Author: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 4, 2025 / Gold markets are built on confidence. Vaults trust refiners. Refiners trust suppliers. Banks trust custody chains. Investors trust the entire system to uphold purity, legality, and origin with near-religious certainty. But that confidence is a façade, and it only takes one failure to expose it. The moment a major vault or global bank uncovers a counterfeit bar inside its inventory, the shock will hit the market like a blast wave. Trading will not slow. It will convulse. Prices will not adjust gently. They will whiplash as institutions scramble to determine which bars they can authenticate and which they cannot.

The gold industry knows this risk. It has lived through smaller versions of it. In past discoveries, adulterated bars were found with tungsten cores, falsified refinery stamps, or mismatched serial numbers. Those incidents were contained only because they were caught early and quietly. But the next one will not be quiet. The volumes are too large. The supply chains are too global. The trust layer is too thin. A counterfeit bar in a major Western vault would rip through markets, calling every legacy verification method into question.

The uncomfortable truth is that legacy bullion verification has no way to prevent this kind of shock. Once a bar melts, its identity melts with it. Once it is recast, its history resets. That fragility is the fault line running through the global gold economy. And it is the fault line that SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is now eliminating.

The Panic Doesn’t Start With Fraud, It Starts With Doubt

When the first counterfeit bar is discovered inside a major vault, the initial reaction will not be anger. It will be uncertainty. If one bar is compromised, how many others carry the same risk? If one supplier’s chain of custody breaks, how many others have been over-trusted? If one refiner’s stamp can be forged, how many others can be replicated? Markets do not panic when they see the problem. They panic when they can no longer measure it.

This is where the shock becomes systemic. Vaults will halt withdrawals to audit inventory. Banks will suspend bullion collateralization. Sovereign funds will call for emergency authentication of reserves. Exchanges will pause settlements to avoid taking contaminated metal. The freeze becomes global because no one wants to move gold that they cannot prove. Liquidity collapses, not because the gold is gone, but because the truth is.

This is exactly why SMX’s molecular identity technology matters. The company embeds an immutable molecular fingerprint inside the metal itself. Even if the bar is melted, the identity survives. Even if it is recast, the history remains intact. This prevents doubt from escalating into panic, as institutions can instantly authenticate their holdings rather than re-auditing decades of supply.

How SMX Turns a Market Crisis Into a Market Reset

But, if panic prevails, expect the market to separate into two groups: gold with verifiable identity and gold that must be trusted blindly. Verified bullion will become the safe haven within the safe haven, the only form of gold that banks, sovereigns, and exchanges will accept without hesitation. Unverified bullion will be treated like distressed inventory. Buyers will demand steep discounts. Liquidity will evaporate. Regulation will tighten. The maps of global gold flows will redraw themselves overnight.

This divide is not theoretical. It is already forming. The DMCC is building a verification-first ecosystem. Goldstrom and other advanced refiners are embracing molecular identity to eliminate risk. Vaults are preparing for future audits by integrating tech-driven authentication. These early adopters are positioning themselves on the right side of the coming reset, where proof replaces legacy trust networks.

That move is timely. Verification is no longer a boutique upgrade. It is becoming the global standard. The institutions that adopt it early will retain pricing power, liquidity, and regulatory confidence. The ones that delay will be left holding gold that the market no longer values equally.

One Counterfeit Bar Can Break Confidence

Confidence is the backbone of the gold market, but confidence without verification is a liability. All it takes is one compromised bar to expose the weakness of a system that still relies on documentation instead of material truth. The next counterfeit discovery will not be contained. It will be catalytic. It will expose the fragility of the entire global bullion chain.

SMX offers the firewall that the market has been missing. It gives gold a memory. It gives institutions certainty. It turns panic into precision. And it ensures that when the inevitable discovery of a counterfeit finally detonates, the world will not descend into chaos. It will pivot toward proof.

That’s the path of least resistance. Because the next era of gold’s value will not come from rarity alone. It will come from identity. The market will remember which companies made that transformation possible. It won’t be hard to remember: SMX is one of one.

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 / Every modern system relies on accurate inputs. Financial markets depend on audited disclosures. Manufacturing depends on precise measurements. Logistics depends on reliable tracking. Yet despite all the sophistication built into global industry, one problem has lingered for decades. The physical world has never had a universal truth layer.

