Author: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 21, 2025 / Every headline about a cyberattack sounds the same: a breach, a leak, a compromise. Millions of files lost, systems paralyzed, trust shattered. But what if the problem isn’t in the code at all? What if the real threat starts before a single line is written?

The truth is that cybersecurity has been looking in the wrong direction. For years, the focus has been on protecting data instead of the devices that hold it. Every chip, every circuit, every sensor that powers our modern world arrives with an assumption of authenticity. And that assumption has become the soft underbelly of national security.

It takes only one compromised component to bring an entire system to its knees. A counterfeit microchip inside a satellite. A corrupted processor inside a power grid. A mislabeled sensor inside an aircraft. These are not hypotheticals. They are vulnerabilities hiding in plain sight, baked into the supply chains that feed every sector of the global economy. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) has built a way to eliminate those weaknesses at the source.

Curing the Problem, Not the Symptoms

Its molecular-marking technology embeds invisible chemical identifiers directly into materials during manufacturing. Once applied, each marker acts like a microscopic and immutable digital passport, unique to that material and instantly verifiable with a proprietary scanner. It gives matter itself a voice, one that cannot be forged, cloned, or erased.

And it replaces a flawed approach to cybersecurity, one where governments and corporations built firewalls around data but left the foundation exposed. Code can be patched and altered. Materials marked by SMX cannot.

A finished product embedded with SMX molecular-marking technology can authenticate itself the moment it is scanned. And it does not stop there. Every handoff, every processing step, and every shipment can be recorded and stored immutably on blockchain ledgers, creating a transparent chain of custody that follows the material from raw extraction to deployment. It turns supply chains into truth chains. Call it the Material Internet of Truth.

Proof Is the Ultimate Flex

With it, a world is created where every chip in a defense system can prove it was built in a secure facility, where every sensor in a medical device can verify its origin, where every magnet inside a data center can confirm it came from an approved source. That level of certainty does more than prevent counterfeiting; it restores confidence in the infrastructure that modern life depends on.

The need has never been greater. Artificial intelligence, clean-energy grids, and defense systems are merging into one interconnected web of hardware and data. That web is only as strong as its weakest component. A single compromised part can ripple through entire economies, affecting hospitals, communication networks, and national defense in ways that no firewall could ever contain.

SMX delivers a solution built for this moment. It does not rely on algorithms or software patches. It relies on proof that is physical, verifiable, and permanent. By embedding identity into the materials themselves, SMX makes deception too expensive to sustain. Counterfeiters lose their profit motive. Hackers lose their entry point. And those with far more nefarious intentions lose their firepower. The advantage in all cases returns to the defender.

It’s Here and Ready to Use

While all of this sounds theoretical, it isn’t. Not by a long shot. SMX’s molecular verification is already being deployed across industries, including major sector players in gold, rubber, plastics, and textiles, who are now, at industrial scale, proving that transparency can coexist with profitability. Extending that system into semiconductors, critical minerals, and defense components is more than a critical patch to a vulnerable system; it can give nations the ability to rebuild infrastructure with the one thing it truly lacks: trust backed by proof.

Why does that matter? Because trust, once lost, is nearly impossible to recover. Every breach erodes confidence, and every failure makes the next one easier to exploit. That erosion cannot be patched with software updates or encrypted passwords. It can only be stopped by making authenticity inseparable from the material itself.

In that sense, SMX’s approach is deceptively simple: give hardware its own conscience. Let it prove what it is, where it came from, and how it has been handled. Let it speak truth in a world drowning in manufactured uncertainty.

The Stakes Are Higher Than Ever

As for the stakes? They could not be higher. The digital and physical worlds are now one, and the cost of deception is measured not just in data but in lives, infrastructure, and stability. Code can lie. With SMX embedded, hardware cannot – not anymore.

By turning materials into sources of truth, SMX has created something rare in cybersecurity: a foundation that cannot be faked. The hardware doesn’t lie. In fact, it can’t, even if it tried. And that is exactly why the future of security will depend on what is inside the product, not the label affixed to it.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

This editorial contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of United States federal securities laws. These statements reflect current expectations, assumptions, estimates, and projections regarding future events, business strategies, market conditions, technological developments, and the anticipated performance of SMX in cybersecurity, supply-chain authentication, hardware verification, and related sectors. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “potential,” “project,” “seek,” “target,” “will,” and similar terminology. The absence of these terms, however, does not mean a statement is not forward-looking.

Forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain and involve risks, contingencies, and unknown factors that could cause actual results, performance, or outcomes to differ materially from those expressed or implied. These risks include, but are not limited to, changes in global cybersecurity regulations; evolving national security directives; shifts in semiconductor, critical-mineral, or electronics supply-chain conditions; geopolitical instability; disruptions in manufacturing or logistics; challenges in integrating SMX’s molecular-marking systems into existing industrial processes; and the pace at which hardware manufacturers, defense contractors, or infrastructure operators adopt new authentication technologies.

Additional risks include the performance, durability, and reliability of SMX’s molecular markers and scanning systems under industrial or extreme conditions; the scalability and commercial viability of its blockchain-based verification frameworks; the company’s ability to maintain and protect intellectual property; competitive developments in cybersecurity and materials authentication; the availability and cost of capital; customer adoption rates; fluctuations in global economic conditions; exposure to foreign exchange volatility; labor availability; and any delays, costs, or technical obstacles associated with expanding into new jurisdictions, industries, or regulatory regimes.

Forward-looking statements in this editorial also depend on SMX’s ability to secure and retain strategic partnerships across sectors such as defense, aerospace, energy, telecommunications, medical devices, advanced computing, and critical infrastructure. The timing and success of these collaborations may be impacted by factors beyond the company’s control, including procurement processes, regulatory approvals, geopolitical events, or shifts in national-security policy.

Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication and are based on information available at that time. SMX undertakes no obligation to update, revise, or supplement any forward-looking statements to reflect future events, new information, or changes in expectations, except as required by applicable law.

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 20, 2025 / Nobody saw it coming. Not the regulators writing ESG checklists. Not the brands chasing carbon offsets. Not the investors who dismissed traceability as a sustainability sideshow. Somewhere behind all that noise, a small publicly traded company called SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) was teaching the material world to not only speak but to always tell the truth.

Long before sustainability became a stage show at global conferences, SMX was quietly building the tools the world now depends on. In labs instead of boardrooms, its team was advancing a molecular marking system that could tag anything that moves through industry, from metal and rubber to liquids, plastics, and textiles, each with a hidden, indestructible ID. Those tags weren’t for inventory. They were designed to turn supply chains into fact-based monetizable content.

And that’s exactly what they’ve done. A product embedded with SMX markers can now tell you where it came from, what it’s made of, and how many lives it has lived. Those stories never lose a chapter. Every touchpoint stays recorded for life, the result of a system that blends chemistry, code, and credibility into one continuous chain of truth.

