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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 26, 2025 / Gold markets rarely change through sudden shocks. They change when a single region builds a structure so strong, so organized, and so future-ready that the rest of the world eventually has to follow. That is exactly what is happening in Dubai right now. The DMCC spent more than twenty years turning itself into the gravitational force of global precious metals trade. It became the world’s largest free zone. It became the preferred landing spot for institutions that demand scale. And now, its leadership is upgrading the mechanics for verifying, authenticating, and moving metals.

The latest DMCC Precious Metals Conference signals a deeper shift. The global standard is rising. Expectations are tightening. And SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) arrived with identity technology at the precise moment the sector needs a built-in, verifiable structure that can support next-generation demand. Gold does not need another reporting system layered on top. It needs verification embedded inside the metal itself. The timing could not be louder.

This transformation is not only about geography. It is about how gold markets function. Historically, hubs defined their value by speed, volume, and regulatory position. Dubai excels in all three, but the DMCC is moving the frontier forward. It is creating an environment where transparency is not an add-on, but a core function of the ecosystem. Stability, traceability, and unified confidence are now the competitive edge. SMX fits directly into that architecture, offering an identity system that protects authenticity without slowing business flow.

The Transformation is Real

A similar shift is taking place across the sector’s most trusted institutions. Brink’s, with more than a century of operational depth, has already evaluated how molecular identity strengthens auditability across high-volume corridors like the GCC. When legacy operators and globally influential hubs pursue modernization simultaneously, the direction becomes impossible to ignore. The industry is not waiting for change. It is actively constructing it.

SMX’s presence at the conference aligns with that momentum. The DMCC sits at a rare intersection: one of the world’s busiest gold corridors, paired with the governance discipline global institutions want. That mix has helped Dubai redefine what it means to be a modern metals hub. It is not simply the destination for volume. It is becoming the destination for reliability, clarity, and operational trust.

In that environment, the ability to authenticate every movement becomes essential. Paper trails invite disputes. External labels can be removed or manipulated. True modernization means an identity that survives everything the metal goes through. SMX provides exactly that. Its molecular markers remain intact through melting, recasting, storage, and long-distance transport. In a region built for rapid movement, SMX delivers the verification that keeps that movement clean.

SMX: Right Time, Right Technology

This is why the timing matters. The DMCC has grown into a global benchmark. When Dubai upgrades its expectations, the rest of the world eventually recalibrates. Trade routes, settlement behavior, and investor assumptions all shift. Technologies that meet the DMCC’s rising requirements are no longer optional enhancements. They become essential infrastructure.

Every major gold hub tries to craft its advantage. Some rely on low-cost logistics. Others lean on lighter regulatory touch. Dubai is taking a different approach by offering something harder to replicate: operational certainty. A system built on responsible sourcing, authenticated movements, and a clear chain of custody becomes the region that handles the most global flow. Verification becomes a strategic asset.

SMX delivers the identity layer that reduces cross-border risk and closes the grey zones where disputes and compliance issues typically emerge. For a market under pressure to produce cleaner audit trails, embedded identity is not a premium feature. It is the next baseline for global competitiveness. Dubai understands that. The DMCC is preparing for it. And SMX is stepping forward with the technology that enables this new era of 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

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 26, 2025 / 2025 was not the year SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) chased partnerships. It was the year partnerships chased SMX. Across industries that normally avoid aligning with one another, something unexpected happened. They all moved toward the same verification foundation, proof. And they all did it within the same twelve-month cycle. What formed was not linear momentum. It was a chain reaction.

This theme positions 2025 as the turning point where SMX stopped proving its technology and began proving inevitability. Each new agreement tightened the market’s expectations and narrowed the excuses companies once used to avoid verification. By the time the sixth partnership went public, the tone had shifted. The question was no longer whether molecular identity worked. The question was how quickly industries would adopt it.

The First Partnership Was a Spark, The Sixth Was a Signal

The sequence matters. The first agreement validated SMX’s commercial readiness. The second demonstrated durability under pressure. The third proved that verification could scale across borders. The fourth showed compliance strength in environments where regulators never accept shortcuts. The fifth expanded the technology into the circular economy, where tracking recycled content has been a global frustration for years. The sixth confirmed that very different sectors were quietly aligning around the same solution.

