Author: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 11, 2025 / The fashion industry has spent years promising circularity. Recycling initiatives, take-back bins, and ESG roadmaps have filled annual reports with optimism, but these efforts have struggled to scale because they have all relied on a single fragile assumption. The belief that recycled materials could somehow be tracked without a system capable of tracking them. That assumption has now reached its limit.

Cotton has been the clearest example of this problem. Once fibers enter mechanical recycling, their identity disappears. Whatever emerges from the process becomes a blend of unknown origins, unverifiable recycled percentages, and labels that depend on declarations rather than data. Circularity cannot function when the material itself becomes anonymous.

What the industry needed was not better messaging or more ambitious goals. It needed a measurable way to prove that recycled fiber actually survives the journey into finished products. Until now, that framework did not exist. Circularity failed not because brands lacked commitment, but because the supply chain lacked visibility. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) just changed that.

A Material Identity That Survives the Entire Journey

During a multi-day industrial pilot, SMX did something the textile sector has never witnessed. It marked recycled cotton at the molecular level the moment it re-entered the value chain. That identity then survived every stage of production that normally wipes history clean. Shredding. Spraying. Carding. Spinning. Fabric formation. Finishing. Each step tested the limits of durability and detectability.

The results were conclusive. At every stage, the molecular identity remained intact. It stayed stable and readable, even under the high-intensity processes that typically destroy any form of tagging or documentation. This was not theory. It was proof. A scientific demonstration that cotton can carry its identity from waste to wearable.

This breakthrough is more than a technical achievement. It is the first durable backbone for circularity. For decades, recycled content percentages have been estimated. Now they can be verified. Post-consumer claims can finally connect to authenticated material evidence. The industry has never had this level of certainty. SMX delivered the first version of it.

When Circularity Becomes a Real Economy

Permanent molecular identity transforms recycled fiber into a measurable commodity. Brands can finally track the exact volume of recycled input that reaches the final textile. Manufacturers gain incentives to use higher recycled percentages because verified recycled output commands greater market value. Recyclers gain a certification layer that lifts their product into a premium category.

This is the moment circularity stops being a storytelling exercise and becomes a functioning economy. A recycled fiber market only gains strength when identity is consistent and verifiable. The SMX system delivers that consistency. It shifts circularity from aspiration into arithmetic. From ambition into infrastructure.

The impact extends across supply chains. Take-back programs gain a measurable purpose. Procurement teams negotiate based on authenticated recycled content instead of estimates. Sustainability departments can finally align their goals with financial outcomes. SMX did not just verify recycled cotton. It introduced the operating system circularity has been missing.

Circular Fashion Gets Its First True Infrastructure

With molecular identity in place, Product Digital Passports evolve from a regulatory requirement into a commercial advantage. Brands can automate documentation instead of stitching together paperwork. Exporters can streamline compliance across borders. Consumers gain confidence because sustainability claims become verifiable rather than merely suggestive.

Retailers, meanwhile, gain a new classification system. Apparel can be sorted, labeled, and sold based on authenticated truth. Circular cotton, for the first time, becomes a premium material class rather than an approximation of one. The value moves from the label to the fiber itself, where it belongs.

SMX’s accomplishments in plastics, metals, and hardware have already shown that molecular identity reshapes markets. Cotton now joins that expanding list. When materials become verifiable, markets shift. When they become verifiable at scale, markets transform. This pilot demonstrates that the same engine SMX built for global materials can now power the future of circular fashion.

The Moment Circularity Becomes Real

Fashion has spent years describing a circular future, but aspiration alone has never delivered impact. What was missing was a system capable of confirming that circularity was actually occurring. SMX just supplied that system, and in doing so, changed the rules for an entire global industry.

This breakthrough is not merely a sustainability story. It is the moment circularity becomes measurable, profitable, and operational. Industries only evolve when measurement becomes possible, and measurement just became possible at the molecular level. Cotton now has a truth layer.

Now that SMX has delivered the engine, the rest of the fashion world will start building around it. The race to adopt this new infrastructure has already begun, and the winners will be those who embrace measurable circularity, not theoretical versions of 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.

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 11, 2025 / The market keeps trying to put SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) in a box. Plastics. Metals. Electronics. Rubber. Fashion. Every time a new industrial win lands, analysts scramble to guess which vertical SMX belongs to. The answer is simpler than anyone expected. SMX is involved with virtually all of them, building a molecular identity network capable of spanning every material class that moves through global trade.

Cotton is only the latest achievement. It is not an outlier. It is part of a pattern. When SMX completed its multi-day industrial pilot showing that recycled cotton could be marked at the molecular level and tracked through shredding, carding, spinning, and finishing, the accomplishment was not just scientific. It was strategic. Another domino falling into place for a company positioning itself as the verification layer for the physical world.

SMX is not announcing wins. It is accumulating proof points. Each one unlocks a new market. Each one strengthens its negotiating power. And the industry is starting to realize it.

