SMX Becomes the Industry’s Verification Engine — Where Proven Traceability Turns Waste Streams Into Revenue Streams

When 99%–100% Accuracy Becomes Real, Industries Take Notice — SMX Leads the Shift to Verified Circularity [i]

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Vision

To unlock the way global business will operate tomorrow, by enabling a real-world circular economy.

SMX can help make the transition to a circular economy positive, productive and profitable for everyone in the value chain – and for the planet.

“SMX goal is to be the global standard & best practice for recording & connecting all physical goods with a digital twin on the blockchain”

When Big Banks Call for Verified Gold Only, the Entire Global Metals Market Will Wish It Partnered With SMX [xvii]

SMX is positioned at the center of a major structural shift in the global gold market. As leading banks, exchanges, and sovereign funds face increasing pressure to authenticate reserves, the industry is moving toward a future where only gold with verifiable molecular identity is accepted. This transition creates a two-tier market: verified gold with premium liquidity and unverified gold at a discount. SMX enables this verified tier by embedding identity that survives melting, recasting, and transport—delivering forensic-level certainty institutions cannot obtain through paperwork. As regulatory scrutiny intensifies, SMX appears aligned with the direction institutional gold standards are moving.

SMX Subsidiary trueGold Shines After Deal With Gold Industry Giant [xviii]

SMX’s trueGold delivers molecular identity that verifies gold’s origin, purity, and ethical sourcing across its entire lifecycle. Partnerships with Goldstrom, Ava Global, and Fingo confirm industrial-scale adoption. Independent Intertek validation strengthens credibility, positioning trueGold at the center of a global shift toward authenticated, premium-grade precious metals.

True Gold

An ethical gold supply chain assurance solution that spans the gold value chain from mine to refinery to terminal market through recycling and

SMX Technological Innovations!

Market Applications and Appeal

SMX’s technology can be applied at a molecular level on solids, liquids or gas at multiple points in the supply chain as a drop in solution. This enables SMX to work strategically in the following segmented markets, across a variety of materials.

Segmented Markets Materials
Circular Economy / Supply Chain Plastics, Rubber
Ethical Mining & Raw Minerals Gold, Diamonds, Timber/Lumber, Cement, Ore & Rare Earths
Electronics & Components Electronics & Silicon Wafer
Fashion & Cosmetics Leather, Organic Silk, Organic Cotton, Wool, Vegan Leather, Polyester, EVA, TPU, ABX, PET
Sustainability & Food Security Wine, Animal Feed, Palm Oil, Seeds

SMX Tech Solution Benefits

  • CIRCULAR ECONOMY

    The raw material is marked and recorded on blockchain to enable more accurate identification for recycling and allows the company to lodge a credible carbon credit claim.

  • BLOCKCHAIN PLATFORM (optional)

    Gives the ability to detect diversion of products and verify Product Authenticity in real time without destroying the item at multiple points in the supply chain and at retail level.

  • SUPPLY CHAIN INTEGRITY

    Greater protection from Product Diversion/Loss or Dilution or Substitution.

  • COMPLIANCE & LIABILITY

    Enabler of compliance for ESG regulations, international customs and industry quality regulation. Markers are compatible with food regulation.

  • MORE COMPREHENSIVE TRACEABILITY

    Greater traceability of product origin (i.e. Authenticate Ethical Sources & Origination) and supply chain history. Ability to read product’s history by scanning the item. In addition to date & origin and material composition, it can identify if any parts have been changed or repaired (where & when).

