Author: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / Once industrial validation is achieved, the next inflection point is not linear growth. It is compounding leverage. This is where SMX’s (NASDAQ:SMX) valuation story becomes far more interesting than any single contract or pilot.

The last several initiatives did more than prove the technology works. They quietly began stitching together a verification network across materials, geographies, and counterparties. That matters because traceability only becomes economically powerful when it connects multiple actors inside a supply chain. A single verified node is useful. A connected system of verified nodes is transformative.

Each new deployment strengthens the value of every prior one. When a recycler, manufacturer, brand, or regulator integrates material-level identity, they are no longer operating in isolation. They become part of a shared verification framework where proof can move with the material, rather than being recreated at every handoff. That interoperability is where network effects emerge, and network effects are rarely priced correctly in early stages.

Markets Recognize Value Differently

Markets tend to treat early deals as discrete events. That is a mistake here. SMX’s recent execution across plastics, textiles, and metals creates adjacency pressure. Once verification exists upstream, downstream participants gain immediate incentive to adopt it. Conversely, once downstream buyers begin demanding verified inputs, upstream suppliers are compelled to integrate. This push-pull dynamic accelerates adoption without proportional increases in sales effort or cost.

From a valuation standpoint, this changes the slope of growth. Instead of modeling adoption as a single contract at a time, investors should think in terms of ecosystem gravity. The more materials and sectors embedded with identity, the harder it becomes for supply-chain participants to opt out. That stickiness supports pricing power and long-term durability, two attributes markets reward disproportionately once recognized.

There is also a regulatory overlay amplifying this effect. As compliance regimes tighten and enforcement becomes more data-driven, verification shifts from “nice to have” to “required.” When a system already exists that can provide persistent, auditable proof at the material level, regulators and enterprises tend to align around it rather than reinvent the wheel. This creates a subtle but powerful standardization dynamic, where adoption feeds on itself.

The market often underestimates this phase because network effects are not immediately visible in revenue. They show up first in behavior. Partners return for expanded scopes. New industries approach the platform rather than needing to be sold to it. Pilots convert into frameworks. These are early signals of compounding leverage, not stagnation.

SMX Is Showing Its Work

SMX is now positioned inside that transition. The platform has proven it can operate across disparate materials. The next value unlock comes from the fact that those materials coexist inside the same global supply chains. Verification in one segment reinforces demand in another. That cross-pollination is what turns a technology provider into infrastructure.

This is why valuation based solely on near-term revenue or isolated deal economics misses the point. Infrastructure platforms are repriced when the market realizes they are becoming unavoidable. SMX’s recent activity suggests it is moving in that direction, quietly and methodically.

In capital markets, network effects are often recognized only after they are obvious. By then, the repricing has already occurred. The opportunity presents itself earlier, when the system is forming, the signals are present, and the market is still treating execution as episodic rather than cumulative.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

This information contains Forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and assumptions regarding future events involving SMX (NASDAQ: SMX), its technologies, its partnership activities, and its development of molecular marking systems for recycled PET and other materials. Forward-looking statements are not historical facts. They involve risks, uncertainties, and factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Forward-looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, expectations regarding the integration of SMX’s molecular markers into U.S. recycling markets; the potential for FDA-compliant markers to enable recycled PET to enter food-grade and other regulated applications; the scalability of SMX solutions across diverse global supply chains; anticipated adoption of identity-based verification systems by manufacturers, recyclers, regulators, or brand owners; the potential economic impact of turning recycled plastics into tradeable or monetizable assets; the expected performance of SMX’s Plastic Cycle Token or other digital verification instruments; and the belief that molecular-level authentication may influence pricing, compliance, sustainability reporting, or financial strategies used within the plastics sector.

These Forward-looking statements are also subject to assumptions regarding regulatory developments; market demand for authenticated recycled content; the pace of corporate adoption of traceability technology; global economic conditions; supply chain constraints; evolving environmental policies; and general industry behavior relating to sustainability commitments and recycling mandates. Risks include, but are not limited to, changes in FDA or international regulatory standards; technological challenges in large-scale deployment of molecular markers; competitive innovations from other companies; operational disruptions in recycling or plastics manufacturing; fluctuations in pricing for virgin or recycled plastics; and the broader economic conditions that influence capital investment and industrial activity.

Detailed risk factors are described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on Forward-looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise Forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events, changes in circumstances, or new information, except as required by applicable law.

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / In early-stage companies, partnerships are often treated as marketing events. Logos get added to slides. Press releases get circulated. Little changes economically. SMX’s (NASDAQ:SMX) recent partnerships do not fit that pattern. They are not designed to signal interest. They are designed to embed capability inside operating systems that already matter.

SMX is not partnering to gain visibility. It is partnering to gain position. Each recent relationship places its material-level identity framework inside an existing supply chain, industry hub, or regulatory-adjacent environment. That distinction matters because it determines whether a partnership creates optional upside or structural dependency.

When a partner already sits at a critical junction in a value chain, integration does more than validate technology. It accelerates adoption by removing friction for everyone downstream. Participants do not need to be convinced individually. They inherit access through systems they already trust and use.

This is how infrastructure spreads. Not by selling one node at a time, but by embedding at points of aggregation.

Partnerships Create Leverage, Not Just Reach

The economic value of SMX’s partnerships exists in leverage. Each integration expands reach without expanding cost proportionally. That is the opposite of traditional enterprise sales, where each new customer requires incremental effort, customization, and expense.

By partnering with entities that already coordinate producers, processors, refiners, and distributors, SMX effectively multiplies its surface area. One integration can touch dozens or hundreds of counterparties. That leverage compresses sales cycles and accelerates normalization of verification as part of standard operations.

From a valuation standpoint, this matters because markets reward scalable access, not just scalable technology. A platform can be technically superior and still struggle if distribution is fragmented. Partnerships solve that problem by aligning incentives across multiple participants at once.

