Author: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / September 29, 2025 / Three decades. Twenty-nine global conferences. Billions poured into hotels, banquets, travel, and stagecraft. And to be fair, these gatherings weren’t in vain. They brought the world’s attention to plastics, sustainability, and safety in a way that no single company or country could have done alone. Ambition was never the problem. The intent was real. But after all the speeches and pledges, what do we still see? Plastics burned instead of recycled. Landfills bursting at the seams. Safety standards that collapse under stress tests.

This is the cost of promises without proof – and it is staggering. Every ton of plastic incinerated instead of recycled carries not just an environmental price, but a financial one: wasted material, wasted energy, wasted opportunity. Every fire that spreads because a flame retardant existed only on paper brings lawsuits, insurance payouts, and communities left picking up the pieces. COP 29, like the 28 before it, showed the world can agree on goals. What it hasn’t delivered is the enforcement to back them up.

The world doesn’t need another set of pledges. It needs systems that can verify and enforce the pledges already made. That’s where technology steps in. And it’s why SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is not waiting for the next plenary hall – it’s delivering enforcement at the molecular level today.

The Price Tag of 29 “To Be Continued” Episodes

Let’s talk numbers. The OECD estimates that plastic pollution already costs the global economy billions of dollars annually in clean-up, lost tourism, and health impacts. Recycling programs burn through public budgets but return little value when much of the material is unverifiable. Insurers and manufacturers spend billions more covering losses from materials that were marketed as safe but proved otherwise in real-world fires, such as the Grenfell and Lacrosse Tower tragedies.

What those losses share is a single root: lack of proof. Recycling programs collapse because no one can verify the content. Fire safety claims fail because datasheets are accepted as gospel instead of being tested in the field. For thirty years, conferences promised to bridge that gap. They never did. The receipts of inaction are piling up in lawsuits, landfill fees, and lost trust.

That is the economic hole SMX was designed to fill.

Proof That Pays; It’s Currency

By embedding molecular markers into plastics and materials, SMX transforms verification from an afterthought into the product itself. A single scan can confirm recycled content, prove the integrity of flame-retardant materials, and expose those under-the-radar plastics, such as carbon black, that once slipped through every recycling system.

This shift changes the math. Instead of regulators spending money to chase violators, markets reward verified compliance in real time. Verified recycled plastics command higher prices. Verified fire-resistant panels lower liability and insurance costs. And verified under-the-radar plastics, once written off as worthless, become tradable assets that re-enter supply chains.

Proof doesn’t just save money – it creates value. It turns circularity from a line item on a sustainability report into a revenue-generating, risk-reducing system that benefits governments, industries, and consumers alike.

Singapore, Europe, and expanding

This isn’t just theory. In Singapore, SMX has already partnered with A*STAR to roll out a national plastics passport. Every piece of plastic now carries a digital twin tied to molecular proof. Policymakers no longer have to accept self-reported recycling rates. They have enforcement embedded in the material itself.

Europe is next, where SMX’s planned collaboration with REDWAVE will bring verification onto factory floors. Instead of post-hoc audits, compliance becomes continuous and live. Even those pesky plastics that haunted the system for decades are tracked, verified, and priced.

And in North America, interest from the North American Flame Retardant Alliance (NAFRA) extends this system into fire safety. A scan verifies flame-retardant protection in real time, turning one of the most lawsuit-prone industries into one of the most enforceable.

The Price of Inaction is Too High

COP 29 should have been the wake-up call, but the truth is it was just another expensive snooze button. The world doesn’t need more rhetoric. It doesn’t need more glossy targets. It needs proof that works in the field, on the factory floor, and in the marketplace.

That’s what SMX is delivering. Proof that stops billions from being wasted on incineration and landfills. Proof that reduces the liability of catastrophic fires. Proof that turns once-buried plastics into verified commodities. Proof that makes circularity enforceable instead of aspirational.

Three decades of inaction have cost the world enough. The next decade must be different. With SMX’s molecular markers, it can finally be: One scan. Two proofs. Inaction priced out of existence.

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)

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / September 29, 2025 / Europe has long been the beating heart of global fashion, but now it intends to become the brain as well. While designers in Paris and Milan set the trends on the runway, the continent’s regulators have been setting just as aggressive targets behind the scenes. The EU’s Digital Product Passport rules, ESG mandates, and Green Deal initiatives all point to one thing: traceability is no longer optional. It’s the law. And the brands that want to thrive under this regime need more than ambition. They need proof.

That’s where the partnership between SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) and CETI, the European Center for Innovative Textiles, takes center stage. Based in Lille, CETI is a hub of R&D firepower, and SMX is bringing the molecular-level tech that finally turns recycling and authentication into measurable realities. By embedding invisible fingerprints into fibers and tying them to blockchain passports, they’re not talking about traceability in theory. They’re operationalizing it at an industrial scale. This isn’t about testing samples in a lab. It’s about creating market-ready fabrics that carry their credentials from the moment they leave the loom.

