Author: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 5, 2025 / Market reactions that move this quickly rarely happen because of a single headline. They happen when investors, institutions, regulators, and commercial partners realize they have been looking at a company through the wrong lens. That is the moment unfolding around SMX (NASDAQ:SMX). What the market is responding to is not hype and not speculation. It is a recalibration that began when multiple industries recognized that SMX is not positioned within a single vertical. It is positioned beneath several of them.

Gold markets were the first to show the shift. For centuries, authenticity depended on paperwork and trust because molten metal forgets its history the moment heat touches it. When SMX demonstrated that gold can retain a molecular identity through smelting, recasting, and storage, a structural problem that shaped the entire bullion industry effectively disappeared. That alone would have been enough to draw interest. What the market noticed next was far more important.

Rare earth minerals face the same identity problem, but on a geopolitical scale. These materials power electric vehicles, aerospace systems, robotics, defense platforms, and the global clean energy transition. Their supply chains are notoriously opaque because ore blending, separation, and processing erase all visible signatures of origin. When industry players realized SMX could track rare earth identity from extraction to alloy formation, an entirely different sector began reacting to the same technology gold markets were evaluating.

A Convergence of Interest

This convergence continued through ESG. Brands, regulators, and auditors have spent years wrestling with unverifiable recycling claims and lifecycle reporting. SMX allows plastics, textiles, chemicals, and industrial materials to retain identity through shredding, melting, and reprocessing. ESG suddenly becomes measurable rather than narrative-driven. Once again, a separate industry recognized the same capability that gold and rare earths were responding to.

Digital markets completed the picture. The Plastic Cycle Token translates authenticated physical performance into digital signals. Recovery becomes data. Data becomes value. A digital asset finally has a real-world anchor that cannot be guessed or modeled.

These sectors may appear unrelated, but they share one structural flaw: the world has never had a universal method to verify material identity after transformation. SMX solved that flaw. When a single capability resolves bottlenecks across multiple global systems simultaneously, markets move fast. They are not reacting to a company update. They are reacting to information about the scale of the technology and its addressable impact.

How is Infrastructure Priced?

It is the discovery phase, when the market begins pricing infrastructure instead of assuming it is looking at a niche product company. Gold validation strengthens rare earth demand. Rare earth validation reinforces ESG credibility. ESG validation feeds the digital economy. Every sector amplifies the others, creating a multiplier effect that forces rapid re-evaluation.

SMX is not defining its value. Markets do that. What is happening now is a recalibration that occurs when multiple industries align around a single foundational capability. The interest is not an accident. It is a recognition event.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

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

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SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 5, 2025 / Every major industrial shift begins quietly. A technology solves a problem no one believes can be solved, it sits in the background for a while, then a moment arrives when whole sectors suddenly realize the architecture beneath their operations has changed. That moment is unfolding around SMX (NASDAQ:SMX). The market is no longer reacting to a single development or headline. It is reacting to the discovery that SMX has built the one ingredient every modern supply chain has lacked: permanent, material-level identity. It’s a global authentication engine.

Gold, rare earths, ESG reporting, and digital assets may look unrelated, but their core failure has always been the same. Once a material changes form, its story disappears. Gold loses its lineage the moment it’s heated. Rare earths lose their origin once they’re blended, separated, and refined. Plastics lose their claims when they enter a factory. Digital assets lose their grounding in reality when data is modeled rather than measured. Four different industries, one systemic flaw: a world built on trust without verification.

SMX erased that flaw by giving materials a molecular memory that survives every transformation. That single capability, identity that persists, changes the structure beneath entire sectors. For gold, it means authenticity no longer depends on paperwork or vault records. For rare earths, it means geopolitical chains of custody can finally be proven. For sustainability frameworks, it means recycled content and recovery claims become scientifically measurable. For digital economies, it means assets can be tied to authenticated physical performance instead of sentiment.

Responding to Transformative Infrastructure

The market is responding because infrastructure value behaves differently from product value. A product lives in one category. Infrastructure lives under all of them. SMX didn’t expand into multiple industries. Multiple industries expanded their use of SMX once they realized the technology addressed their shared bottleneck.