Traction Turned to Momentum

Then came 2023. The year the quiet company in the corner became the center of gravity. After years of building beneath the surface, SMX found itself perfectly aligned with a global reckoning. Regulators wanted verification. Brands wanted accountability. Investors wanted evidence. SMX was ready to deliver on all three, blueprint in hand. To each, it told the same message: its technology wasn’t just another traceability fix. It was the connective tissue of the global economy’s conscience.

What happened next was pure alchemy. SMX taught matter to speak in a universal language. Each invisible marker carries a molecular signature that survives every melt, mold, stretch, crush, and recycle. Connected to a blockchain registry, those molecules don’t just hold value; they hold memory. Scan a plastic bottle in Singapore, and it can talk to the same polymer scanned in Germany. A tire can confirm its origin. A gold bar can verify its purity and the conditions and location of its mining. A shirt can prove its recycled content.

For the first time, the material world could testify for itself. No translators needed. More importantly, nothing was lost in translation, ever.

From Proof to Platform

That single idea, proof as a universal language of compliance, transformed SMX from a quiet lab project into a global movement. In Singapore, the company partnered with A*STAR to build a national circularity platform capable of tracing plastics, rubber, and packaging through digital passports linked to molecular markers. What began as a pilot is now being watched across ASEAN as a potential blueprint for regional circular economies.

In Europe, momentum multiplied. SMX joined forces with Austria’s REDWAVE to weave molecular data into automated sorting systems. It partnered with France’s CETI to bring verified sustainability to textiles. And with Continental AG, one of the world’s largest tire manufacturers, it helped trace the full life of natural rubber, from plantation to product, mapping every molecule from tree to tread. Transparency, once optional, became operational.

By late 2025, SMX’s name echoed through Spain’s innovation corridors. Its alliance with CARTIF in Valladolid turned the region into Europe’s circular-economy test track, where packaging, renewables, and construction materials are tagged and traced in real time. It’s not a demo; it’s infrastructure. If it scales, Valladolid could easily become recognized as the EU’s “capital of proof.”

The Gold Standard of Proof

Then came gold, the most ancient store of value redefined by modern chemistry. Through its majority-owned subsidiary, trueGold, SMX embedded molecular proof directly into precious metals. Its partnership with Goldstrom, a global leader in bullion banking and logistics, brings that science into commercial circulation.

The London Bullion Market Association has already accredited SMX’s molecular marker as a Gold Bar Security Feature, one of the industry’s highest endorsements. Gold no longer just holds worth; it proves it. And that kind of verification could reshape how trust is priced in trillion-dollar markets.

Proof Becomes the Product

Each partnership leads to the same conclusion. SMX has become the connective tissue of material truth, and it’s fair to say it also wrote the book on material efficiency. From Singapore to Spain, from refineries to fashion houses, it links chemistry, code, and commerce into one ecosystem of accountability. What once relied on paper and promises now runs on molecular evidence.

Proof, once an afterthought, has become the product. The circular economy is no longer a theory. SMX turned it into a working marketplace with built-in molecular memory. It didn’t follow the proof economy; it built it, molecule by molecule, receipt by receipt, until the world had to take notice.

And it is. But this time the people in it aren’t just seeing; they’re listening. Beneath the grind of regulation and the echo of decades of debate, a new frequency is taking hold. It’s the pulse of proof, the sound of materials speaking for themselves.

In that regard, SMX didn’t just find the signal. It sharpened the sound and amplified it for the world to hear. And benefit from.

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.

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This editorial contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act and other applicable federal securities laws, and these statements reflect current expectations, assumptions, estimates, and projections regarding future events, the development and performance of SMX’s technologies, and the anticipated evolution of global regulatory and commercial environments. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words or phrases such as anticipate, believe, could, estimate, expect, intend, may, plan, potential, project, seek, target, will, and similar terminology, although the absence of such terminology does not mean a statement is not forward-looking. These statements involve substantial risks, uncertainties, and contingencies, many of which are beyond the control of SMX and which could cause actual results, performance achievements, or outcomes to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statement. Such risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to changes in global sustainability regulations including requirements relating to digital product passports molecular traceability plastic credit systems national circularity frameworks environmental compliance standards or gold market authentication rules the timing scope and success of governmental or institutional adoption of SMX technologies the ability of SMX to scale molecular marking systems across multiple industries such as plastics rubber textiles metals chemicals electronics and precious metals the performance reliability cost structure and commercial viability of SMX’s molecular markers scanners registries and digital passport systems and the company’s ability to convert pilot programs in regions such as Singapore Europe ASEAN and the United States into long term revenue generating deployments.

Additional factors that could affect forward looking statements include evolving geopolitical conditions supply chain disruptions trade restrictions economic instability foreign exchange fluctuations competitive pressures within the verification authentication and materials tracking industries challenges related to protecting intellectual property including patents and proprietary technologies the availability cost and sufficiency of capital resources the ability of SMX to maintain key partnerships with research institutions such as A*STAR, CETI, CARTIF, and REDWAVE or with commercial partners including tire manufacturers chemical producers recyclers refiners and precious metals processors and risks associated with its majority owned subsidiary trueGold including potential changes to bullion market standards security protocols or LBMA accreditation frameworks.

SMX’s ability to achieve or sustain commercial momentum may also be influenced by the pace of industry adoption of molecular marking systems the ability of legacy infrastructure to integrate new verification technologies potential resistance from entrenched market participants shifting regulatory enforcement priorities labor availability cyber threats data accuracy and integrity risks and challenges that may arise from expanding into new jurisdictions each with its own legal environmental and operational requirements.

Readers are cautioned that forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of publication and reflect current views that may change as new data events or circumstances emerge, and readers should not place undue reliance on any such statements, as actual developments may differ significantly due to factors known and unknown. Except as required by applicable law, SMX assumes no obligation to update, revise, or supplement any forward-looking statements to reflect future events, new information, changing circumstances, or shifts in strategic or operational direction, regardless of whether such changes arise from subsequent developments, newly available data, or internal reassessments of market conditions.

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 20, 2025 / Most institutions didn’t build ahead of the new rules for global trade and its supply chains. They never expected any to emerge. So they built for what they knew best, an antiquated world where supply chains behaved predictably, certifications were trusted by default, and threats followed the familiar contours of physical borders.

The past few years shattered that illusion. Infiltrated materials, falsified documentation, unverifiable recycling claims, and foreign influence operations created vulnerabilities so deep that regulators had no choice but to rewrite the playbook. Governments and corporations are now reacting, scrambling to seal gaps they never expected to exist. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) isn’t scrambling. SMX saw these fractures forming long before the market understood what they meant, and it built the one system designed to close every exposure these new rules have brought into the light.

Companies had time to stay ahead of the game. This shift in supply chain integrity didn’t happen in a single moment. It happened through accumulation, one breach layered onto another until the old assumptions finally collapsed. That’s the point where most organizations realized they were operating without the ability to authenticate the inputs flowing through their systems. They could monitor activity, but they could not confirm identity. They could measure output, but they could not prove origin.