By the end of the year, the pattern was unmistakable. SMX was not accumulating deals. It was creating gravitational pull. Markets were not responding to hype. They were responding to performance. The sixth partnership made clear that the world was no longer waiting for a new verification standard. It had already chosen one.

A Network Instead of a Pipeline

This theme frames SMX’s 2025 as the creation of a network, not a client list. Every partnership reinforced the utility of every other partnership. A breakthrough in precious metals increased confidence in industrial materials. Progress in industrial materials strengthened the case for logistics. Logistics amplified the relevance of circular content tracking. Circular content tracking solidified SMX’s value to regulatory frameworks. Each advancement expanded the range of industries that could plug into the same backbone of molecular truth.

By the end of 2025, SMX was not offering a tool. It was offering a structure. A verification architecture that scaled horizontally across industries and vertically through supply chains. That dynamic is what sets SMX apart. It did not build a pipeline of opportunities. It built an ecosystem.

The Market Realized That Proof Travels Faster Than Assumptions

For decades, supply chains have relied on documentation, audits, declarations, stamps, and inspections to maintain trust. Those methods are slow and easy to exploit. They protect procedure more often than they protect truth. In 2025, SMX quietly demonstrated that proof moves faster than paperwork. When a material carries its own identity, compliance becomes embedded, not attached. Verification becomes instant, not interpretive.

This realization spread across industries faster than anyone anticipated. It was not the partnerships themselves that changed market behavior. It was what the partnerships revealed. Every agreement increased the visibility of a simple fact. A material that can prove itself renders entire categories of fraud, substitution, mislabeling, and greenwashing obsolete.

By the Time SMX Reached Dubai, the Chain Reaction Was Already Complete

While this theme does not center on Dubai, it naturally leads there. The 2025 DMCC Precious Metals Conference in November became the moment the global gold community finally saw the consequences of SMX’s year. The company did not walk into Dubai looking for acknowledgment. It walked in as the result of a chain reaction that had already played out in six different sectors.

Dubai simply put a spotlight on what the market had already recognized. SMX was more than participating in 2025’s shift toward verification. It was driving 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: 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, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 26, 2025 / By the time SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) stepped onto the stage at the 2025 DMCC Precious Metals Conference, the company was not seeking validation. It arrived carrying proof. Six partnerships secured across the most demanding corners of global industry. Six confirmations that molecular memory was no longer experimental. Six signals that the market had already begun reorganizing itself around verification instead of assumption.

DMCC simply became the place where all of that momentum converged in one room.

Dubai is not just another stop on the conference circuit. It is the command center of the modern gold ecosystem. When Ahmed Bin Sulayem opened the event on November 24th, the message was unmistakable. The industry is moving toward accountability, and only companies with the technology to deliver traceable truth will define its next phase. SMX entered that environment already proven, not pitching. The atmosphere recognized it immediately.

Dubai Became the Forum Where SMX’s Year of Execution Came Into Focus

What made the moment so powerful was the timing. Every achievement SMX had recorded throughout 2025 was already complete before Dubai. Precious metal integrations. Industrial verification expansions. National compliance frameworks. Global logistics partnerships. Circularity initiatives. Sustainability and regulatory alignment programs. The company had built its track record long before stepping into DMCC’s brightest spotlight.

The gold community inside Dubai understood that instantly. They were not evaluating hypotheticals. They were looking at a company that had already delivered at scale. The six partnerships were not promises lined up for next year. They were signed, deployed, and active. They formed the backbone of a technology architecture strong enough to withstand the pressure of the world’s most unforgiving commodity.

SMX arrived at DMCC carrying momentum. Dubai amplified it.

SMX’s Six Achievements Defined Its Trajectory Before Dubai Ever Opened Its Doors

The real story of 2025 is not that SMX impressed Dubai. It is that SMX walked into Dubai with a year of results that spoke louder than any projection. Each partnership had reinforced a different sector. Each one strengthened the credibility of molecular verification. Each one expanded the network of industries now depending on SMX to secure products, materials, and compliance.