What makes the moment more striking is that these industries are not moving sequentially; they are moving simultaneously. Verification in gold accelerates demand in rare earths. Rare-earth traceability strengthens the logic behind ESG standards. Verified ESG data feeds into digital asset creation through the PCT. Digital assets built on real-world proof reinforce the significance of the entire platform. It is a circular feedback loop where each adoption strengthens the others. Markets do not ignore that type of compounding dynamic.

This is why regulators, analysts, institutions, and commercial partners are reassessing what SMX represents. They are not pricing a niche company. They are pricing a structural upgrade across multiple global systems. Proof has become infrastructure. Infrastructure has become a catalyst. And catalysts reshape valuation logic.

What that means in terms of value is not for SMX to declare. Markets determine fair value. What is happening now is the recalibration phase: a recognition that SMX is not solving four different problems. It is solving the same fundamental problem across four different industries at once.

The market is reacting to the architecture, not the noise. And architecture tends to get priced all at once.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

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

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 5, 2025 / Every market moves on information. Sometimes that information arrives slowly. Sometimes it arrives all at once. The surge in attention around SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is a case of the latter. It reflects not a single headline or isolated breakthrough, but a convergence of recognition across several industries that had been searching for the same solution without realizing it.

Gold markets were the first to surface this shift. For more than a century, authenticity in the bullion world depended on documents because gold loses its origin the moment it is melted. When SMX demonstrated that a bar can retain its identity at the molecular level through smelting, recasting, vault rotation, and transport, the industry saw a structural barrier fall away. That alone would have been significant. The real shock came next.

Rare earth mineral supply chains started identifying the same solution as their missing link. These materials power electric vehicles, wind turbines, robotics, aerospace systems, and national defense technology. Their processing routes are complex and often opaque. Origin is difficult to prove once ores are blended and refined. SMX allowed rare earths to carry identity from the mine to the magnet. A second global industry realized its foundational weakness had been addressed. It didn’t stop there.

Infrastructure, Not Fad

ESG systems began to react in the same way. Regulators, auditors, and brands have struggled for years to validate claims about recycled content and material recovery. SMX provided a path for plastics, textiles, chemicals, and industrial feedstocks to retain identity regardless of processing stage. ESG reporting shifted from estimates to evidence, and another sector began recognizing the same technological root as gold and rare earths.

Digital asset builders simply completed the picture. Through the PCT, real-world material performance became a verified digital signal rather than a modeled approximation. Physical activity could finally be expressed digitally in a way markets could trust.

Four industries. Four independent realizations. One underlying capability. The market is not reacting to noise. It is responding to the multi-sector discovery that SMX’s platform solves the same structural flaw across systems that previously had nothing in common. Gold needs persistence of identity. Rare earths need provable lineage. ESG needs traceable data. Digital assets need real-world verification.

When multiple industries converge around the same enabling technology in the same time frame, markets reprice abruptly. They are not reacting to speculation. They are reacting to a correction in understanding. What looked like a recycling technology or a metals tool now appears as a unifying infrastructure layer with relevance across global systems.

The interest is there because the recognition is warranted. SMX did not change its story. Industries changed their understanding of it. Markets are now adjusting to that reality.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

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

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 5, 2025 / Every major market shift begins the same way. A foundational piece changes, and suddenly, industries that once operated independently start reorganizing themselves. That is exactly what’s happening across three sectors that rarely appear in the same conversation.

Gold authentication is being rebuilt. Rare earth mineral supply chains are being restructured. Digital assets are being redefined. And the connective tissue behind all three movements, which also informs much of the ESG discussion, traces back to one technology platform quietly reshaping how the world measures truth. It’s built by SMX (NASDAQ:SMX).

SMX didn’t create separate tools for separate industries. It built a molecular identity platform that gives physical materials a persistent signature, one that doesn’t wash off, burn off, grind away, or disappear when materials are processed, separated, remelted, or transported. That matters because gold, critical minerals, and digital markets have all been wrestling with the same structural flaw: no one could verify material identity after transformation. Until now.

