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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / The rare earth industry has spent years circling the same problem. Minerals move through too many borders, too many processors, and too many chemical transformations to maintain a trustworthy origin story. By the time a rare earth oxide becomes a magnet or an alloy, the truth behind it has been diluted by paperwork, assumptions, and gaps no one can independently verify. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) introduced a different path. It placed identity inside the material itself, embedding a molecular signature that survives every physical and chemical stage from mined ore to final component.

That capability is arriving at a time when global supply chains can no longer rely on declarations, affidavits or third-party attestations. China still dominates the refining stages that turn ores into usable elements, creating a bottleneck where visibility breaks down, and provenance gets blurred. SMX cuts straight through that blind spot. It gives rare earths a memory, a way to carry their origin through crushing, separation, calcination, and purification without losing the truth in the transition.

The shift is bigger than science. It is an architectural change to how strategic materials are validated. For decades, rare earths have been essential to modern industry, yet the world has never had a verification system that followed the material itself. Everyone relied on forms, not facts. SMX rewrote that relationship by creating a signal that cannot be washed away or substituted. It gives manufacturers and governments what they have never had before, a permanent method to confirm authenticity without depending on unverifiable claims.

The Global Scramble for Traceable Critical Minerals

Nations are now racing to secure critical minerals for electric vehicles, renewable energy, defense systems, and semiconductor production. Those plans fall apart if the inputs cannot prove their identity. The old model of tracing rare earths through customs documents and shipping logs collapses as soon as concentrates cross borders or enter a processing facility. Chemical profiles lose meaning once material goes through separation. Digital tracking breaks when elements dissolve. Supply chains built for the 1980s cannot support the industrial needs of the 2030s.

This is why the United States and Europe are rewriting their sourcing frameworks. They are discovering that strategic control means nothing without verification. A country can open new mines and invest in new refineries, but unless the incoming feedstock can defend its own truth, the system remains vulnerable. SMX closes that vulnerability. Its embedded markers survive extraction, refining, alloying, and end-use manufacturing, creating a continuous chain of identity that does not fade.

The market is beginning to treat this as a requirement rather than a competitive advantage. Auto manufacturers want magnets that come with an irrefutable origin. Defense contractors cannot risk materials without independent proof. Government-backed facilities will not process unverifiable feedstock. Investors are already pricing in the penalties for supply chain opacity. A new global standard is forming around material-level verification, and SMX is one of the few technologies capable of delivering it.

A New Power Structure in Critical Materials

Rare earth influence is shifting away from countries that merely extract or refine and toward those that can verify. Authenticity is becoming the new currency of strategic materials. SMX’s molecular identity system is accelerating that shift. It transforms authenticity from a claim printed on a certificate into a characteristic embedded in the material itself. Supply chains must now reorganize around the truth that does not depend on trust.

The next decade of technological advancement hinges on this change. Electric vehicle motors only perform as reliably as the magnets inside them. Defense systems are only as secure as the alloys that support their architecture. Semiconductor technologies are only as resilient as the elements that form their substrates. When rare earths can authenticate themselves, every downstream technology becomes more stable, predictable and secure.

A new hierarchy is starting to form. Suppliers who deliver minerals with intrinsic, permanent identity will become preferred partners in high-value industries. Those who cannot verify their feedstock will fall to commodity status or be excluded from sensitive applications entirely. SMX is hastening that transformation by giving the world a way to distinguish truth from assumption. Companies that adopt this capability will define the future of the critical mineral economy. Those who resist will find themselves outpaced by a system that no longer accepts unproven materials.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

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

Contact: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / Dubai has been strengthening its position in global commodities for years, but something changed when the DMCC began evolving from a bustling marketplace into a center of verification. That evolution is fast because Dubai sees what others are still trying to grasp. Markets only operate at full velocity when certainty is built into the material itself. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is providing that certainty. Its molecular-level identification system gives metals, minerals, and industrial feedstocks a durable identity that survives extraction, refining, transport, and trading.