By midyear, the market understood it was watching a pattern, not a streak. The company hit six milestones because its technology solved a problem no legacy method could address. SMX did not chase markets. Markets came to it.

This is why the DMCC audience was so engaged. They were watching a company that had spent the year building exactly the kind of infrastructure gold had been missing. They were watching verification turn into a competitive advantage instead of a regulatory burden. They were watching the shift from trust to truth unfold in real time.

And Dubai, as always, was the most important place to show it.

Gold Needed A New Standard, And SMX Delivered It

The significance of Dubai was not symbolic. It was structural. Gold cannot continue relying on layers of documentation that collapse under scrutiny. It cannot justify market premiums with procedures built for a simpler era. It cannot maintain global confidence without a method to track its full life, from source to vault to trade.

This is why Ahmed Bin Sulayem’s leadership mattered. His annual conference sets the tone for how verification, governance, and transparency will evolve. When SMX presented molecular memory at that forum, it met the industry at the exact moment it needed it.

Dubai did not witness the birth of a new standard. Dubai watched a new standard arrive fully formed.

SMX Did Not Go To Dubai Seeking Momentum, It Went To Consolidate It

By the time November rolled around, SMX had already built the proof the gold market had been waiting for. Six partnerships. Global traction. A maturing technology platform. A year defined by execution. DMCC simply brought that work into the room where it mattered most.

The conference became the moment where the gold industry recognized the trajectory SMX had been building all year. The company did not enter 2025 hoping for its breakthrough. It entered ready for it. And in Dubai, it added to its win list.

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 26, 2025 / By the time SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) stepped into the 2025 DMCC Precious Metals Conference on November 24th, the company was not seeking momentum. It already had it. Six partnerships were fully secured across the hardest, most demanding corners of global industry. None were theoretical. None were early-stage. Each one was live, deployed, and pushing the market toward a future built on verifiable truth. Dubai did not validate SMX. Dubai revealed what SMX had already built.

The audience in that room understood the implications instantly. Ahmed Bin Sulayem opened the conference with the same tone he has carried for years, the tone of someone who knows the gold market can no longer rely on optimistic assumptions. Gold needs verification that survives pressure, politics, and transport. SMX walked onto that stage with a system that had already been tested across sectors that rarely share standards, yet all reached the same conclusion. Proof is no longer optional.

A Year Defined By Six Major Wins

What gave 2025 its weight was not the number of partnerships but the diversity and reach behind them. SMX strengthened its precious-metals footprint with a bullion-logistics alliance that embedded molecular tracking into vault-to-vault transfers, eliminating the blind spots that have historically undermined custody. It was followed by a refinery and assay collaboration that maintained provenance through smelting, recasting, and certification. A metals sourcing agreement with a sovereign-focused consortium expanded SMX’s authority into the type of cross-border flows where identity is often the first casualty.

The company continued building with an industrial-materials integration that allowed identity tracking inside alloy feedstock used in heavy manufacturing. Then it extended its circular-economy infrastructure by tracing recycled plastic as it moved from post-consumer waste into certified industrial-grade resin, a step regulators have been demanding for years, but no one has delivered at scale. Finally, SMX secured a global shipping partnership that applied chain-of-custody verification across maritime routes that have long been vulnerable to illicit metal laundering and substitution.

These were not symbolic relationships. They were commercial solutions deployed inside supply chains that still rely on paperwork to defend billions of dollars of value. By midyear, it was obvious that SMX was not building momentum. It was building architecture.

Why 2025 Became the Pivot

Most companies talk about potential. SMX spent the year proving it across six separate industries that rarely overlap. The real signal was consistency. Every agreement strengthened a different pillar of the same verification universe. When the market looked at SMX, it no longer saw a company fighting for validation. It saw a company expanding a technology that works under the pressures real supply chains face every day.

Each deal made the next deal easier. Each partnership added tangibility to a system that regulators, manufacturers, and traders have been waiting for long before they were willing to admit it. The market did not need six years to understand SMX. It needed six confirmations in one year.