There is also a signaling component that investors often overlook. Partners with existing influence do not integrate lightly. They evaluate operational risk, reputational exposure, and long-term alignment. Their willingness to embed SMX’s system suggests confidence not just in functionality, but in durability. That confidence reduces perceived execution risk, even before revenue metrics fully reflect it.

Over time, this dynamic compounds. Each successful partnership makes the next easier. Standards begin to form informally. Expectations shift. Verification moves from optional to assumed.

Why Partnership Density Drives Valuation Expansion

Markets tend to underprice partnership density because it does not show up cleanly on financial statements. Yet density is often the precursor to pricing power. When multiple influential participants align around the same verification framework, alternatives begin to look inefficient rather than competitive.

This is where valuation inflection points often occur. Once a platform becomes the default connective tissue between stakeholders, it is no longer competing feature-by-feature. It is anchoring behavior. Switching costs rise. Adoption accelerates organically.

SMX’s recent partnership activity suggests it is building that connective tissue deliberately. Not by chasing volume, but by selecting points of influence. The result is a network that grows stronger with each addition, even if the market initially views each deal in isolation.

Partnerships are not supplemental to SMX’s valuation story. They are central to it. They determine how fast validation turns into normalization, and how quickly normalization turns into economic inevitability.

When partnerships function as infrastructure, valuation follows structure, not headlines.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

This information contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and assumptions regarding future events involving SMX (NASDAQ: SMX), its technologies, its partnership activities, and its development of molecular marking systems for recycled PET and other materials. Forward-looking statements are not historical facts. They involve risks, uncertainties, and factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, expectations regarding the integration of SMX’s molecular markers into U.S. recycling markets; the potential for FDA-compliant markers to enable recycled PET to enter food-grade and other regulated applications; the scalability of SMX solutions across diverse global supply chains; anticipated adoption of identity-based verification systems by manufacturers, recyclers, regulators, or brand owners; the potential economic impact of turning recycled plastics into tradeable or monetizable assets; the expected performance of SMX’s Plastic Cycle Token or other digital verification instruments; and the belief that molecular-level authentication may influence pricing, compliance, sustainability reporting, or financial strategies used within the plastics sector.

These forward-looking statements are also subject to assumptions regarding regulatory developments, market demand for authenticated recycled content, the pace of corporate adoption of traceability technology, global economic conditions, supply chain constraints, evolving environmental policies, and general industry behavior relating to sustainability commitments and recycling mandates. Risks include, but are not limited to, changes in FDA or international regulatory standards; technological challenges in large-scale deployment of molecular markers; competitive innovations from other companies; operational disruptions in recycling or plastics manufacturing; fluctuations in pricing for virgin or recycled plastics; and the broader economic conditions that influence capital investment and industrial activity.

Detailed risk factors are described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events, changes in circumstances, or new information, except as required by applicable law.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / One of the most overlooked aspects of SMX’s recent execution is how efficiently it is opening entire markets through partnerships rather than direct market entry. This is not expansion by brute force. It is expansion by design.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is using partnerships to bypass the slowest and most expensive part of scaling, earning trust market by market. Instead of selling identity verification from the outside in, SMX is embedding it from the inside out, through partners that already operate at scale within their respective ecosystems.

Each partnership functions as a gate. Once opened, that gate provides access to producers, processors, refiners, brands, and regulators that would otherwise require years of direct engagement. The value of that access compounds because the underlying technology does not change. The same identity framework applies across plastics, textiles, metals, and other material categories with minimal marginal adaptation.

From a valuation perspective, this approach matters because it converts what would normally be multiple high-cost market entries into a single reusable platform expansion. Capital efficiency improves as new markets are layered onto the same core system.

Different Markets, Different Value Drivers, Same Infrastructure

The second valuation insight lies in how each market unlocks value differently, while relying on the same infrastructure. In plastics, value is tied to recycled content verification, regulatory compliance, and circularity incentives. In textiles, it centers on provenance, sustainability claims, and supply-chain transparency. In metals, it extends to authenticity, chain of custody, and risk mitigation in high-value materials.

SMX does not need to rebuild its business model for each of these markets. The identity layer remains constant. What changes is how value is captured. That flexibility is critical. It allows the company to monetize differently across sectors while maintaining a unified technological foundation.

Partnerships accelerate this process by aligning SMX with market participants who already understand where value resides. Instead of guessing which use cases matter, SMX integrates where economic incentives are already defined. That shortens the path from validation to monetization.

Investors often underestimate this dynamic because they expect new markets to require new systems. In SMX’s case, new markets require new relationships, not new technology.

Portfolio Effects Drive Valuation Beyond Any Single Vertical

The real valuation unlock emerges when these markets are viewed as a portfolio rather than in isolation. Each additional partnership increases the relevance of the entire system. Proof generated in one market reinforces credibility in another. Adoption in one sector reduces friction in the next.

This creates a portfolio effect that is difficult to model using traditional multiples. Value does not scale linearly with deal count. It scales with coverage. Once multiple major material categories are embedded with identity, SMX becomes a cross-market reference point rather than a sector-specific solution.

At that stage, partnerships stop being growth tools and start being defensive assets. They lock in access, normalize standards, and raise the cost of alternatives. The market typically recognizes this only after it becomes obvious.

SMX’s recent partnership strategy suggests it is intentionally building toward that outcome. Not by dominating a single vertical, but by connecting many. For valuation, that distinction is critical. The upside is not confined to one market. It compounds across all of them simultaneously.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

This information contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and assumptions regarding future events involving SMX (NASDAQ: SMX), its technologies, its partnership activities, and its development of molecular marking systems for recycled PET and other materials. Forward-looking statements are not historical facts. They involve risks, uncertainties, and factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, expectations regarding the integration of SMX’s molecular markers into U.S. recycling markets; the potential for FDA-compliant markers to enable recycled PET to enter food-grade and other regulated applications; the scalability of SMX solutions across diverse global supply chains; anticipated adoption of identity-based verification systems by manufacturers, recyclers, regulators, or brand owners; the potential economic impact of turning recycled plastics into tradeable or monetizable assets; the expected performance of SMX’s Plastic Cycle Token or other digital verification instruments; and the belief that molecular-level authentication may influence pricing, compliance, sustainability reporting, or financial strategies used within the plastics sector.