Valuing Verifiable Real-World Assets

Gold demonstrates how different the world looks when that barrier disappears. For centuries, trust has been the only real safeguard in the bullion trade. Bars cross borders, visit vaults, rotate through refineries, and lose their history along the way. SMX solved that problem by embedding identity into the metal itself. Whether a bar is cast, melted, or reshaped, its molecular signature remains intact. The metal becomes its own witness. Not a certificate. Not a stamp. The material itself. It is the most significant authentication upgrade the gold sector has seen in generations, and it didn’t require reinventing the trading ecosystem. It required installing a new foundation beneath it.

Rare earth minerals reveal another dimension of the same breakthrough. These materials power clean energy, aerospace systems, robotics, semiconductors, and national defense. Yet they travel through some of the most opaque supply chains on Earth. Ores blend. Concentrates mix. Processing erases visual identity. Provenance becomes guesswork. SMX changes that dynamic by giving rare earths a molecular identity that survives extraction, separation, processing, and alloy formation. Governments, manufacturers, and critical-infrastructure providers finally gain what this sector has always lacked: verifiable lineage that stays intact through every industrial transformation.

Then comes the digital frontier. For years, digital-asset markets have searched for a bridge to the physical world that wasn’t built on estimates or sentiment. SMX built that bridge through the Plastic Cycle Token (PCT). The PCT converts verified material performance into digital signals anchored in real-world activity. Recovery becomes data. Data becomes a signal. The signal becomes a digital asset rooted in measurable truth. What began as physical verification becomes a new class of digital proof that markets can trust.

Three sectors. Three long-standing structural problems: Gold needs authenticity that survives heat and recasting. Rare earth minerals need traceability that survives industrial processing. Digital assets need real-world anchors that cannot be gamed. Now they can get that through one underlying breakthrough.

SMX didn’t pivot into these needs. These needs converged on the technology SMX already built.

The World is Discovering the Platform’s Value

The implications are becoming clearer every week. Gold is discovering a future beyond legacy paperwork. Rare earth supply chains are discovering how transparency can be valued in a market defined by opacity. The digital economy is discovering how value can be tied to verified performance instead of narrative. And all of them are discovering the same molecular identity system engineered to survive any material transformation, in any industry, across any lifecycle.

That is what makes this moment fundamentally different. These industries once had nothing in common. Now they can function like interconnected chapters of the same global story. SMX isn’t pursuing multiple markets. It’s powering the shift pulling multiple markets into alignment. Gold becomes more trustworthy. Rare earth minerals are more accountable. Digital assets are more grounded. Proof becomes the platform linking them together.

SMX’s technology is more than a tool. It is the engine moving these sectors into a new era of provable, persistent, material-level identity: the capability required for truly verifiable supply chains. When industries share that foundation, they stop behaving like isolated markets and begin emerging as a connected ecosystem.

What is an ecosystem like that worth? Markets will determine the value. But today’s phase of price discovery reflects something important: stakeholders are recalibrating what “fair value” means as one platform begins to solve structural problems across gold, rare earths, sustainability, and the digital economy at the same time.

SMX is delivering that ecosystem. And only now is the world beginning to understand how far it extends.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

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

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 5, 2025 / Every company tells a story about its “core business.” SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) never followed that script. It didn’t build a recycling company. It didn’t build a metals-traceability platform. It didn’t build a digital-asset engine or an ESG compliance tool. It built the underlying technology that powers all of them. That technology has now become the engine driving the convergence unfolding across four sectors that rarely intersect. For years, that made SMX difficult to classify. Today, it is exactly why stakeholder interest is accelerating across industries that normally operate in separate worlds.

The momentum isn’t coming from one direction. It’s coming from all of them. Gold ecosystems are watching how SMX has closed a visibility gap that the sector has had for more than a century. The rare earth minerals world, under geopolitical scrutiny and supply-chain pressure, is studying how SMX preserves material identity across extraction, separation, and processing stages where information normally disappears. Digital-asset builders are recognizing how the Plastic Cycle Token (PCT) converts verified material performance into digital signals with measurable integrity. ESG regulators and global brands, often operating in parallel, see something simpler: a reporting framework grounded in truth rather than assumption. No single vertical explains what is happening. The story only makes sense when the pieces are viewed together.