Materials move through factories, recyclers, transport hubs, and suppliers without carrying definitive proof of where they came from, what they contain, or how they were handled. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is stepping directly into that gap with a verification infrastructure that allows physical goods to retain their identity from creation through recovery, and its Plastic Cycle Token (PCT) is emerging as the mechanism that expresses that proof in a usable digital form.

The reason this matters is simple. Industrial systems fail when information breaks down. Companies make decisions based on assumptions, estimates and declarations that cannot be independently validated. When input data is unreliable, every downstream decision becomes riskier.

A Frictionless Market Layer

SMX introduced a verification model built on molecular identity rather than paperwork or reporting. A material can now carry its own history, embedded at the molecular level, and that history can be confirmed at any point along the supply chain. When those verified events are captured through the Plastic Cycle Token framework, they become structured information that businesses can rely on.

This solves a structural limitation that has existed in manufacturing, recycling, and global trade for as long as those systems have operated. For generations, companies have wanted to create digital representations of physical events. They wanted to track recycled content with confidence. They wanted to authenticate sourcing. They wanted to measure recovery in ways that were immune to interpretation. But without accurate verification, none of that was possible. SMX removes that barrier by allowing materials to generate their own evidence. This is not a theoretical breakthrough. It is a practical and deployable system, and industries are responding to it.

The Plastic Cycle Token represents far more than sustainability auditing. It reflects a fundamental shift in how companies capture and transmit information about materials. Verified recovery becomes a reliable data point. Verified origin becomes a reliable data point. Compliance itself becomes a measurable record rather than a certified statement.

These events gain value because they remove uncertainty. Instead of asking stakeholders to trust that materials were responsibly handled, the PCT provides scientifically validated proof of what occurred.

Interest is Growing for the Right Reasons

Interest in SMX continues to grow because the company is not positioning itself as a niche solution. It is positioning itself as foundational infrastructure. Every sector that relies on materials can benefit from accurate verification. Consumer goods companies can reduce risk and improve brand protection. Manufacturers can meet rising compliance requirements without relying on inconsistent audits. Recycling operations can demonstrate outputs with traceable accuracy. Entire supply chains gain transparency that was previously impossible.

This is what gives the Plastic Cycle Token staying power. It is not a symbolic representation or a marketing tool. It is a format for capturing verified activity in a way that partners, regulators, and commercial systems can understand. It translates the physical world into structured information that can be shared, analyzed, and acted upon. As more industries look to modernize their reporting and strengthen resilience, the ability to rely on verified material-level truth becomes a competitive advantage.

SMX is delivering something that global commerce has needed for decades. It is building a truth layer for the real world. When companies can finally trust the data behind the materials they use, the entire system becomes more efficient, more accountable and more aligned with the expectations of modern markets. SMX is not imagining a future where this type of verification becomes standard. It is constructing the framework that brings that future into focus.

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 / The world has always struggled to turn the physical into the digital with any degree of accuracy. Supply chains generate enormous volumes of activity every second, yet remarkably little of that activity becomes trustworthy information.

Manufacturers move materials across continents. Recyclers process tonnage that is rarely validated. Brands ship products through layers of logistics that obscure their origins. This long-standing visibility gap has restricted markets for decades, because data is the foundation stakeholders rely on to understand performance, value, and risk.

Without high-integrity data, markets hesitate. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is changing that equation. By assigning molecular identities to materials and tracking them throughout their life cycles, the company is converting matter into structured information. And its Plastic Cycle Token (PCT) becomes the vessel that delivers that information into digital markets.

Way Beyond Sustainability

This shift represents more than a sustainability story. It is a redefinition of how markets interpret physical goods. For the first time, a material can produce a continuous data signal tied directly to its production, use, recovery, and reintegration. That signal is not estimated or interpreted. It is generated through SMX’s verification system, which embeds identity into the material itself.

When the PCT captures those verified events, it transforms physical behavior into digital meaning. Markets are recognizing that this creates a new class of signals that reflect real-world performance. These signals carry economic value because they originate from proven actions, not projections.

Market interest is rising because these signals are actionable. Recyclers gain the ability to demonstrate verified output rather than reported output. Brands can authenticate their supply chains with evidence instead of compliance statements. Manufacturers can show verifiable adherence to standards without relying on conventional audits. And for stakeholders, the PCT provides a stream of data that behaves more like a financial disclosure than a sustainability claim. This is the alignment the digital economy has been missing. The PCT replaces uncertainty with measurable and auditable truth.