SMX built its molecular identity platform before the blind spots became public weaknesses, creating a way for materials themselves to carry truth no matter how far they travel or how many times they change form. That’s the good news for everyone.

Countries Are Partnering Quickly in 2025

Singapore’s A*STAR is on board, selecting SMX to help build a national infrastructure for plastic circularity. This is a stark departure from the status quo. Countries like Singapore aren’t looking for more dashboards or better spreadsheets. They need real verification at the molecular level, full digital passports that hold up under pressure, and a financial system like the Plastic Cycle Token that assigns value to authenticated behavior rather than reported intentions. A*STAR recognized that SMX didn’t wait for regulations to force action. It built the infrastructure required to meet them the moment they arrived.

Industry after industry is now experiencing the same reckoning. Brands that once relied on loose certification frameworks-recycled plastics, natural rubber, textiles, electronics, luxury goods, semiconductors-have been pushed into a level of accountability they were never structurally designed to meet. They are retrofitting old processes to survive new expectations. SMX doesn’t retrofit. It embeds identity at the beginning of the chain, transforming compliance from an annual exercise into a living, persistent layer of truth.

This distinction matters. Monitoring tools track behavior after it happens. SMX verifies identity before it happens. Monitoring can be gamed, evaded, or manipulated. Molecular identity cannot. That is the line now dividing the companies prepared for the future from the ones still patching the past.

Not Just Material Products Like Gold, Textiles, and Rubber

National security agencies are arriving at the same realization. Modern infiltration isn’t defined by force; it’s defined by deception. The most damaging breaches don’t come through broken gates. They come through trusted doors. They come disguised as legitimate materials, credentials, certifications, and narratives that slip into environments assumed to be safe. Once inside, the damage is already done.

No worries for those paying attention. SMX closes that entry point. It authenticates every input, whether it is a shipment of metals, a recycled plastic bale, a computer processor or component, a precious metal bar, or a digital credential entering a system. It makes infiltration visible not after an incident but before it becomes one. And it does so in seconds, not days, weeks, or months, through a proprietary scanner designed for one purpose, to tell the truth.

Still, verification is just part of the SMX coverage. Its Plastic Cycle Token takes it to the next level. It’s not a speculative asset. It’s a value layer that emerges directly from verified material. Once authenticated, every unit of recycled plastic becomes a tradable, enforceable representation of real circularity. That changes compliance. It changes economics. And best of all, it changes how countries enforce environmental policy without crushing industry under impossible reporting burdens. SMX built this before regulators began the global shift toward enforcement. Now the world needs it.

And that is the point organizations must understand. The institutions acting now, including the six partnerships SMX secured so far in 2025, will lead the next era of supply-chain power. They will set the standards others follow, shaping the very definition of authenticity, accountability, and resilience. The ones who delay will spend years trying to retrofit systems that were never meant to withstand this level of scrutiny. They will face more than delay. They will face decay in brand perception, consumer trust, and regulatory pressure.

It’s No Secret… SMX Is Shouting the Answer

The message is no longer a secret. SMX is doing everything it can to shout from global rooftops that vulnerabilities are exposed and capable of causing catastrophic results. The grid, national security, counterfeiting, and defense systems are all at risk, not once in a while but 24/7/365.

It’s time for the world to pay attention to what SMX has been saying. The rules have changed. And the only way to win this new game is to be the leader who never gives up ground. SMX built the system that makes that 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

This editorial contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of United States federal securities laws, and these statements are based on current expectations, assumptions, estimates, and projections regarding future events, business conditions, market dynamics, and the anticipated performance of SMX. Forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain and are not guarantees of future performance, and they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that are difficult to predict and may be beyond the control of SMX. Actual results performance or achievements may differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward looking statements due to a variety of factors including but not limited to changes in domestic or international regulatory requirements shifts in global supply chain conditions fluctuations in market acceptance and adoption of emerging verification technologies variations in economic or geopolitical environments competitive developments operational challenges in scaling new systems or partnerships and the ability of SMX to execute on its strategic initiatives commercial goals and research and development programs. Additional risks that could impact forward looking statements include changes in customer demand the timing and success of product deployments or pilot programs the availability of financing or capital resources industry wide disruptions shifts in sustainability reporting standards or auditing requirements evolving national security directives updates to environmental or materials traceability frameworks and the capacity of SMX to attract retain and collaborate with key partners governments corporations and research institutions. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which reflect only the information and views available as of the date of publication and which may change as new events emerge or as underlying assumptions evolve. Except as required by applicable law, SMX undertakes no obligation to publicly update, revise, or supplement any forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events, new information, or future circumstances, regardless of whether such changes arise from newly available data, subsequent developments or shifts in strategic direction

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 18, 2025 / There are moments in history when emerging threats move faster than the systems built to defend against them. Today, we are in one of those moments. As global supply chains grow more complex and interconnected, new forms of infiltration are quietly taking shape inside the very infrastructure that powers modern life. These risks are not theoretical. They are structural, and they are accelerating.

Recent concerns about compromised devices and unverified components reflect a broader challenge facing every modern nation: critical infrastructure often depends on materials and technologies that pass through lengthy, opaque supply chains before reaching the people who rely on them. In an environment this interconnected, even a single blind spot can become an entry point. That is the issue the world must understand clearly and calmly.

For years, SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) has worked at the molecular level to help provide that clarity. By embedding identity and traceability directly into materials at the point of origin, SMX enables end-to-end verification that follows a product throughout its entire lifecycle. This ability to authenticate materials is not a concept and not a future aspiration. It is an operational system currently used across industries such as natural rubber, precious metals, recycling, advanced manufacturing, and hardware supply chains.

These capabilities exist. They are proven. And they are available to any sector that needs them.

A Global Challenge Without a Villain

Don’t underestimate the SMX touch points. Every sector can benefit. The vulnerabilities in supply chains and critical infrastructure are not tied to any one actor, nation, or group. In a globalized economy, infiltration can originate from anywhere and travel through any unverified device, material, or component. A system without transparency creates unintentional opportunities for misuse.

The objective is not to blame or accuse. It is to strengthen resilience.

Complex supply chains, from consumer products to industrial materials to advanced electronics, now sit at the heart of national stability. Safeguarding these systems requires traceability that starts at the source and verification that is foundational, not superficial.

Why This Matters Now

The consequences of a compromised infrastructure reach far beyond inconvenience. Modern society depends on electricity, water systems, transportation networks, logistics, communication platforms, and digital coordination. If any part of this network is disrupted at scale, the effects can cascade rapidly.

If the grid goes down, essential systems become vulnerable. Gas distribution stops. Water treatment facilities stall. Grocery shelves can empty within days. Hospitals face critical shortages. Truckers struggle to move feedstock. Refrigeration fails. Electric vehicles cannot charge. Before long, millions confront conditions that strain every aspect of modern life.