Cotton Joins Plastics, Metals, Rubber, and Hardware in SMX’s Expanding Orbit

If this cotton breakthrough existed alone, it would be impressive. But it sits next to a growing roster of verticals that SMX has already proven at scale. Plastics can be marked and sorted. Precious metals can be authenticated and tracked across recycling cycles. Rubber can hold identity from natural extraction through the final product. Computer hardware and sensitive components can carry machine-readable provenance for national security supply chains.

This is not a coincidence. It is a coordinated roll-up of the most critical supply chain categories on the planet.

Every time SMX proves molecular identity works in a sector, a door opens. Then another. Then a partnership. Then a pilot. Then a commercial negotiation. SMX is on a deal-making bonanza because each validation creates measurable economic value for the industries involved. The company does not need to chase contracts. The contracts are chasing the company because its technology solves trillion-dollar credibility and compliance problems.

Cotton is now part of that orbit. And like plastics and metals, it brings an entire global industry with it.

The More Sectors SMX Adds, the More Powerful the Network Becomes

SMX is not building a portfolio. It is building a network effect. Molecular identity creates data. That data feeds Product Digital Passports. Those passports feed compliance, ESG reporting, trade documentation, and circular-economy incentives. Every new material type added to the platform multiplies the value of every other material already on it.

Cotton strengthens plastics. Plastics strengthen metals. Metals strengthen hardware. The broader the coverage, the more indispensable the system becomes. SMX is not selling technology. It is creating environmental conditions where entire industries align to a single verification standard because it is the only standard that works across the full lifecycle of materials.

This is the real story. Cotton is not a fashion win. It is a strategic annexation of one of the world’s most important commodity classes. And each time SMX takes on a new vertical, the company extends its reach into sectors where regulation, traceability, and circularity are only getting more demanding.

A Global Verification Powerhouse in the Making

Adding cotton does not close a chapter for SMX. It opens the next wave of commercial opportunities. Apparel groups. Recycling conglomerates. Government agencies. Trade coalitions. Sustainability-linked lenders. Every corner of the supply chain is moving toward authenticated data because the era of declarations is collapsing.

When a company keeps proving its technology across multiple sectors, the narrative stops being about pilots and starts being about inevitability. SMX has reached that point. It is executing breakthrough after breakthrough because it has a technology stack ready to unify global material verification under a single system.

Cotton is simply the latest confirmation. SMX is not expanding one industry at a time. It is constructing a backbone for all of them.

The deal-making bonanza is not a trend. It is the beginning of a new reality. SMX is becoming the infrastructure behind how the world proves what its materials really are.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

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

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 11, 2025 / For most of modern history, materials have been commodities with no memory. Cotton is grown, harvested, traded, blended, spun, and finished, and somewhere along the way, its identity disappears into the machinery. That anonymity has shaped the global textile industry for decades, limiting transparency and bottlenecking any serious effort toward circularity or responsible sourcing. The world accepted it as the cost of doing business.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) just broke that pattern. It announced that through a multi-day industrial pilot, it proved that recycled cotton can be marked at the molecular level the moment it re-enters the value chain and can carry that identity through every transformation that follows. Shredding. Spraying. Carding. Yarn spinning. Fabric formation. Finishing. The cotton held its digital fingerprint every step of the way.

This is more than a scientific achievement. It is the moment cotton stops being a commodity defined only by appearance and price. It becomes a data-rich asset class with authenticated origin, composition, and lifecycle history. In other words, cotton becomes digital.

Turning Cotton Into a Traceable, Tradeable Digital Object

Once cotton carries a persistent molecular identity, everything changes. The fiber is no longer just material. It becomes a verifiable object that can be scanned, certified, and transacted with full confidence in its history. Brands know how much recycled content is present. Manufacturers verify blend ratios rather than guess. Regulators view authenticated records instead of self-reported claims.

This is the natural evolution of SMX’s mission. The company has already demonstrated how plastics, metals, and rubber can carry molecular identity. Cotton now joins that portfolio, unlocking a new category of “identity-backed materials” that behave more like digital assets than traditional commodities. They can be audited, priced, and traded based on measurable attributes rather than declarations.

And this is where SMX’s broader system comes into focus. Molecular identity is the foundation. The data it generates is the infrastructure. But the value layer is where the economics activate. The Plastic Cycle Token (PCT) proved that verified materials can be financially represented and monetized in a marketplace aligned to the real performance of circularity. By turning proof into a tradable asset, SMX created the mechanism that links sustainability to economic reward.

Cotton now steps into that same architecture.

Where Verified Cotton Becomes a Premium Digital Commodity

With authenticated material data feeding into Product Digital Passports, the supply chain becomes a living ledger. Every bale, every blend, every finished textile carries a traceable identity that can be monetized through verification. Recyclers gain the ability to certify their output. Manufacturers gain premium pricing leverage for verified recycled content. Brands gain authenticated ESG performance, not narrative-driven claims.

And by integrating cotton into the same value layer enabled by the PCT, SMX introduces the blueprint for future material-backed tokens that reward circularity through real-world evidence. The market no longer needs to guess which fibers are recycled or responsibly sourced. The material itself becomes the proof. Once proof becomes programmable, new financial models emerge.

