrastructure and started looking like a present-day necessity.

Materials embedded with molecular identity behave differently in the market. They reduce risk. They simplify compliance. They allow companies to prove claims rather than defend them. That capability carries immediate economic value.

Recognition, Not Hype

It’s important to distinguish recognition from speculation. The interest surrounding SMX is grounded in validation. The technology exists. It works. It operates at commercial scale. And it addresses a structural weakness shared across industries.

SMX does not require new manufacturing infrastructure. It does not rely on manual data entry. It embeds identity directly into the material itself. That shift fundamentally changes how verification works.

When materials can prove what they are, supply chains gain confidence. Confidence reduces friction. Reduced friction creates value.

That is why the valuation conversation has shifted.

A Structural Shift Underway

Yes, SMX’s $116.6 million ELOC provides flexibility. But it’s not the reason for sustained interest. The reason is alignment. The global economy has moved from trust to verification. From assumptions to evidence. From tolerance to accountability.

SMX built for that world years ago. The market is simply catching up to a technology whose time has arrived.

By no means is this latest chapter the end of the story. SMX continues to prove its value to investors and organizations worldwide, most recently in front of high-stakes decision makers at NAFRA. Expect more of that. SMX is seizing the moment when preparation meets necessity. And when that happens, recognition does not fade. It compounds.

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 communication 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, but are not limited to, statements regarding the Company’s expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions, or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts, events, or circumstances that SMX expects, believes, or anticipates will or may occur in the future, including statements relating to the Company’s business strategy, financial position, future operations, future revenues, projected costs, prospects, plans, and objectives of management, as well as statements regarding the Company’s liquidity position, capital needs, anticipated financing timelines, expected dilution, future share issuances, the anticipated use of proceeds, expected performance of the amended financing agreement, market conditions, adoption of the Company’s technology, commercial pipeline, regulatory approvals, industry trends, competitive position, and any assumptions underlying the foregoing, are forward-looking statements.

Forward-looking statements are based on the Company’s current expectations and assumptions regarding future events and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, risks relating to: the Company’s ability to successfully execute its operating plans; the Company’s ability to obtain additional financing on acceptable terms or at all; the Company’s ability to maintain compliance with Nasdaq listing standards; market conditions and volatility in the trading price of the Company’s ordinary shares; dilution that may result from the Company’s existing financing arrangements; the Company’s ability to access capital under the standby equity purchase agreement and related amendments; the timing and occurrence of any closings under such agreements; the Company’s expectations regarding its financial runway and future capital needs; risks associated with the Company’s ability to scale its technology, secure customer adoption, or convert pilot programs into commercial deployments; risks relating to supply chain conditions and global economic trends; the Company’s dependence on key personnel; the Company’s ability to maintain intellectual property protection and defend against infringement claims; changes in applicable laws and regulations; general economic, political, and market conditions; risks relating to digital asset markets and the Company’s potential future acquisition or holding of digital assets; and other factors detailed from time to time in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including the Company’s Annual Report on Form 20-F and its subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made and are not guarantees of future performance. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by applicable law. Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated due to various risks and uncertainties, and all forward-looking statements contained herein are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.

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SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 12, 2025 / For decades, global industries kept moving forward on the assumption that supply chains were essentially reliable. The belief was that materials were what suppliers claimed they were, that certifications reflected real practices, and that sustainability metrics could be trusted because companies intended to act responsibly. That belief worked as long as no one looked too closely. Once governments and markets began demanding actual proof, the old system cracked open. Intention was no longer enough.

Today, the gap between what companies think is happening in their supply chains and what is actually happening has become too wide to ignore. Regulators are tightening disclosure rules, consumers are demanding transparency, and investors are rejecting sustainability claims that cannot be verified. Industries that once relied on paper trails and supplier promises are discovering that those tools were never designed for the scrutiny of 2025. Because of that, the world has shifted from tolerance to verification.

This change isn’t driven by scandal or blame. It’s driven by maturity. Supply chains have become complex, global, and fragile. Systems that were built for trust are now expected to hold up under forensic inspection. The only path forward is verifiable data that moves with the material itself. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) can provide that. And at the same time, deliver the one thing every industry suddenly needs: Physical proof.

