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SMX Didn't Change Its Story; The World Finally Connected the Dots
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 5, 2025 / For most companies, visibility arrives when they reinvent themselves. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is the rare exception. It didn't pivot. It didn't rebrand. It didn't sprint into the spotlight with a new campaign. It kept building the same core technology, the same infrastructure, and the same thesis it has carried since the beginning. What changed wasn't SMX. What changed was the world's ability to see the full picture.
For years, the market tried to place SMX into a neat category. Some saw a sustainability company. Others saw a metals-traceability company. A different group saw a digital-asset data engine. Each interpretation was partially true but incomplete, because SMX never belonged to a single lane. It was always a platform company operating beneath multiple industries that were too disconnected from one another to notice they were solving the same problem. Then those industries began colliding, and the SMX story that once looked fragmented suddenly came into focus.
Molecular Prints in Three Major Sectors
Gold proved to be the first arena where that clarity surfaced. The sector had pushed authenticity as far as paperwork and refinery records could take it. But once gold loses its shape, it loses its story. SMX erased that limitation by embedding identity directly into the metal, giving it a memory that heat and pressure can't delete. The bullion world realized it now had a path out of centuries of uncertainty. That was one dot on the map.
Sustainability leaders uncovered another. ESG frameworks were tightening, regulations were hardening, and brands were running out of ways to prove recycled content with any degree of credibility. SMX's molecular marking system stepped in as the missing verification layer. Plastics, textiles, chemicals, and industrial materials could now travel through the circular economy without losing their identity. What had been a reporting challenge became a measurement system. Another dot. Same technology.
Digital ecosystems connected the third. Markets wanted assets tied to real-world performance, not speculation. SMX had already built the bridge. Its Plastic Cycle Token takes verified recovery events and expresses them digitally, using authenticated material data as the source. Suddenly, the same identity system that helped gold speak for itself and helped ESG claims become measurable became the backbone of a new category of digital signals. A third dot. Same system.
What the world missed, until now, was that none of these dots were independent. They formed a pattern. Gold, ESG, and digital assets are not three distant markets. They are three sectors collapsing toward the same requirement: verifiable identity that survives transformation. SMX didn't build three different solutions. It built one: a molecular identity platform flexible enough to live inside all three arenas without changing its core.
Connecting the Dots
Stakeholders across industries are connecting those dots faster than ever. Refiners see the same integrity engine that regulators see. Global brands see the same verification backbone that digital architects see. Institutions watching the metals world modernize see the same technology powering national circularity programs across Asia. The common thread is not what SMX says. It's what the technology proves.
That is why the narrative around SMX feels different now. Not because the company changed its trajectory, but because the world finally stopped evaluating it in isolation. SMX's value doesn't come from any single vertical. It comes from the way those verticals reinforce one another. Gold's demand for authenticity strengthens ESG's demand for transparency. ESG's demand for transparency creates data that powers the PCT. The PCT creates a digital expression that circles back and elevates the entire platform.
This is the moment where the disconnect disappears. The dots that once looked scattered now form a straight line pointing toward a unified system the market wasn't ready to recognize, until the pressure across industries forced them to reevaluate what proof actually means.
SMX didn't change its story. It didn't have to. The world simply learned how to read it.
About SMX
As global businesses face new and complex challenges relating to carbon neutrality and meeting new governmental and regional regulations and standards, SMX is able to offer players along the value chain access to its marking, tracking, measuring and digital platform technology to transition more successfully to a low-carbon economy.
Forward-Looking Statements
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: successful launch and implementation of SMX's joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber, plastic 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; the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations, and identify and realize additional opportunities; the risk of downturns and the possibility of rapid change in the highly competitive industry in which SMX operates; the risk that SMX and its current and future collaborators are unable to successfully develop and commercialize SMX's products or services, or experience significant delays in doing so; the risk that the Company may never achieve or sustain profitability; the risk that the Company will need to raise additional capital to execute its business plan, which may not be available on acceptable terms or at all; the risk that the Company experiences difficulties in managing its growth and expanding operations; the risk that third-party suppliers and manufacturers are not able to fully and timely meet their obligations; the risk that SMX is unable to secure or protect its intellectual property; the possibility that SMX may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and other risks and uncertainties described in SMX's filings from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited
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S.Gregor--AMWN