Dubai Was the Newest Spotlight, Not the Only Catalyst

This is what made the DMCC 2025 conference so important. Dubai is the metronome of the global gold industry. It is where vault operators, refiners, traders, and sovereign players quietly decide which standards matter and which claims do not survive scrutiny. SMX arrived carrying evidence, and the room recognized it immediately.

Dubai did not spark SMX’s year. It added to it. Every partnership the company completed in 2025 led directly to the moment on stage when molecular memory met the gold market’s most influential audience. The presentation did not introduce a theory. It showed a record. It showed execution. It showed a technology already in use across the same types of global networks that gold depends on.

Dubai amplified what was already inevitable.

The Market Leaves 2025 With a Different Understanding of SMX

This is the real takeaway. SMX is no longer a clever idea or a future-facing solution waiting for adoption. It is a company that spent the year building a verification ecosystem that industrial stakeholders already rely on. Six major partnerships, all secured before Dubai, formed the foundation. Dubai simply put a spotlight on the proof.

2025 ended with a message the market could no longer ignore. SMX is not keeping pace with the shift toward transparency. It is driving it. And the systems built this year will define what verification looks like in 2026 and beyond.

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, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 26, 2025 / There are rooms where the future whispers. Yesterday at the 2025 DMCC Precious Metals Conference, it did not whisper. It stared the global gold market in the face and asked a simple question. How long can an industry built on reputation survive without proof? The silence that followed was the answer. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) did not walk into a conference hall. It walked into the vault of global trust and cracked it open.

Dubai has become the closest thing the modern world has to a neutral zone for hard assets. When something changes here, the shockwaves do not stop at the UAE border. They travel through trade desks in London, through refineries in Switzerland, through transport hubs in Singapore, and through vaults on every continent. That is what made SMX’s presentation feel different. It was not theoretical. It was a forensic look into the reality that the gold market prefers not to discuss.

Behind Every Bar of Gold, There Is a Story To Be Told

Dubai knows the truth better than anyone. The gold market has always carried a shadow economy in its margins. Bar recycling disguised as newly refined stock. Purity manipulation in transit. Certificates that age better than the metal they describe. Documentation that assumes honesty where incentives do not support it.

The DMCC audience did not need a lecture on the fragility of legacy systems. They needed a way out of them. That is why the room changed when SMX explained molecular identity. When a bar carries its own origin inside its chemistry, no one can rewrite its past. Not traders. Not refiners. Not transporters. Not counterfeiters. Goldstrom saw this early. DMCC saw it yesterday in full clarity.

The moment gold becomes self-verifying, the old system collapses. Not loudly. Quietly. Efficiently. Permanently.

Gold Was Only the First Layer of the Story

SMX isn’t a pure metals play. SMX showed that if a chemical identity can survive the conversion of 21 tons of rubber into tires, mounts, and industrial parts, then the material world no longer has a place to hide.

Rubber was not chosen for drama. It was chosen because it destroys anything that is not deeply embedded. SMX’s identity remained intact throughout heat treatment, blending, curing, and final manufacturing. Industries understood what that meant immediately. If the technology works in the world’s most chemically hostile commodity, then gold is not the limit. It is the baseline.

Textiles widened the frame again. Logos can be faked. Tags can be forged. Supply chain paperwork can be rewritten. But a molecular signature built into the fiber cannot be altered without destroying the product. With digital product passport laws approaching, fashion and logistics players saw a clear advantage. Proof travels faster than claims. It also trades at a premium.

Rare earths brought the conversation into geopolitical territory. These materials determine the balance of power in energy, defense, and technology. They are vulnerable to tampering, blending, and substitution. SMX demonstrated a verification method that cannot be bypassed.

Electronics delivered the final punch. Gold may be valuable, but microchips are dangerous. Counterfeit components create the invisible failures that cost governments billions and put critical systems at risk. When SMX described how a single verification layer can authenticate every component before it enters production, the listeners connected the dots. Gold proved purity. Rubber proved durable. Electronics proved necessity.