These forward-looking statements are also subject to assumptions regarding regulatory developments, market demand for authenticated recycled content, the pace of corporate adoption of traceability technology, global economic conditions, supply chain constraints, evolving environmental policies, and general industry behavior relating to sustainability commitments and recycling mandates. Risks include, but are not limited to, changes in FDA or international regulatory standards; technological challenges in large-scale deployment of molecular markers; competitive innovations from other companies; operational disruptions in recycling or plastics manufacturing; fluctuations in pricing for virgin or recycled plastics; and the broader economic conditions that influence capital investment and industrial activity.

Detailed risk factors are described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events, changes in circumstances, or new information, except as required by applicable law.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / At its core, the SMX value proposition is not fragmented, even though it touches multiple industries. It is unified. What appears on the surface as plastics, textiles, metals, partnerships, and verification tools is, in reality, a single system designed to solve one foundational problem: the absence of persistent truth in global supply chains.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) embeds identity directly into physical materials, allowing proof to travel with matter itself. That one capability cascades across markets. It enables traceability where documentation fails, auditability where trust breaks down, and verification where claims have historically been unverifiable. The power of the model is that it does not need to be reinvented for each sector. The same identity layer functions across materials, jurisdictions, and use cases.

This is why SMX should not be evaluated as a collection of projects. It is infrastructure. Infrastructure solves multiple downstream problems simultaneously because it operates below the surface. Once embedded, it quietly reshapes behavior without requiring constant intervention.

That unification is what allows SMX to expand horizontally without diluting its focus. Each new market does not introduce complexity. It reinforces relevance.

Validation, Partnerships, and Capital Efficiency Working Together

What distinguishes SMX’s current phase is not any single achievement, but how its components now reinforce one another. Industrial validation proves the technology works. Partnerships place it inside operating ecosystems. Capital efficiency allows it to scale without rebuilding the platform each time.

These elements are not sequential. They are circular. Validation makes partnerships viable. Partnerships accelerate adoption. Adoption improves capital efficiency. Capital efficiency supports broader validation. The loop tightens with each execution milestone.

From a valuation perspective, this is critical. Markets tend to price companies based on isolated metrics, revenue, burn, dilution, or pipeline. SMX’s value emerges from interaction effects. The whole is more valuable than the sum of its parts because each part increases the effectiveness of the others.

This is why traditional comparisons fall short. SMX is not just a technology provider, a data platform, or a sustainability solution. It is a connective layer that allows multiple stakeholders to operate with shared, verifiable truth. That role is rare, and once established, difficult to displace.

Why the Market Often Recognizes This Late

Integrated platforms that solve structural problems are almost always misunderstood early. They do not fit cleanly into existing categories. Their revenue ramps unevenly because adoption occurs across systems, not customers. Their value is clearer in hindsight than in spreadsheets.

SMX sits squarely in that pattern. Its recent execution suggests the hardest questions have been answered. The technology functions. The system integrates. The partners engage. What remains is normalization, the slow but inevitable process by which infrastructure becomes assumed.

When that happens, valuation frameworks shift. The market stops asking whether the system is needed and starts assuming it is. At that point, pricing is no longer anchored to individual deals or quarterly optics. It reflects strategic position.

The full SMX value proposition is this: one identity layer, embedded in physical reality, enabling proof at scale across markets that increasingly demand it. That proposition compounds. It does not reset with each new vertical. It strengthens.

For stakeholders, the implication is straightforward. SMX should be viewed not as a story unfolding one announcement at a time, but as a system coming into alignment. Those moments are often quiet. The repricing that follows rarely is.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

This information contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and assumptions regarding future events involving SMX (NASDAQ: SMX), its technologies, its partnership activities, and its development of molecular marking systems for recycled PET and other materials. Forward-looking statements are not historical facts. They involve risks, uncertainties, and factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, expectations regarding the integration of SMX’s molecular markers into U.S. recycling markets; the potential for FDA-compliant markers to enable recycled PET to enter food-grade and other regulated applications; the scalability of SMX solutions across diverse global supply chains; anticipated adoption of identity-based verification systems by manufacturers, recyclers, regulators, or brand owners; the potential economic impact of turning recycled plastics into tradeable or monetizable assets; the expected performance of SMX’s Plastic Cycle Token or other digital verification instruments; and the belief that molecular-level authentication may influence pricing, compliance, sustainability reporting, or financial strategies used within the plastics sector.

These forward-looking statements are also subject to assumptions regarding regulatory developments, market demand for authenticated recycled content, the pace of corporate adoption of traceability technology, global economic conditions, supply chain constraints, evolving environmental policies, and general industry behavior relating to sustainability commitments and recycling mandates. Risks include, but are not limited to, changes in FDA or international regulatory standards; technological challenges in large-scale deployment of molecular markers; competitive innovations from other companies; operational disruptions in recycling or plastics manufacturing; fluctuations in pricing for virgin or recycled plastics; and the broader economic conditions that influence capital investment and industrial activity.

Detailed risk factors are described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events, changes in circumstances, or new information, except as required by applicable law.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 23, 2025 / For much of the modern gold trade, trust has been delegated to individual companies. Refiners certified their suppliers. Traders vouched for counterparties. Documentation followed the metal, often across borders and jurisdictions that applied standards unevenly.

That model is breaking down. As global gold markets tighten expectations around responsible sourcing, AML, and ESG compliance, trust is increasingly being evaluated at the jurisdictional level. Markets are no longer asking whether a single participant claims compliance. They are asking whether the environment in which gold is produced, refined, and exported can consistently enforce it.

This shift is redefining how credibility is earned and reshaping where infrastructure must be built.SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is aligning its precious-metals strategy with that reality.