The implications are massive. Lille is now positioned as Europe’s launch pad for textile circularity, an epicenter where compliance meets competitiveness. The brands that plug into this system won’t just be checking regulatory boxes; they will also be leveraging the system to drive growth. They’ll be setting the global standard, exporting textiles with built-in trust that can cross borders, enter finance systems, and hold value in resale markets. Counterfeiters, once experts at slipping through loopholes, will find themselves locked out entirely. Europe’s message is clear: if it doesn’t carry proof, it doesn’t carry value.

Europe’s Competitive Edge

The Green Deal and Digital Product Passport requirements are no longer distant talking points. They’re active levers reshaping how textiles are produced, sold, and financed. For companies that comply, the rewards are enormous. Verified recycled content can fetch higher margins, sustainability reports suddenly become bulletproof, and ESG-linked financing starts flowing with lower risk premiums. CETI’s pilot lines turn compliance into a competitive edge, and SMX’s molecular markers make sure no counterfeit can piggyback off the system. In a sector where billions are lost to fake fabrics and fraudulent claims, that’s not just progress. It’s a paradigm shift.

Luxury fashion will benefit, but so will sportswear, industrial fabrics, and technical textiles. By embedding trust directly into the material, the entire ecosystem gains a multiplier effect. Supply chains move faster, regulators have enforceable data, and consumers gain confidence that the clothes on their backs are what they claim to be. Proof becomes Europe’s new export, not just the fabrics themselves. That’s how you win markets.

Platforms like eBay show why this matters globally. They already have rules in place to fight fakes, but rules aren’t enough without the tools to enforce them at speed and scale. Scanners tied to molecular markers would make their efforts airtight, instantly authenticating a watch, a handbag, or a jacket before it ever hits the buyer’s doorstep. Europe’s proof-first model is the playbook, and platforms everywhere will be forced to follow.

The New Standard

The counterfeit industry has thrived on gaps, exploiting weak enforcement and opaque supply chains. But Europe just closed the gap. Lille’s CETI, armed with SMX technology, isn’t running pilots for show. It’s demonstrating to the world that circularity can be verifiable, profitable, and enforceable. The EU’s leadership on this front isn’t just bureaucratic muscle. It’s the foundation of a new global textile economy, one where every fiber carries a passport and every recycled material commands its true price.

Fashion has always been about staying ahead, but this is different. This is about Europe using regulation and technology as weapons to protect its competitiveness and ensure standards are met, while simultaneously burying counterfeiters in the rubble of their old business model.

From luxury brands to industrial suppliers, the rules of the game just changed. And the scoreboard isn’t counting logos anymore. It’s counting the proof that SMX and CETI can provide.

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)

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 6, 2025 / California never misses a chance to make a statement or a lawsuit. So when Los Angeles County went after Coca-Cola and PepsiCo for allegedly misleading consumers about plastic waste, the headlines practically wrote themselves. Two global icons, one sweeping accusation, and a familiar villain: plastic.

The optics were perfect. The outcome, less so. Unless they pay attention to opportunities that exist right here, right now, instead of acting as a purely punitive body.

What the state doesn’t seem to realize is that the solution it’s seeking already exists, and it isn’t another fine. It’s proof. It’s infrastructure. It’s SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), a company that has already built what Los Angeles County and global policymakers keep asking for. It delivers real, molecular-level substance to what decades of summits like COP 29 and the UN Plastics Treaty have only talked about.

For its part, SMX isn’t talking; it’s offering. Not about a piece of the puzzle, but the entire wish list: measurable traceability, proof that recycled content is genuine, assurance that waste streams are truly closed, and validation that sustainability is more than a talking point on a corporate slide. That’s the frustrating part. While the debates drag on year after year in search of solutions, SMX already has them, making it long overdue to choose and implement real technology over recycled rhetoric. It’s a straightforward process that lets SMX do the heavy lifting. Here’s how it works.

SMX Immutably Marks Plastics at the Resin Stage

SMX’s molecular-marker technology embeds invisible, tamper-proof identifiers directly into plastics at the resin stage, before they ever take shape. Every granule of resin carries a unique molecular fingerprint, creating an unbreakable chain of custody from creation to collection to recycling. That’s not a proposal. That’s a platform. And it’s working today.

Thus, instead of forcing companies to pay fines for a lack of proof, California could be funding a system that guarantees it. Rather than punishing progress, it could accelerate it by using the dollars already flowing through its lawsuits to build infrastructure that makes compliance automatic.

Coke and Pepsi aren’t the problem. Their intent has always been good, and their investments prove it. Both companies have invested significant resources in recycling innovation, recovery infrastructure, and sustainability initiatives across every major market worldwide. They’ve built partnerships, funded programs, and pledged real progress. What they’re battling isn’t a lack of effort. It’s a lack of alignment.