That’s the shift taking place. SMX didn’t chase new markets. The markets reorganized themselves around a capability that solved their shared structural flaw. What looked like four separate use-cases were always expressions of the same system. A bullion auditor sees the permanence of identity. A rare earth processor sees proven origin across each transformation. A digital-economy architect sees authenticated data that can anchor assets and compliance. ESG officials see documentation that no longer needs footnotes. Different industries, same foundation.

Markets Realized the Impact In Play

As collaborators, regulators, research institutions, and manufacturers reconsider what SMX represents, the picture gets clearer. They no longer see a company participating in multiple markets. They see infrastructure. They see a connective layer capable of reshaping how entire sectors define authenticity, traceability, compliance, and digital expression. Interest is rising not because SMX is present in four industries, but because those industries have finally recognized they have been dealing with the same problem: the absence of a universal way to assign and preserve identity at the material level.

Stakeholders are responding to that clarity. The gold sector wants verification that survives heat and recasting. Rare earth supply chains want provenance that survives industrial processing. Digital-asset ecosystems want value tied to measurable activity, not abstractions. ESG frameworks, operating across the backdrop of all these conversations, want recovery and lifecycle data that doesn’t disappear inside processing plants. SMX answers all of them because each problem traces back to the same missing capability. Remove that friction, and the industries built on top of it begin shifting quickly.

This is what markets are reacting to. Gold provenance reinforces rare earth accountability. Rare-earth accountability strengthens demand for verified digital signals. Verified digital signals elevate the PCT. And the PCT showcases the broader power of authenticated data traveling across metals, minerals, materials, and digital infrastructure. Each sector amplifies the others.

The Markets Saw It At The Same Time

This is the moment when the market begins to see SMX for what it is: not a company with multiple use-cases, but a platform whose use-cases strengthen one another. The more sectors that adopt its identity system, the more powerful the system becomes across all of them. That momentum isn’t hype. It’s structure.

When industries stop operating independently and begin reinforcing each other, interest doesn’t grow linearly. It compounds. That is what’s unfolding around SMX. The market isn’t reacting to one development. It’s reacting to all of them converging.

And for the first time, the sum of SMX’s parts is being recognized for what it truly represents: a unified platform capable of reshaping how global industries authenticate, verify, and define value.

Markets, not companies, determine fair value. And right now, that discovery process is unfolding in real time.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

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

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 16, 2025 / Most companies grow by drifting into adjacent markets. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) never needed that playbook. The company built a molecular identity platform that operates above traditional industry lines, becoming the engine behind a new era of verifiable supply chain integrity.

Gold provenance, rare earth mineral traceability, ESG credibility, and digital-asset creation are not separate strategies. They are all outputs of the same technological core, a system that allows materials to retain identity through every transformation. When that capability exists, markets that once lived in isolation begin moving around the same center of gravity.

Four Markets, Four Supply Chain Target Opportunities

Gold is the clearest example of what changes when identity becomes permanent. The bullion trade has relied on paperwork for centuries, even though paperwork evaporates the moment metal is heated or reshaped. Bars cross borders, enter vaults, pass through refiners, and lose their history along the way. SMX closed that gap by giving gold a molecular passport that survives smelting, recasting, storage, and transport. Authenticity no longer comes from documents. It comes from the metal itself.

Rare earth minerals reveal a different side of the same transformation. These materials power clean energy, aerospace systems, robotics, and national defense, yet their supply chains remain some of the most opaque on Earth. Ores blend. Concentrates mix. Processing removes any visible signature of origin. SMX changes that. Rare earths can now carry identity from extraction to separation to alloy formation, giving governments, manufacturers, and critical-infrastructure providers verifiable lineage that survives every industrial stage.

Sustainability markets face their own version of the challenge. ESG frameworks require recovery data, lifecycle clarity, and proof of recycled content, which have historically depended on inference. SMX replaces that guesswork. Plastics, textiles, chemicals, and industrial materials can retain identity from origin through end-of-life, converting ESG from a documentation ritual into measurable truth, all powered by the same platform already reshaping gold and rare earths.