Putting Extra Shine on Gold

Following its engagement with the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, the company has moved rapidly into jurisdiction-anchored initiatives, including its newest collaborations with Bougainville Refinery Ltd and digital identity provider FinGo.

The objective is not limited to certifying individual transactions. It is to evaluate how advanced authentication and identity infrastructure can be embedded directly into national-scale supply-chain operations, where enforcement actually matters.

The distinction is critical.

Company-level compliance can be fragmented. Jurisdiction-level infrastructure creates consistency. When verification systems are embedded where sourcing, refining, and export intersect, trust becomes systemic rather than discretionary.

SMX’s role in this transition begins with the material itself. Its molecular-level authentication technology embeds a persistent, invisible identity directly into gold, creating a physical-digital link that survives refining and downstream processing. This ensures that gold remains verifiable regardless of ownership changes or processing stages, a prerequisite for jurisdiction-wide enforcement.

More Than the Sum of Its Parts

TrueGold, a majority-owned subsidiary of SMX, builds on this foundation by positioning verified gold as a distinct, compliant asset class. In a market where regulators and counterparties increasingly differentiate between documented claims and demonstrable proof, this distinction gives jurisdictions a mechanism to offer gold that carries trusted identity by design, not by assertion.

Human identity completes the framework. Jurisdictional trust does not rest solely on material integrity. It depends on accountability across the people who extract, aggregate, refine, and export gold. FinGo’s biometric digital identity infrastructure enables verified attribution of actions and custody changes to real individuals aligned with KYC and AML expectations, including in environments where traditional identity systems are limited or unreliable.

By linking verified humans to verified material at each supply-chain event, the system creates records that withstand scrutiny across borders. This is precisely what jurisdictional credibility requires.

Bougainville Refinery Ltd provides the operational context that elevates the initiative beyond concept. As a licensed refinery and exporter, BRL operates at the point where national policy meets international markets. Embedding SMX and FinGo technologies into real sourcing, refining, and export workflows demonstrates how jurisdictions can operationalize transparency rather than merely legislate it.

A Strategic, Collaborative Effort

The broader implication is strategic. Gold markets are increasingly rewarding environments that can deliver consistency, auditability, and trust at scale. Jurisdictions that can offer verifiable supply chains reduce risk for refiners, financiers, and end markets alike. Those who cannot face growing friction.

SMX’s sequencing reflects an understanding of this shift. Alignment with global market authorities first. Deployment within operational jurisdictions next. Replication as credibility compounds. This is how standards are set in practice, not by decree, but by adoption.

Gold has always been a global asset. Increasingly, it is also a geopolitical one. The future of trusted gold will be shaped not only by companies that comply, but by jurisdictions that can prove it.

By enabling material identity, human accountability, and auditable operations at scale, SMX is positioning itself at the intersection where technology meets sovereignty, and where trust becomes infrastructure.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

This information contains forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and assumptions regarding future events involving SMX (NASDAQ: SMX), its technologies, its partnership activities, and its development of molecular marking systems for recycled PET and other materials. Forward looking statements are not historical facts. They involve risks, uncertainties, and factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, expectations regarding the integration of SMX’s molecular markers into U.S. recycling markets; the potential for FDA-compliant markers to enable recycled PET to enter food-grade and other regulated applications; the scalability of SMX solutions across diverse global supply chains; anticipated adoption of identity-based verification systems by manufacturers, recyclers, regulators, or brand owners; the potential economic impact of turning recycled plastics into tradeable or monetizable assets; the expected performance of SMX’s Plastic Cycle Token or other digital verification instruments; and the belief that molecular-level authentication may influence pricing, compliance, sustainability reporting, or financial strategies used within the plastics sector.

These forward looking statements are also subject to assumptions regarding regulatory developments; market demand for authenticated recycled content; the pace of corporate adoption of traceability technology; global economic conditions; supply chain constraints; evolving environmental policies; and general industry behavior relating to sustainability commitments and recycling mandates. Risks include, but are not limited to, changes in FDA or international regulatory standards; technological challenges in large-scale deployment of molecular markers; competitive innovations from other companies; operational disruptions in recycling or plastics manufacturing; fluctuations in pricing for virgin or recycled plastics; and the broader economic conditions that influence capital investment and industrial activity.

Detailed risk factors are described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward looking statements to reflect subsequent events, changes in circumstances, or new information, except as required by applicable law.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 23, 2025 / The digital revolution promised transparency for commodities. Gold proved that the endpoint was more difficult to reach through pure ambition.

The problem was never the ledger. It was the inputs. Since the start of the digital age, the gold industry has experimented with digital traceability systems designed to modernize how provenance and custody are recorded. Distributed ledgers, tokens, and digital certificates were introduced with the promise of immutable truth.

Yet in practice, many of these systems simply preserved uncertainty in a more sophisticated format. When unverifiable material, anonymous handlers, and paper-based custody records feed a digital system, the output is still guesswork, just harder to unwind.

SMX Unites to Create Infrastructure, Not More Paperwork

That failure has forced a deeper architectural rethink. Transparency in gold does not begin with databases or digital ledgers. It begins with identity, both of the material itself and the humans who extract, handle, refine, and move it. Without those anchors, no amount of digitization can produce trust.

This is the context in which SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is emerging as one of the more aggressive builders of a new identity stack for precious metals.

Following its work with the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, SMX announced a joint initiative with Bougainville Refinery Ltd and biometric identity provider FinGo. The focus is end-to-end authentication across gold sourcing, refining, and export, not as a theoretical exercise, but inside live supply-chain environments already subject to international scrutiny. The emphasis is not on tokenization or abstract traceability layers. It is on binding reality to record.

Where Identity Gets Verified, Not Presumed

SMX’s contribution operates at the material layer, where most digital systems quietly fail. Its molecular authentication technology embeds a persistent, invisible identity directly into gold itself. Once applied, that identity survives refining and downstream processing, allowing the material to be verified repeatedly without altering industrial workflows. This directly addresses one of the gold market’s most persistent vulnerabilities: identity loss once material enters the refinery and aggregation stages.