Every region, regulator, and recycler speaks a different language when it comes to circularity. Definitions shift. Standards collide. What’s compliant in one country gets challenged in another. The result is a global patchwork of rules that reward ambition in one place and punish it in the next.

Coke and Pepsi aren’t fighting the science; they’re fighting a broken system. There are ways to mend it.

Fund Change, Not Unrelated Programs

Imagine if California redirected its lawsuits into solutions. Each multi-million-dollar settlement could fund real-world traceability infrastructure, smart systems that tag, track, and authenticate every ton of plastic in circulation. It wouldn’t just satisfy environmental watchdogs. It would make California the global hub for circular-economy innovation.

And here’s where SMX makes that vision profitable. Its blockchain-enabled Plastic Cycle Token (PCT) monetizes verified circularity, transforming proof into a measurable, tradeable asset. This isn’t about tracking a single bottle worth pennies. It’s about metric tons of authenticated material worth tens of thousands, even millions, when aggregated across global supply chains. Proof becomes liquidity. Circularity becomes an asset class.

That’s the system COP 29 and UN Treaty delegates keep describing in theory, a unified, verifiable framework where data meets policy and accountability meets profit. SMX already has it. It’s not an idea. It’s an implementation.

Regulators Can Stop Chasing and Start Utilizing

The irony is that regulators continue to chase the prospect of solutions instead of utilizing what’s already available, proven, and operational. SMX has already demonstrated its capabilities with Continental, marking and tracing 21 tons of natural rubber from tree to tire. The company also has partnerships with A*STAR, REDWAVE, CETI, Tradepro, and others, which demonstrate that molecular tracking is effective at scale for plastics and textiles. The best part is that SMX’s platform is applicable to virtually any material or liquid, creating a universal language for recycling and circularity across the industries driving today’s environmental headlines.

So why is California still penalizing progress instead of financing it? It makes no sense.

California continues to call for transparency, but it continues to collect opacity. The state’s “environmental funds” absorb millions in corporate penalties, yet recycling rates barely move and landfill totals barely shrink. The money goes to bureaucracy, not backbone. Meanwhile, the companies being fined are the ones trying hardest to change.

Stop Litigating and Start Rewarding

Coke and Pepsi don’t need more lawsuits. They need measurable systems that demonstrate the effectiveness of their current efforts, and they require regulators willing to reward results instead of publishing discouraging headlines. SMX has that system now. It delivers what global treaties have promised but never implemented: molecular-level accountability that makes sustainability measurable, verifiable, and profitable.

Plastic waste doesn’t start in the ocean. It starts in the supply chain. Until regulators start tracing materials at their source, every fine will remain another headline on a broken loop. Stop the madness.

California doesn’t need another statement or another lawsuit. It doesn’t need another committee or summit to study the same problem. The solution already exists. SMX has built, proven, and deployed it. It’s here today, operating at industrial scale, ready to track plastics from resin to recycling and back again.

So here’s a timely proposition: instead of drafting the next headline, California should start recognizing the opportunity already in front of it. SMX is the infrastructure the state keeps asking for: built, operating, and ready to deliver. In other words, California, stop searching and start using.

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 / September 26, 2025 / In Zero Day, the lights flicker, the grid stumbles, and within minutes, society is knocked back to the Stone Age. That’s the drama of the show. But it’s also a projection of what experts already know. Modern life runs on interconnected systems that assume authenticity. The moment that assumption is violated at scale, trust collapses. A simple blackout becomes a national security event. A jammed channel morphs into a cascade of failures that reach every corner of the economy.

This is where SMX (Security Matters, NASDAQ:SMX) enters the story. SMX is a global leader in material verification, embedding microscopic molecular chemical markers into plastics, metals, electronics, and other critical materials. Paired with a digital ledger, those markers transform everyday components into auditable assets. That means every SIM card, router, or grid sensor can carry a permanent identity; verifiable in seconds and impossible to fake.

The recent SIM-farm bust in New York City proves this is not paranoia. More than 300 servers and 100,000 SIM cards were hidden in plain sight, poised to flood emergency systems with noise. The equipment was ordinary. The risk was anything but. If those devices had been activated, even for an hour, the ripple effects could have been devastating. Critical calls blocked, emergency response slowed, and a communications grid buckling under a storm of counterfeit signals. That’s how a local plot metastasizes into a national crisis.

Zero Day Is the Opening Bell
Here’s what Zero Day captures perfectly: the attack itself is not the climax. It’s the opening bell. A blackout or telecom disruption is not the end of the story – it’s the beginning of escalation. Once a nation’s grid or nuclear facility is maliciously compromised, the response will not be measured or polite. The United States would likely treat it as an act of war. That means retaliation. That means alliances are activated. That means an entire chain reaction of not-so-polite geopolitical consequences.