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development – Member

WBCSD is delighted to welcome Security Matters as our newest member. There is a huge potential for this kind of technology to revolutionize industries including fashion, electronics, agriculture, gold and precious stones. We look forward to working with Security Matters to help advance our shared goals

- Peter Bakker, President and CEO of WBCSD, 10 June 2020 [v]

SMX Tech and Blockchain Benefits For Ethical & ESG Compliance

For Raw Commodities, Precious Metals & Diamonds

Transaction transparency
  • → Help reduce credit risk and compliance burden
  • → Help expedite funding & credit lines and reduce cost of funds to miners
  • → Enable more accurate reporting of quantity and quality of mineral being mined and refined to financiers, traders and insurance
  • → Transparency and assurance based on science and technology – not paper based
Authentication
  • → Help detect fraud and adulteration on the spot
  • → Prevent unauthorised materials from entering production chain
Blockchain supply chain management
  • → Linking of physical mineral with its digital twin
  • → More secure digital records
  • → Greater transparency between supply chain stakeholders
  • → Blockchain ledger
Sustainability & Liability
  • → Source provenance - identification and verification
  • → Trace back at end-of-life for recycling
  • → Trace back at misuse, defect or accident
Monetize benefits of the Marker in a closed loop economy
  • → Help de-risk & lower cost of inventory financing models
  • → Introduce a globally recognized industry standard for ‘grading’ based on quality and traceability where it can be priced and traded on the open market accordingly

SMX Just Gave Cotton its First Circularity Engine, and the Fashion Industry Will Wear it Well [ii]

  • SMX gives cotton a permanent molecular identity that survives spinning, dyeing, cutting, washing, and recycling.
  • Enables the first real circularity model in textiles, letting brands verify origin and recycled content with evidence, not claims.
  • Turns cotton waste into traceable, higher-value feedstock, improving recycling economics.
  • Positions SMX inside the global fashion and textile industry—a massive new vertical alongside plastics, metals, gold, and minerals.
  • Strengthens SMX’s value as a unified proof platform across multiple material classes.

SMX Cracked the Textile Code, and It Changes Everything for the Global Cotton Supply Chain [iii]

  • ↬
    SMX proved the world’s first end-to-end identity system for cotton — a molecular marker that survives shredding, spinning, weaving, dyeing, finishing, and recycling at full industrial scale.
  • ↬
    This breakthrough gives the global textile sector what it has never had: scientific proof of origin, authenticity, and true recycled-fiber content.
  • ↬
    Enables immediate compliance with Europe’s Digital Product Passport (DPP) rules — now tied to market entry, tariffs, and ESG reporting — a major pressure point for global brands.
  • ↬
    Creates a new revenue pathway for recyclers and manufacturers by turning cotton waste into traceable, premium-grade circular feedstock.
  • ↬
    Positions SMX as the core verification infrastructure for apparel brands, exporters, customs authorities, and trade frameworks seeking evidence-based sustainability.
  • ↬
    Expands SMX’s footprint into one of the world’s largest material ecosystems, reinforcing its platform already proven in plastics, metals, electronics, and minerals.
  • ↬
    Confirms a consistent theme across SMX breakthroughs: sustainability claims without proof are dead. SMX delivers the proof.

SMX’s Amended Equity Purchase Agreement Strengthens Its Financial Engine [iv]

The Global Supply Chain’s Missing Link—And the SMX Solution That Rewrites the Rules

Problem Identification

Across gold, textiles, plastics, electronics, and critical minerals, global supply chains share the same structural flaw: materials lose their identity the moment they are processed. Paperwork collapses. Origin becomes unverifiable. Recycled content turns into guesswork. This lack of proof fuels compliance risk, counterfeit exposure, ESG inaccuracies, and billions in lost value. Industries, regulators, and markets are now demanding verifiable materials—but existing systems cannot deliver identity that survives transformation.

Solution

SMX provides the breakthrough the world has been waiting for: a molecular identity platform that embeds permanent, tamper-proof verification inside materials themselves. This identity remains intact through melting, shredding, blending, spinning, refining, and recycling—creating a continuous, auditable truth across every stage of the supply chain. With SMX, authenticity becomes measurable, circularity becomes actionable, and compliance becomes automatic. SMX isn’t improving supply chains—it’s redefining how global industries prove value.