The implications extend far beyond compliance. Verified cotton can participate in new trade corridors, incentive structures, and pricing frameworks, where provenance, recycled content, and lifecycle performance determine value. In this system, the digital identity is not an add-on. It becomes the currency of the material itself.

A New Future Where Materials Compete on Truth, Not Claims

This is the real shift taking place. Cotton can now be authenticated at the molecular level. That authentication can feed into digital passports. And those passports can connect to economic systems that reward verified sustainability. The supply chain stops being a black box and becomes a transparent, value-generating network.

SMX did not just give cotton an identity. It gave cotton a digital life. It gave recyclers a market. It gave brands a truth layer. And it gave global trade something it has never had in textiles, a system where materials compete on verified performance, not marketing.

Cotton is now a digital asset. And SMX just built the operating system that will let the entire industry trade on truth.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

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

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 11, 2025 / Some breakthroughs feel inevitable in hindsight. SMX’s (NASDAQ:SMX) latest industrial pilot is one of those moments. The kind of shift that forces an industry to redraw the map overnight. Cotton has long had a traceability problem. Once fibers are shredded, blended, spun, and transformed into fabric, the paper trail collapses. Brands rely on declarations. Regulators rely on hope. Consumers rely on whatever the tag says.

SMX is bringing that era to an end.

Over several days inside a full-scale industrial environment, SMX proved it can take recycled cotton the moment it re-enters the value chain, mark it at the molecular level, and track that identity through every high-intensity transformation that normally erases history. Shredding. Spraying. Fiber opening. Carding. Yarn spinning. Fabric formation. Finishing. At every stage, the marker stayed stable, detectable, and scientifically verifiable.

This reads like a technical milestone, but it reaches far beyond technical. It is the first end-to-end demonstration that cotton can retain a permanent, machine-readable identity from the start of mechanical recycling through to the final textile. That unlocks something the sector has never had. Evidence. Proof that virgin and recycled fiber ratios match what is claimed. Proof that recycled percentages are real and not theoretical. Proof that origin declarations can finally shift from assumption to authentication.

Fashion Gets a Global Digital Passport

For the apparel industry, this strikes at the core of the supply chain challenge. Digital Product Passports are becoming mandatory across Europe and increasingly tied to market entry, tariff access, and ESG compliance. Anyone watching supply chain reform knows this shift is coming fast. Sustainability reporting is moving away from narrative language and toward measurable, verifiable data.

With this demonstration complete, SMX has supplied the measurement standard that fashion has been waiting for. And the benefits reach far beyond brands.

The pilot carries major implications for trade and compliance. Manufacturers and exporters gain regulator-ready evidence that supports preferential tariffs, reduced-duty corridors, and free-trade agreements where fiber origin determines eligibility. Customs authorities gain a scientific reference point rather than relying on paper-based systems vulnerable to misclassification. Brands gain what they have lacked for years: a tamper-resistant foundation that validates sustainability claims with confidence.

This is not about optics. It is about compliance, competitiveness, and credibility.

Molecular Markers Are in Fashion

SMX checks every box. Its molecular markers not only survive the journey from fiber to finishing but also generate the authenticated data required for Product Digital Passports across the EU, the US, and emerging Asian frameworks. Once that data exists, everything downstream accelerates. Automated documentation. Rapid provenance checks. Lower risk of delays. Reduced exposure to penalties. Direct access to incentives that require verifiable evidence.

Cotton now has an identity. And in modern supply chains, identity is currency.

With the full-chain validation complete, SMX is moving into commercial rollout. Apparel brands, recyclers, manufacturers, and global buyers now have a turnkey system to authenticate origin and recycled content at industrial scale. That positions SMX as the enabling infrastructure for a new class of premium, traceable textile products.

The world has been searching for a solution for years. SMX has been telling the market it had one. Now it has proved it. The company has demonstrated an end-to-end molecular marking system that can permanently shift the narrative around sustainable and circular textile manufacturing.

And this breakthrough arrives on the heels of others. SMX recently validated its ability to identify and separate plastics, precious metals, and computer hardware. Cotton now joins that list. Each new capability reinforces the same truth. Sustainability claims cannot rely on declarations any longer. They must rely on proof.

The implications of this demonstration reach as far as SMX’s progress in plastics, metals, and rubber. The impact extends beyond reorganizing trillion-dollar markets. It supports fair trade, credible compliance, modern sustainability, and the economics of recycled content. In practical terms, it is another major win for SMX, for global stakeholders, and for the planet.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

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

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SMX’s engagement with NAFRA spotlights increasing interest in systems that improve material efficiency and downstream certainty without altering existing infrastructure

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 10, 2025 / Recyclers live with the consequences of every choice made far above them in the supply chain. When manufacturers add colorants, fillers, flame retardants, or stabilizers to plastics, recyclers inherit the complexity. They are the ones who must manage contamination risk, meet regulatory thresholds, and absorb the cost of sorting materials that can’t be reliably identified. The upstream benefits become downstream burdens.