These scenarios are not predictions of doom. They are practical examples of why supply chain integrity is essential to national resilience.

Awareness, Understanding, and the Role of New Tools

This is why understanding emerging tools matters. SMX’s molecular identity system is already supporting partners across several industries, providing transparent material verification from the outset of the supply chain. It’s proving a vital resource for strengthening resilience wherever it is needed.

That’s because molecular-level verification does more than improve transparency. It ensures that materials have memory, that supply chains have accountability, and that infrastructure has the foundational protection required for a connected world. These are not theoretical benefits. They are measurable, operational, and available today.

The risks facing modern infrastructure are real, but so are the technologies capable of mitigating them. This moment calls for clarity, cooperation, and thoughtful engagement across both public and private sectors. Strengthening supply chains is no longer an abstract discussion. It is a practical, achievable step toward safeguarding essential systems.

The Path Forward

The path ahead requires more than awareness. It requires decisive steps to strengthen the systems on which modern life depends. Supply chain transparency is no longer a technical preference. It is an essential component of national resilience.

Infiltration may be a quiet threat, but the solutions are tangible and ready for deployment. Technologies that provide material identity and verification at the source give industries and institutions the tools to reduce risk, reinforce infrastructure, and prepare for an increasingly complex global environment. These are practical measures that can be put to work today, not distant concepts waiting for future progress.

SMX has built technology designed for this moment, technology that proves resilience is achievable when verification becomes foundational. As the world grows more interconnected, the need to secure what we depend on will only intensify. Strengthening supply chains is not a matter of caution. It is a matter of responsibility.

The time to act is now.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

This editorial contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of U.S. federal securities laws, including the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements reflect discussions concerning global security conditions, supply chain vulnerabilities, international regulatory environments, and the potential capabilities and future adoption of SMX technologies. Forward-looking statements are not historical facts. They are based on current expectations, beliefs, estimates and projections about future events that remain uncertain and that may differ materially from actual outcomes.

Words such as “expect,” “believe,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “estimate,” “could,” “should,” “may,” “will,” “project,” “potential,” “future,” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements include these identifying terms. Such statements include, but are not limited to, expectations regarding global threats to infrastructure, the evolution of international supply chain standards, regulatory adoption of material-level verification technologies, and the potential for SMX’s molecular identity platform to address national security, sustainability, traceability, and circular-economy challenges.

These statements involve risks, uncertainties, and factors outside SMX’s control, including geopolitical developments, legislative decisions, market adoption rates, technological advancements, enforcement practices, shifts in global trade policy, and third-party reliance on unverifiable data systems. Actual results and developments may differ significantly from those expressed or implied in these forward-looking statements. Readers are encouraged to review the risk factors and disclosures contained in SMX’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and Current Reports on Form 8-K.

Forward-looking statements in this editorial are made only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events, changes in circumstances, or new information, except as required by applicable law.

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 14, 2025 / Recycling has always carried the right intentions, but it has never had the right architecture. For decades, governments, corporations, and global coalitions promised transformation while relying on a patchwork system that could not support the weight of their ambitions. The structure buckled not because of a lack of commitment, but because the foundation was never strong enough to meet the world’s demands.

That is why Singapore’s decision to move forward with the construction of a national plastics passport, powered by SMX’s (NASDAQ:SMX) molecular identification technology, marks such a fundamental turning point. It signals a shift from circularity as aspiration to circularity as infrastructure – a step that transforms plastics from an ungoverned commodity into a governed resource with identity, accountability, and economic value.

This isn’t a re-announcement. It is the stage where the vision becomes the system.

A System Finally Designed to Work
The reason recycling struggled was never mysterious. Every region wrote its own definitions. Every audit relied on subjective interpretation. Every claim existed only on labels and spreadsheets. Plastics moved across borders without consistent rules, and companies had no way to prove that the materials they sourced truly met the standards they were required to uphold.

Singapore is correcting that flaw at the structural level. By embedding SMX’s molecular identity into the polymers themselves, the country is engineering a reality in which plastics report their own truth. Every item moving through collection, sorting, and recycling carries an immutable passport that confirms its composition and its history. Oversight no longer depends on documentation. Enforcement no longer waits for audits. Compliance no longer hinges on trust.

For the first time, the system is built for accuracy instead of approximation.

A Blueprint Designed for ASEAN, Not Just Singapore
Singapore has a long history of shaping international standards, from finance to digital governance. Its approach to plastics is following the same trajectory. By deploying a plastics passport as a national layer, the country is creating a framework that surrounding markets can adopt without reinventing their own systems.

The opportunity is enormous. As ASEAN economies build new recycling mandates and push for certified recycled materials, they can plug into a model already proven at the national level. Analysts estimate that the new infrastructure could support billions in annual value across verified materials, authenticated supply chains, and digital circular-economy incentives. The momentum is regional because the standard is universal.

What works in Singapore can work anywhere that materials must move with traceable identities – across borders, across sectors, across regulators.

A Shift From Narrative to Measurable Reality
Governments want evidence that environmental policy delivers measurable returns. Brands want protection from greenwashing scrutiny. Investors want compliance they can price. And, consumers want sustainability they can trust.

As it stands, all of them struggle without verification at the material level.

SMX solves that by giving plastics a memory – not metaphorically, but chemically. The polymer itself becomes the point of truth. When recycled content is claimed, it can be confirmed instantly. When safety standards are required, they can be validated at the product level. When recycled feedstock enters manufacturing, its identity is authenticated without argument.

This transforms circularity from a communications strategy into a functioning economic layer. Recycling stops being a plea. It becomes a governed system with defined value, defined identity, and defined enforcement.

The Transition From Goodwill to Governance
This moment is not about punishing the past. It is about replacing a fragile architecture with one capable of delivering the circular future policymakers, brands, and communities have been demanding for years. Singapore’s deployment of a plastics passport marks the point when the world stops relying on declarations and starts relying on design.

SMX is at the heart of that shift. Its molecular technology embeds verification into the physical reality of plastics, turning the material itself into the recordkeeper. It is not a promise. It is not a projection. It is a national system in motion – one that ASEAN markets are already preparing to replicate.

Circularity finally has its operating manual. Plastics finally have an identity. And sustainability finally has a system grounded in truth rather than trust.

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

Forward-Looking Statements
This editorial contains forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements reflect current expectations, assumptions, and projections regarding future events involving SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), its molecular identification technologies, and their potential application within national and regional circular-economy systems. Forward looking statements are not historical facts. They involve risks, uncertainties, and variables that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, without limitation, statements regarding the development, scaling, integration, and performance of SMX’s molecular-marker technology; the potential success and implementation timeline of Singapore’s national plastics passport; expectations related to the replication or expansion of plastics-passport models across ASEAN or other global markets; the potential economic value of verified recycled materials and authenticated circular-economy assets; and assumptions concerning regulatory adoption, sustainability mandates, compliance frameworks, industrial integration, and market acceptance of material-level verification solutions.