The Moment Materials Become Intelligent

That is something supply chains never had. A way for materials to identify themselves. With SMX technology embedded, a plastic pellet can confirm whether it is virgin or recycled. The same is now true for cotton, rubber, and textiles. SMX’s molecular identity can authenticate these materials long before they move through the supply chain unnoticed. These capabilities are not theoretical. They exist, they are proven, and they already work at commercial scale.

What makes the system powerful is not just the digital tracking component. It’s the way SMX delivers it. The company embeds a molecular marker inside the material at the beginning of its journey. That marker survives manufacturing, processing, transportation, and recycling. When scanned, it reveals a secure digital record tied to the material’s identity. This flips the burden of truth. Instead of relying on every link in the chain to record data correctly, the material records itself. And the timing could not be more urgent.

Industries around the world are under pressure to deliver exactly this kind of visibility. Automotive manufacturers need to trace metals and rare earth minerals used in batteries. Packaging companies must prove recycled content levels. Fashion brands must document ethical sourcing. Governments need confirmation that imported materials meet environmental or safety standards. SMX does more than solve any one of these sectors’ problems. It solves a structural weakness shared by all of them.

Pressure Is Coming From Every Direction

That pressure is what has created the surge in interest. Europe’s new regulations require physical evidence of sustainability claims. The global plastics treaty is moving toward mandatory verification of recycled content. Battery material sourcing is under intense geopolitical scrutiny. Even carbon markets are cracking down on unverifiable credits. Every one of these forces points toward a single requirement. Companies must prove the truth of their materials.

Markets are responding. Institutional investors, including some of the world’s largest banks and philanthropic foundations, are allocating capital toward companies that can substantiate their ESG commitments. Consumers are rewarding brands that offer transparency. Regulators are imposing penalties for unverifiable claims and incomplete reporting. Meanwhile, the financial risk of getting it wrong is rising. A mislabeled shipment can trigger fines. Unverified material can halt a production line. A failed audit can erase brand trust built over decades.

This convergence makes SMX’s technology essential instead of optional. The world no longer accepts claims without evidence. It wants materials that can speak for themselves. SMX built the platform that gives them that voice. Whether the material is plastic, rubber, metal, textile, or an industrial component, the ability to embed identity at the molecular level creates a universal verification engine ready for global adoption.

Why SMX Sits at the Center of the New Era

SMX is not adding another random tool to the circularity mission’s arsenal. It’s providing the only known system capable of delivering molecular-level precision, creating an infrastructure layer for a world that now demands accountability. It’s the enabling technology that ties physical materials to verifiable data, offering clarity in a landscape that urgently needs it. This is why interest is accelerating across continents. This is why brands, governments, and institutional partners are paying attention.

A supply chain without material intelligence cannot meet the expectations of modern regulation or modern markets. A supply chain built on SMX’s molecular identity system can. It gives companies a pathway to operate with confidence rather than on assumptions. That confidence does more than meet compliance. It protects reputations, prevents disruption, and can create a competitive advantage.

Do not believe otherwise. The materials accountability era has arrived. SMX did not wait for it. SMX built the technology that makes it work. And finally, the world is paying attention.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

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

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 12, 2025 / Whenever a technology shows the potential to reshape supply chains, people naturally lean in. They want to understand how it scales, how it fits, and how it operates within the industrial world already in motion. That level of curiosity is healthy. It reflects a market that recognizes when something new might redefine what’s possible.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is generating exactly that kind of attention. And like any transformative platform, understanding how it works eliminates questions before they arise. Some observers initially assume the challenge is larger than it actually is, imagining the technology reaching backward to tag every steel beam, textile fiber, or plastic component already in circulation. Viewed through that lens, mass integration looks impossible. But that assumption starts from the wrong point of reference.

SMX was never built to rewrite the past. While itcan embed a molecular signature into existing products, its primary role is to enhance the future. There, it’s a perfect fit.

The world renews itself constantly through production cycles. Every day, steel plants produce new heats, plastics manufacturers blend fresh resin, textile mills extrude new fiber, and refineries create purified metals. These are the moments when SMX enters the picture. Quietly, seamlessly, and at the point where materials first come into existence.