The Middle East has always been a powerful anchor for gold and commodity flows. Yet its next chapter requires more than storage capacity, trade zones or logistics infrastructure. It requires a way to confirm purity and provenance without creating friction. SMX delivered that connective layer. By equipping high-value materials with chemical memory, it removes the guesswork from verification. Dubai is moving quickly because it cannot shape the future of commodity leadership with certificates that can disappear or seals that can be counterfeited.

That push has created a new turning point. Hosting SMX at the DMCC Precious Metals Conference and engaging across vaulting, logistics, and refining networks signals that Dubai is not simply improving its marketplace. It is redesigning the rules of trust in real time. The region is positioning itself as the most advanced and verifiable commodities ecosystem on the planet. Older hubs will either adapt to this shift or fall behind its momentum.

The Global Shift Toward Material-Level Proof

For decades, global trade has been built on reputation. Products were trusted because the systems around them were believed to be reliable. The past 10 years shattered that assumption. Rising geopolitical tension, forced labor audits, recycled-content manipulation, and origin challenges revealed how fragile trust becomes without verification. Paper trails have limits. They describe what people believe happened, not what actually occurred. SMX brought in a new model that places identity directly inside the material itself, eliminating the interpretive gap.

This shift is accelerating because the world no longer has time for uncertainty. Regulations across the United States, Europe, and Asia now demand proof of origin and movement for plastics, precious metals, and critical minerals. Dubai read the trajectory early. Instead of waiting for regulatory pressure to force innovation, the DMCC is building a commercial framework that scales traceability and transparency with growth rather than slowing it down.

That foresight is now turning into a structural advantage. When multinational manufacturers assess where to route material flows, where to refine feedstock or where to store bullion, Dubai offers what others cannot. It can validate the authenticity of gold. It can confirm the presence of recycled inputs at the molecular level. It can track critical minerals through every industrial handoff. Supply chains across the world are turning toward environments with third-party verification baked in. Dubai recognized that the future belongs to markets where proof is embedded, not appended.

DMCC and the Rise of a Global Verification Hub

Many still think of DMCC as a trade zone, but that perception is already outdated. It is becoming a global verification layer for metals, minerals, and industrial-grade materials. This shift is occurring because Dubai wants an ecosystem where auditing does not slow commerce. It enhances it. SMX’s technology makes that possible by creating a digital and chemical chain of custody that does not fracture when materials are processed, transported or transformed.

The timing matters because legacy auditing systems were not designed for today’s supply chain velocity. They were built for a world where materials traveled shorter distances, passed through fewer intermediaries, and remained in environments with consistent oversight. Modern supply chains operate across multiple jurisdictions, regulatory regimes, and processing environments. Documentation gets lost. Standards vary. Visibility blurs. Dubai closed that vulnerability by giving materials a way to retain their identity regardless of how many times they change form.

The implications are significant. If Dubai becomes the origin point for verified gold, verified recycled plastics, verified rare earths and verified industrial metals, global trade flows will naturally reorganize around its standards. DMCC is not positioning itself as a gatekeeper. It is becoming the verification engine the rest of the world must calibrate to if it wants to remain relevant. And that is how a region reshapes global trade – not through mandates or diplomatic pressure, but by offering the one thing every market needs and very few can supply: proof.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

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

Contact: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / The world has entered a supply chain cold war where data, authenticity, and material truth matter more than speed or scale. Western companies are discovering they cannot compete with state-controlled systems unless they can verify the origin and purity of the materials they depend on. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) stepped into this gap with molecular-level verification that embeds identity directly into metals, minerals, and industrial feedstocks. It gives Western manufacturers the clarity they have been missing for years.

This matters because global supply chains have long been shaped by countries that control both production and certification. When a single region dominates refining, processing, and verification, the rest of the world has limited visibility and even less leverage. SMX disrupts that imbalance by giving companies a tool to confirm material integrity without relying on distant facilities, opaque documentation or state-managed audit systems.