These statements also involve assumptions about the readiness of government agencies, industrial partners, waste-management systems, and manufacturers to integrate molecular identity into plastics; expectations about the behavior of global supply chains and recycling markets; projected demand for authenticated recycled content and traceable materials; and the potential development and adoption of digital incentives or trading mechanisms linked to verified recycling activity. In addition, forward looking statements may relate to broader geopolitical, economic, and regulatory environments that influence sustainability policy, waste-management mandates, cross-border material flows, and investments in circular-economy infrastructure.

Risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially include changes in legislation, regulatory approaches, and national or regional policy priorities; delays or challenges in partner implementation; variations in technological performance when deployed at industrial scale; competitive solutions or emerging technologies; supply-chain instability; fluctuations in market demand for recycled content; capital-availability constraints; macroeconomic pressures; and the risk factors outlined in SMX’s public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.

Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update, revise, or supplement forward looking statements to reflect future events or changes in circumstances, except as required by law.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / November 14, 2025 / E-commerce was built on speed, convenience, and volume – but not on certainty. As marketplaces grew into global giants, the one thing that never scaled with them was verifiable truth. Authenticity still depended on expert eyes, subjective judgment, and a network of verification centers that could barely keep pace with the digital economy they supported.

The world needed a new foundation, something more durable than labels, receipts, and visual inspection. It needed a way for physical goods to carry the same kind of identity that digital assets have enjoyed for years. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is building that missing identity layer, a molecular passport embedded directly into the materials that make up the products we buy, sell, and trade.

What emerges is a commerce ecosystem where physical objects behave like digitally verified entities. Every item becomes self-identifying. Every purchase becomes traceable. Every resale becomes trustworthy. The physical world, for the first time, starts to operate with digital clarity.

Identity Begins at Creation, Not Resale

Traditional authentication starts at the end of the supply chain, when an item reaches a marketplace or a resale platform. SMX’s system begins at the beginning. By embedding a molecular signature directly into the raw materials – leather, polymers, metals, fibers, and components – the company gives every product a birth certificate before it ever enters circulation.

Through ongoing integrations with innovation hubs like A*STAR, CETI, and Aegis Packaging, this identity layer is already being deployed where goods are designed and manufactured. The result is a global pipeline in which products travel with their own permanent resume, readable at any point in their life.

Once that molecular identity exists, verification ceases to be an interpretive act. It becomes a real-time confirmation tied to the material itself. Authentication moves from “What does this look like?” to “What does this prove?”

The Marketplace Becomes a Verification Engine

When identity is embedded at the source, online marketplaces evolve into something more powerful than listing platforms. They become trust engines. A product can be scanned the moment it enters the resale ecosystem, and the truth of its history is revealed in seconds – not through judgment or experience, but through chemistry.

Resale platforms, refurbishers, luxury markets, and third-party sellers can operate without ambiguity. The cost of manual authentication shrinks. Fraud becomes a technical dead end. And the flow of goods becomes more efficient because every item carries its own unalterable proof.

This is not a layer added on top of e-commerce. It is the infrastructure beneath it.

A New Lifecycle for Products With Memory

Once physical goods gain digital identity, their entire lifecycle transforms. A watch, a designer bag, a limited sneaker release – each can pass from one buyer to the next without losing its connection to its origin. The continuity of identity increases resale value, strengthens brand protection, and creates new economic opportunities for circular commerce.

Even categories long plagued by uncertainty can be verified at scale. Refurbished electronics. Specialty components. Artwork. Collectible goods. High-value packaging. Pharmaceuticals. Automotive parts. Any product that travels through multiple hands benefits from a system that doesn’t forget.

Circular economies thrive when memory becomes a material property.

The Business Model Behind a Verified World

SMX’s molecular identity isn’t just a security feature. It is a data network. Every scan, every resale, every confirmation becomes part of a larger ecosystem where verified information can be analyzed, monetized, and integrated into brand strategies and marketplace operations.

Manufacturers can track how their products flow through secondary markets. Platforms can certify goods instantly and reduce friction in high-volume authentication categories. Consumers can trust that what they’re buying is real, not because someone said it was – but because the object itself confirmed it.

This is not a cosmetic upgrade to e-commerce. It is the architecture for a new era in which digital identity extends beyond screens and servers into every corner of the physical world.

The Future of Commerce Has a Pulse

E-commerce was born without a reliable identity layer for physical goods. That gap now has a solution. By starting at production and following products throughout their lifespans, SMX turns authenticity into a system function rather than a matter of human judgment.

Marketplaces remain the checkpoints of global commerce, but SMX becomes the intelligence that makes those checkpoints unbreakable. Manufacturers gain protection. Platforms gain precision. Consumers gain confidence. And the global supply chain gains something it has been missing since the birth of digital trade – verifiable truth embedded at the material level.

In a world desperate for reliability, SMX isn’t just verifying what is real.
It is giving the physical world a digital identity of its own.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

This information contains forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward looking statements reflect current expectations, assumptions, and projections regarding future events involving SMX (NASDAQ: SMX), its molecular-marking technologies, and their potential applications across e-commerce, manufacturing, authentication, and global supply-chain systems. These statements are not historical facts. They involve risks, uncertainties, and variables that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, without limitation, expectations regarding the scalability and performance of SMX’s technology in industrial manufacturing environments; anticipated adoption of molecular identity systems by e-commerce platforms, resale markets, and authentication providers; potential commercial and operational benefits for manufacturers, brands, marketplaces, and consumers; assumptions about the expansion of SMX’s partnerships with organizations such as A*STAR, CETI, and Aegis Packaging; and projections related to market demand for verifiable products, digital identity ecosystems, data-driven authentication, and circular-economy participation.

These statements also involve assumptions about broader economic and regulatory conditions, including changes in consumer trust, intellectual-property enforcement, counterfeit-prevention strategies, sustainability expectations, and the evolution of global commerce and resale platforms. Risks that could cause actual outcomes to differ materially include but are not limited to changes in market adoption, competitive technology developments, integration challenges within manufacturing workflows, supply-chain volatility, macroeconomic pressures, regulatory shifts, capital availability, and the factors described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.

Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward looking statements to reflect future events, new information, or changes in assumptions, except as required by law.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 14, 2025 / For decades, sustainability lived in the realm of aspiration. Ambitious global gatherings promised breakthroughs, governments drafted sweeping resolutions, and industries delivered polished reports declaring progress. Yet, beneath the speeches and statistics, a structural flaw persisted: none of these systems could verify themselves. Targets depended on trust. Compliance depended on declarations. Safety depended on assumptions.