Integration Happens at the Source, Not After the Fact

SMX’s molecular identity is applied at the earliest stage of manufacturing. A plastics plant blending resin. A steel mill forming a batch during the heat stage. A textile producer extruding polymer into fiber. A refinery purifying metal. These are the natural integration points. The marker becomes part of the material itself, not something attached later. Once embedded, it remains permanent, invisible, and functional throughout the lifecycle.

This approach doesn’t just remove the perceived obstacles. It highlights the scale of the opportunity. There’s no retrofitting of old infrastructure. No global hunt for products already out in circulation. Everything that exists today can remain unchanged. It doesn’t have to. SMX can add its molecular signature to existing items, say, if a brand wanted to protect provenance or if a plastics resin distributor wanted to start tracking where its resin travels and back.

Still, the best integration point is the creation of new materials, where identity can be embedded without disrupting established operations. Manufacturers don’t need to reinvent their processes. They simply add a microscopic layer of intelligence to the stages they already control.

This is why the model scales. Industrial production already runs at massive volume. Factories are natural amplifiers. By placing identity at the source, SMX grows in step with the world’s ongoing output. The system expands because production expands. When viewed from this forward-facing perspective, the logic becomes clear. The future scales itself.

A Forward Model That Makes the Future Trackable

Here’s the bonus: once identity is embedded upstream, everything downstream becomes more efficient. Recyclers gain accuracy instead of guesswork. Regulators gain verifiable data instead of fragmented reporting. Brands gain supply chain clarity without extra steps. Importers, exporters, and certification bodies gain authentication that doesn’t depend on labels or paperwork. When the material carries its own truth, every participant gains confidence.

This is how industries modernize. Barcodes didn’t tag products retroactively. RFID didn’t revisit pallets already sitting in warehouses. Digital audits didn’t rewrite old inventory logs. Each innovation became standard the moment manufacturers embedded it into what came next. SMX follows the same trajectory, only at the material level itself.

And people are right to examine the question of integration closely. SMX welcomes that. They want to explain how this shift is more than meaningful; it’s transformative. And understanding it is what will naturally move the conversation from backward-looking to forward-looking.

Once that perspective changes, the pathway becomes clear. SMX isn’t addressing the world as it was. It’s shaping the world as it’s being created. Identity begins at the source, where production meets possibility. That’s how the system scales. That’s how the future becomes trackable. And, more importantly, it’s how SMX contributes to a cleaner, more sustainably minded global economy. Once all of that is understood, then valuations, even after a historic move, make total sense.

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 communication 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, but are not limited to, statements regarding the Company’s expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions, or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts, events, or circumstances that SMX expects, believes, or anticipates will or may occur in the future, including statements relating to the Company’s business strategy, financial position, future operations, future revenues, projected costs, prospects, plans, and objectives of management, as well as statements regarding the Company’s liquidity position, capital needs, anticipated financing timelines, expected dilution, future share issuances, the anticipated use of proceeds, expected performance of the amended financing agreement, market conditions, adoption of the Company’s technology, commercial pipeline, regulatory approvals, industry trends, competitive position, and any assumptions underlying the foregoing, are forward-looking statements.

Forward-looking statements are based on the Company’s current expectations and assumptions regarding future events and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, risks relating to: the Company’s ability to successfully execute its operating plans; the Company’s ability to obtain additional financing on acceptable terms or at all; the Company’s ability to maintain compliance with Nasdaq listing standards; market conditions and volatility in the trading price of the Company’s ordinary shares; dilution that may result from the Company’s existing financing arrangements; the Company’s ability to access capital under the standby equity purchase agreement and related amendments; the timing and occurrence of any closings under such agreements; the Company’s expectations regarding its financial runway and future capital needs; risks associated with the Company’s ability to scale its technology, secure customer adoption, or convert pilot programs into commercial deployments; risks relating to supply chain conditions and global economic trends; the Company’s dependence on key personnel; the Company’s ability to maintain intellectual property protection and defend against infringement claims; changes in applicable laws and regulations; general economic, political, and market conditions; risks relating to digital asset markets and the Company’s potential future acquisition or holding of digital assets; and other factors detailed from time to time in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including the Company’s Annual Report on Form 20-F and its subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made and are not guarantees of future performance. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by applicable law. Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated due to various risks and uncertainties, and all forward-looking statements contained herein are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 12, 2025 / Industries rarely adopt new technology in a straight line. The process unfolds in stages that are predictable to insiders but invisible to the outside world. It begins with a demonstration, where a tool proves it can work under controlled conditions. From there, it moves into the dialogue phase, where industry leaders evaluate not just performance but the system-wide implications of integrating something new. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is now moving through that second stage. And it’s happening faster than many expected.