Flame-retardant plastics sit at the center of that challenge. They’re critical for safety, but difficult to classify. Because existing technologies can’t consistently separate them, recyclers often route these materials directly to disposal. This isn’t inefficiency. It’s necessity. Without certainty, recovery becomes a liability.

That’s why SMX’s (NASDAQ:SMX) role inside the NAFRA forum sends a meaningful signal downstream. Recyclers pay attention when a leadership body highlights a tool that has shown the ability to solve one of the sector’s most persistent bottlenecks. Earlier this year, SMX demonstrated industrial-speed sorting with 99%-100% accuracy, including for carbon-black plastics that near-infrared systems routinely miss. That performance doesn’t simply improve throughput. It alters the foundation of what can be recovered.

Unlocking Value That Has Been Blocked for Decades

Most recyclers don’t send flame-retardant plastics to disposal because they want to. They do it because they can’t certify them. Without reliable identification, these materials can’t enter higher-value markets. They become cost centers instead of revenue opportunities. The lack of clarity forces recyclers into conservative decisions that protect quality but sacrifice volume.

SMX’s system begins to shift that dynamic. By assigning molecular identity and carrying it through a digital product passport, recyclers gain the visibility needed to classify materials confidently. Certification becomes possible. And once something can be certified, it can participate in higher-value flows.

This does more than reduce waste. It restores value that has been locked out of the circular economy. And not just plastics. Virtually any verified material can be sold, reused, or repurposed. As more material becomes certifiable, recovery capacity increases. As recovery increases, circularity transforms from a cost obligation into an economic advantage. SMX’s demonstrated accuracy shows that flame-retardant plastics, once considered too difficult to manage, can be reintroduced into controlled, verifiable circulation.

NAFRA bringing SMX back into a public-facing program signals that this possibility is now worth broader industry attention. It tells recyclers that a system exists, that it operates at the speeds they operate at, and that its capabilities have been reviewed by groups that influence compliance expectations.

Toward a New Baseline for Material Efficiency

For years, recyclers have relied on manual sorting, partial detection systems, and conservative disposal practices. These approaches weren’t flaws. They were the only options available. Without consistent material identity, efficiency could only advance so far. SMX introduces a new baseline. Identity becomes embedded rather than interpreted. Verification becomes instantaneous rather than approximate. Sorting becomes systematic rather than subjective.

This shift has implications far beyond a single material category. As identity moves upstream into manufacturing, downstream systems become more efficient by design. Less waste. Fewer errors. More confidence. More recovery. That’s the essence of material efficiency: extracting more value from the same resources by reducing uncertainty at every step.

NAFRA’s engagement suggests the sector is actively exploring what this next baseline could look like. When leadership organizations bring visibility to a technology, it’s often the sign of structural change. Recyclers who understand this shift early position themselves for operational advantages as expectations evolve.

Today’s invitation places SMX in the awareness stage of that transition. It reflects a growing interest in systems that support both compliance and recovery across complex material streams. For recyclers, the message is clear. Industrial-strength traceability is no longer theoretical. It’s entering the conversation at exactly the point where the industry needs it most. And don’t underestimate SMX’s role: it’s the provider.

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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NAFRA’s renewed engagement places SMX on the radar of the operators who feel the impact most

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 10, 2025 / Recyclers live with the consequences of every upstream decision. When manufacturers introduce additives, colorants, and flame retardants into plastics, recyclers inherit the complexity. They are the ones forced to manage contamination, comply with regulations, and absorb the cost of sorting materials that cannot be reliably identified.

Flame-retardant plastics sit at the center of this problem. They are essential for safety but difficult to classify, and they often move straight to disposal because existing technologies cannot separate them with consistent accuracy. That is why SMX’s (NASDAQ:SMX) return to the NAFRA forum sends a powerful signal downstream.

Recyclers pay attention when leadership bodies highlight a tool that has solved a longstanding bottleneck. Earlier this year, SMX demonstrated industrial-speed sorting with 99%-100% accuracy, including for carbon-black materials that near-infrared systems routinely miss. That level of performance does not just improve throughput. It changes the economics of entire material categories.

The renewed invitation suggests that NAFRA sees this technology as more than a technical achievement. It is something the industry should understand because it addresses one of the most expensive and persistent challenges recyclers face. For operators working with thin margins and rising compliance costs, the ability to quickly and accurately identify flame-retardant plastics is not incremental. It is transformative.

Unlocking Value That Has Been Lost for Decades

Most recyclers do not dispose of flame-retardant plastics because they want to. They do it because they cannot certify the output. Without reliable identification, these materials cannot enter higher-value streams. They are treated as risk, not opportunity. SMX’s system changes that dynamic. By assigning identity at the molecular level and carrying that identity through a digital passport, recyclers gain access to the data required to classify materials with confidence and match them with buyers who need verified input.

This does more than reduce waste. It restores value that has been locked out of the circular economy. When a material can be certified, it can be resold. When it can be resold, it supports additional recovery capacity. When recovery capacity increases, circularity becomes more than a policy goal. It becomes a financial advantage. SMX’s accuracy results show that flame-retardant plastics, previously considered too complex to manage efficiently, can be reintroduced into circulation under controlled, verifiable conditions.