Identity Has No Boundaries

That shared foundation becomes even more visible when digital markets enter the picture. Digital-asset systems have spent years searching for reliable links to real-world performance. SMX built that bridge. The Plastic Cycle Token (PCT) converts authenticated material activity into digital signals that carry scientific integrity. Verification becomes digital value.

Across gold, rare earths, ESG, and digital assets, the bottleneck has always been the same: verification that survives transformation. SMX built the platform designed for that requirement.

The PCT makes the convergence unmistakable. Verified recovery becomes data. Data becomes a signal. That signal becomes a digital asset with a verifiable value-based anchor. And the same backbone that powers the PCT is the one authenticating metals, minerals, and materials. Gold reframes authenticity. Rare earths reframe provenance. ESG reframes circularity. Digital assets reframe value. SMX becomes the architecture that binds them into a single continuum.

These markets may appear unrelated, but their structural weaknesses overlap perfectly. Gold struggles with integrity after transformation. Rare earths struggle with origin clarity. ESG struggles with proving what happened between factory and recycler. Digital assets struggle with verification without distortion. SMX removes all four barriers with one cross-market identity system.

Where the Market Takes It From Here

This is why interest continues to expand. SMX is not telling separate stories. It is revealing one system that multiple industries now recognize as foundational. When materials hold their identity, assumptions fall away, and verification becomes routine instead of exceptional.

What that means in terms of value will not be defined by SMX. Markets determine fair value, and that process is now unfolding across the sectors converging around this technology. As each adopts the platform, the market recalibrates what this system represents.

SMX built the engine. The market is beginning to understand its reach…and will ultimately decide what that reach is worth.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

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

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 5, 2025 / The market tends to categorize companies by the sector in which they operate. Gold companies go in one box. ESG infrastructure goes in another. Digital assets get their own lane entirely. That framework works for most organizations because most organizations only solve one problem at a time. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) never fit that model. The company built a molecular identity platform designed to operate across industries that, on the surface, look unrelated. Gold provenance. Sustainability verification. Digital-asset creation through the Plastic Cycle Token. Three massive arenas, all moving in different directions, yet all beginning to align around the same technological foundation SMX has spent years refining.

What makes this moment stand out is the speed at which these sectors are experiencing the same pressure point. The gold market is modernizing its authentication standards. ESG frameworks are tightening their requirements for measurable recovery. Digital-asset infrastructure is demanding real-world data instead of estimates. These are not parallel evolutions. They are symptoms of a global system running out of patience with unverifiable information. That is where SMX’s platform suddenly becomes the common denominator.

It is not a gold technology, a sustainability technology, or a digital token system. It is an identity engine that assigns a molecular signature to materials and preserves it through any transformation. One capability, three massive markets, all converging at once.

Interest is Broad, and Expanding Still
In the gold sector, the impact is already visible. When precious metals move through global trading hubs, they lose track of their origins the moment they’re melted or recast. SMX broke that barrier. Its system allows gold to carry a persistent identity that survives the entire refining lifecycle. That single breakthrough changes how authenticity is verified, how supply chains are audited, and how trading hubs align with emerging integrity standards. It allows the metals world to move past subjective trust and into scientific certainty. And the same technology powering that shift is simultaneously being deployed far beyond bullion.

Sustainability markets have long struggled with accuracy. Brands commit to recycled content targets. Regulators mandate circularity. Auditors request documentation. But none of it mattered if the material itself couldn’t prove its history. SMX entered that gap and brought molecular traceability to plastics, textiles, chemicals, and packaging. Materials that used to become anonymous the moment they were processed now retain identity from origin to recovery. That gives regulators harder evidence. It gives brands measurable performance. It gives recycling ecosystems a verification layer that eliminates uncertainty. ESG shifts from reporting to recording. And the very system enabling that shift is the same one redefining gold provenance.