The pace started increasing after SMX scored a major milestone earlier this year. The technology delivered 99%-100% accuracy in identifying and sorting flame-retardant plastics, including black polymers that traditional optical systems fail to classify. That alone placed SMX in rare company. Most emerging solutions never demonstrate that level of precision, let alone at industrial speeds with digital passports attached. Demonstration was the necessary first milestone. It answered the question of feasibility.

NAFRA’s second invitation, announced this week, shows that the next stage has begun. The sector is shifting from “does this work” to “how would this fit.” This is the phase where frameworks take shape, where leaders across manufacturing, recycling, compliance, and policy assess the practical and strategic role a validated technology can play. Demonstration opens the door. Dialogue builds the pathway inside.

Dialogue Is Where Influence and Integration Develop

The dialogue stage is often the most important part of the adoption curve because it brings together the people who define the system’s rules. It is not a commercial event. It is not a procurement meeting. It is a strategic forum where the implications of a technology are weighed against long-term industry needs, regulatory trajectories, and operational realities. That is what makes SMX’s new appearance inside the NAFRA and American Chemistry Council program so meaningful.

During this phase, leaders are not asking whether a solution can operate. They are asking how the system reacts when it does. They evaluate how a platform like SMX’s molecular identity solution affects the flow of materials, the certainty of certification, and the confidence of downstream operators who rely on verified data. It is the point where market actors start mapping where the solution belongs, not whether it belongs.

This is also where consensus begins to form. Standards groups, recyclers, and manufacturers observe each other’s reactions. They see what resonates. They see what removes friction. They see what aligns with the direction global circularity frameworks are heading. As more participants engage, a shared understanding emerges. Technologies that reach the dialogue stage with strong data often become the backbone of future practices.

How Demonstrated Solutions Become Industry Norms

A demonstrated solution becomes an industry standard only after it survives the dialogue stage. This is where SMX now stands. It has already cleared the performance barrier. It is now being evaluated in the ecosystem where frameworks are shaped and adoption patterns are set. That is a crucial distinction. The companies and organizations involved in these discussions carry the influence needed to turn a capability into an expectation.

Flame-retardant plastics, once a structural barrier to circularity, now sit inside a potential redesign. SMX’s accuracy results create a baseline for what the sector can demand from its traceability tools. If a solution can identify materials at 99% accuracy in real operating conditions, then inferior approaches lose legitimacy. This is how norms change. Data resets expectations. Expectations reset standards. Standards reset the market.

NAFRA’s invitation of SMX back into the conversation confirms that this shift may already be well underway. The industry isn’t wasting time exploring hypotheticals. It is engaging a proven system and examining how it fits into the workflows that define safety, compliance, and recovery. This is where real adoption begins. It happens quietly, inside rooms that gather the people who understand what is practical and what is necessary. For SMX, the people who create a smooth path to the next stage: integration.

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 communication 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, but are not limited to, statements regarding the Company’s expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions, or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts, events, or circumstances that SMX expects, believes, or anticipates will or may occur in the future, including statements relating to the Company’s business strategy, financial position, future operations, future revenues, projected costs, prospects, plans, and objectives of management, as well as statements regarding the Company’s liquidity position, capital needs, anticipated financing timelines, expected dilution, future share issuances, the anticipated use of proceeds, expected performance of the amended financing agreement, market conditions, adoption of the Company’s technology, commercial pipeline, regulatory approvals, industry trends, competitive position, and any assumptions underlying the foregoing, are forward-looking statements.