It was a world built on optimism rather than evidence, and eventually the gap became impossible to ignore. When commitments outpaced the ability to confirm them, global sustainability stalled-not for lack of will, but for lack of tools.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is rebuilding the foundation. Instead of asking the world to trust claims, it gives materials the ability to prove themselves. Its molecular-level identity technology transforms plastics, composites, and flame-retardant products into verifiable data sources, allowing policies to function not as promises, but as measurable realities. In this model, sustainability stops being a narrative. It becomes a system that cannot lie.

The End of Assumptions, the Rise of Evidence

The reason sustainability faltered was not ignorance; it was invisibility. Regulators couldn’t see inside materials. Manufacturers couldn’t verify recycled content beyond paperwork. Safety authorities couldn’t confirm whether flame retardants were present or effective until after failures occurred.

SMX removes that blindness by embedding an invisible chemical signature directly into products at the molecular level. This identity survives processing, melting, shredding, and recycling. A quick scan reveals composition, origin, and compliance with a level of precision that renders old reporting models obsolete.

It is not oversight. It is an embedded truth. And it allows regulations to stop relying on self-policing, because materials can now carry their own evidence.

Where Reality Replaces Reporting

Singapore offers the clearest example of this shift. Working with A*STAR, SMX is building a plastics passport that links every item to a verified record of its own lifecycle. This system doesn’t ask companies what they recycled. It shows them. It shows regulators. It shows auditors. It shows the market.

In Europe, SMX’s planned collaboration with REDWAVE takes this one step further by integrating verification into production itself. The conveyor line becomes an enforcement mechanism. Each unit of material is validated in real time, creating a live reflection of compliance rather than a quarterly or annual claim.

And in North America, SMX’s work with the North American Flame Retardant Alliance introduces a safety framework rooted in measurable chemistry instead of paperwork. Regulators can finally confirm compliance inside the product, not after an incident. This turns safety into a proactive discipline rather than a forensic one.

The First System Where Materials Themselves Are the Source of Truth

With SMX’s technology embedded directly into products, enforcement is no longer adversarial. It becomes automatic. Manufacturers gain clarity rather than fear. Regulators move from policing to monitoring. Insurers get quantifiable risk instead of actuarial speculation. Consumers receive goods backed by data instead of marketing language.

In this system, sustainability is not an opinion. It is a reading. Safety is not a claim. It is a measurable property. Recycling is not a pledge. It is a trail of evidence.

Global promises failed because the world lacked visibility. SMX is rebuilding the sustainability framework with reality baked in, molecule by molecule. It is turning the physical world into a trustworthy one-not through speeches, but through chemistry.

The shift is already underway. And the future of sustainability will not be written on paper. It will be written inside the materials themselves.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

This information contains forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions about future events related to SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), its molecular marking technologies, and their potential adoption across regulatory, industrial, and commercial environments.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, without limitation, expectations regarding the scalability, performance, and market acceptance of SMX’s molecular identification systems; anticipated outcomes of its collaborations with A*STAR in Singapore, REDWAVE in Europe, and the North American Flame Retardant Alliance; the potential for SMX technology to enhance or replace existing verification, recycling, or safety frameworks; and assumptions about regulatory trends, sustainability mandates, industrial traceability standards, and demand for material-level authentication in global supply chains.

These statements are based on current assumptions and projections, which are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including changes in regulatory requirements, geopolitical conditions, supply-chain volatility, competitive technologies, partner implementation risks, operational challenges, and factors outlined in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.

Readers are cautioned that actual results may differ materially from those indicated in forward looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward looking statements to reflect future events or new information, except as required by law.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 14, 2025 / A new kind of global contest is unfolding, one that is not powered by territory, ideology, or even traditional economic leverage. It is powered by certainty. Nations can invest in new mines, expand refineries, and build strategic reserves, yet none of it secures the future if no one can verify the origins of the materials driving modern industry. In this environment, truth becomes the rarest commodity of all. And into this vacuum steps SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), with a technology designed to act as a neutral referee for a world that no longer trusts its own supply chains.

For years, physical goods lived in a parallel universe to digital systems. The digital world advanced with verification, identity, and audit trails. The physical world advanced with paperwork, declarations, and good faith. That gap became a structural fault line. Critical materials-the elements that power defense systems, energy grids, renewable technologies, and industrial manufacturing-moved through opaque channels that left governments and corporations to rely on trust instead of evidence.

SMX is closing that gap by giving physical commodities a permanent, molecular identity. Its technology embeds microscopic chemical markers directly into materials, allowing them to carry an immutable record of their own origin and lifecycle. Plastics, metals, textiles, rubber, timber, and strategic minerals can now behave less like anonymous inputs and more like authenticated assets with built-in documentation.

A System Built for a Post-Trust Economy

This shift is happening because the old system simply cannot support the demands of the new world. Supply chains optimized for speed and outsourcing collapsed under geopolitical pressure. Trade disputes exposed the fragility of documentation. Sanctions and export bans revealed how easily materials could be mixed, relabeled, or substituted. Even the most advanced nations discovered they were dependent on unverifiable flows of critical goods.

SMX offers a counterweight to this instability. Its molecular markers survive heat, pressure, remelting, and full-scale industrial processing. Each material carries a verifiable signature that is readable in seconds, anywhere in the world, by any authorized scanner. Verification becomes the property of the material itself, not the paperwork surrounding it.

This changes the game. It allows investors to fund assets with confidence. It allows governments to enforce regulations with accuracy. It allows manufacturers to certify their supply chains without relying on declarations. It turns proof into an infrastructure layer, not an afterthought.

Why Global Powers Are Suddenly Paying Attention

Across Europe, Asia, and the United States, governments and financial institutions arepouring capital into rebuilding and reshoring supply lines. But investment alone cannot fill the void left by decades of fragmented verification. Mines can produce ore, refineries can process concentrates, and smelters can ship metals, but unless every step is authenticated, the system remains vulnerable.

SMX enters at this exact inflection point. Its technology is not nationalistic, ideological, or proprietary to any political bloc. It is neutral. It gives all participants-producers, regulators, distributors, auditors, and financiers-the same access to verifiable truth.

That neutrality is what gives SMX geopolitical gravity. It levels the playing field in a moment when trust between economic powers is at its lowest point in decades.

Where Verification Becomes Advantage

The real disruption lies in what happens after authentication becomes a built-in feature of materials. Supply chains stop behaving like chains and start behaving like transparent systems. Products stop needing to be proven. They prove themselves.

A shipment of rare earths can be verified before it crosses a border. A bale of recycled plastic can justify its premium instantly. A gold bar can confirm its lineage regardless of how many times it has been melted or recast. A textile can reveal its composition, durability, and sustainability claims without relying on marketing language.

Refiners gain precision. Banks gain confidence. Auditors gain clarity. Manufacturers gain integrity. And regulators gain enforcement mechanisms rooted in chemistry rather than documentation.

Textiles, metals, plastics, and critical minerals stop being debatable assets. They become self-evident.