NAFRA bringing SMX back into a public-facing industry program broadcasts that reality. It tells recyclers that a solution exists, that it works at the speeds they operate, and that the technology has been validated by the same organizations that shape compliance standards. The message is not that adoption has arrived. The message is that the conversation has entered the stage where recyclers should be paying attention.

The Beginning of a New Operational Baseline

For years, recyclers have relied on patchwork detection systems, manual sorting, and conservative disposal rules that prioritize safety over recovery. These processes were necessary because no scalable alternative existed. SMX introduces a different baseline. Identity is embedded, not inferred. Verification is instantaneous, not approximate. Sorting becomes systematic, not interpretive. This creates a new foundation for how downstream operators can plan, invest, and grow.

The renewed engagement from NAFRA suggests that this baseline may become part of a larger structural shift. When industry leadership bodies begin showcasing a technology, it signals to recyclers that the design of future workflows is changing. Systems built around guesswork are giving way to systems built around precision. Recyclers who adapt early often secure the strongest economic and strategic positions because they understand emerging standards before they become requirements.

Today’s invitation brings SMX into that early awareness cycle. It positions the company as part of the next chapter in how recyclers manage flame-retardant materials, comply with evolving policies, and capture value that used to slip through their facilities. For recyclers, this moment should read clearly. Industrial-strength traceability is no longer theoretical. It is taking shape, and the industry leaders are bringing it forward.

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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SMX’s second invitation from NAFRA signals a shift from proof to recognition

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 10, 2025 / When an industry organization invites a company into the room, it’s a moment. When that same organization invites the company back after already seeing the technology up close, it’s a message. That is the position SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) occupies now.

Earlier this year, NAFRA witnessed SMX’s molecular marking and digital passport system achieve 99%-100% accuracy in sorting flame-retardant plastics, including carbon-black materials that had historically evaded standard detection systems. Those results were achieved at industrial speed and verified in a controlled environment that reflects real production conditions. It was the validation every emerging technology needs.

This morning’s news is different. It moves SMX into a public forum curated by NAFRA and the American Chemistry Council, where the audience no longer evaluates feasibility. They are evaluating relevance. Industry leaders only elevate a technology in this way when they believe the sector should see it. Visibility becomes part of the adoption process, and NAFRA has signaled that SMX has reached that stage. The discussion is no longer about whether the platform works. It is about what the industry should do with a system that has already proven itself.

Shift to Validation to Visibility

This shift from validation to visibility is one of the clearest indicators that a technology has crossed an important threshold. The quiet testing phase is over. The conversation now moves toward broader understanding, potential alignment, and the role SMX can play as the sector begins planning how to modernize traceability for flame-retardant plastics. It is a position earned through data, not speculation.

The accuracy results speak for themselves, and NAFRA’s decision to put SMX in front of a wider group speaks to what those results meant inside the industry.

The significance of this moment increases when you consider how material standards evolve. Most breakthroughs do not begin with immediate adoption. They begin with recognition from the organizations that set expectations and influence compliance policy. NAFRA sits in that category.

When they highlight a solution, it tells recyclers, manufacturers, and policy groups that the technology deserves attention. This is how momentum begins. It does not happen through advertising or external promotion. It happens when leaders inside the sector give a technology the platform to be examined openly.

SMX Has Earned the Industry’s Focus

SMX enters this phase with a system that aligns with the direction global circularity models are moving. Identity assigned at the molecular level. Traceability supported by digital passports. Verification that keeps integrity across the entire life of a material.

These capabilities shift the conversation from waste management to material management, which is exactly where NAFRA’s long-term priorities are heading. The return invitation shows that the organization sees value in elevating a tool that can meet regulatory, operational, and compliance requirements all at once.

This stage also carries weight because visibility attracts different types of stakeholders. Manufacturers will see a technology capable of solving a pain point that has existed for decades. Recyclers will see a path to recovering value from categories of plastic that currently move straight to disposal. Institutional and philanthropic funds, the kind that support climate and materials infrastructure, will see a system that can deliver measurable outcomes instead of relying on estimates. Once a technology reaches this tier of recognition, the audience changes, and the opportunities inside those rooms expand accordingly.

Industry visibility does not appear by accident. It emerges when a technology has earned the right to be discussed in serious settings by serious decision makers. SMX reached that point by proving accuracy, scalability, and the ability to operate in real conditions. NAFRA’s second invitation confirms that the industry is no longer watching from the sidelines. It is bringing SMX into the conversations that define what comes next.

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 10, 2025 / Some invitations carry more weight because of what happened before them. SMX’s (NASDAQ:SMX) new role as a featured presenter inside a NAFRA and American Chemistry Council program is one of those moments. It does not introduce the company to the sector. It confirms that the sector has already watched and liked how the technology performs. This is a return to a room that knows exactly what SMX brings to the table.