By anchoring identity to the physical metal, SMX removes reliance on external documentation to assert provenance or authenticity. The gold becomes its own proof.

FinGo addresses the other half of the equation, one that has historically been even harder to solve. Gold does not move itself. People do. Across global supply chains, particularly in artisanal and small-scale mining environments, identity is often informal, shared, or paper-based. That creates gaps that regulators, financiers, and counterparties increasingly refuse to overlook.

FinGo’s biometric digital identity infrastructure enables the verified attribution of actions and custody changes to real individuals, aligned with KYC and anti-money laundering (AML) expectations. Importantly, it’s deployable in environments where traditional identity systems break down, including remote regions with limited infrastructure. This capability transforms compliance records from descriptive narratives into defensible event histories.

A More Valuable Sum of the Parts

When combined, SMX and FinGo create something most digital-based systems never achieved: a direct link between a verified asset and a verified human at a specific moment in time. That linkage fundamentally changes the evidentiary quality of supply-chain data.

Bougainville Refinery Ltd provides the operational framework where these capabilities are tested under real pressure. As a licensed refinery and exporter, BRL sits at the convergence point of sourcing, compliance, and access to international markets. Embedding identity infrastructure at this level moves transparency out of policy documents and into daily operations, where credibility is earned through performance, not intention.

What makes this development notable is momentum. SMX is not positioning itself as a future solution waiting for regulation to mandate adoption. It is inserting identity infrastructure directly into supply chains that already face tightening AML, responsible sourcing, and ESG expectations. The sequencing matters. Framework alignment first. Operational deployment next. Replication thereafter.

The next generation of commodity transparency will not be won by platforms competing for visibility. It will be won by systems that anchor truth at the physical and human layers. Only then do ledgers, analytics, and reporting tools become meaningful. This latest SMX collaboration moves that reality from theory into execution, and it is doing so faster than the market expected.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

This information contains forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and assumptions regarding future events involving SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), its technologies, its partnership activities, and its development of molecular marking systems for recycled PET and other materials. Forward looking statements are not historical facts. They involve risks, uncertainties, and factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, expectations regarding the integration of SMX’s molecular markers into U.S. recycling markets; the potential for FDA-compliant markers to enable recycled PET to enter food-grade and other regulated applications; the scalability of SMX solutions across diverse global supply chains; anticipated adoption of identity-based verification systems by manufacturers, recyclers, regulators, or brand owners; the potential economic impact of turning recycled plastics into tradeable or monetizable assets; the expected performance of SMX’s Plastic Cycle Token or other digital verification instruments; and the belief that molecular-level authentication may influence pricing, compliance, sustainability reporting, or financial strategies used within the plastics sector.

These forward looking statements are also subject to assumptions regarding regulatory developments; market demand for authenticated recycled content; the pace of corporate adoption of traceability technology; global economic conditions; supply chain constraints; evolving environmental policies; and general industry behavior relating to sustainability commitments and recycling mandates. Risks include, but are not limited to, changes in FDA or international regulatory standards; technological challenges in large-scale deployment of molecular markers; competitive innovations from other companies; operational disruptions in recycling or plastics manufacturing; fluctuations in pricing for virgin or recycled plastics; and the broader economic conditions that influence capital investment and industrial activity.

Detailed risk factors are described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward looking statements to reflect subsequent events, changes in circumstances, or new information, except as required by applicable law.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 22, 2025 / For much of its history, compliance in the gold industry lived at the end of the process. Gold was sourced, refined, and traded first. Documentation followed. Audits came later. Trust was assumed unless challenged.

That model is no longer holding.

Across global gold markets, regulatory expectations have moved upstream. Responsible sourcing, AML, and ESG frameworks now demand proof that originates at the point of extraction and persists through every handoff. Compliance is no longer something that can be reconstructed after the fact. It must be engineered directly into operations.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is serving that reality. More importantly, delivering it.

Deals on Top of Deals to Create a New Gold Standard

Following its engagement with the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, SMX has moved quickly to deploy its physical-to-digital authentication framework inside live supply chains through initiatives with Bougainville Refinery Ltd and digital identity provider FinGo. In parallel, the company continues to advance its majority-owned trueGold platform, designed to preserve identity, provenance, and compliance through refining and trade.

The common thread is clear. SMX is treating compliance not as a reporting obligation, but as operational infrastructure. The very thing that global industries are no longer just asking for, but increasingly required to implement.

Traditional compliance systems struggle because they sit downstream from risk. Paper documentation can be altered. Digital records can reflect assumptions rather than facts. By the time discrepancies surface, material has already moved, been aggregated, or entered the market.

SMX addresses this failure at the material level. Its molecular authentication technology embeds an invisible, persistent identity directly into gold itself. That identity survives refinement and downstream processing, enabling verification at multiple operational checkpoints without reliance on reconciliation or manual intervention. With SMX, compliance becomes continuous rather than episodic.

Why SMX Has Become So Relevant

Gold’s highest-risk moments occur during handoffs. Aggregation points. Refinery intake. Export authorization. These are operational events, not accounting exercises. Systems that activate only during audits arrive too late.

trueGold extends this approach by framing verified gold as an operationally compliant asset rather than a post-hoc certified one. Gold that carries persistent identity and auditable history is easier to finance, easier to clear, and easier to accept across jurisdictions tightening their sourcing standards.

The human dimension of compliance is equally critical. Many of gold’s failures stem not from material substitution, but from unverifiable actors. Shared credentials. Informal identification. Gaps between who is recorded and who actually handled the gold.

FinGo’s biometric digital identity infrastructure closes that gap. By enabling verified attribution of actions and custody changes to real individuals aligned with KYC and AML expectations, FinGo allows compliance to operate where it breaks down, at the human interface. This is especially relevant in remote and infrastructure-limited environments, where traditional identity systems are unreliable or absent.

When combined, SMX and FinGo shift compliance from policy to practice. Each custody event links a verified human to a verified asset at a specific moment. Records no longer describe what should have happened. They document what did happen.

