NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 3, 2025 / A silent bomb is ticking inside the global gold market, and the West is standing directly over it. The world’s most valuable commodity has become the easiest material for sanctioned regimes to move, disguise, and inject into Western supply chains. Gold can cross borders with forged paperwork. It can be melted until its past disappears. It can be mixed with legitimate supply until it becomes untraceable. The entire sanctions system depends on provenance that the gold industry does not actually have. And the moment regulators decide to crack down at scale, billions in Western gold inventory could be frozen, seized, or written down.

This is not an abstract risk. Sanctioned gold from conflict zones, illicit mines, and embargoed states is flowing through global networks at volumes the public would find staggering. It travels through refineries with inconsistent auditing standards. It enters shipping corridors with loose oversight. It lands in vaults that assume stamps and certificates are reliable. The gold looks real because it looks like gold. What the market cannot see is the contamination hiding inside it. That contamination is a geopolitical liability waiting to detonate.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) built the one system capable of defusing the sanctioned-gold bomb before regulators accidentally trigger it. Its molecular identity technology embeds proof inside the metal itself. No amount of melting, splitting, blending, or relabeling can erase the truth. And now, with SMX powered by a $111.5 million equity purchase agreement, it can scale this verification architecture across the markets that need it most.

The Problem Isn’t Sanctioned Gold; It’s the System That Can’t Detect It

Sanctions fail when enforcement relies on paperwork instead of physical evidence. Gold is the perfect loophole because documentation can be forged, swapped, or manufactured from thin air. Once illicit gold is melted into a new bar, its past is wiped clean. Western markets have no tool capable of separating legal gold from sanctioned supply. That is why sanctioned regimes prefer gold to every other commodity: it hides flawlessly in plain sight.

This invisibility makes sanctioned gold a strategic weapon. It gives embargoed regimes a funding channel that avoids banks. It gives illegal mining networks a way to launder output into legitimate production. It gives hostile actors the ability to influence global markets without detection. At the same time, it exposes Western institutions to enormous compliance risk. Vaults unknowingly store contaminated bullion. Banks unknowingly collateralize it. Exchanges unknowingly clear it. All because the system has no forensic layer.

SMX changes that dynamic instantly. Its molecular markers survive every thermal and mechanical transformation. If the gold came from a sanctioned region, the identity will reveal it. If a refiner tries to bury illicit supply in a blend, the truth will surface. If a vault receives compromised bars, verification will expose them before they enter circulation. SMX gives the West the one enforcement tool it has never possessed.

The Coming Crackdown Will Be Brutal for Unverified Holders

Regulators are watching illicit gold flows with growing alarm. Anti-money-laundering groups, customs agencies, and sanctions watchdogs have issued multiple warnings. The next move will not be a press release. It will be enforcement. Once a major Western government demands molecular-level verification for imported, stored, or collateralized gold, the entire market will split. Verified gold becomes compliant. Unverified gold becomes potentially contaminated inventory.

Banks will be forced to audit their reserves. Vaults will freeze questionable bars. Sovereign funds will restrict acquisitions. Exchanges will upgrade standards. All this pressure will cascade into one outcome: unverified gold will trade at a discount, and verified gold will become the only acceptable standard for high-value transactions. The market will not reward trust. It will reward proof.

This is where SMX’s EPA becomes pivotal. With significant committed capital, it can deploy verification across refineries, logistics networks, and storage hubs quickly enough to support market-wide transition. SMX will not just participate in the crackdown. It will power the system that replaces the old one.

The Era of Unverified Gold Is Ending

Sanctioned gold has been able to infiltrate Western markets because the industry operated on the honor system. That era is ending. The West cannot protect its financial system, enforce its sanctions, or maintain liquidity in its reserves without a verification architecture that survives melting and recasting. The next decade of gold policy will not be based on trust. It will be based on evidence.

SMX is building that evidence layer. It transforms gold from a commodity with no memory into a self-authenticating asset. It gives regulators a weapon against illicit flows. It gives institutions a safeguard against compliance risk. And it gives the gold market a future where integrity is measurable, not assumed.

The sanctioned gold bomb is real. The only question is whether the West lets it detonate or defuses it with proof. SMX is the system that makes defusal 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.

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SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 3, 2025 / The Western world keeps talking about mineral independence, but most of that ambition collapses the moment the materials hit a refinery. The truth is simple. The West is not losing the critical minerals race because it produces less. It is losing because it verifies less. Gold, rare earths, copper, nickel, cobalt, and strategic alloys move through global pipelines that forget where they came from the moment they change form. The weakest link is not geology. It is identity.

SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) stepped straight into this blind spot with a technology that gives minerals what they have always lacked. They get a molecular-level identity at the source. And that identity survives smelting, blending, recasting, melting, alloying, and recycling. That shift is not cosmetic. It changes the balance of power inside the most strategically important markets on earth.

Critical minerals supply chains have outgrown the paper systems designed decades ago. A shipment of rare earth concentrate might pass through five jurisdictions before processing. Gold might be recast three times before landing in a vault. Copper concentrate can be blended and reblended until the paperwork no longer resembles the material. Regulators want proof of origin and purity. Buyers want certainty. Investors want to avoid hidden risk. No one can deliver any of it when the supply chain has no memory.

SMX rebuilt the system so the memory lives inside the material itself. Molecular markers attach verification at extraction or early processing. A digital identity follows the mineral through every transformation. Refiners no longer lose traceability when ore is smelted. Manufacturers do not lose certainty when rare earths get converted into magnets or alloys. Gold no longer becomes anonymous once it is recast. Verification stops being a stack of certificates and becomes a built-in attribute that moves with the metal.

That is how the West regains leverage without trying to replicate state-controlled refining ecosystems.

Gold and Rare Earths Prove How Fast the System Can Shift

The most immediate impact of SMX’s approach is unfolding in precious metals and rare earths, the sectors where verification failures carry the highest economic and geopolitical cost.

Gold is the clearest example. The market treats gold as absolute certainty, yet it remains one of the easiest materials to counterfeit or mislabel. SMX’s work with Goldstrom and trueGold shows how quickly that weakness disappears once the metal carries an identity that survives every melt and recast. When gold can prove its origin and purity at any stage, trading hubs like the DMCC gain a level of transparency that transforms the entire ecosystem. Verified gold commands premium pricing and moves through borders faster because regulators trust the material, not the paperwork.

Rare earths reveal the same story at an industrial scale. These materials feed defense systems, motors, batteries, sensors, and aerospace technologies. They are processed through complex loops where purity and composition are essential. SMX’s collaboration with advanced groups like CARTIF demonstrated that rare earths can retain molecular-level identity throughout high-heat, high-pressure manufacturing environments. That gives Western manufacturers the ability to validate inputs independently of foreign processing centers, something the West has never truly possessed.

This is how verification becomes a strategic asset instead of an administrative burden.

Why SMX’s $111.5 Million Equity Purchase Deal Is a Turning Point

The West cannot afford slow adoption. It needs a verification architecture that can scale at industrial speed. SMX now has exactly that. Its $111.5 million equity purchase agreement gives it the financial engine to roll out identity systems across gold, rare earths, and high-value minerals with global reach. This agreement transforms SMX from a breakthrough technology company into a backbone supplier for the next decade of minerals policy.

Western industries do not just need more production. They need verifiable production, supply chains they can defend, inputs they can trust, and compliance they can prove. SMX now has the capital runway to deliver that at scale.

The New Divide Is Already Forming

As verification becomes standard, the market will split. On one side will be metals and minerals with embedded proof. On the other will be materials that still depend on legacy documentation. The verified category will command premiums, faster processing, and lower regulatory friction. The unverified category will trade at a discount and carry higher risk.

Critical mineral independence will not be won by owning every mine. It will be won by knowing exactly what enters the system, no matter where it originates. That is the advantage the West has been missing.

SMX did not just build a technology platform. It built the West’s new rulebook for the minerals economy. The companies that adopt it will set the terms. The ones that don’t will keep playing by someone else’s.

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 / December 3, 2025 / The market pays attention in strange ways. It can ignore a breakthrough for years, then recognize its value in a single week. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) has seen that shift firsthand. The company does not comment on price fluctuations, but it acknowledges a clear surge in global interest. That interest is not random and it is not speculative noise. It is the natural reaction to something the world has been missing for decades. Proof. Industrial-level verification that does not break when metals melt, plastics reform, or supply chains cross borders. SMX built the missing architecture and the world finally noticed the moment it could see it in action.

The turning point arrived when SMX began showing its work in the places where verification failures hit hardest. The company demonstrated molecular-level identity for gold inside one of the world’s most respected precious metals ecosystems. It showed that a bar can move across handlers, storage facilities, and even through recasting without losing its origin. That caught the industry off guard because it removed the long-accepted blind spot that sits between a refinery and a vault. The moment that blind spot closed, conversations shifted. This was not another technology pitch. This was an infrastructure that could reshape a global commodity.