Trust AND Verify

Without trustworthy inputs, even the strongest ledgers remain isolated from the physical world. SMX bridges that divide. It transforms physical events into validated data that can be recorded, traded, and built upon. When those events are tokenized, they become readable by decentralized systems and interoperable across platforms. The PCT sits at the center of this transformation because it assigns economic function to information that previously had no structured market value.

This is why interest in SMX continues to grow across both traditional markets and digital assets. The company is not merely tracking materials. It is creating an environment where materials behave like data-producing assets. That evolution has profound implications.

Markets reward clarity. They reward traceability. They reward systems that reduce ambiguity and reveal performance. SMX delivers all three. It is not projecting a future where the physical and digital worlds operate together. It is constructing the architecture that makes that future inevitable.

SMX is demonstrating that matter can generate market signals, and markets are responding. The company is not imagining a world where physical goods have digital identities. It is building it 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: 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 / Markets assign value to certainty. Every financial instrument trades according to how much confidence investors have in the data supporting it. Bonds rise or fall on creditworthiness. Equities react to visibility in earnings and operational performance. Commodities move on supply signals that traders believe are accurate enough to justify risk. What SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is demonstrating is that this principle applies just as strongly to physical materials.

When a material carries verified history, verified recovery, and verified reentry, it begins to claim something the market has never priced into supply chains before. It earns a proof premium. Investors across multiple sectors are beginning to recognize that this shift is not conceptual or futuristic. It is already taking shape around SMX’s Plastic Cycle Token (PCT).

Physical to Digital

For decades, the physical economy relied on assumptions. Manufacturers depended on supplier declarations with inconsistent oversight. Recyclers submitted volume reports that were difficult to validate beyond broad sampling. Brands relied on audits that varied in rigor depending on region, standards, and budget. These systems created a world built on approximations rather than certainties, and markets had no mechanism to reward accuracy or penalize ambiguity.

SMX changed that baseline by introducing molecular-level verification technology that gives every material a persistent identity throughout its lifecycle. It turns materials into traceable entities. Once the PCT expresses those events digitally, something new enters the market. Recovery is no longer an unpriced event. Certified content is no longer a grey zone. Proof becomes a measurable economic characteristic.

This is why interest in SMX continues to build. The PCT does not ask investors to imagine theoretical outcomes. It provides verified events that can be treated as market-ready units. A verified recovery is not comparable to an unverified recovery. A verified origin is not the same as a declared origin. These distinctions matter because markets reward certainty.

Stakeholders understand the logic intuitively. When ambiguity shrinks, value grows. SMX is not creating a token trend. It is creating a truth-driven environment where verified materials can assume financial relevance for the first time.

Aligning PROOF with the New World Economy

The momentum around SMX is driven by alignment between physical truth, proof, and digital markets. With the PCT, markets do not rely on sustainability reports, projections, or claims that cannot be independently validated. They are responding to data embedded inside the material itself.

For years, markets have tried to price sustainability, responsible sourcing, and circularity, yet none of those categories came with verifiable inputs. The PCT changes that. It provides an infrastructure where proof becomes the foundation for digital representation. That shift is why this concept is sticking with both traditional investors and digital asset participants.

What SMX built addresses a deeper need within the global economy. As supply chains become more complex, brands and regulators require higher levels of accuracy. Investors want transparency because transparency reduces risk. The PCT satisfies both expectations. It gives markets a way to measure what was once unverifiable. It allows companies to demonstrate performance instead of stating it. It enables materials to carry their own evidence rather than relying on third-party interpretation.

Proof has always been a form of currency in serious markets. SMX created the mechanism that allows that currency to move from the physical world into the digital one. As more participants understand the implications, the concept of a proof premium becomes harder to ignore. Verified materials are no longer just components in a supply chain. They are emerging as assets with definable economic identity. That realization is shaping how markets view SMX and why interest surrounding the PCT continues to rise.

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 / Everyone fears discovering a counterfeit bar in a major vault. But that is not where the real danger lives. The true weak point in the global gold ecosystem is not storage. It is transformation. Refineries are where gold becomes anonymous, where molten metal resets its identity, and where the world’s entire compliance infrastructure quietly collapses. The market obsesses over vault integrity, yet the refinery furnace is the exact place where legitimacy can evaporate into smoke. The next major gold scandal will not start with a vault audit. It will start with a melt.