Earlier this year, SMX completed proof-of-concept trials for identifying and sorting flame-retardant plastic. These trials were conducted in a controlled, industrial configuration with NAFRA oversight. They were designed to answer the only question that matters at the beginning of any materials innovation. Can it work at speed, at scale, with precision that meets real-world demands.

Those trials delivered 99% to 100% accuracy at 3 m/s, including on carbon-black plastics that standard optical systems fail to reliably identify. They also validated SMX’s integrated stack using molecular markers, high-speed detection, and a digital passport that maintains identity throughout the life of the plastic. This created a foundation of demonstrated capability. It moved SMX out of the category of possibility to proven performance.

A Room That Represents the Industry’s Core Decision Makers

The new invitation places SMX in a small, curated forum with the people who define how flame-retardant materials are used, managed, and recycled in North America. These audiences are not passive observers. They shape standards, advise regulators, lead compliance frameworks, and influence how circularity infrastructure evolves across multiple industry segments.

This matters because NAFRA is not evaluating options in theory. They already watched the technology work. That makes this next meeting a progression rather than an introduction. When a standards-setting group invites a company back, the discussion shifts from feasibility to the practical questions of how a system could be deployed across the value chain.

Rooms like this also attract institutional and philanthropic capital groups that view circularity as infrastructure. They focus on systems that change outcomes, not marketing claims. They examine technologies that can support long-horizon improvements in traceability, compliance, and material recovery. SMX now sits in that conversation because the data already demonstrated its capability.

From Demonstration to the Implementation Conversation

The real story here is not the presentation slot itself. It is the stage of the relationship. SMX has already proven its ability to identify and sort BFR-containing plastics with an accuracy level the industry has not consistently achieved. That step is complete. The next step is to show what an operational rollout could look like when applied across supply chains that require both safety and compliance.

This is not a sales pitch. It is a strategic engagement. The people in this room are capable of shaping adoption pathways, evaluating how a technology integrates with existing recycling systems, and identifying opportunities for consistent traceability across plastic categories. They are the ones who recognize when a proof point is ready for the next conversation.

SMX enters this phase positioned to participate in discussions that influence long-term industry direction. The company is no longer establishing that its system works. It is demonstrating why it matters. The invitation signals that the progress made in earlier trials has brought SMX into the part of the process where leaders consider how to build on validated results.

A Step Forward That Reflects Real Momentum

The broader implications extend beyond flame-retardant plastics. Once a sector adopts a system that assigns molecular identities, the benefits naturally translate to adjacent categories. Identity becomes a norm. Auditable data becomes expected. Circularity becomes measurable instead of theoretical. This is why early validation inside a high-scrutiny material class carries so much strategic importance.

For SMX, this next engagement reinforces that molecular identity is shifting from an innovation to a viable structural tool. The company has built a platform that can document the life of a material, enable high-speed identification, and provide transparency aligned with regulatory trends in both North America and abroad. These are qualities that industry leaders consider essential when planning the future of recycling infrastructure.

The invitation confirms that SMX has reached a new stage. It is not simply demonstrating technology. It is participating in the dialogue that shapes how technology becomes part of a broader system. This is the progression every materials solution needs to reach, and SMX is now firmly inside that zone.

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 10, 2025 / SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) has entered a defining moment in its evolution. The company’s molecular marking technology is gaining global relevance at the same time industries are demanding authenticated materials, verified supply chains, and trusted digital documentation. The market is signaling that the era of unverifiable claims is ending, and SMX is positioned at the center of what comes next.

To support this acceleration, the company finalized an amendment to its standby equity purchase agreement, initially announced in December. The revised structure strengthens SMX’s financial foundation, increases strategic flexibility, and aligns the company’s capital profile with the scale of its commercial opportunity. The terms contain no toxic convertible mechanics, no resets, and no predatory features typically associated with microcap financings. Instead, the agreement reflects a clean, controlled structure built to support long-term growth rather than short-term volatility.

The amended agreement delivers clarity, stability, and long-term capacity at a moment when the company is preparing for expanded global adoption. It does more than update financial terms. It positions SMX to advance its mission with conviction, free from the structural distractions that often challenge emerging technology companies.

The following four takeaways explain why this development matters.

Takeaway 1: A materially stronger capital position with a clean structure

The amended agreement increases SMX’s available financing by an additional $5,000,000 in cash proceeds. With a 20% original issue discount, the new note carries a face value of $6,250,000, bringing the total available financing under the facility from $111,500,000 to $116,500,000. This expansion deepens the liquidity available to the company as it enters a period of accelerated commercial engagement and prepares for expanded deployment across global industries.

Equally important is the structure itself. The financing remains clean and disciplined. There are no warrants. No resets. No ratchets. No floating conversions. No hidden triggers. Nothing that resembles a death spiral. The word “convertible” describes only the investor’s ability to exchange principal for equity under a fixed and fully negotiated VWAP formula. The economics are set at issuance. The structure is predictable and transparent, which stands in sharp contrast to the highly leveraged or toxic financing arrangements often seen in the microcap space.

The clarity of this structure aligns with the company’s long-term vision. SMX has always sought capital partners who understand the strategic importance of its technology and who support growth rather than volatility. The amended agreement demonstrates that alignment. It expands resources without compromising integrity, giving SMX a stronger foundation on which to scale.