The shift transforms verification from a vulnerability into a competitive advantage. SMX allows industries to authenticate the materials they use regardless of where the refining or processing took place. It decentralizes truth, allowing companies to build their compliance, manufacturing and sourcing strategies on facts that cannot be manipulated or hidden inside the supply chain.

Why Western Industries Need Proof to Compete

Western manufacturers are operating under extreme pressure. They are expected to scale clean energy systems, produce advanced semiconductors, rebuild domestic industrial capacity, and secure defense-grade materials at unprecedented speed. None of this works without verified feedstock. Solar companies cannot risk mislabeled silicon. EV manufacturers cannot rely on uncertain, rare-earth sources. Defense contractors cannot accept alloys with unconfirmed origins. Proof is now structural, not optional.

Legacy systems cannot meet these demands. Documentation is lost between jurisdictions. Certificates vary by region. Supply chain records lack uniformity. Risk grows with each transfer point. SMX solves this by embedding identity into the material itself, making verification independent of external paperwork or geopolitical bottlenecks. It gives companies direct control over their own certainty.

That shift is already reshaping procurement strategies. Companies are prioritizing materials with built-in authentication over shipments that arrive with stacks of documents. Regulators are favoring supply chains that can demonstrate instant traceability. Investors are gravitating toward companies that adopt self-verifying materials because they represent lower compliance risk and higher operational resilience. SMX is emerging as the verification framework that supports this new industrial landscape.

A New Geopolitical Framework for Material Truth

A new global paradigm is forming around the ability to guarantee material truth. The winners in the next industrial cycle will not be the regions with the cheapest production. They will be the companies and nations that can provide authenticity at the source, long before a component reaches a factory floor. SMX is creating that framework by giving materials a forensic identity that withstands every transformation.

This identity strengthens the entire value chain. Manufacturers gain predictable feedstock. Compliance teams gain clarity that aligns with rising regulatory expectations. Defense and energy sectors gain supply assurance that does not collapse under geopolitical strain. The result is a system where authenticity is built into the material instead of being reconstructed through paperwork vulnerable to manipulation.

The larger implication is clear. The future of strategic manufacturing will follow the regions and companies that guarantee material integrity. SMX is enabling that shift by giving the world a structure where trust is not granted, assumed or outsourced. It is earned at the molecular level and carried forward by every shipment that enters the modern industrial economy.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

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

Contact: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / Counterfeit goods used to be a retail headache. Now they have evolved into an industrial threat that reaches deep into metals, electronics, automotive components, medical devices, and high-value engineered parts. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) stepped into this escalating crisis with a molecular-level solution that the market has never seen at scale. Its material marking technology transforms raw inputs into self-authenticating units that reveal whether a component is genuine, recycled, repurposed or substituted at any stage of the supply chain.

This capability arrives at a moment when industries can no longer rely on visual inspections, barcodes or serial numbers to defend against sophisticated counterfeiting networks. Materials change form repeatedly throughout manufacturing, and most traditional identifiers get destroyed in the process. SMX solves that problem at the source. It embeds a permanent chemical signature directly into the material so every version of it, from original casting to recycled feedstock, carries undeniable evidence of identity.

The result is a verification architecture that cannot be separated from the material itself. Companies gain the ability to confirm authenticity at any checkpoint, regardless of how many times the metal, polymer or component has been melted, machined or reprocessed. SMX turns integrity into an intrinsic property instead of an external label.

A Global Trade System Under Threat

Industrial counterfeiting has become a multibillion-dollar liability across the manufacturing world. Aerospace companies fear fake alloys entering load-bearing structures. Automakers face risk from compromised metals and counterfeit electronics that jeopardize safety. Electronics manufacturers battle infiltration at the chip, sub-assembly, and substrate levels. Even recycling markets struggle with fraudulent declarations that distort both pricing and environmental reporting.