Forward-looking statements are based on the Company’s current expectations and assumptions regarding future events and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, risks relating to: the Company’s ability to successfully execute its operating plans; the Company’s ability to obtain additional financing on acceptable terms or at all; the Company’s ability to maintain compliance with Nasdaq listing standards; market conditions and volatility in the trading price of the Company’s ordinary shares; dilution that may result from the Company’s existing financing arrangements; the Company’s ability to access capital under the standby equity purchase agreement and related amendments; the timing and occurrence of any closings under such agreements; the Company’s expectations regarding its financial runway and future capital needs; risks associated with the Company’s ability to scale its technology, secure customer adoption, or convert pilot programs into commercial deployments; risks relating to supply chain conditions and global economic trends; the Company’s dependence on key personnel; the Company’s ability to maintain intellectual property protection and defend against infringement claims; changes in applicable laws and regulations; general economic, political, and market conditions; risks relating to digital asset markets and the Company’s potential future acquisition or holding of digital assets; and other factors detailed from time to time in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including the Company’s Annual Report on Form 20-F and its subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made and are not guarantees of future performance. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by applicable law. Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated due to various risks and uncertainties, and all forward-looking statements contained herein are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 12, 2025 / The global economy spent decades running on assumptions, and it worked until it didn’t. Supply chains expanded faster than verification systems. Companies sourced materials from regions they had never visited. Certifications became paperwork rather than proof. The entire system flowed because everyone agreed to trust what they could not see. That trust created efficiency, but it also created fragility. Now the bill for that fragility has come due.

Today’s logistics environment is the result of those accumulated assumptions. When a manufacturer insists a material is sustainable, compliant, or recycled, the system treats it as fact. But when regulators ask for evidence, and companies cannot produce it, the entire chain stalls. Containers sit. Shipments freeze. Imports get flagged. Compliance teams scramble for data that never existed. What once looked like a smooth global network begins to resemble a maze held together by outdated declarations and inconsistent reporting. That is the logistics nightmare at play.

And this week, SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) cracked one of the most stubborn examples of that nightmare. Cotton has always been a black hole for verification. Once fibers are shredded, blended, spun, or dyed, the origin identity disappears. Brands rely on trust. Auditors rely on declarations. Regulators rely on hope. SMX’s new cotton demonstration shattered that cycle. The company proved that identity can survive every transformation stage in the textile lifecycle.

That single achievement shows how quickly assumptions collapse when exposed to molecular truth.

SMX Gave the Wake-Up Call
The better news: the world is waking up. Governments are now forcing a reckoning. Europe’s new due diligence rules demand verifiable, auditable information about material origin and handling. “Show us the proof” has replaced “tell us the story.” Legacy certification models built on trust can’t keep up.

Suppliers who used to rely on paper trails now face audits that require hard evidence. Even recyclers, long insulated from deep regulatory pressure, must document recycled content with accuracy instead of approximation. The era of “trust us, it’s recycled” is gone. That is not a burden. That is progress.

SMX is fueling it. Not by creating another platform that depends on manual entries or declarations, but by changing the language of verification entirely. SMX embeds a molecular signature inside the material itself. Identity becomes internal rather than external. Proof becomes intrinsic instead of reported.

Materials Become Intelligent Assets
As a result, instead of chasing information across continents, suppliers, and outdated reporting systems, SMX allows the material to speak for itself. A material with embedded identity doesn’t need a paper trail to justify its legitimacy. It carries its own authenticity. It verifies itself in real time. That addition isn’t just helpful. It is foundational.

It turns a fragile system built on assumptions into a durable system built on truth. And for the first time, proof carries more weight than promises. The moment a material receives an SMX marker, it stops behaving like a commodity and starts behaving like a data asset. A plastic pellet can now carry its own digital passport. A rubber component can report its origin and confirm whether it has been recycled. A textile fiber, as demonstrated this week with cotton, can authenticate itself through every mechanical and chemical transformation.