Gold’s greatest vulnerability is the ease with which its history can be erased. The moment gold hits a furnace, every certificate, origin story, and serial number becomes meaningless. What emerges from the crucible looks identical whether it came from a secure mine or a sanctioned region. Refineries are expected to catch these discrepancies. But the truth is, most refineries rely on paperwork-based systems, trust networks, and legacy inspection tools that cannot withstand the modern threat landscape. If illicit gold wants to enter the global market, the refinery is the door it walks through.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) built the solution that finally locks that door. Its molecular identity system embeds a permanent fingerprint inside the gold itself. Melt it, blend it, mix it, or disguise it – the identity remains. Because of that, SMX technology is on track to become the de facto standard that refineries will need before the next meltdown-level scandal erupts.

The Melting Pot Is the Market’s Blind Spot

Every major gold scandal of the past twenty years has one thing in common: the refinery failed to detect compromised supply. Whether it was illicit African gold funneled through Middle Eastern refiners, sanctioned Russian bullion passed through intermediaries, or counterfeit alloys entering legitimate blends, the pattern is always the same. By the time the metal leaves the refinery, every trace of misconduct has been erased. The vaults only inherit the consequences.

No amount of certification oversight can fix this structural flaw. Auditors cannot watch every melt. Inspectors cannot test every input. Compliance officers cannot catch what molten metal can conceal. The gold industry has been pretending that refineries maintain strict origin integrity, but the reality is far more fragile. The entire system relies on processes that fail as soon as fraud becomes sophisticated.

That fragility is why regulators are shifting their focus. They know the refinery stage is where sanctions are evaded, where illicit mining hides, and where counterfeit metal becomes indistinguishable from legitimate supply. Enforcement frameworks are preparing to strike the industry at the melting point. When that reckoning arrives, refineries that cannot prove material identity will be forced into shutdowns, audits, or economic purgatory.

Refineries Will Need Proof, Not Paper, to Survive What Comes Next

When regulators tighten gold compliance requirements, and they will, refineries will face obligations they cannot meet with legacy systems. They will need to prove, not merely claim, that their output is legitimate. That means verifying origin, purity, and legality at the molecular level. This transition will not be optional. It will be the cost of doing business.

Refineries that embrace molecular verification will become preferred partners for sovereign buyers, bullion banks, and institutional markets. Their output will command better pricing because it carries no compliance risk. Their operations will run faster because fewer audits will disrupt throughput. And their credibility will rise because they are producing a self-authenticating asset, not a commodity with a questionable past.

Refineries that refuse or delay adoption will face the opposite fate. Slower clearances. Higher insurance premiums. Increased regulatory suspicion. Difficulty accessing global trading corridors. The market will not penalize them gently. Compliance pressure does not negotiate. It demands evolution.

SMX can help. It’s ready to deploy globally and support refineries in every major hub – Switzerland, Dubai, Singapore, South Africa, Toronto, Perth – by embedding identity into their output before enforcement descends.

The Refinery Reckoning Will Split the Industry in Two

When the reckoning hits, the gold industry will divide into two categories: refineries that can produce verified bullion and refineries that cannot. Investors, banks, and sovereigns will only trust the former. The latter will suffer declining volumes and shrinking margins until they adapt or disappear.

The market has been tolerating refinery opacity for decades, but that era is collapsing under geopolitical and compliance pressure. Gold cannot remain the world’s safe haven if its birth point is the world’s most exploitable loophole. SMX can close that loophole by turning every ounce into a carrier of proof.

The only question is which refineries will be ready when the industry is forced to confront the truth. With SMX’s molecular identity platform, the path to survival is clear. Refineries that embrace proof will define the future. Those that don’t will see assets burn in the reckoning.

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 3, 2025 / A silent bomb is ticking inside the global gold market, and the West is standing directly over it. The world’s most valuable commodity has become the easiest material for sanctioned regimes to move, disguise, and inject into Western supply chains. Gold can cross borders with forged paperwork. It can be melted until its past disappears. It can be mixed with legitimate supply until it becomes untraceable. The entire sanctions system depends on provenance that the gold industry does not actually have. And the moment regulators decide to crack down at scale, billions in Western gold inventory could be frozen, seized, or written down.