Traditional defenses cannot keep pace. Labels can be duplicated. Certificates can be forged. Digital tracking breaks the moment a material enters a furnace, shredder or chemical bath. Once the original identifiers disappear, companies are forced to trust their suppliers or rely on lengthy inspections that still miss subtle substitutions. SMX eliminates this vulnerability by embedding truth into the material before it enters the supply chain.

The market is shifting quickly. Corporations want feedstock that verifies itself. Governments want anti-counterfeiting systems that cannot be bypassed by reprocessing. Insurers want proof of authenticity before underwriting high-risk categories. SMX is supplying the backbone for this new industrial environment, creating a system that supports fast manufacturing without sacrificing integrity.

A New Global Framework for Industrial Defense

A new era of supply chain security is emerging, one in which authentication is no longer treated as a final checkpoint but as a foundational element of manufacturing. SMX is establishing this new framework by giving metals, plastics, and advanced materials a forensic identity that survives every transformation they undergo. It turns each shipment into a self-defending asset.

This shift strengthens every part of industrial production. Procurement teams gain clarity that eliminates vendor disputes. Quality control groups gain a verification tool that does not depend on external labeling. Compliance officers gain material-level certainty that aligns with increasing regulatory demands. The entire system becomes more trustworthy because authenticity is built into the inputs rather than inferred from paperwork.

The broader impact is emerging across multiple sectors. As counterfeiting threats increase, buyers are favoring suppliers who can prove the identity of every material they use. SMX is enabling this transition by building the world’s first molecular firewall for industrial commerce, a system where authenticity is not reconstructed after a breach but protected from the moment a material enters global circulation.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

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

Contact: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / Gold’s reputation has always depended on confidence. Investors trust that bars are pure. Banks trust that sourcing is ethical. Exchanges trust that origin records are accurate. Yet the global bullion system still has gaps large enough for uncertainty to hide. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is closing those gaps by embedding molecular identity directly into gold and silver, giving each bar a signature that survives melting, recycling, and recasting. It turns bullion from a belief-based asset into a self-authenticating material.

This shift is changing how the industry approaches purity and provenance. Refiners can no longer rely on inspection stamps. Vaults can no longer depend on decades-old paperwork. Traders can no longer assume that recycled gold is accurately represented in its chain of custody. SMX gives every gram a permanent memory that cannot be overwritten. It creates a gold market where truth is not negotiated. It is verified at the molecular level.

Even global trade hubs are beginning to adjust, with places like Dubai simply among the early adopters recognizing that modern bullion markets require more than legacy documentation. They need proof that is embedded in the metal itself, and SMX delivers the mechanism that makes that shift possible.

Why the World is Losing Patience With Opaque Supply Chains

The bullion trade is facing unprecedented scrutiny from regulators, institutional investors, and consumers. Europe is reinforcing ethical sourcing mandates. The United States is tightening anti-money laundering controls. Asian markets are strengthening recycled material reporting. These changes expose the vulnerabilities of a system that still relies on trust instead of proof. Traders may know where a bar finished, but they rarely know where it began.

This creates risks that ripple across the entire industry. Refiners need assurance that the input material is legitimate. Banks need confidence that collateral carries defensible provenance. Jewelers need documentation that supports ethical sourcing claims. Without a verifiable identity, every participant absorbs unnecessary liability. SMX removes this risk by embedding evidence directly into the gold instead of storing it in a folder vulnerable to inconsistencies.

The market is recalibrating around transparency. Buyers no longer want assurances. They want materials that can defend their own history. Regulators do not want reports compiled at the end of the year. They want verification embedded at the start of the chain. Investors do not want narratives. They want metals with forensic clarity. SMX is giving the world that clarity, and the early adopters are already benefiting.

A New Global Benchmark for Verified Bullion

The precious metals sector is entering a restructuring phase driven not by mining volume or refinery capacity but by verification capacity. The hubs and marketplaces that scale molecular-level authentication will become the gravitational centers for global bullion. Those that remain dependent on paperwork will be pushed into higher-risk categories and face increasing hesitation from institutional buyers.