In all cases, memory becomes intrinsic instead of inferred. Passive materials evolve into active participants in the supply chain. And, the timing could not be better. Industries are feeling pressure from every angle. Automotive manufacturers must prove responsible sourcing for metals and batteries. Fashion houses must show traceability to avoid accusations of greenwashing. Consumer goods companies must verify recycled content levels before regulators impose penalties. These issues may seem disconnected, but they share the same core requirement. Every industry needs to know what its products are made of, where the materials came from, and whether the claims tied to them can withstand independent examination.

SMX provides a single solution that spans sectors because they all share the same problem: the trust gap. They cannot afford to operate inside it anymore.

This is why SMX’s technology is not industry-specific. It is infrastructure. It becomes the connective tissue between materials and markets. Companies that adopt it gain the ability to operate with verifiable integrity. Companies that delay risk being caught in the widening gap between regulation and capability. When proof becomes currency, those without it become liabilities.

A World Ready for Molecular Accountability
The environment for SMX’s adoption did not exist five years ago. Today it is accelerating. Governments are tightening borders around counterfeit goods. Corporations are being sued for inaccurate ESG disclosures. Investors are demanding data, not narratives. Consumers are increasingly expecting traceability at the product level. The public narrative has shifted from intention to verification, and the companies that cannot authenticate their materials face existential risk.

This is not a high-tech novelty. It is a survival requirement. Supply chains are too complex, too global, and too vulnerable to manage with manual reporting. A mislabeled recycled plastic batch in Europe can now trigger fines. Faulty minerals in a battery supply chain can halt production. Unsupported sustainability claims can spiral into reputational damage. These pressures create a universal demand. Material proof must be embedded, trackable, and immune to manipulation.

SMX’s technology intersects perfectly with that demand spike. Its molecular identity system integrates into existing manufacturing processes. It requires no new machinery. It scales from micrograms to megatons. It creates a universal language for describing material truth. And with the cotton breakthrough, it has shown that verification can survive transformations once considered impossible.

SMX gives supply chains something they have never had. A way to trust what they can verify rather than verifying what they trust. SMX provides that capability. By embedding molecular markers that travel with the material, its technology removes ambiguity at every stage of the supply chain. Stakeholders no longer need to interrogate the data because the data moves with the product.

This creates a new class of authenticated commodities that move through global markets with provable origin and identity. Proof becomes liquidity. Proof becomes compliance. Proof becomes trust. That is a winning supply chain trifecta ticket.

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 communication 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, but are not limited to, statements regarding the Company’s expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions, or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts, events, or circumstances that SMX expects, believes, or anticipates will or may occur in the future, including statements relating to the Company’s business strategy, financial position, future operations, future revenues, projected costs, prospects, plans, and objectives of management, as well as statements regarding the Company’s liquidity position, capital needs, anticipated financing timelines, expected dilution, future share issuances, the anticipated use of proceeds, expected performance of the amended financing agreement, market conditions, adoption of the Company’s technology, commercial pipeline, regulatory approvals, industry trends, competitive position, and any assumptions underlying the foregoing, are forward-looking statements.

Forward-looking statements are based on the Company’s current expectations and assumptions regarding future events and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, risks relating to: the Company’s ability to successfully execute its operating plans; the Company’s ability to obtain additional financing on acceptable terms or at all; the Company’s ability to maintain compliance with Nasdaq listing standards; market conditions and volatility in the trading price of the Company’s ordinary shares; dilution that may result from the Company’s existing financing arrangements; the Company’s ability to access capital under the standby equity purchase agreement and related amendments; the timing and occurrence of any closings under such agreements; the Company’s expectations regarding its financial runway and future capital needs; risks associated with the Company’s ability to scale its technology, secure customer adoption, or convert pilot programs into commercial deployments; risks relating to supply chain conditions and global economic trends; the Company’s dependence on key personnel; the Company’s ability to maintain intellectual property protection and defend against infringement claims; changes in applicable laws and regulations; general economic, political, and market conditions; risks relating to digital asset markets and the Company’s potential future acquisition or holding of digital assets; and other factors detailed from time to time in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including the Company’s Annual Report on Form 20-F and its subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made and are not guarantees of future performance. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by applicable law. Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated due to various risks and uncertainties, and all forward-looking statements contained herein are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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