This is not an abstract risk. Sanctioned gold from conflict zones, illicit mines, and embargoed states is flowing through global networks at volumes the public would find staggering. It travels through refineries with inconsistent auditing standards. It enters shipping corridors with loose oversight. It lands in vaults that assume stamps and certificates are reliable. The gold looks real because it looks like gold. What the market cannot see is the contamination hiding inside it. That contamination is a geopolitical liability waiting to detonate.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) built the one system capable of defusing the sanctioned-gold bomb before regulators accidentally trigger it. Its molecular identity technology embeds proof inside the metal itself. No amount of melting, splitting, blending, or relabeling can erase the truth. And now, with SMX powered by a $111.5 million equity purchase agreement, it can scale this verification architecture across the markets that need it most.

The Problem Isn’t Sanctioned Gold; It’s the System That Can’t Detect It

Sanctions fail when enforcement relies on paperwork instead of physical evidence. Gold is the perfect loophole because documentation can be forged, swapped, or manufactured from thin air. Once illicit gold is melted into a new bar, its past is wiped clean. Western markets have no tool capable of separating legal gold from sanctioned supply. That is why sanctioned regimes prefer gold to every other commodity: it hides flawlessly in plain sight.

This invisibility makes sanctioned gold a strategic weapon. It gives embargoed regimes a funding channel that avoids banks. It gives illegal mining networks a way to launder output into legitimate production. It gives hostile actors the ability to influence global markets without detection. At the same time, it exposes Western institutions to enormous compliance risk. Vaults unknowingly store contaminated bullion. Banks unknowingly collateralize it. Exchanges unknowingly clear it. All because the system has no forensic layer.

SMX changes that dynamic instantly. Its molecular markers survive every thermal and mechanical transformation. If the gold came from a sanctioned region, the identity will reveal it. If a refiner tries to bury illicit supply in a blend, the truth will surface. If a vault receives compromised bars, verification will expose them before they enter circulation. SMX gives the West the one enforcement tool it has never possessed.

The Coming Crackdown Will Be Brutal for Unverified Holders

Regulators are watching illicit gold flows with growing alarm. Anti-money-laundering groups, customs agencies, and sanctions watchdogs have issued multiple warnings. The next move will not be a press release. It will be enforcement. Once a major Western government demands molecular-level verification for imported, stored, or collateralized gold, the entire market will split. Verified gold becomes compliant. Unverified gold becomes potentially contaminated inventory.

Banks will be forced to audit their reserves. Vaults will freeze questionable bars. Sovereign funds will restrict acquisitions. Exchanges will upgrade standards. All this pressure will cascade into one outcome: unverified gold will trade at a discount, and verified gold will become the only acceptable standard for high-value transactions. The market will not reward trust. It will reward proof.

This is where SMX’s EPA becomes pivotal. With significant committed capital, it can deploy verification across refineries, logistics networks, and storage hubs quickly enough to support market-wide transition. SMX will not just participate in the crackdown. It will power the system that replaces the old one.

The Era of Unverified Gold Is Ending

Sanctioned gold has been able to infiltrate Western markets because the industry operated on the honor system. That era is ending. The West cannot protect its financial system, enforce its sanctions, or maintain liquidity in its reserves without a verification architecture that survives melting and recasting. The next decade of gold policy will not be based on trust. It will be based on evidence.

SMX is building that evidence layer. It transforms gold from a commodity with no memory into a self-authenticating asset. It gives regulators a weapon against illicit flows. It gives institutions a safeguard against compliance risk. And it gives the gold market a future where integrity is measurable, not assumed.

The sanctioned gold bomb is real. The only question is whether the West lets it detonate or defuses it with proof. SMX is the system that makes defusal possible.

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 3, 2025 / The Western world keeps talking about mineral independence, but most of that ambition collapses the moment the materials hit a refinery. The truth is simple. The West is not losing the critical minerals race because it produces less. It is losing because it verifies less. Gold, rare earths, copper, nickel, cobalt, and strategic alloys move through global pipelines that forget where they came from the moment they change form. The weakest link is not geology. It is identity.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) stepped straight into this blind spot with a technology that gives minerals what they have always lacked. They get a molecular-level identity at the source. And that identity survives smelting, blending, recasting, melting, alloying, and recycling. That shift is not cosmetic. It changes the balance of power inside the most strategically important markets on earth.