Takeaway 2: A clear capital runway with no expected financing needs until at least Q1 2027

One of the most significant outcomes of the amended agreement is the extension of the company’s capital runway. Based on the combined impact of the initial financing tranche of more than $10 million, the expanded note, and the strengthened facility structure, SMX does not expect to require additional external financing until at least Q1 2027. This creates a degree of stability and visibility that is uncommon in the microcap landscape and allows the company to focus entirely on commercial execution rather than near-term capital markets activity.

Equally important is the timing of any potential share delivery associated with the note structure. Shares that could be presented as payment toward these notes are not expected to come into consideration until Q1 2026 at the earliest. This means the company does not anticipate any dilution from this agreement in 2025, thereby preserving the share structure at a time when operational momentum and commercial adoption are accelerating. The combination of cash resources and timing control ensures that the company’s outstanding share count remains stable well into 2026.

This sequencing matters. SMX is not being drawn into the cycle of continual dilution that often challenges emerging companies. The agreement is structured so that any potential share-based settlement occurs only if and when it supports the company’s strategy, not as an immediate requirement. As a result, no near-term dilution is needed to satisfy these notes, and the company maintains full flexibility to manage its capital position from a place of strength.

This shift changes how the market should view SMX. The company is no longer operating from a position of capital necessity. It is operating from a position of capital control. That distinction allows SMX to grow without compromise and to focus on proving out its technology in the highest-value applications globally.

Takeaway 3: No dilution until at least Q1 2026 and limited borrow supply for short sellers

Another critical aspect of the amendment is the preservation of share structure integrity. Other than routine RSUs and previously authorized equity awards, the company does not anticipate any dilution related to this agreement until at least Q1 2026. This means the outstanding share count remains stable and predictable during this period. Investors can evaluate performance without uncertainty around share expansion.

The tight structure also influences market mechanics. With no new shares entering the float from this facility until Q1 2026, market borrow availability remains limited. Short sellers may not have sufficient shares to unwind their exposure, and SMX is not providing incremental equity that would otherwise ease these positions. The structure is disciplined, and the market must operate within the existing float.

This stability aligns with the behavior of SMX’s shareholder base, which has shown conviction and alignment with the company’s mission. The combination of a committed investor base and a constrained share structure creates an environment defined by long-term orientation rather than short-term volatility. It reinforces the company’s belief that shareholder support is one of its strongest strategic assets.

Takeaway 4: Removal of the digital asset obligation reflects prudent financial management

The amendment removes the requirement that SMX allocate a portion of proceeds to digital assets. The original provision existed to secure the notes with alternative collateral. The company and investors jointly determined that the current volatility in the digital asset market made a mandatory allocation inappropriate at this time. Removing the requirement enhances flexibility and ensures that capital remains available for operational expansion, customer acquisition, and strategic investment.

This shift does not reflect a change in the company’s long-term optionality. SMX will retain the right, but not the obligation, to purchase digital assets in the future if market conditions warrant such an allocation. The amendment ensures the company is not bound to a volatile asset class during a period where fiscal discipline and operational precision matter most.

The decision reflects responsible financial stewardship. SMX is preparing for increased enterprise activity, new sector engagements, and expansion into multiple regions. Maintaining flexibility over capital allocation strengthens the company’s ability to execute without distraction. The amendment ensures that every dollar raised serves the highest-value purpose in the near term.

A Deal That Resets SMX’s Trajectory

This amendment marks a turning point for SMX. It is more than a structural refinement. It is the reshaping of the company’s financial base to match the scale of its mission. With increased liquidity, a controlled share structure, and the removal of obligations no longer aligned with the company’s strategy, SMX has strengthened the foundation needed to support global adoption of its technology. The company enters 2026 with clarity in its capital framework and confidence in its ability to deploy resources where they create the greatest strategic impact.

The strengthened agreement also reflects a high degree of alignment between SMX and its financing partners. The company secured additional capital without toxic terms, without expanding dilution, and without compromising the stability of its share structure. These are signs of a financing relationship built on trust, long-term vision, and shared belief in the role SMX’s technology will play across global supply chains. The amendment creates a multi-year runway, enabling management to advance commercialization without the distraction or uncertainty of near-term capital needs.

SMX now stands in a materially stronger position as it moves into 2026 and beyond. The company is better financed, less diluted, and more strategically flexible than at any point in its public life. With stable capitalization, an increasingly aligned shareholder base, and a strengthened operating horizon extending into 2027, SMX is positioned to scale, execute, and lead. The agreement in its amended form is not simply an improvement. It adds to an inflection point that allows SMX to build its next chapter from a place of stability, strength, and conviction.

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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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 9, 2025 / The mission toward economic Circularity has spent years trapped between ambition and reality. Regulations expanded, sustainability pledges multiplied, and reporting structures grew more complex. Yet, the essential problem remained unchanged. The world lacked a way to verify circularity at the material level.