The Stakes Are Now Structural, Not Just Economic

As the world races to stabilize supply chains and reduce reliance on fragile or adversarial sources, one weakness still threatens everything: the inability to verify origin. A single mislabeled shipment can contaminate an entire production line. A single fraudulent batch can undermine compliance reports or trigger geopolitical conflict.

SMX’s molecular system resolves this risk at its core. It eliminates ambiguity. It erases the gray zones. It replaces reliance with evidence and turns materials into transparent, traceable participants in the global economy.

This is not a theoretical promise. SMX is already operating across metals, textiles, plastics, rubber, and luxury goods, and is now being adapted to the rare earths and strategic minerals that will define the next industrial era.

A Neutral Referee in a Fractured World

The old global system was built on trust. The new global system requires verification. SMX’s technology-simple in function but profound in impact-offers exactly that. Not in service of one nation or ideology, but in service of stability itself.

In an era defined by geopolitical tensions, supply chain uncertainty, and escalating competition for strategic resources, neutrality is not a weakness. It is an anchor. SMX has built the infrastructure that allows global industry to operate without collapsing under its own doubt. It has created a way for nations to compete without destroying the integrity of the system they all rely on.

This is not a battle for dominance. It is a battle for credibility.
SMX built the technology that finally makes credibility measurable.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

This information contains forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward looking statements reflect current expectations, projections, and assumptions regarding future events that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements relate to SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), its molecular marking technologies, its commercial partnerships, and their potential application across critical minerals, metals, plastics, textiles, and global supply-chain verification systems.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, anticipated developments in the scalability, adoption, and commercial performance of SMX’s technology; potential integration of molecular-marking systems into national or industrial supply chains; expected benefits related to traceability, authentication, compliance, and lifecycle tracking of strategic materials; and assumptions regarding regulatory trends, geopolitical dynamics, sustainability mandates, and demand for verifiable supply-chain data across global industries.

These statements also involve assumptions about market acceptance of molecular authentication, investment activity within critical-materials infrastructure, technological performance under industrial conditions, and SMX’s ability to expand commercial deployments across multiple sectors and jurisdictions. Risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially include changes in geopolitical conditions, supply-chain disruptions, regulatory shifts, partner implementation risks, competitive technologies, macroeconomic volatility, and the factors described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.

Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise these statements to reflect future events, new information, or changes in circumstances, except as required by law.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 14, 2025 / For centuries, gold has existed outside the world of modern infrastructure. Digital identity systems have evolved. Financial instruments evolved. Global logistics has evolved. Yet gold, the very foundation of sovereign reserves and private wealth, remained an analog asset defined by trust, certificates, and manual verification.

That model is finally breaking.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), through its majority-owned subsidiary trueGold, has introduced the first technology that allows gold to function like a verified asset inside a modern financial system. The breakthrough comes not from a database or barcode, but from the metal itself. A molecular signature is embedded directly into gold at the earliest stage of extraction. That signature stays with the material through refining, casting, vaulting, trading, and recycling. It cannot be removed or forged. It becomes part of the infrastructure that governs the asset.

This shift is not theoretical. It is now operational.

trueGold’s technology has attracted a new strategic partner: Goldstrom, a global precious-metals group with operations spanning secure logistics, vaulting, trading, bullion banking, and wealth advisory. Their collaboration integrates trueGold’s molecular certification system into Goldstrom’s operational pipelines, transforming how gold is authenticated as it moves through institutional markets.

The combination forms a new infrastructure layer for the precious-metals economy. SMX provides the science. Goldstrom provides the scale. Together, they introduce a system in which verification is continuous and embedded, rather than external or discretionary.

The Backbone of a Verified Metals Network

trueGold’s platform consists of three elements: a molecular marker, a proprietary reader, and a digital registry that records each transfer. Once added, the chemical signature inside the gold becomes a permanent identity tag. It links physical matter to digital truth.

Independent testing by Intertek confirmed the marker’s safety and neutrality under the AnchorCert Pro 2 protocol, validating compliance across the United States, Canada, and the European Union. It does not alter the metal. It does not affect purity. It does not disrupt manufacturing or design. It simply turns gold into a self-identifying asset.

That capability now enters Goldstrom’s global footprint. Every movement through Goldstrom’s vaults, logistics centers, or banking channels can be tied to verified material identity. For the first time, a bullion ecosystem can operate with intrinsic proof instead of proxy documentation.

The value becomes clear when applied at scale. Regulatory frameworks shift from assumptions to evidence. ESG claims become measurable instead of declarative. Wealth managers gain the ability to prove provenance for institutional clients. Traders can validate recycled content, purity, and custody with unprecedented precision.

In a market where trust determines price, proof-based infrastructure is not a feature. It is an advantage.

The Regulatory Signal That Changes the Sector

The London Bullion Market Association has already recognized the significance of the technology by accrediting SMX’s molecular marker as a Gold Bar Security Feature. That endorsement is more than a technical milestone. It is an indicator that the world’s largest precious-metals authority accepts molecular proof as part of the authentication process.

With Goldstrom adopting the system, the infrastructure gains a runway for global deployment. A vault in Zurich, a refinery in Dubai, or a trading house in Singapore can operate on a shared identity layer that travels with the gold itself. Compliance becomes simpler. Fraud becomes harder. Market confidence strengthens.

And the timing aligns with global demand. IBM research shows that consumers are willing to pay substantial premiums for traceable products. PwC reports measurable margin expansion for verified sustainable sourcing. Those same behavioral patterns influence how bullion is valued, particularly among institutions that must justify ESG positions or provide transparent reporting.

trueGold and Goldstrom are not asking the market to imagine a future version of accountability. They are building the infrastructure today.

The Beginning of a Verified Financial Asset Class

This partnership represents more than a technology integration. It signals the emergence of a proof-ready asset class for precious metals.

Gold has always held value. Now it can verify that value. By embedding molecular identity directly into the metal and linking that identity to a secure digital registry, SMX and trueGold convert gold from an asset that relies on external trust into one that carries trust internally. Goldstrom extends that capability across global supply lines.

What began as a scientific breakthrough at SMX is becoming a new architecture for how markets authenticate one of the world’s most important commodities. The vaults, transfers, trades, audits, and recycling streams all become synchronized through chemistry and digital certainty.

In this new model, gold does not exist solely within the financial system. It becomes part of the system’s infrastructure. Proof is no longer something attached to an asset. It is something engineered into it.