Critical minerals supply chains have outgrown the paper systems designed decades ago. A shipment of rare earth concentrate might pass through five jurisdictions before processing. Gold might be recast three times before landing in a vault. Copper concentrate can be blended and reblended until the paperwork no longer resembles the material. Regulators want proof of origin and purity. Buyers want certainty. Investors want to avoid hidden risk. No one can deliver any of it when the supply chain has no memory.

SMX rebuilt the system so the memory lives inside the material itself. Molecular markers attach verification at extraction or early processing. A digital identity follows the mineral through every transformation. Refiners no longer lose traceability when ore is smelted. Manufacturers do not lose certainty when rare earths get converted into magnets or alloys. Gold no longer becomes anonymous once it is recast. Verification stops being a stack of certificates and becomes a built-in attribute that moves with the metal.

That is how the West regains leverage without trying to replicate state-controlled refining ecosystems.

Gold and Rare Earths Prove How Fast the System Can Shift

The most immediate impact of SMX’s approach is unfolding in precious metals and rare earths, the sectors where verification failures carry the highest economic and geopolitical cost.

Gold is the clearest example. The market treats gold as absolute certainty, yet it remains one of the easiest materials to counterfeit or mislabel. SMX’s work with Goldstrom and trueGold shows how quickly that weakness disappears once the metal carries an identity that survives every melt and recast. When gold can prove its origin and purity at any stage, trading hubs like the DMCC gain a level of transparency that transforms the entire ecosystem. Verified gold commands premium pricing and moves through borders faster because regulators trust the material, not the paperwork.

Rare earths reveal the same story at an industrial scale. These materials feed defense systems, motors, batteries, sensors, and aerospace technologies. They are processed through complex loops where purity and composition are essential. SMX’s collaboration with advanced groups like CARTIF demonstrated that rare earths can retain molecular-level identity throughout high-heat, high-pressure manufacturing environments. That gives Western manufacturers the ability to validate inputs independently of foreign processing centers, something the West has never truly possessed.

This is how verification becomes a strategic asset instead of an administrative burden.

Why SMX’s $111.5 Million Equity Purchase Deal Is a Turning Point

The West cannot afford slow adoption. It needs a verification architecture that can scale at industrial speed. SMX now has exactly that. Its $111.5 million equity purchase agreement gives it the financial engine to roll out identity systems across gold, rare earths, and high-value minerals with global reach. This agreement transforms SMX from a breakthrough technology company into a backbone supplier for the next decade of minerals policy.

Western industries do not just need more production. They need verifiable production, supply chains they can defend, inputs they can trust, and compliance they can prove. SMX now has the capital runway to deliver that at scale.

The New Divide Is Already Forming

As verification becomes standard, the market will split. On one side will be metals and minerals with embedded proof. On the other will be materials that still depend on legacy documentation. The verified category will command premiums, faster processing, and lower regulatory friction. The unverified category will trade at a discount and carry higher risk.

Critical mineral independence will not be won by owning every mine. It will be won by knowing exactly what enters the system, no matter where it originates. That is the advantage the West has been missing.

SMX did not just build a technology platform. It built the West’s new rulebook for the minerals economy. The companies that adopt it will set the terms. The ones that don’t will keep playing by someone else’s.

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 CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 3, 2025 / The market pays attention in strange ways. It can ignore a breakthrough for years, then recognize its value in a single week. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) has seen that shift firsthand. The company does not comment on price fluctuations, but it acknowledges a clear surge in global interest. That interest is not random and it is not speculative noise. It is the natural reaction to something the world has been missing for decades. Proof. Industrial-level verification that does not break when metals melt, plastics reform, or supply chains cross borders. SMX built the missing architecture and the world finally noticed the moment it could see it in action.

The turning point arrived when SMX began showing its work in the places where verification failures hit hardest. The company demonstrated molecular-level identity for gold inside one of the world’s most respected precious metals ecosystems. It showed that a bar can move across handlers, storage facilities, and even through recasting without losing its origin. That caught the industry off guard because it removed the long-accepted blind spot that sits between a refinery and a vault. The moment that blind spot closed, conversations shifted. This was not another technology pitch. This was an infrastructure that could reshape a global commodity.

Those demonstrations traveled quickly. Traders, refiners, auditors, and regulators began asking the same question. Why has no one done this before. The answer is simple. They couldn’t. The technology did not exist. Now it does, and the reaction has been strong.

The Catalyst Was Not a Story, It Was Validation.