Bougainville Refinery Ltd provides the operational context that makes this shift meaningful. As a licensed refinery and exporter, BRL operates at the convergence point of sourcing, compliance, and international market access. Embedding identity infrastructure into refinery and export workflows demonstrates how compliance can be enforced continuously without slowing trade.

Not an Exercise, a Construction Project

The key point is this. These actions are not theoretical. They represent a model for how jurisdictions and supply-chain operators can modernize compliance without relying on punitive enforcement or retroactive audits. By placing verification where gold is actually handled, compliance becomes a function of operations rather than paperwork.

The broader implication is acceleration. Rather than waiting for regulators to mandate new systems, SMX is deploying infrastructure that anticipates where standards are heading. In markets where counterparties increasingly demand evidence instead of assurances, that positioning matters.

Compliance is no longer a back-office function. It is becoming frontline infrastructure. And the companies building it into the physical reality of gold will shape how trust is enforced in the next phase of global precious metals trade.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

This information contains forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and assumptions regarding future events involving SMX (NASDAQ: SMX), its technologies, its partnership activities, and its development of molecular marking systems for recycled PET and other materials. Forward looking statements are not historical facts. They involve risks, uncertainties, and factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, expectations regarding the integration of SMX’s molecular markers into U.S. recycling markets; the potential for FDA-compliant markers to enable recycled PET to enter food-grade and other regulated applications; the scalability of SMX solutions across diverse global supply chains; anticipated adoption of identity-based verification systems by manufacturers, recyclers, regulators, or brand owners; the potential economic impact of turning recycled plastics into tradeable or monetizable assets; the expected performance of SMX’s Plastic Cycle Token or other digital verification instruments; and the belief that molecular-level authentication may influence pricing, compliance, sustainability reporting, or financial strategies used within the plastics sector.

These forward looking statements are also subject to assumptions regarding regulatory developments; market demand for authenticated recycled content; the pace of corporate adoption of traceability technology; global economic conditions; supply chain constraints; evolving environmental policies; and general industry behavior relating to sustainability commitments and recycling mandates. Risks include, but are not limited to, changes in FDA or international regulatory standards; technological challenges in large-scale deployment of molecular markers; competitive innovations from other companies; operational disruptions in recycling or plastics manufacturing; fluctuations in pricing for virgin or recycled plastics; and the broader economic conditions that influence capital investment and industrial activity.

Detailed risk factors are described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward looking statements to reflect subsequent events, changes in circumstances, or new information, except as required by applicable law.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 22, 2025 / For centuries, gold’s value rested on weight, purity, and trust. In modern markets, those attributes are no longer sufficient on their own. Gold is increasingly being treated not just as a commodity, but as a regulated data asset, one whose market acceptance depends as much on verifiable provenance, custody, and compliance as on chemical composition.

That shift is happening faster than many expected, and SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is not simply participating in it, but emerging as one of the sector’s most recognized providers of verifiable proof. In other words, in the right place at the right time.

Across global gold markets, regulators and counterparties are no longer satisfied with attestations and paper trails. They want persistent proof. The result is a structural change in how gold must be authenticated, tracked, and verified across its lifecycle. Gold without verifiable identity increasingly faces friction. Gold with embedded, auditable identity gains optionality.

Momentum Behind a Sector Shift

SMX’s recent momentum across the precious-metals sector reflects a clear understanding of that inflection point.

Following its engagement with the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, SMX has expanded its physical-to-digital authentication framework into operational supply chains through its newest initiative with Bougainville Refinery Ltd and biometric identity provider FinGo. In parallel, the company has continued to advance trueGold, its verified gold platform designed to preserve identity, provenance, and integrity through refining, custody, and trade.

Together, these efforts point to a consistent strategy. SMX is not treating gold traceability as a reporting layer. It is treating gold itself as a data-bearing asset.

At the foundation of that approach is SMX’s molecular-level authentication technology. By embedding an invisible, persistent identifier directly into gold, SMX creates a physical-digital link that survives refining and downstream processing. Once applied, the gold can be verified repeatedly without reliance on external documentation. Identity travels with the metal.

Unrivaled Critical Persistence

That persistence is critical. One of the gold market’s long-standing vulnerabilities has been identity loss once material enters industrial workflows. Bars are melted. Lots are aggregated. Documentation is reconciled after the fact. SMX removes that fragility by ensuring the material itself remains verifiable throughout its lifecycle.

trueGold builds on this capability by positioning verified gold as a distinct asset class, one that carries trusted metadata alongside its physical form, better serving a market increasingly shaped by responsible sourcing frameworks, AML expectations, and ESG scrutiny. That distinction matters. Verified gold is not simply compliant. It is legible to regulators, financiers, and counterparties in a way unverified material is not.

Human identity completes the equation. Gold does not move autonomously. It is extracted, handled, refined, and exported by people. FinGo’s biometric digital identity infrastructure enables those actions to be attributed to verified individuals aligned with KYC and AML requirements, even in environments where traditional identity systems struggle. When combined with SMX’s material identity, each custody event links a verified human to a verified asset at a specific moment in time.

This convergence transforms compliance from narrative to evidence by Bougainville Refinery Ltd providing a real-world proving ground where these systems are evaluated under live operational conditions. As a licensed refinery and exporter, BRL represents the point where sourcing, compliance, and international market access intersect. Embedding identity infrastructure at this level demonstrates how jurisdictions can modernize gold supply chains without sacrificing efficiency or inclusion.

Global Implications, All Positive

The broader implication extends beyond Bougainville. Gold markets are moving toward a model where value increasingly reflects not just what gold is, but what can be proven about it. Jurisdictions and market participants that can offer verifiable identity, custody, and compliance gain strategic advantage.

SMX’s accelerating activity across gold, from DMCC alignment to jurisdiction-level deployment and the expansion of TrueGold, suggests the company is not waiting for this shift to crystallize. It is building for it now.