Think about it. The actual sabotage might involve nothing more than cloned SIM cards, counterfeit routers, or jammed sensor arrays. No explosions, no blood, no burning buildings. Yet the consequence is the same: systems that keep modern civilization running are crippled, and the government has no choice but to respond with force. The adversary’s low-cost hack triggers a high-cost retaliation. That is the leverage terrorists and hostile states crave.

This is the world we’re standing on the edge of. The threat isn’t spectacle, it’s silence. The moment our grids, hospitals, or air traffic control systems go dark, the opening bell has rung. And once it rings, the chain of events that follows may be irreversible. That’s the risk that should keep the world awake at night: not just the attack itself, but the escalation it forces.

SMX Makes Proof as the Clock Stopper
SMX exists to make sure the bell never rings. Instead of waiting for networks to collapse and investigators to sift through rubble, SMX embeds truth into the smallest parts of our infrastructure. Invisible molecular markers are fused into plastics, chips, and telecom components. These markers can’t be scrubbed, cloned, or faked. They create a permanent identity for every piece of hardware, an identity that can be scanned and verified in seconds.

Think of what that means in practice. A cloned SIM card? Exposed the moment it tries to activate. A counterfeit router in the grid? Flagged before it’s even installed. A sensor at a nuclear plant that doesn’t match its chain of custody? Rejected by default. With SMX in place, counterfeit is no longer invisible. It’s illuminated in real time, with the kind of machine-level certainty that humans alone can’t provide.

The beauty of this approach is that it doesn’t require armies of auditors or months of forensic work. One scan answers the critical questions: Is this real? Where did it come from? Has it been tampered with? That is the kind of infrastructure the future demands: instant, auditable, and impossible to fake. SMX doesn’t chase threats after the fact. It prevents them before they activate.

The Margin for Error Is Zero
When it comes to Zero Day, minutes are the only margin that matters. In the show, chaos spreads in the time it takes for a screen to flicker black. In reality, that speed is not exaggerated. Once the grid stumbles, the consequences are immediate. Hospitals switch to backup power, trading floors freeze, transportation systems grind to a halt. The costs pile up with every passing minute.

SMX changes the equation. By building proof into hardware itself, it ensures that anomalies are detected in seconds, not months. A counterfeit part is not discovered after a breach, but before activation. A SIM-farm is not uncovered by chance raids, but flagged as soon as devices attempt to light up outside their assigned networks. The forensic lag that attackers rely on disappears. Proof removes their advantage.

That is why SMX’s technology has already been adopted in other sectors – from recycled plastics to supply chain verification. The same system that can certify a polymer is authentic can certify a telecom card. Proof scales across industries because fraud does as well. And when the cost of fraud is not just wasted dollars but potential annihilation, prevention becomes priceless.

Before the Clock Hits Zero
Zero Day dramatizes the nightmare. But SMX shows the solution before the event can even happen. By embedding identity into the fabric of materials, it makes the countdown irrelevant. The clock never strikes zero. The lights don’t go out. The escalation never begins.

This is not just about cybersecurity. It’s about national security. It’s about making sure that cloned parts, counterfeit routers, and anonymous devices can never be the first domino. When proof is automatic, panic is unnecessary. When every component is auditable, every system is defendable.

The next Pearl Harbor or 9/11 won’t look like the last. It won’t take bombs or hijacked planes. It will take technology turned against itself. That’s why the world should be afraid of Zero Day – and why it should be paying attention to SMX. Proof is the defense no one can fake, and prevention is the only result that matters.

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

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

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / September 26, 2025 / The fashion industry has always traded on image. Logos, marketing campaigns, and glossy runway shows built brands into billion-dollar icons. But behind the glamour sits a brutal reality: supply chains stretched across continents, sustainability promises that often collapse under scrutiny, and counterfeiters who exploit every blind spot. In this environment, words are cheap, and ingredients are even more so. Proof is what has become priceless.

That’s what makes the announced collaboration between SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) and CETI, one of Europe’s premier textile research centers, so much more than another sustainability headline. By embedding molecular identity into fibers and pairing it with blockchain-backed digital passports, they’re not just policing counterfeits or checking ESG boxes. They’re turning sustainability itself into a financial instrument. Proof is no longer a burden. It’s currency.

Consider the implications. A luxury brand that can prove every recycled fiber in its new collection isn’t just avoiding fines or pleasing regulators. It’s unlocking access to sustainability-linked financing. Loans, credits, and investor capital increasingly flow toward companies with measurable impact. With SMX and CETI, “measurable” stops being theoretical. It becomes real-time, tamper-proof, and auditable. Proof of circularity transforms from a marketing claim into a balance-sheet advantage.