Every sector that relies on materials faces the same weakness. The moment a material changes form, it loses its memory. That is where fraud thrives. That is where compliance breaks. That is where ESG collapses under its own promises. SMX removed that weakness by giving metals, plastics, packaging, and industrial inputs a persistent identity that survives real-world production conditions. That is not a press release achievement. It is a systems-level breakthrough that industries have been trying to solve for more than twenty years.

Take metals. SMX collaborated with advanced European research partners to test molecular identity through extreme heat and mechanical processing. The markers survived. Materials could be authenticated after smelting, alloying, reprocessing, and blending. That result alone changes the economics of critical minerals. It means governments can verify origin, manufacturers can verify purity, and miners can verify ethical sourcing without guesswork. Markets function better when truth is immediate, and SMX delivered exactly that.

In plastics and packaging, a different ecosystem reached the same conclusion. Identity embedded at extrusion gives brands and regulators evidence that survives recycling cycles. Asia’s circularity initiatives, including national R&D programs and large-scale industrial partners, saw how this changes policy execution. Circularity stops being an aspirational model. It becomes a measurable system where recovery, content, and compliance are physically verifiable. Proof becomes part of the product instead of part of the paperwork.

Capital Followed the Momentum Because Execution Became Possible

The world noticed another important detail. SMX secured a $111.5 million equity purchase agreement (“EPA”). That agreement provides the financial depth required to expand global deployment rather than tiptoe around budgets. Investors rarely offer that scale of capital without serious due diligence. They saw the same validation that industry partners saw. A technology that works, partners that matter, and a roadmap that can scale across metals, plastics, and national-level circularity platforms.

A verification economy cannot grow on prototypes. It needs the ability to deploy, integrate, and withstand demand across continents. The EPA gives SMX that capability. It also signals to the market that SMX is not positioned as a niche participant. Instead, it’s positioning itself as a core infrastructure provider for industries that cannot function without trust. As attention increased, investors responded to that posture. And it’s not surprising.

Proof is becoming a universal requirement. Regulators want it. Brands need it. Commodity markets depend on it. SMX stands at the center of that shift because it built what the world was missing. A way for materials to declare their own truth. The market is not reacting to hype. It is reacting to verification becoming real.

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 3, 2025 / The most dangerous plots never announce themselves. They don’t come wrapped in smoke or sirens. They look boring. A server rack in a rented apartment. A few hundred SIM cards stacked on a kitchen table. A cloned router that looks identical to the one your carrier uses every day. That’s the shape of modern conflict. The weapons look exactly like the hardware we trust until someone flips the switch and turns an invisible network into a nationwide choke point.

This is why SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) belongs at the center of the global security conversation. Its technology embeds invisible molecular markers directly into plastics, chips, metals, and telecom and computer hardware. Every component gets a permanent identity that can be verified in seconds. The moment identity becomes non-negotiable, scale without accountability dies. The most powerful advantage hostile actors have is anonymity. SMX makes anonymity impossible.

When investigators uncovered more than 300 servers and 100,000 SIM cards staged inside New York apartments, they weren’t uncovering a fraud ring. They were looking at a dormant weapon system. One coordinated activation could have jammed cell towers, suffocated emergency response channels, and forced the United States to respond as if the country were under direct attack. The threat isn’t foreign. The threat is local and assembled quietly, room by room, inside ordinary buildings.

History That Cannot Repeat

History keeps showing the cost of surprise. Pearl Harbor shocked the country into a four-year war. 9/11 took less than two hours and reshaped two decades of national policy. The pattern is simple. The first strike is never the climax. The first strike is the trigger. If those SIM cards had activated during a crisis window, hospitals would have scrambled, markets would have frozen, and federal agencies would have been thrown into a posture of immediate escalation. Silent attacks force loud responses. Escalation is always the real enemy.

This is the urgency SMX is built to solve. Supply chains have been treated like procurement paperwork for too long. They are the frontline of national defense. Forensics might eventually uncover the origin of a counterfeit component, but the damage is already baked in. Prevention is the only safety margin that matters. Prevention begins with proof at the component level.

Proof That Stops an Attack Before It Starts

SMX delivers that proof. Its technology embeds unique chemical signatures inside the material itself and links each part to an immutable ledger. Every device can answer three questions instantly. Where did it originate. Who handled it. Is it the same component that passed certification. A counterfeit router gets rejected at the loading dock. A cloned SIM card never activates. A critical sensor without a verified chain of custody never makes it into a national grid. Proof removes anonymity, and removing anonymity removes the ability to weaponize scale.