Gold is still gold. But the markets that trade it are changing. Increasingly, the most valuable gold will be the gold that can speak for itself.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

This information contains forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and assumptions regarding future events involving SMX (NASDAQ: SMX), its technologies, its partnership activities, and its development of molecular marking systems for recycled PET and other materials. Forward looking statements are not historical facts. They involve risks, uncertainties, and factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, expectations regarding the integration of SMX’s molecular markers into U.S. recycling markets; the potential for FDA-compliant markers to enable recycled PET to enter food-grade and other regulated applications; the scalability of SMX solutions across diverse global supply chains; anticipated adoption of identity-based verification systems by manufacturers, recyclers, regulators, or brand owners; the potential economic impact of turning recycled plastics into tradeable or monetizable assets; the expected performance of SMX’s Plastic Cycle Token or other digital verification instruments; and the belief that molecular-level authentication may influence pricing, compliance, sustainability reporting, or financial strategies used within the plastics sector.

These forward looking statements are also subject to assumptions regarding regulatory developments; market demand for authenticated recycled content; the pace of corporate adoption of traceability technology; global economic conditions; supply chain constraints; evolving environmental policies; and general industry behavior relating to sustainability commitments and recycling mandates. Risks include, but are not limited to, changes in FDA or international regulatory standards; technological challenges in large-scale deployment of molecular markers; competitive innovations from other companies; operational disruptions in recycling or plastics manufacturing; fluctuations in pricing for virgin or recycled plastics; and the broader economic conditions that influence capital investment and industrial activity.

Detailed risk factors are described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward looking statements to reflect subsequent events, changes in circumstances, or new information, except as required by applicable law.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 22, 2025 / For years, transparency in the global gold market advanced in theory faster than in practice. Standards evolved. Guidance tightened. And, expectations rose. Yet the most important part, implementation, lagged, constrained by fragmented systems that verified paperwork more easily than reality. That gap is now closing, and it is closing quickly.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) deserves some credit. It’s emerging as one of the most active drivers of that shift. Following its engagement with the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, SMX is extending its physical-to-digital authentication framework into operational supply chains through a new joint initiative with FinGo and Bougainville Refinery Ltd. Together, the partners are evaluating a combined technology architecture designed to authenticate gold from mine and miner through refinery and export, embedding verification directly into live workflows rather than treating compliance as a tagged afterthought.

The pace matters. Historically, changes in the precious metals sector unfolded over decades. SMX technology changes that timeline, fast-tracking framework alignment to real-world deployment in rapid succession. It’s not just signaling progress. It’s demonstrating that material identity and supply-chain verification are transitioning from discussion to infrastructure.

From Market Frameworks to Operational Reality

The issue has never been a lack of good intentions. The global gold industry has spent years refining rules and standards to manage its complexity. The challenge has been the absence of tools capable of implementing those standards consistently across borders and participants. Fragmentation has always been the enemy.

Guidance from the London Bullion Market Association, the World Gold Council, and the DMCC increasingly demands demonstrable provenance, auditable custody, and verifiable compliance across the gold lifecycle. Yet these frameworks often operate in parallel, relying on different processes and oversight models. What SMX has been proving is that these requirements can converge operationally rather than compete administratively.

That results from SMX’s technology addressing shared requirements at the material level. Through molecular-level authentication, gold can be invisibly and permanently marked, creating a persistent, immutable physical-digital link that remains intact through refining and downstream processing. Once embedded, the material itself becomes verifiable, reducing reliance on external documentation to establish authenticity or origin.

All of that is great. But equally important, and what distinguishes SMX’s recent momentum, is how quickly this capability is being paired with operational partners and regulatory environments. The initiative with Bougainville Refinery Ltd reflects a deliberate move to take material authentication out of controlled environments and into national-scale supply chains, where credibility is earned through use, not assertion. This mirrors the trajectory of national frameworks unfolding in markets such as Singapore and Dubai.

Solving the Human Dimension of Compliance

Keep in mind that gold’s identity challenge has never been limited to the metal alone. The people who extract, handle, aggregate, refine, and export gold represent equally critical points of risk when identity cannot be confidently established. Shared credentials, paper IDs, and informal verification processes have long undermined otherwise well-intentioned compliance frameworks.

FinGo’s biometric digital identity platform addresses this human layer directly. By enabling verified identity aligned with KYC and AML requirements, the technology allows actions and custody changes to be attributed to real, authenticated individuals, even in remote or infrastructure-limited environments. This capability transforms supply-chain records from narrative descriptions into defensible event histories.

When combined with SMX’s material identity, each supply-chain event links a verified human to a verified asset at a specific moment in time. For regulators, financiers, and counterparties, that linkage represents a meaningful step change in evidentiary quality. The value chain becomes stronger, more legible, and more resilient.

Bougainville as a Proof Point for Scalable Transparency

Bougainville Refinery Ltd provides the operational context that turns theory into practice. As a licensed refinery and export participant, BRL will evaluate how the integrated framework performs across real sourcing, refining, and export workflows, embedding authentication and identity verification directly into day-to-day operations.

The initiative aligns with Bougainville’s broader commitment to responsible resource management and transparency. More importantly, it positions Bougainville as a reference environment for how advanced verification infrastructure can be deployed at a jurisdictional level, supporting both economic participation and international trust.

For SMX, this reflects a clear and repeatable strategy. First, align with global market authorities and frameworks. Next, demonstrate operational viability in real supply chains. Then, scale through replication.

A Sector Moving From Intention to Infrastructure

Don’t underappreciate what’s happening here. The speed at which SMX is executing across the precious metals space is notable. More importantly, these collaborations reflect a broader shift underway in global markets, showing that responsible sourcing, AML, and ESG are no longer treated as parallel efforts. They are converging on a single expectation and a single deliverable: proof.

By embedding material-level authentication, verified human identity, and auditable digital records into live supply-chain environments, SMX and its partners are delivering exactly that. The collaboration leaves no room for abstraction, signaling that infrastructure is not being discussed, it is being built.