The Beginning of an Audit the World Cannot Escape

Dubai and the world have seen technologies come and go. It has seen proposals, pilots, and promises. SMX brought something different. It brought finality. A way for every material to carry its own truth. A way for markets to stop guessing. A way for global trade to stop relying on the weakest link in the supply chain.

Gold blinked first. Rubber, textiles, rare earths, plastics, and electronics are following. Not because they want to. Because they no longer have a choice. After yesterday, the DMCC and those who watched understand that the next decade belongs to the companies that can prove what the world is made of. SMX did not claim that role. It demonstrated 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: 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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SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 26, 2025 / Dubai is where gold goes when it needs legitimacy. It is where traders settle disputes, where refineries validate origin, where vaults defend their reputation, and where markets turn when they want to know what the future of bullion looks like. Yesterday at the DMCC 2025 Precious Metals Conference, the future walked onto the stage wearing the name SMX (NASDAQ:SMX). It did not ask for attention. It earned it the moment the room understood what was being revealed.

DMCC is not an ordinary venue. It is the command center for global bullion flows. It is the validator, the referee, and the quiet force that dictates what will be accepted and what will be rejected across an industry that still relies on paperwork to defend a trillion dollars of value. When SMX began to lay out its molecular memory system, the atmosphere shifted. The message was not theoretical. It was an indictment of how much trust the gold economy has been forced to accept for lack of a better alternative.

The Dubai Room Learned What the Gold Market Never Wants to Admit

Behind every bar of gold is a history that does not match the certificate attached to it. Dubai has seen the patterns for decades. Bars that are melted and recast until the fingerprints disappear. Refineries that batch recycled material with new feedstock to meet demand. Transport routes that create opportunities for quiet alterations. Audits that assume purity because the paperwork suggests it. The industry speaks about compliance, but everyone knows how easy it is for identity to disappear.

SMX did not expose the weakness. The weakness has always been there. It simply displayed what it looks like when the weakness is removed. A bar that carries its origin inside its chemistry. A bar that cannot be separated from its history. A bar that cannot be disguised, repurposed, laundered, or manipulated without revealing the truth. It is not a stamp. It is not an assay. It is not a certificate. It is the metal proving itself.

That realization hit the room harder than anything else. For decades, the gold industry defended trust with layered procedures that were never built to withstand modern risks. Yesterday, DMCC watched a system that finally closes that gap.

When Gold Can No Longer Lie, Everything Changes in Dubai First

The part that settled deepest with the audience was this. If a bar can no longer hide, the entire market has to recalibrate. Traders will have to rethink pricing models that rely on assumptions. Vault operators will have to adapt to a world where every ingot can verify itself before it is accepted. Refineries will have to operate with the understanding that a bar’s identity cannot be erased, even under high heat and repeated reprocessing.

Dubai is uniquely positioned to force this reset. It already controls the flow of bullion between continents. It already sets expectations for compliance and certification. It already acts as the neutral ground where global players settle their disagreements. When DMCC embraces a verification system, it is not adopting a trend. It is creating a standard that other hubs will eventually be required to meet.

SMX did not claim ownership of that future yesterday. It demonstrated it. The Dubai audience saw what happens when molecular memory replaces belief. It is not an incremental improvement. It is a new operating system for the gold economy.

A New Baseline Has Just Been Set

The most striking part of the presentation was the silence that followed it. It was not confusion. It was recognition. Everyone understood what this meant for the market they operate in every day. If gold can carry an unbreakable chain of identity, then the industry has to confront questions it has avoided for decades.

How much gold is misrepresented today? How much recycled metal has been passed off as fresh output? How many shipments have been trusted because the documents looked correct? How many audits were built on assumptions instead of evidence?

The room understood what comes next. Once molecular verification becomes available, the absence of it becomes suspicious. Dubai’s market players do not wait for that moment. They get ahead of it.

SMX Did Not Present in Dubai; It Redefined A System

Gold blinked yesterday. It lost the protection of uncertainty. The Dubai audience saw a technology that neutralizes every trick, every shortcut, every ambiguity that has followed the gold market for generations. They saw a future where truth is not enforced by trust. It is created by the metal itself.

Dubai is where that future becomes policy. SMX is the system that makes it possible.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

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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