The Albany Gazette - SMX's $111.5 Million Equity Purchase Agreement Arrived at the Exact Moment the World Needed Proof

That tension reached its breaking point in 2025. Gold markets demanded real provenance. Circularity mandates required measurable recovery. Critical minerals needed authentication capable of withstanding geopolitical pressure. Textiles faced compliance standards that could no longer be met with fragmented reporting. Nations across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America began looking for the same missing piece: industrial-scale proof.

This is the context into which SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) secured its $111.5 million equity purchase agreement with Target Capital 1, LLC. The timing was not strategic. It was structural. It aligned the Company's strongest year of global traction with the capital required to build infrastructure, not incremental projects.

The Details Advance a Powerful Platform

The agreement provides SMX with a $11.5 million convertible promissory note and a discretionary equity line of up to $100 million. There are no minimum drawdowns. No usage penalties. No restrictions on operations. This is capital designed for acceleration, not limitation. It lets SMX build at the speed the world is now asking for.

That speed is visible everywhere. Singapore's national plastics circularity initiative is rewriting how countries measure recycling performance. Spain and France are proving what authenticated recycled materials can unlock for industrial ecosystems. The Middle East is pushing gold verification to the forefront of global trade. The United States is looking to strengthen regulated supply chains, critical minerals, and circularity systems with measurable, molecular-level data.

These are not standalone efforts. They are interconnected signals of a global shift toward the Proof Economy, where materials carry identity embedded directly into their composition. SMX's molecular marking technology provides that identity. It gives products, commodities, and recycled inputs a permanent, tamper-resistant signature that moves with them across processing, transformation, and reuse.

Technology and Capital are the Value Drivers

But technology alone doesn't build global systems. It needs capital that moves the same way the mission does. Flexible. Controlled. Scalable. That is the real power behind the equity purchase agreement.

It allows SMX to scale pilots into national platforms, regional initiatives into global standards, and industry-specific programs into a multi-sector ecosystem. It lets the Company expand into critical minerals without slowing plastics circularity. Advance recycled materials without delaying gold's transformation. Strengthen verification systems in one region while deploying new frameworks in another.

The Proof Economy needs infrastructure. This agreement gives SMX the ability to build it.

As 2025 draws to a close, the story becomes clear. The world finally knows what it needs. SMX now has the capital structure to deliver it. The equity purchase agreement is not just funding. It is the acceleration point for a global transition already underway.

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:the ability of SMX to satisfy the conditions under the Equity Purchase Agreement, the Promissory Note and related agreements; 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; 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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