From Compliance to Capital

This is the financial revolution hiding in the threads. For decades, recycled textiles struggled to gain traction at scale because brands couldn’t verify content, financiers couldn’t price risk, and consumers couldn’t trust the label. Counterfeiters exploited the gaps and flooded markets with fakes that blurred lines even further. But a fiber carrying its own digital passport changes everything. Suddenly, the recycled material commands its true market value. Banks can tie financing rates to verified impact. Consumers can shop knowing the proof sits inside the product, not on a hangtag. And regulators finally have enforceable data instead of glossy pledges.

Platforms like eBay prove how critical this shift could be. To their credit, eBay has put stringent rules in place to weed out counterfeit listings and protect buyers. The intent is clear, but rules alone haven’t been enough. As fakes become more convincing, human graders squint long and hard at photos, and consumers still roll the dice on whether a $150 “new with tags” Louis Vuitton bag is a bargain or a scam. Replace that guesswork with scanners reading SMX’s molecular markers, and the equation flips. Authentication takes seconds. Proof isn’t argued, it’s scanned. Suddenly, resale platforms aren’t just marketplaces, they’re trust engines capable of monetizing verification itself. Higher prices, higher commissions.

The ripple effect stretches across the ecosystem. Sportswear giants can command premiums for recycled fabrics that are verified at the molecular level. Luxury houses can tie their ESG reports to data that withstands audit scrutiny. Technical fabric suppliers can shorten the lab-to-market cycle because proof is embedded from the first run of the pilot line. Even industrial textiles benefit, because verifiable circularity opens the door to compliance incentives and new forms of financing. Proof doesn’t just defend value, it creates it.

Lille as the Launch Pad

Europe, with its Digital Product Passport ideology, is the proving ground. CETI in Lille is now the epicenter where laboratory breakthroughs meet industrial validation. By working with SMX, CETI is fast-tracking the pathway from research to real-world adoption. That means every fabric tested in Lille isn’t just an experiment; it’s a financial prototype. Each verified thread signals to investors, regulators, and brands that circularity is no longer a charitable endeavor. It’s commerce.

This is where the counterfeiters finally get buried. Their empire was built on opacity, on products that looked authentic but carried no verifiable truth. In a market where proof is the price tag, fakes lose all economic value. They can’t enter financing systems, can’t clear regulatory checkpoints, and can’t compete with brands that turn verification into an asset class. The counterfeit industry isn’t just under attack. It’s being written out of the balance sheet.

Fashion has always been about staying ahead of the curve. SMX and CETI are moving it beyond curves and into code, where every fiber is a ledger entry, every recycled material is a line item, and every product carries the ultimate credential: proof. Logos built the last generation of billion-dollar brands. Proof will be their sustainer.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

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

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / September 26, 2025 / For decades, counterfeiters have thrived in the shadows, hijacking fashion’s prestige and siphoning billions from an industry built on brand, trust, and craftsmanship. Fake bags, knockoff sneakers, and copycat fabrics have been smuggled into every corner of commerce, draining value from labels that spend fortunes building reputations. The damage isn’t just economic. It erodes consumer trust, dilutes sustainability claims, and turns e-commerce platforms into digital flea markets where fraud masquerades as fashion. The scale is staggering, with trillions lost as of 2025 and counterfeiters adapting faster than the safeguards designed to stop them.

That ends now. This announced agreement between SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) and CETI, one of Europe’s most respected textile research centers, represents the technological revolution for an industry that has been hijacked for too long. Instead of relying on logos, tags, or human judgment, SMX’s molecular fingerprinting system embeds authenticity at the material level, while CETI’s pilot lines provide the industrial validation to scale it across the European market.

Together, they are moving toward a world where every fiber has a digital passport and every recycled material carries verifiable value. What counterfeiters have always exploited is the lack of transparency. SMX and CETI are replacing opacity with proof.

CETI and SMX Become the Terminators

Lille, France, is now set to become the launch pad for Europe’s fight against fakes. By fusing molecular-level identity with blockchain-backed traceability, this collaboration shortens the distance between lab breakthroughs and market adoption. That means high-value recycled fabrics can flow into luxury fashion and sportswear at commercial speed. It means tamper-proof data creates finance-ready transparency, where sustainability claims finally unlock economic benefits. And it means the ecosystem multiplier effect kicks in as more brands, more regulators, and more industries rally around the same technology. Proof becomes the universal language, and Europe has just declared it will speak fluently.

The counterfeit problem has always been bigger than the boutiques on the Champs-Élysées. E-commerce platforms like eBay deserve credit for putting stringent rules in place against fake listings and working to protect buyers. The intent is there, but the reality is that rules are broken every day, and counterfeiters still slip through the cracks.

That’s the weakness counterfeiters exploit, because human graders are left squinting at photos or running fingers over better fakes, while consumers gamble on whether a $150 “new with tags” Coach bag is a steal or a scam. Imagine swapping human guesswork for scanners running SMX’s traceability markers. Authentication becomes instant. Proof arrives in seconds. eBay could transform from counterfeit watchdog to counterfeit executioner, leading the revolution that finally shuts the listing door on knockoffs.

