The Albany Gazette - The $111.5 Million Turning Point: How SMX's Vision and Momentum Recast the Company's Future

Across twelve monthly chapters in 2025, the story became unmistakable. SMX was doing more than building technology. It was building a new operating layer for global industry. And it wasn't chasing markets. Those markets converged around it. It wasn't trying to predict the future. It was meeting the future's demands in real time.

Gold refiners needed identity that could survive geopolitical scrutiny. Plastics circularity frameworks needed recovery data that survived industrial processing. Mineral suppliers needed compliance structures that worked across borders. Textile manufacturers needed molecular truth to satisfy expanding regulations. Recycling ecosystems needed authentication capable of matching national climate policy. Every region reached the same realization for different reasons, but all of them met on the same terrain. The world needed proof that couldn't be faked, lost, or diluted by process.

SMX became the Company that supplied it.

A Transformative 2025, and Still Going

Partnerships documented how Singapore stepped forward with a national plastics passport. How Spain and France validated high-grade recycled materials with molecular signatures. How the Middle East advanced authenticated gold identity. How the United States began shifting regulated supply chains toward scientific validation. These weren't scattered wins. They were chapters of the same narrative. Proof wasn't emerging as a feature. It was emerging as infrastructure.

And infrastructure requires capital. Capital that adapts. Capital that scales. Capital that strengthens systems rather than distorting them. Capital that accelerates global deployment.

That's why the $111.5 million equity purchase agreement stands as a defining moment in a year filled with milestones.

It wasn't just the largest financial development in SMX's recent history. It was the most structurally important. A $11.5 million promissory note that establishes a foundation. A discretionary equity line of up to $100 million that gives SMX full control of its expansion. A design built for precision, flexibility, and long-term execution. A capital architecture capable of matching the company's global momentum without forcing trade-offs or compromising strategic development.

The agreement gives SMX the financial resources to build gold identity programs and plastic passports simultaneously. It gives the company the strength to support national systems and industrial partners in parallel. It created a foundation for verification frameworks across minerals, textiles, agriculture, and industrial materials that can grow together rather than in sequence. It reinforced SMX's ability to support the Proof Economy across continents with consistency and authority. That's not all.

Modern Tech Coupled With a Modern Treasury

It also allowed SMX to strengthen its treasury by allocating a portion of its net proceeds to digital reserve assets. This aligned SMX's financial architecture with the decentralized, data-driven nature of its technology and the future of global supply chains. The agreement wasn't only financial strategy. It was a philosophical alignment. It mirrored the durability, adaptability, and permanence of the systems SMX builds. And it provides a solid valuation floor.

The story of 2025 isn't simply that SMX entered new markets. It's that global systems are aligned around the need for molecular identity just as SMX reached a point of technological maturity. It's that regulation, commerce, national policy, and industrial sustainability began converging on the same requirement. It's that material truth became a universal expectation.

The equity purchase agreement became the capstone because it ensures SMX can meet this rising global demand with strength, speed, and scale. It's the structure that turns the company's breakthroughs into a decade of acceleration. It's the backbone behind a future where identity travels with every material, where circularity is measurable, where compliance is scientific, and where trade is anchored in verifiable integrity.

Across twelve monthly volumes, one conclusion became clear. The Proof Economy isn't coming. It's here. It's advancing country by country and industry by industry. And SMX is one of the companies building the systems that will define it.

The final chapter of 2025 isn't at an endpoint just yet. There are still 30 days left in December. As SMX proved with its Monday announcement, anything and everything is on the table. And they can accrue quickly without warning.

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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