Digital assets are undergoing their own reckoning. Markets want tokens tied to actual, verifiable activity instead of speculative value. SMX made that possible with the Plastic Cycle Token. The PCT is not a financial instrument built on sentiment. It is a digital asset built on authenticated material performance captured by SMX’s molecular identity system. When verified recovery events occur, they are expressed digitally through the PCT, creating a market signal anchored to real behavior. That connection between physical proof and digital value is something the broader sector has been chasing for a decade. SMX delivered it because the same infrastructure supporting gold and ESG verification seamlessly extends into digital markets.

A Convergence of Impact
The real story here is not that SMX participates in three sectors. It is that these sectors are beginning to operate like different expressions of the same system. Gold demands proof of origin. ESG demands proof of impact. Digital assets demand proof of performance. SMX built proof at the molecular level, and that capability scales horizontally across all three arenas without redesign, repositioning, or dilution of purpose. The markets are simply catching up to the fact that the same underlying technology is solving the problems they thought were unrelated.

This is the strategic inflection point. Not one market waking up, but three. Not a pivot, but a convergence. SMX is executing in gold, ESG, and digital assets simultaneously because the world is beginning to reorganize around a single requirement. Proof carried by the material itself. That is the engine SMX built. And that is why all three frontiers, and interest in the company, are accelerating at once.

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

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

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 5, 2025 / For most companies, visibility arrives when they reinvent themselves. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is the rare exception. It didn’t pivot. It didn’t rebrand. It didn’t sprint into the spotlight with a new campaign. It kept building the same core technology, the same infrastructure, and the same thesis it has carried since the beginning. What changed wasn’t SMX. What changed was the world’s ability to see the full picture.

For years, the market tried to place SMX into a neat category. Some saw a sustainability company. Others saw a metals-traceability company. A different group saw a digital-asset data engine. Each interpretation was partially true but incomplete, because SMX never belonged to a single lane. It was always a platform company operating beneath multiple industries that were too disconnected from one another to notice they were solving the same problem. Then those industries began colliding, and the SMX story that once looked fragmented suddenly came into focus.

Molecular Prints in Three Major Sectors
Gold proved to be the first arena where that clarity surfaced. The sector had pushed authenticity as far as paperwork and refinery records could take it. But once gold loses its shape, it loses its story. SMX erased that limitation by embedding identity directly into the metal, giving it a memory that heat and pressure can’t delete. The bullion world realized it now had a path out of centuries of uncertainty. That was one dot on the map.

Sustainability leaders uncovered another. ESG frameworks were tightening, regulations were hardening, and brands were running out of ways to prove recycled content with any degree of credibility. SMX’s molecular marking system stepped in as the missing verification layer. Plastics, textiles, chemicals, and industrial materials could now travel through the circular economy without losing their identity. What had been a reporting challenge became a measurement system. Another dot. Same technology.

Digital ecosystems connected the third. Markets wanted assets tied to real-world performance, not speculation. SMX had already built the bridge. Its Plastic Cycle Token takes verified recovery events and expresses them digitally, using authenticated material data as the source. Suddenly, the same identity system that helped gold speak for itself and helped ESG claims become measurable became the backbone of a new category of digital signals. A third dot. Same system.

What the world missed, until now, was that none of these dots were independent. They formed a pattern. Gold, ESG, and digital assets are not three distant markets. They are three sectors collapsing toward the same requirement: verifiable identity that survives transformation. SMX didn’t build three different solutions. It built one: a molecular identity platform flexible enough to live inside all three arenas without changing its core.

Connecting the Dots
Stakeholders across industries are connecting those dots faster than ever. Refiners see the same integrity engine that regulators see. Global brands see the same verification backbone that digital architects see. Institutions watching the metals world modernize see the same technology powering national circularity programs across Asia. The common thread is not what SMX says. It’s what the technology proves.

That is why the narrative around SMX feels different now. Not because the company changed its trajectory, but because the world finally stopped evaluating it in isolation. SMX’s value doesn’t come from any single vertical. It comes from the way those verticals reinforce one another. Gold’s demand for authenticity strengthens ESG’s demand for transparency. ESG’s demand for transparency creates data that powers the PCT. The PCT creates a digital expression that circles back and elevates the entire platform.