Solutions that can move from policy alignment to operational deployment will define the next phase of trade. SMX’s recent momentum, with help from valuable players, suggests that phase is arriving faster than many anticipated.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

This information contains forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and assumptions regarding future events involving SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), its technologies, its partnership activities, and its development of molecular marking systems for recycled PET and other materials. Forward looking statements are not historical facts. They involve risks, uncertainties, and factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.

Forward looking statements in this editorial include, but are not limited to, expectations regarding the integration of SMX’s molecular markers into U.S. recycling markets; the potential for FDA-compliant markers to enable recycled PET to enter food-grade and other regulated applications; the scalability of SMX solutions across diverse global supply chains; anticipated adoption of identity-based verification systems by manufacturers, recyclers, regulators, or brand owners; the potential economic impact of turning recycled plastics into tradeable or monetizable assets; the expected performance of SMX’s Plastic Cycle Token or other digital verification instruments; and the belief that molecular-level authentication may influence pricing, compliance, sustainability reporting, or financial strategies used within the plastics sector.

These forward looking statements are also subject to assumptions regarding regulatory developments; market demand for authenticated recycled content; the pace of corporate adoption of traceability technology; global economic conditions; supply chain constraints; evolving environmental policies; and general industry behavior relating to sustainability commitments and recycling mandates. Risks include, but are not limited to, changes in FDA or international regulatory standards; technological challenges in large-scale deployment of molecular markers; competitive innovations from other companies; operational disruptions in recycling or plastics manufacturing; fluctuations in pricing for virgin or recycled plastics; and the broader economic conditions that influence capital investment and industrial activity.

Detailed risk factors are described in SMX’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of publication. SMX undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward looking statements to reflect subsequent events, changes in circumstances, or new information, except as required by applicable law.

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 17, 2025 / SMX’s violent move was never about price charts. It was about a thesis. And how SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) knows it can work.

Transparency without reliance on trust. Verification without intermediaries. Systems that function on proof rather than belief. For more than a decade, global markets have talked about delivering that vision at scale. Countless frameworks, standards, and reporting regimes later, the ambition remains intact, but execution has struggled to escape theory.

That is where SMX enters the conversation. Not as a digital platform chasing attention. But rather a physical verification system that delivers something markets have been missing for years. Verifiable truth (PROOF) that does not depend on declarations, paperwork, or centralized assurances. This time, the verification happens where it always mattered most, in the physical economy.

The Missing Link Markets Could Never Solve on Paper

Digital systems are excellent at preserving records. They are far less effective at validating inputs. That has always been the blind spot. Whether the issue is supply chains, sustainability claims, or material provenance, the weakness has never been recordkeeping. It has been origin. If the data entering a system cannot be independently verified, transparency becomes performative.

SMX addresses that gap by assigning identity at the material level. Plastics, metals, textiles, and other physical inputs carry embedded verification. The data recorded downstream is no longer a claim. It is a reflection of something that can be tested, traced, and proven in the real world.

This is the bridge modern markets needed but could not construct on their own.

Transparency Without Theater

Markets claim to dislike middlemen, yet they have quietly tolerated substitutes. Auditors. Certifiers. Validators. Each one reintroduces dependence on third parties, even when systems claim objectivity.

SMX removes that dependency by making the material itself the source of truth. Verification is not applied after the fact. It exists from inception. That single shift changes the entire trust model.

Instead of asking whether information can be trusted, the system assumes it must be proven. That mindset aligns with how capital actually moves. No persuasion required when the system enforces reality.

The Plastic Cycle Token Is Utility, Not Narrative

Discussion often turns to the Plastic Cycle Token, and this is where confusion tends to arise.

The Plastic Cycle Token is not designed to generate attention or be treated as a meme token. It is designed to price verification. It creates a measurable, transferable unit tied to provable circularity rather than aspirational sustainability.

Functionally, it operates as a settlement instrument for verified outcomes. It assigns value to results that can be independently confirmed. It does not exist to convince markets. It exists to resolve them.

That distinction matters in an environment saturated with claims that collapse under scrutiny.

Why This Resonates With Market Veterans

Experienced market participants have long understood a simple truth. Transparency without enforcement is cosmetic.

SMX introduces enforcement without centralized control. Identity is not governed by authority. It is embedded in the object itself. Participation does not rely on belief. It relies on compliance with physical reality.

That is why SMX feels intuitive to those who have seen cycles come and go. Verification beats reputation. Proof beats promise. Systems outperform stories.

In an unexpected way, SMX validates what markets have always demanded but rarely received.

Physical Truth Meets Digital Settlement

For years, industries have tried to digitize everything from commodities to environmental credits. Most efforts stalled because the underlying assets were never verifiable at the source.

SMX changes that equation. When physical materials carry identity, digital settlement becomes functional instead of theoretical. Records gain meaning because what they represent can be tested and enforced.

This extends far beyond plastics. Metals. Textiles. Industrial inputs. Anywhere provenance matters and trust has historically been assumed rather than proven.

Markets do not need more abstractions. They need better anchors to reality.

Why Markets Paid Attention So Quickly

SMX’s recent market activity attracted attention across multiple sectors. The movement itself is not the story. The reason behind it is.

Markets do not reprice ideology. They reprice utility. When a system appears that delivers verification at scale, incentives align rapidly. Regulation, enterprise adoption, and capital markets are converging on the same solution.

Infrastructure does not arrive gradually. It arrives all at once, and markets move fast to adjust.

SMX did not chase acceptance. It delivered outcomes and let the system speak.

A Quiet Victory for First Principles

Now, within a landscape crowded with narratives, SMX represents something rare. A system that does not need one. It does not argue for transparency. It enforces it. It does not promise trust. It removes the need for it. It does not rely on belief. It relies on proof.

What SMX has built is not a narrative upgrade. It is a structural correction. When systems stop debating trust and start enforcing proof, markets respond accordingly. In this case, markets and stakeholders appear to like what they see. Or better said, have tested and validated.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

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

Contact: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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