Protecting Brand Legacy

Luxury houses like Coach, Prada, Hermès, and others built their brands on scarcity and quality. Counterfeiters turned that into a joke, flooding the market with imitations that undercut value. The SMX-CETI model restores the natural order. A bag, suit, or silk scarf or tie isn’t real because someone says it is. It’s real because the fibers themselves can prove it, backed by digital passports that regulators can verify, financiers can monetize, and consumers can trust. For the first time, counterfeiting is on defense, forced to fight technology it cannot mimic.

This SMX-CETI alliance is more than a collaboration. It is the industrial validation of an entirely new economy, one where circularity, recycling, and authenticity are not slogans but measurable realities. Counterfeiters had their run. They turned loopholes into empires. But the days of flooding the market with fraudulent luxury are over. Proof is now currency. Europe’s fashion industry is setting the new standard, and with SMX and CETI providing the tools, counterfeiters will soon run out of places to peddle their nonsense, including the city sidewalk tables that once passed off those “luxury product deals of a lifetime.”

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

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

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SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 3, 2025 / Plastic isn’t just everywhere – it’s everything. From the food we buy to the cars we drive, the global plastics economy is worth more than $800 billion. But its future hinges on one critical shift: moving waste from liability to asset. That shift depends on proof – the ability to verify recycled content with the same rigor as virgin plastic. Without it, recycling stalls, ESG pledges collapse into greenwashing, and entire supply chains lose value.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is tackling that credibility gap head-on. In its first major U.S. initiative, the company has stepped into the market with a well-regarded Miami plastics distributor to integrate its molecular marker technology into rPET resin in line with FDA regulations for Food Contact Substances (21 CFR). In practice, this means recycled material can carry a permanent, invisible marker that confirms its origin, composition, and compliance – even in food-grade packaging, one of the strictest categories in the industry.

This happens at an opportune time. For decades, recycled plastic has been treated as a second-class material, rarely finding its way into applications that require rigorous oversight. By showing that molecular markers can operate within FDA-regulated frameworks, SMX has opened the door for recycled plastics to move beyond discount markets and into premium categories. That’s not a symbolic shift. It’s a revaluation of plastic waste itself.

A Global Strategy in Motion

This U.S. milestone builds on a broader rollout. In Southeast Asia, SMX has partnered with packaging companies to embed markers at the extrusion stage, building proof into products from the start. In Europe, trials with REDWAVE have proven that even hard-to-recycle materials, such as flame-retardant and carbon-black plastics, can be identified and verified. Together with its U.S. entry, these initiatives form a blueprint for a global proof layer – one where recycled plastics, regardless of geography or application, carry the same credibility as virgin materials.

For global stakeholders, regulators, and manufacturers alike, the timing couldn’t be sharper. Demand for recycled plastics is rising as governments enforce quotas and global brands set ambitious sustainability targets. Yet recycling rates remain low, in part because the market has lacked a universal way to verify and monetize recycled content at scale. SMX closes that gap.

By embedding molecular proof and linking it to blockchain-backed credits such as its Plastic Cycle Token (PCT), SMX gives plastic waste a measurable, tradable identity. Instead of being a compliance cost, recycling becomes a revenue stream – one that can be priced, traded, and financed like any other commodity. Proof stops being paperwork and starts being currency.

From Compliance Cost to Revenue Stream

The plastics market may be worth $824 billion, but the $50 billion recycling segment is where the immediate disruption is happening. And in that disruption lies the proof of an old adage: one person’s trash is another’s treasure. For the first time, recycled content isn’t just a matter of sorting bins and supply chain promises – it can carry verified proof at the molecular level, proof that survives every stage of the loop and can be monetized in real time.

With molecular markers now operating within FDA-regulated frameworks, SMX isn’t simply entering the recycling market – it’s reshaping it. Food-grade rPET demonstrates that the technology isn’t limited to niche categories, but can scale into the most tightly regulated and highest-value applications. That makes plastic waste more than a compliance burden. It makes it a bankable resource.

This isn’t just about recycled plastic. It’s about rewriting how value is assigned in the materials economy – turning waste into an asset, compliance into currency, and proof into the foundation of growth. In that framework, proof isn’t just value. It’s advantage.

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

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 3, 2025 / The plastics market is enormous – an $824 billion global economy in constant motion, producing everything from packaging to automotive parts. But within that mountain of material lies a $50 billion recycling segment that holds the key to a more sustainable future. The challenge of using that key has always centered around trust. Can recycled content truly meet the same standards as virgin plastic? And can it scale into regulated categories like food packaging, where safety and compliance leave no room for error?

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is answering those questions with a resounding “yes,” thanks to its molecular marker breakthrough that can revolutionize the way the world values plastic waste. Both physically and financially. In collaboration with Tradepro, SMX’s molecular marker technology was successfully integrated into rPET resin in line with FDA regulations for Food Contact Substances (21 CFR). In plain terms: the same recycled resin that brands already depend on can now carry an embedded digital identity, providing proof of origin and authenticity – even in food-grade packaging.