Documentation could describe intent. But those words on paper or included on a tag could not survive heat, pressure, melting, blending, or any of the industrial transformations that define modern manufacturing. Because of that, and without a way to ensure persistent identity, circularity could not mature into a functional economic system. That’s no longer the case. One company has single-handedly changed that narrative, creating molecular-level embedding technology that has the potential to reshape global trade by providing immutable identity to virtually anything passing through supply chains.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is that company. And it’s demonstrated that this missing layer can now exist. By embedding molecular markers directly into polymers, metals, precious metals, textiles, packaging, and recycled materials, SMX enables each material to become its own record of origin, composition, and history. Circularity became measurable because the material itself provided the proof. That shift did more than close a technology gap. It opened the door to an entirely new economic architecture.

True Circularity in Real-Time

Circularity long relied on estimates, declarations, sampling, and audits that did not hold up under industrial realities. Recycled content claims could not be verified through multiple melt cycles. Compliance reporting depended on paperwork rather than evidence. Fraud and mislabeling persisted because verification systems were external to the material itself. In this environment, circularity remained a cost center. Something companies pursued to meet regulatory pressure or ESG expectations, but not a framework that generated economic value.

That model is beginning to change. The expansion of SMX’s verification capabilities across continents demonstrated to governments, manufacturers, brands, and recyclers that circularity can operate with the same precision, auditability, and data integrity as traditional supply-chain economics. As more systems adopted material-level identity in 2025, the world moved closer to treating circularity as infrastructure rather than aspiration.

Turning Circularity Into Evidence

The demonstrations were not conceptual. In plastics, SMX is working with major producers to embed identity into polymers at scale and authenticate recycled content through repeated processing. In metals and precious metals, partners in Dubai and Europe showed how identity could withstand melting, recasting, alloying, and high-intensity refining. In textiles, packaging, and logistics programs across ASEAN, SMX presents national-scale frameworks where materials could declare their own truth at every stage.

These deployments proved that the challenge holding back circularity was not complexity. It was the absence of persistent identity. Once materials could carry their own verified history, circularity stopped depending on estimation and began functioning as a verifiable data system.

A measurable system changes how circularity is valued. Governments can enforce regulatory frameworks rather than rely on self-attestation. Manufacturers can validate recycled content as an authenticated commodity. Brands can prove environmental claims with data that survives transformation. Recyclers can produce output that carries forensic-level traceability.

In each case, circularity shifts from compliance reporting to economic participation. When materials carry proof, they are no longer anonymous inputs. They are verified assets.

This shift is also why interest around SMX grew noticeably throughout 2025. Attention rose not because circularity was a trending theme, but because stakeholders across several industries began recognizing a new economic system taking shape – one where verification is embedded, not inferred

A Foundation for 2026 and Beyond

As 2026 approaches, the architecture built in 2025 is poised to expand into broader market, regulatory, and industrial frameworks. Circularity can now be quantified. Compliance can now be audited. Material value can now reflect verified historical data rather than assumptions.

The transition from documentation-driven recycling to proof-driven circularity represents a structural change. It creates the conditions for new standards, new markets, and new economic models built on authenticated materials. And it positions SMX not simply as a technology provider, but as the infrastructure enabling circularity to function at scale.

When materials carry proof, circularity becomes measurable. When it becomes measurable, it becomes economic.
SMX spent 2025 demonstrating that this system works. 2026 will show how far it can grow.

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, beliefs, intentions, strategies, or projections relating to future events or circumstances. Any statements that refer to forecasts, estimates, plans, objectives, or other characterizations of future developments, including underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. Words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intend,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “will,” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words.

Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, for example: matters relating to the Company’s response to trading activity in its securities; the development, launch, and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and supply-chain participants across plastics, metals, rubber, textiles, and other sectors; the Company’s strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects, and plans; SMX’s ability to develop and commercialize new products and services, including the Plastic Cycle Token; SMX’s ability to integrate future expansion opportunities; anticipated growth and cost-efficiency; the Company’s product development timelines and expected research and development expenditures; the adoption, market acceptance, or success of SMX’s business model and verification technologies; developments relating to SMX’s industry and competitive landscape; and the Company’s technological objectives.

These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this press release and on current expectations, forecasts, and assumptions that involve a number of judgments, risks, and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements should not be regarded as predictions of future events, nor should they be relied upon as representing the Company’s views as of any subsequent date. SMX undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.

Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in these forward-looking statements as a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties. These include, but are not limited to: the Company’s ability to maintain its Nasdaq listing; changes in applicable laws or regulations; lingering or future effects of the COVID-19 pandemic; the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and expectations and to identify or realize additional opportunities; risks associated with downturns or rapid changes in the highly competitive industries in which SMX operates; the ability of SMX and its collaborators to successfully develop, commercialize, or scale products and services in a timely manner; the risk that the Company may not achieve or sustain profitability; the need for additional capital, and the availability and terms of such capital; risks associated with managing growth and expanding operations; risks of supply-chain disruption, manufacturing limitations, or delays; risks relating to securing, maintaining, or protecting intellectual property; and other economic, business, or competitive risks described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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