This is the moment where the disconnect disappears. The dots that once looked scattered now form a straight line pointing toward a unified system the market wasn’t ready to recognize, until the pressure across industries forced them to reevaluate what proof actually means.

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

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 4, 2025 / ESG and supply chain integrity aren’t lacking because companies lack ambition. It’s lacking because the entire system ran on unverifiable claims. Corporations published emissions reductions without forensic tracking. Brands declared recycled content with no way to validate the number. Supply chains issued sourcing statements that fell apart the moment materials left their country of origin. Stakeholders wanted clarity but got guesswork. Regulators wrote tougher rules but couldn’t enforce them. No, these two didn’t lose credibility because they aimed too high. They lost credibility because they measured nothing accurately.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) built the one element ESG and supply chain never had: truth, and proof, anchored to the materials themselves. Not disclosures. Not affidavits. Not third-party certificates that collapse when a supplier changes hands. SMX gives materials a molecular identity that follows them through every transformation.

These two didn’t need a new narrative. They needed evidence. SMX built the architecture that produces it.

The System Collapsed Because the Data Was Never Real

Most ESG reports were built like a house on sand. A company could claim 40% recycled content, but nobody could confirm it after the plastic was shredded, melted, pelletized, and shipped across three borders. A copper supplier could declare ethical sourcing, but manufacturers had no way to verify anything that happened upstream. Paper trails were designed for a world with two-step supply chains. Today’s supply chains have dozens.

Global commerce outgrew ESG’s verification tools, and the charade eventually broke. Investors stopped believing the numbers. Consumers stopped trusting the labels. Regulators saw that they were enforcing frameworks with no forensic foundation. Even companies that wanted to do the right thing couldn’t prove their own compliance. ESG wasn’t fraudulent. It was blind.

That changes the moment materials can speak for themselves.

SMX Embedded Truth Into the Material, Not the Paperwork

SMX solved the credibility crisis by eliminating the weakest link. Its molecular markers go inside the plastic, metal, textile, rubber, or composite itself. They survive heat, pressure, melting, reprocessing, and recycling. They cannot be faked. They cannot be separated from the product. They act like a built-in passport that declares origin, composition, recycled content, and compliance without relying on any external document.

A polymer that becomes pellets retains its identity. A textile that crosses five factories keeps its history. And a metal alloy that gets welded, cut, or reformed still knows its composition. This is the moment ESG stops being a story and becomes a measurement.

These markers are tied to a digital ledger that provides an auditable chain of custody. Every step is logged automatically. Nothing relies on memory or narrative. ESG reporting becomes physical evidence rather than marketing copy.

Where ESG Lost Trust, Proof Brings It Back

The world didn’t reject sustainability. It rejected unverifiable sustainability. SMX’s deployments show how quickly trust returns when evidence becomes the foundation.

Singapore’s A*STAR program is using SMX to build a plastics circularity system rooted in traceable identity. Recycling claims didn’t come from estimates. They came from scans. REDWAVE’s sorting systems showed that authenticated materials could be separated with higher precision, producing cleaner, higher-value recycled outputs. That means brands can publish sustainability metrics that regulators can validate and investors can trust.

When the reporting matches physical reality, the ESG and supply chain conversation shifts from persuasion to proof. And proof restores confidence faster than any regulatory overhaul.

SMX Technology Can Become the ESG’s New Infrastructure

That’s timely. The world’s sustainability frameworks are about to collide with global enforcement mandates that demand real data. SMX, now with the capital to meet that moment, stands at the precipice of transforming itself from a breakthrough technology company into a backbone provider capable of deploying verification across packaging, metals, textiles, electronics, and industrial supply chains at scale.

This is the turning point. ESG, and everything attached to it, can only function when verification becomes universal. Sustainability goals mean nothing without verification that can withstand cross-border supply chains and industrial processing. Investors cannot price risk when disclosures rely on trust. Regulators cannot enforce rules built on paperwork. And, today, more than ever, consumers will not choose products that can’t prove their own claims.