And in this case, and for the first time in its history, gold can prove itself.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

This editorial contains forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward looking statements include expectations, projections, and assumptions about future events relating to SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), its majority-owned subsidiary trueGold, its partnership with Goldstrom, and the development and commercial expansion of molecular marking, digital registries, and supply chain verification technologies within the global precious-metals sector. These statements are not descriptions of historical facts. They are based on current beliefs, estimates, and assumptions that are inherently subject to risks, uncertainties, and factors that are difficult to predict.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, expectations regarding the integration of trueGold’s molecular-marking technology into Goldstrom’s operational framework; the potential widespread adoption of SMX-enabled verification across vaulting, logistics, bullion trading, banking, and wealth management; anticipated improvements in gold authentication processes; the potential for SMX systems to be recognized or mandated by regulatory bodies, including the London Bullion Market Association and other global metals authorities; and the anticipated value that verified provenance, traceability, and lifecycle tracking may bring to market participants, investors, and institutional clients.

These statements also encompass expectations about the potential scalability of SMX technology across refineries, recycling operations, manufacturing pipelines, and international metals markets; the ability of molecular identity markers to survive refining or remelting processes; the potential to enhance ESG reporting, sustainability claims, or compliance frameworks; and the possibility of establishing new economic models built on authenticated material identity. Forward looking statements further include assumptions about evolving consumer demand for transparent and traceable products; projected economic benefits from verified material flows; and the belief that proof-driven systems may influence commodity pricing, institutional adoption, and sector-wide operational standards.

These statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied. Such risks include, but are not limited to: changes in regulatory requirements affecting precious-metals trading and authentication; fluctuations in global commodity markets; geopolitical conditions; competitive technological developments; the pace at which institutional actors adopt new verification systems; technical limitations in deploying molecular markers at industrial scale; risks associated with integrating new technologies into established supply chains; general economic conditions; and other risks detailed in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.

Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward looking statements to reflect subsequent events, changes in circumstances, or new information, except as required by applicable law.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 14, 2025 / Most technologies disrupt a single sector. A rare few create an entirely new layer that industries plug into. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is doing the latter. Its molecular-marking architecture is not simply validating materials. It is creating the world’s first “proof mesh,” a global network where plastics, metals, fibers, and commercial goods report their own histories without the need for declarations, audits, or guesswork.

This mesh is forming through six strategic partnerships that turn verification into a structural function of global supply chains. Each partnership represents a different entry point. Each one expands the surface area where truth becomes automatic instead of asserted.

What makes the moment remarkable is not the number of partners, but the coherence of the system they now share. For the first time, regulators, manufacturers, investors, and recyclers can operate within a shared layer of authenticated material identity.

Singapore: The First Country to Wire Itself Into the Mesh

SMX’s work with A*STAR in Singapore represents the clearest example of national integration. The collaboration is building a plastics passport system where resin does not “claim” its past. It carries it. Every processing step becomes a certified event, allowing recycling incentives, waste policies, and industrial reporting to function with real-time certainty rather than assumptions.

Singapore is not running a circular-economy pilot. It is installing a backbone for verified material flow. Once complete, the country will operate the first nationwide proof mesh for plastics, setting a standard the world can study and adopt.

Austria: Machines That Sort and Certify Simultaneously

In Austria, SMX and REDWAVE are linking industrial automation directly into the proof mesh. Sorting machines traditionally separate materials by type. Now they can separate by identity. Molecular markers embedded in plastics allow REDWAVE systems to verify recyclate on the line.

Instead of waiting for lab tests or documentation, manufacturers receive immediate confirmation. A facility becomes a self-auditing environment. Quality becomes measurable in motion, not on paper.

When coupled with Tradepro’s distribution network in Miami, verified resin moves from European sorting lines to American supply chains with a clear, auditable trail that satisfies tightening U.S. recycled-content mandates.

Spain: Turning Industrial Pilots Into Proof Engines

CARTIF in Spain is positioning Europe’s circular economy for its next stage of implementation. Through its collaboration with SMX, the research center is embedding molecular identification into industrial testbeds that serve packaging, construction, renewable energy, and material-recovery programs.

These pilots function as conversion labs. They turn research into standards and standards into workflows that companies can deploy immediately. In an EU market where proof is becoming a prerequisite for access, CARTIF is ensuring that adoption becomes achievable rather than theoretical.

Metals With a Verified Memory

Gold and silver now have a voice inside the proof mesh. Through trueGold and the partnership with Goldstrom, SMX is embedding molecular identity into bullion at the earliest stage of handling. The result is a market where precious metals can authenticate themselves through every melt, recast, and transfer.

Banks gain stronger collateral. Refineries gain cleaner audits. Insurers gain lower risk. Investors gain something the metals industry has never consistently offered: authenticated provenance rooted in chemistry instead of certificates.

France: Textiles With Native Identity

In France, CETI is converting textile traceability from marketing language into operational fact. Its work with SMX equips fibers and fabrics with molecular IDs that persist through dyeing, weaving, recycling, and product assembly.

This turns garments into self-reporting assets. Brands can certify origin, recycled content, and lifecycle integrity. Lenders can attach sustainability-linked financing to datasets that cannot be manipulated. Retailers can differentiate verified textiles from unverifiable blends.

Identity moves from label to fiber.

The Proof “Mesh” Becomes an Economic Layer

Individually, each collaboration is meaningful. Together, they form a distributed verification layer that can be expanded across industries and borders. The mesh does not care what material is moving. It only cares whether the material can authenticate itself.

This is how value shifts; this is how compliance becomes predictable; and, this is how efficiency replaces bureaucracy.

SMX is not positioning itself as a tool supplier. It is emerging as the provider of the global proof layer that modern markets require. The mesh is growing, one connected partner at a 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

This information contains forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward looking statements reflect current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and assumptions about future events involving SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), its molecular marker technologies, and its partnerships across multiple geographies and industry sectors. These statements are not historical facts. They involve risks, uncertainties, and factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, expectations regarding the continued development, adoption, and scalability of SMX’s molecular identification systems across plastics, metals, textiles, recycling facilities, and automated sorting environments; anticipated outcomes from collaborations with A*STAR in Singapore, REDWAVE in Austria, Tradepro in the United States, CARTIF in Spain, CETI in France, and Goldstrom in Singapore; projected improvements to supply chain transparency, regulatory compliance, and circular-economy performance; potential impacts on material quality, financing structures, insurance risk, and sustainability-linked reporting; and assumptions regarding the emergence of a global verification layer or ecosystem built around authenticated materials.

These statements also include assumptions about regulatory developments in the European Union, Asia-Pacific, and the United States; expected industry demand for verified recycled content; commercial viability of molecular-level tracking systems; adoption rates within the metals, textile, plastics, and recycling industries; macroeconomic conditions affecting supply chains; technological performance in industrial environments; and the ability of SMX to integrate its systems into diverse manufacturing workflows at scale.

Risks and uncertainties that could cause outcomes to differ include, but are not limited to, changes in environmental or trade regulations; disruptions in global supply chains; competitive technological developments; delays in partner implementation; limitations in scaling molecular markers across high-volume systems; economic volatility; shifts in consumer or manufacturer behavior; and other risks described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.

Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward looking statements to reflect future events, new information, or changes in circumstances, except as required by applicable law.

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SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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