SMX calls this the doctrine of proof. The next great attack won’t arrive with explosions. It will arrive in silence. Emergency channels drowned. Power grids stalled. Sensors blinded. But if every device enters the system with an auditable identity, the logistics behind these attacks fail before they begin. The opening bell of chaos never rings.

SMX has already demonstrated this model in industries where authenticity is currency. Recycled plastics, advanced materials, metals, and national supply chains run cleaner and stronger when identity becomes part of the material. The same molecular fingerprint that validates recycled polymers can validate telecom chips. The same ledger that authenticates industrial steel can authenticate sensors, switches, and grid-critical hardware. Proof moves between industries. Deterrence moves with it.

A Company Positioned to Take on the Threat

And now SMX is capitalized to scale. The company secured new funding that stabilizes operations and strengthens its ability to deploy these systems across high-risk sectors. This matters. Threats are not waiting for next quarter’s budget cycle. They are already building. SMX’s strengthened balance sheet means the company can move at the speed the threat landscape requires. The country won’t win the next conflict with bigger weapons. It will win it with better verification.

The future of security belongs to whoever controls proof. SMX turns prevention into policy, certainty into a national strategy, and proof into the country’s most valuable defense. The threats are already here. The difference between panic and prevention is whether we embed proof before an attack ever tries to arrive.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

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

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 3, 2025 / For decades, every industry has been held back by the same flaw. They rely on materials they cannot truly verify. Plastics with unverifiable recycled content, gold with unverifiable origin, metals with unverifiable purity, and packaging with unverifiable compliance. These uncertainties fuel fraud, create regulatory risk, and fracture trust between manufacturers, regulators, and consumers. SMX’s (NASDAQ:SMX) collaborations are solving this problem sector by sector. Instead of improving documentation, the company is redefining the material economy itself.

In plastics, SMX is working with one of the world’s largest polymer and additives producers to embed identity directly into the material. This collaboration is showing how packaging, consumer goods, and industrial polymers can carry a molecular signature that survives extrusion, reshaping, and recycling. In precious metals, SMX is collaborating with one of the most influential trade hubs in the Middle East, Dubai and the DMCC, to demonstrate how identity can follow gold across heat cycles and cross-border movement. This is closing the gap that has plagued the global gold ecosystem for decades.

Meanwhile, SMX is working together with a major gold-processing partner, Goldstrom, to validate how persistent identity can survive melting and recasting, turning precious metals into a self-authenticating asset class. In Europe, a leading advanced-materials research center is testing SMX’s markers inside metals subjected to high temperature and intense processing. Their work is proving that industrial materials can retain identity even when they undergo transformations that historically erased all traceability. And in Asia, SMX is collaborating with packaging manufacturers, recyclers, and logistics companies to strengthen national circularity frameworks built on verifiable materials.

Every Collaboration Is a Proof Point

Industries built on paperwork were never designed to manage globalized supply chains. Certificates get forged. Labels fall off. QR codes don’t survive recycling. Declarations depend on trust. Audits catch problems only after damage occurs. That system worked when materials stayed local and transformations were simple. It collapses under modern complexity.

SMX’s partners are demonstrating that the old model is no longer viable. Plastics can now prove the recycled content claims written on their packaging. Gold can now preserve its history even after entering a furnace. Metals can carry identity across alloying, machining, and reshaping. And packaging can confirm compliance through embedded identity instead of voluntary reporting.

This is how the verification economy forms. Industries do not shift because regulations demand it. They shift because proof becomes the only way to stay competitive.

Value, Trust, and Pricing Are About to Be Rewritten Across Global Materials

When materials carry identity, markets change. Verified plastics command higher premiums and move faster through recycling channels. Verified gold attracts more liquidity and reduces compliance risk for sovereign buyers. Verified metals eliminate production failures caused by inconsistent purity. Verified packaging simplifies compliance for entire industries.

These advantages reshape pricing power. Companies using verified inputs gain trust from regulators and customers. Those relying on unverifiable materials face uncertainty and increased risk. The verification economy rewards clarity and punishes opacity.

SMX’s collaborations are not chasing ESG trends or regulatory cycles. They are rewriting how industries define trust and value. The world is learning that materials that can speak for themselves outcompete materials that rely on claims.

And SMX is the one giving those materials a voice.

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

View the original press release on ACCESS Newswire