That single outcome may be the inflection point the industry has been waiting for. For decades, recycling has been treated as a second-tier material stream: good for headlines, but rarely good enough for the highest-value applications. By demonstrating that molecular markers can operate within FDA-regulated frameworks, SMX has paved the way for recycled plastics to transition from discount bins into premium markets. Food-grade packaging is one of the largest and most demanding categories in the plastics economy, and it now has a path toward verified circularity.

The Impact Can Be Transformative

The implications extend far beyond a single category. SMX’s molecular markers don’t just identify recycled content; they create a “digital passport” that can survive multiple loops of collection, processing, and re-manufacturing. And it’s proving precisely that.

In the ASEAN region, SMX has already secured deals to integrate markers at the extrusion stage, embedding trust into the supply chain from the start. In Europe, proof-of-concept trials with REDWAVE have shown that even challenging materials like flame-retardant and carbon-black plastics can be sorted and verified. And in the U.S., the Tradepro collaboration shows that even the strictest regulatory environments can accommodate this technology.

For investors, manufacturers, and yes, the planet, the timing couldn’t be more on queue. Demand for recycled plastics is set against a backdrop of quotas, ESG mandates, and consumer pressure that can’t be ignored. Yet recycling rates remain low, in part because the market has lacked a way to verify and monetize recycled content at scale. That gap is where SMX moves from science mixed with technology to an economic engine.

One Person’s Trash is Another’s Treasure

By embedding molecular proof and connecting it to blockchain-backed credits such as its Plastic Cycle Token (PCT), SMX is giving plastic waste a measurable, tradable identity. That transforms recycling from a compliance cost into a revenue stream.

The plastics market may be worth $824 billion, but the $50 billion recycling segment is where the real disruption is about to happen. That’s because it’s no longer just about collecting and melting down waste; it’s about creating a system where every pound of recycled plastic carries verified value.

With integration showing that molecular markers can operate within FDA-regulated frameworks, SMX is proving that recycled content doesn’t have to live in the margins of the industry. It can meet the highest standards, flow into the most demanding categories, and form the foundation for new financial instruments that reward proof instead of promises. In doing so, SMX isn’t simply facilitating the recycling market’s best generation; it’s rewriting its rules. And those new rules bring one of the oldest adages to life: one person’s trash is another’s treasure.

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 / October 2, 2025 / The plastics market isn’t small change. It’s a $824 billion global arena – and it’s been hungry for proof. Not about the material itself, but about sustainability and recycling measures that can keep its environmental impact in check. The world is done with promises and pledges. What it demands now is verifiable evidence that recycled content is exactly what companies claim it to be.

That shift in expectation has exposed the weakness of decades of regulatory patchwork, greenwashing headlines, and conference speeches that never moved the needle. The market has boiled it down to a single truth: proof is currency. And in a $50 billion recycling market, that currency is worth a serious paycheck – one SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is positioning itself to collect.

SMX doesn’t trade in abstractions and “hope-for’s”. Its molecular marker technology embeds proof at the material level, creating digital passports for plastics that survive the entire recycling loop. From collection through processing and back into new products, SMX tags materials with an unalterable identity – a marker that regulators, brands, and consumers alike can verify. That’s particularly important, given that mistrust has kept capital on the sidelines and slowed adoption in this sector. In that sense, SMX’s breakthrough isn’t just a scientific achievement. It’s economics.

Markets Demand “Proof” Over Promises

For the recycling market, the timing could not be more on queue. Global demand for recycled plastics is surging as governments impose quotas, consumer brands set targets, and investors push ESG funds to deliver measurable outcomes. Yet recycling rates remain stubbornly low, hovering in the teens in the U.S. and only modestly higher across Europe and Asia. The missing link has been verification. Without it, recycled plastics carry a discount, trust collapses, and the supply chain stalls. SMX’s technology flips that script – making recycled plastic a premium product with traceable value.

The better news is that SMX has already proven its technology at scale, first by marking and tracing 21 tons of natural rubber from tree to tire, and it is now replicating that same methodology across plastics globally. In ASEAN, SMX has locked in multiple deals (with Bio-Packaging, Skypac, A*STAR, among others) to embed molecular markers at the point of extrusion, turning every film, wrapper or bag into a blockchain-verifiable digital twin.

In the U.S., SMX recently forged a strategic partnership with Tradepro to deploy FDA-compliant molecular marking in food-grade plastics, bringing traceability into one of the most heavily regulated segments. And, in collaboration with REDWAVE, SMX has completed proof-of-concept trials demonstrating the sorting and verification of flame-retardant and black plastics in recycling streams.