SMX gives companies the one thing ESG never had: material-level certainty. No estimates. No narratives. And no blind spots. Just proof. The companies that adopt this model will lead the next era of ESG because the market rewards transparency. Investors reward accuracy. Regulators reward evidence. And consumers reward truth. Get all that, and everyone wins, including 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.

Contact: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 4, 2025 / There is a single moment that would hit the gold market harder than any interest rate shock, geopolitical headline or mining crisis. It is not a supply disruption. It is not a surge in demand. It is a policy decision. The moment a major bank, sovereign wealth fund or global exchange announces that it will only accept verified gold with persistent molecular identity is the moment the entire gold ecosystem splits in two. That announcement would not be symbolic. It would be seismic. It would turn legacy bullion into a discounted asset class overnight and elevate verified bullion into the only gold that truly counts.

The truth is that this moment is coming whether the industry wants to acknowledge it or not. Banks know their vaults contain bars they cannot fully authenticate. Sovereign funds know part of their reserves were acquired through systems that relied more on trust than science. Insurers know the risk model behind bullion storage is based on documentation that can be forged. The gold market has been operating on a fantasy of infallibility for decades, and the first institution to demand verifiable truth will force the entire world to face reality.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is positioned at the epicenter of that shift. Its molecular identity system turns gold into a material that can prove itself instantly, no matter how many times it has been melted or recast. And it’s showing itself at the right time.

One Institutional Mandate Could Change the World

Institutional mandates shape commodities more powerfully than market forces. When a major exchange changes acceptable standards, the entire global system realigns in days, not years. Gold is particularly vulnerable because its current verification system is built on assumptions rather than evidence. If Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, BlackRock or the Bank of England declares that only gold with embedded identity will qualify for trade, collateralization or reserve holdings, every bar lacking molecular proof becomes suspect instantly.

This is the beginning of a two-tier gold market. Verified gold becomes the premium tier, carrying higher prices, faster liquidity, and smoother cross-border movement. Unverified gold becomes the secondary tier, trading at discounts because no one can fully trust its origin, purity or legality. The spread between the two groups widens as institutions flee uncertainty. Once this dynamic begins, there is no going back. The market will never again value anonymous bullion the way it values verifiable bullion.

SMX is the force that enables the premium tier to exist. By embedding molecular identity inside the metal itself, the company gives institutions what they have never had: a forensic level of certainty that survives melting, splitting, and reuse. One scan reveals the truth. And in the world of institutional gold, truth is value.

Why Institutions Will Be Forced to Make the Call

The pressure building behind the scenes is relentless. Regulators are tightening anti-money-laundering rules. Sanctions agencies are tracking illicit gold flows with unprecedented scrutiny. Exchanges are reevaluating historical bars in their vaults. Insurers are rewriting policies to reflect authentication risk. Sovereign funds are under political pressure to ensure their reserves are clean. No institution wants to be the first to declare that legacy bullion is not fully trustworthy. But no institution wants to be the last to admit it either.

Eventually, one major player will break the silence. It will choose verified gold because the downside of staying with an unverifiable supply has become too large. The reputational risk is too high. The compliance burden is too heavy. The financial exposure is too opaque. And once that first domino falls, every other major institution will have to follow or risk holding assets the market no longer values equally.

SMX’s balance sheet helps position it to meet this demand at the exact moment the call is made. It is no longer a startup pushing innovation uphill. It is a verification backbone with the capital to deploy across continents.

The Global Gold Standard of the Future Will Be Molecular

For decades, analysts predicted the world might return to a monetary gold standard. They missed the real revolution. The next gold standard will not be about currency. It will be about identity. Gold that can prove its origin, its purity, and its legality will rule global trade. Gold that cannot will trade in a shrinking, risk-ridden ecosystem that investors and governments increasingly avoid.

SMX is building that future. Its technology turns bullion into a self-authenticating asset and transforms the entire gold market into a system governed by evidence rather than assumption. The day a major institution demands verified gold is the day the global metals market resets. When that moment arrives, the only gold that matters will be the gold that can prove itself.

And SMX will be the company enabling that new language.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

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

Contact: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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