This shift creates clear incentives. Markets want bars that prove their origin. Regulators want chains of custody that cannot be manipulated. Traders want assets that pass compliance checks without delay. SMX is the technology enabling that structure. It establishes a benchmark where authenticity is not declared but carried within the metal itself.

The impact is accelerating. As more refiners, vaults, and financial institutions adopt material-level verification, the bullion market becomes cleaner, faster, and more trusted. SMX is building the infrastructure that supports this transition, giving the sector the first system capable of eliminating the shadow zones that have existed for decades. The future of gold will belong to the regions and companies that treat verification as a built-in property rather than an optional layer added at the end.

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.

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / For most of history, gold has behaved like a silent asset. It sits in vaults. It moves through refineries. It trades between institutions. Yet it never carries its own proof. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) changed that by embedding molecular-level identifiers directly into gold and silver, turning them into materials capable of confirming their own origin, purity, and recycling history. It gives precious metals a digital truth woven into their physical structure.

This shift is reshaping how buyers, regulators, and financial institutions evaluate bullion. A bar that contains its own data is fundamentally different from a bar that relies on a certificate. The first carries permanent evidence. The second depends on interpretation. SMX is helping the industry move from trust based on interpretation to verification-based certainty. Once metals can self-report, the entire system begins operating on facts instead of assumptions.

This transformation is also reflected in SMX’s expanding ecosystem of partnerships beyond the precious metals sector. Collaborations across plastics, textiles, natural rubber, electronics, and industrial materials feed into a unified architecture in which physical assets carry verifiable identity. These breakthroughs strengthen the credibility of SMX’s metals work because they prove the technology scales across categories, not just within bullion.

Why Data is Becoming the True Currency of Metals

The metals market is now facing demands for visibility unlike any moment in its history. Institutions want to know where gold is mined. Consumers want confirmation that silver is responsibly recycled. Regulators want to know how bars travel across borders. None of these questions can be reliably answered from documents alone. Data embedded in the material itself is becoming the only defensible standard.

This shift is not about disrupting tradition. It is about reinforcing integrity. Markets that depend on paperwork expose themselves to risk whenever bullion moves between regions or passes through refining cycles. Fraud, mislabeling, and mix-ups increase inside opaque systems. SMX eliminates these vulnerabilities by giving bars a traceable identity that does not disappear when the material is melted or recast. It removes the historical disconnect between physical movement and recorded truth.

The global market is beginning to treat this capability as a requirement rather than an enhancement. Insurance providers want verifiable history before underwriting large vaulting operations. Exchanges want metals that can be audited instantly. Major brands want supply chains they can certify without ambiguity. In this emerging environment, data becomes the currency that determines which metals move quickly and command the highest trust. SMX provides that data at the molecular level.

How SMX Deals are Building a Data-First Metals Market

The transformation of the precious metals sector is not happening in isolation. SMX’s recent partnerships in natural rubber, plastics, textiles, rare earth elements, and industrial recycling prove that material-level identity is becoming a standard across industries. The same system that authenticates recycled plastics for global brands can authenticate bullion for refineries. The same infrastructure that verifies rubber in tire manufacturing can verify gold in global trade.

These multi-sector deals are creating a new type of metals market. A bar that moves through a refinery with SMX identity becomes part of a broader verification ecosystem shared by other materials that also carry embedded provenance. This interconnected approach reduces disputes, accelerates settlement, and builds trust with buyers who want a consistent method of authentication across categories.

The broader shift is undeniable. As metals begin to carry their own information, global trade becomes more transparent, more efficient, and significantly more resilient. SMX is not simply enabling this evolution. It is engineering the backbone that makes it possible. Every new deal expands the network of self-reporting materials and pushes the precious metals sector closer to a world where truth is not reconstructed after the fact. It is delivered with the bar 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

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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