Proof Points Matter

With every new proof point across geographies and material types, the company isn’t just participating in the circular economy; it’s becoming its operating system. And in markets this large, the operating system tends to capture the lion’s share of the value.

The story here is not regulation. Regulation sets the stage. The story is monetization, transforming waste into verifiable assets. SMX’s molecular markers, combined with blockchain and tokenized credits like the Plastic Cycle Token (PCT), give plastics a tradable identity that can be bought, sold, and valued. That’s more than compliance. That’s an entirely new asset class built from materials the world once paid to discard.

The $50 billion question is no longer whether recycled plastics will matter. It’s who will control the proof layer that makes the system run. SMX has spent years building the answer, and now it’s entering the market at the exact moment proof has become non-negotiable.

For brands, regulators, and stakeholders, that’s not just a shift. That’s an entry point worth seizing. And all it takes is a phone call to start doing just that.

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)

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 2, 2025 / We are closer than we think. Not closer in the foggy, geopolitical sense. Closer in the literal tick-tick of a clock. A recent bust in New York City uncovered hundreds of servers and more than 100,000 SIM cards, all ready to flood networks and overwhelm emergency channels. That plot was low-tech, cheap, and terrifyingly effective. It did not need explosives. It only needed numbers. Numbers that turn into noise, noise into chaos, and chaos that very quickly becomes a national emergency.

Imagine fifty cities all trying to call 911 at once, only to hear dead air. Imagine air traffic control losing telemetry because sensors began reporting fiction. Imagine hospitals having to triage not patients but systems. That is not a Hollywood script. It is a plausible chain of failures that begins with cloned SIMs being activated en masse. When authenticity is assumed but not verified, the infrastructure that underpins daily life becomes brittle. The margin for error is not small. It is zero.

Here is the blunt truth. Attackers want asymmetry. They spend pennies to buy leverage that costs nations millions to counter. Flood a telecom network with phony traffic and you do more than interrupt service. You force a reaction. Regulators clamp down. Companies reroute dollars into crisis control. Governments mobilize. A tiny operation becomes an international incident. That is the leverage of Zero Day. And just like in the series, it is cheap to start and expensive to stop. But SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) has the technology to clip the wires and stop that clock’s countdown.

When the Bell Rings, Response Is Not Measured

And, it better. The danger is not the initial interruption. The danger is the escalation that follows. A communications collapse will not be met with calm, careful inquiry. It will be met with urgency, suspicion, and action. Treating such an event as an act of war becomes a live possibility because the attack bypasses traditional markers of conflict. No flag flies overhead. No carrier arrives. Yet the impact is strategic.

Countermeasures will ripple outward, alliances will be tested, and military might won’t be tested; it will be proven. Markets will reassess what they thought was secure. Supply chains will be audited in panic. The economy will not wait for reports or commissions to be issued. It will pause. And when the pause hits, the cost accrues in real time. Minutes are not an abstract unit. Minutes are billions of dollars in frozen trades, stalled logistics, and failed medical procedures.

That is the scale of the risk. The world is not safe because threats are dramatic. The world is vulnerable because threats are mundane and plausible. A SIM-farm in a basement can do more damage, faster, than a thousand headlines.

Proof at the Material Level Stops the Countdown

This is where SMX matters most. Not because it promises miracles. Because it changes the rules. SMX embeds microscopic, immutable markers into the physical fabric of devices and components. These markers are paired with digital ledgers that instantly verify identity. A SIM that does not match its recorded identity cannot be trusted to join a live network. A router that fails its scan does not get installed into a critical path. A sensor out of custody does not feed control systems.

Verification shifts from a forensic afterthought to an operational gatekeeper. A single scan answers three deadly questions: is this real, where did it come from, and has it been tampered with. That speed is the difference between prevention and catastrophe. In a world measured in ticks, seconds are everything.

This system does not require armies of inspectors. It requires the right architecture. Put proof in the material, and the problem shifts from chasing attackers to denying them the tools that make attacks scale. Counterfeit economies thrive when anonymity is cheap. SMX makes anonymity expensive.

Prevention Beats Reaction Every Time

The SIM-farm bust should be a wake-up call. It should be the signal to move from playbook to practice. Investing in systems that verify hardware at the point of origin and the point of activation is not optional. It is the only sane course in a world where low-cost hacks can trigger geopolitical fireworks.

When components carry identity, the first domino never tips. When every device can be scanned and verified in seconds, the attacker’s time advantage evaporates. Prevention becomes both a national security posture and a market differentiator. Companies that can certify the provenance of their hardware gain resilience. Investors who recognize platforms that harden supply chains get optionality.

We used to think apocalypse had a big signature: a missile, a storm, an obvious enemy. The next one will come wearing everyday clothes. It will rely on scale and plausibility, not spectacle. That is what makes it dangerous and what makes proof essential. SMX is not selling fear. It is selling the mechanism that keeps the clock from ever reaching zero.

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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