Those demonstrations traveled quickly. Traders, refiners, auditors, and regulators began asking the same question. Why has no one done this before. The answer is simple. They couldn’t. The technology did not exist. Now it does, and the reaction has been strong.

The Catalyst Was Not a Story, It Was Validation.

Every sector that relies on materials faces the same weakness. The moment a material changes form, it loses its memory. That is where fraud thrives. That is where compliance breaks. That is where ESG collapses under its own promises. SMX removed that weakness by giving metals, plastics, packaging, and industrial inputs a persistent identity that survives real-world production conditions. That is not a press release achievement. It is a systems-level breakthrough that industries have been trying to solve for more than twenty years.

Take metals. SMX collaborated with advanced European research partners to test molecular identity through extreme heat and mechanical processing. The markers survived. Materials could be authenticated after smelting, alloying, reprocessing, and blending. That result alone changes the economics of critical minerals. It means governments can verify origin, manufacturers can verify purity, and miners can verify ethical sourcing without guesswork. Markets function better when truth is immediate, and SMX delivered exactly that.

In plastics and packaging, a different ecosystem reached the same conclusion. Identity embedded at extrusion gives brands and regulators evidence that survives recycling cycles. Asia’s circularity initiatives, including national R&D programs and large-scale industrial partners, saw how this changes policy execution. Circularity stops being an aspirational model. It becomes a measurable system where recovery, content, and compliance are physically verifiable. Proof becomes part of the product instead of part of the paperwork.

Capital Followed the Momentum Because Execution Became Possible

The world noticed another important detail. SMX secured a $111.5 million equity purchase agreement (“EPA”). That agreement provides the financial depth required to expand global deployment rather than tiptoe around budgets. Investors rarely offer that scale of capital without serious due diligence. They saw the same validation that industry partners saw. A technology that works, partners that matter, and a roadmap that can scale across metals, plastics, and national-level circularity platforms.

A verification economy cannot grow on prototypes. It needs the ability to deploy, integrate, and withstand demand across continents. The EPA gives SMX that capability. It also signals to the market that SMX is not positioned as a niche participant. Instead, it’s positioning itself as a core infrastructure provider for industries that cannot function without trust. As attention increased, investors responded to that posture. And it’s not surprising.

Proof is becoming a universal requirement. Regulators want it. Brands need it. Commodity markets depend on it. SMX stands at the center of that shift because it built what the world was missing. A way for materials to declare their own truth. The market is not reacting to hype. It is reacting to verification becoming real.

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 / December 3, 2025 / The most dangerous plots never announce themselves. They don’t come wrapped in smoke or sirens. They look boring. A server rack in a rented apartment. A few hundred SIM cards stacked on a kitchen table. A cloned router that looks identical to the one your carrier uses every day. That’s the shape of modern conflict. The weapons look exactly like the hardware we trust until someone flips the switch and turns an invisible network into a nationwide choke point.

This is why SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) belongs at the center of the global security conversation. Its technology embeds invisible molecular markers directly into plastics, chips, metals, and telecom and computer hardware. Every component gets a permanent identity that can be verified in seconds. The moment identity becomes non-negotiable, scale without accountability dies. The most powerful advantage hostile actors have is anonymity. SMX makes anonymity impossible.

When investigators uncovered more than 300 servers and 100,000 SIM cards staged inside New York apartments, they weren’t uncovering a fraud ring. They were looking at a dormant weapon system. One coordinated activation could have jammed cell towers, suffocated emergency response channels, and forced the United States to respond as if the country were under direct attack. The threat isn’t foreign. The threat is local and assembled quietly, room by room, inside ordinary buildings.

History That Cannot Repeat

History keeps showing the cost of surprise. Pearl Harbor shocked the country into a four-year war. 9/11 took less than two hours and reshaped two decades of national policy. The pattern is simple. The first strike is never the climax. The first strike is the trigger. If those SIM cards had activated during a crisis window, hospitals would have scrambled, markets would have frozen, and federal agencies would have been thrown into a posture of immediate escalation. Silent attacks force loud responses. Escalation is always the real enemy.

This is the urgency SMX is built to solve. Supply chains have been treated like procurement paperwork for too long. They are the frontline of national defense. Forensics might eventually uncover the origin of a counterfeit component, but the damage is already baked in. Prevention is the only safety margin that matters. Prevention begins with proof at the component level.

Proof That Stops an Attack Before It Starts

SMX delivers that proof. Its technology embeds unique chemical signatures inside the material itself and links each part to an immutable ledger. Every device can answer three questions instantly. Where did it originate. Who handled it. Is it the same component that passed certification. A counterfeit router gets rejected at the loading dock. A cloned SIM card never activates. A critical sensor without a verified chain of custody never makes it into a national grid. Proof removes anonymity, and removing anonymity removes the ability to weaponize scale.

SMX calls this the doctrine of proof. The next great attack won’t arrive with explosions. It will arrive in silence. Emergency channels drowned. Power grids stalled. Sensors blinded. But if every device enters the system with an auditable identity, the logistics behind these attacks fail before they begin. The opening bell of chaos never rings.

SMX has already demonstrated this model in industries where authenticity is currency. Recycled plastics, advanced materials, metals, and national supply chains run cleaner and stronger when identity becomes part of the material. The same molecular fingerprint that validates recycled polymers can validate telecom chips. The same ledger that authenticates industrial steel can authenticate sensors, switches, and grid-critical hardware. Proof moves between industries. Deterrence moves with it.

A Company Positioned to Take on the Threat

And now SMX is capitalized to scale. The company secured new funding that stabilizes operations and strengthens its ability to deploy these systems across high-risk sectors. This matters. Threats are not waiting for next quarter’s budget cycle. They are already building. SMX’s strengthened balance sheet means the company can move at the speed the threat landscape requires. The country won’t win the next conflict with bigger weapons. It will win it with better verification.

The future of security belongs to whoever controls proof. SMX turns prevention into policy, certainty into a national strategy, and proof into the country’s most valuable defense. The threats are already here. The difference between panic and prevention is whether we embed proof before an attack ever tries to arrive.

About SMX

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

Forward-Looking Statements

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

EMAIL: info@securitymattersltd.com

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited

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DAYTON, OH / ACCESS Newswire / December 3, 2025 / Frownies, the 136-year-old family-owned skincare company known for its iconic Facial Patches, proudly announces the launch of its Full Face Collagen Mask, a two-piece hydrogel mask crafted to boost hydration and help the skin appear smoother and more plump-looking overnight. This new release expands Frownies’ growing skincare collection and reflects the brand’s ongoing commitment to thoughtful, honest products created with real people in mind.

Designed with a flexible top-and-bottom format, the Full Face Collagen Mask contours comfortably to the face, allowing for a customizable fit across the upper and lower facial zones. The two-piece design also helps support balanced absorption from forehead to chin, making the mask easy to wear during short self-care sessions or as an extended beauty-sleep ritual.

The formula features a concentrated blend of skin-supporting ingredients, including:

• Hydrolyzed marine collagen to help the skin look smoother and more supple

• Soothing botanical extracts such as aloe, calendula, and Camellia japonica to support a calm, well-rested appearance

• Hydration-boosting humectants like glycerin and betaine that help the skin maintain moisture during and after use

Together, these ingredients help the complexion appear nourished, refreshed, and naturally radiant, without adding complexity to a daily skincare routine.

“Our family has always believed that simple, consistent rituals create the most meaningful results,” said Helen Morrison, President & CEO of Frownies. “The Full Face Collagen Mask brings that belief to life in a way that feels modern while staying true to our heritage. It offers a comforting, easy self-care moment that supports your skin looking its best.”

As interest rises in at-home skincare rituals that offer immediate, visible hydration benefits, the Full Face Collagen Mask arrives at the perfect time. Consumers are increasingly seeking gentle, trustworthy products that help skin feel hydrated and look refreshed. Frownies’ newest innovation delivers on that expectation through a balanced, results-focused approach.

Frownies Full Face Collagen Mask includes two full masks per box and will retail for $29.95. The product will be available beginning December 5, 2025 at Frownies.com, with additional retailers to follow.

About Frownies
Founded in 1889, Frownies has empowered individuals to feel confident in their skin for 136 years. Known for its iconic Facial Patches and expanding line of honest, effective skincare, Frownies stands apart as a trusted alternative to invasive cosmetic procedures. With viral social buzz, a fiercely loyal community, and a legacy built on authenticity and care, Frownies continues to lead with honesty, heart, and real results.

SOURCE: Frownies

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