SMX Appears Well Positioned to Engage With Expanding Global Market Demand

A Multi-Trillion-Dollar Market Landscape SMX Appears Well Positioned to Address

Global demand for verifiable, traceable, and circular material flows is expanding across several high-value sectors, creating a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity that SMX appears aligned with. The circular economy alone represents a US$4.5 trillion [v] macro-level opportunity as industries shift from linear to authenticated circular systems. Within this, the US$132.33 billion global plastic recycling market [vi] and the rapidly growing textile sector—projected to generate 148 million tonnes of waste by 2030 [v]—highlight the need for verified recycled content and Digital Product Passports. Counterfeit and pirated goods, valued at US$500 billion annually [v], further reinforce demand for embedded authentication across materials and supply chains.

Beyond these categories, SMX’s platform touches additional high-value ecosystems: the US$457.90 billion gold market [vii], the US$847 billion plastics sector [viii], the US$1.84 trillion apparel industry [ix], and the US$8–15 billion rare earth market [x]. Together, these markets illustrate the scale of global adoption potential for a unified, material-level identity system.

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Greetings Investors!*

SMX is entering a phase where its partnerships, breakthroughs, and circular-economy impact are drawing heightened attention across global markets. The company’s molecular identity platform is now operating inside plastics, textiles, metals, gold, and rare earth supply chains, supported by collaborations with A*STAR, REDWAVE, Tradepro, Goldstrom, CETI, and others shaping national and industrial frameworks.

Recent milestones—such as the successful end-to-end verification of recycled cotton, FDA-compliant molecular marking in rPET, and rare-earth identity that survives refining—demonstrate how the technology is moving from concept to real-world infrastructure at scale. Each advancement strengthens the foundation for traceable, compliant, high-integrity materials.

These developments carry significant relevance as the circular economy expands toward multi-trillion-dollar value. Industries increasingly require verifiable proof of origin, recycled content, and lifecycle performance.

Investors* examining this space are engaging with a rapidly evolving ecosystem where material identity, authenticated data, and cross-sector adoption appear positioned to shape the next era of global supply-chain transformation.

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TIMOTHY SYKES

SMX SHARES SOAR:
UNLOCKING FUTURE GROWTH
OPPORTUNITIES!

SMX’s price surge of 57.89% reflects investor optimism amidst transformative leadership changes promising future growth. [xi]

Top Reasons to Have SMX on Your Radar

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Company Overview

A Technology Platform Redefining How Global Supply Chains Prove Authenticity

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.

‘From in the dark to informed intelligence’

There are moments the ground shifts beneath our feet. Suddenly, the entire global landscape changes, and business can no longer operate in the way it did before. Today, we are experiencing that change. The world is demanding greater and greater transparency, efficiency and resilience - a call to do things better; a challenge loaded with so much exciting possibility.

That is why SMX decided to find a new way to unlock knowledge – to help counter the lack of transparency and create a system where bad actors have nowhere to hide. With ‘augmented materials,’ you can know the granular detail of a material – its provenance, its purity, its integrity. That way, transparency can be built-in, and industry can gain the intelligence it needs to work in smarter and more productive ways - linking parts of the value chain and enabling use, reuse and reuse again to realize the potential of materials.

It’s a system designed for the 21st century economy. A system that is highly innovative and can empower businesses to build the real-world circular economy. A system that can help change the way we operate from the inside out. The system within.

Enabling Technology to Successfully Transition to a Circular Economy

As global businesses faces 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.

That is why SMX decided to find a new way to unlock knowledge – to help counter the lack of transparency and create a system where bad actors have nowhere to hide. With ‘augmented materials,’ you can know the granular detail of a material – its provenance, its purity, its integrity. That way, transparency can be built-in, and industry can gain the intelligence it needs to work in smarter and more productive ways - linking parts of the value chain and enabling use, reuse and reuse again to realize the potential of materials.

SMX 4 Key Benefits

The Trillion Dollar Waste Problem and the SMX Proof Layer That Solves It [xvi]

SMX is addressing one of the largest inefficiencies in global supply chains—the loss of valuable materials due to the inability to identify waste at the material level. By embedding molecular identities into plastics, metals, textiles, and industrial feedstocks, SMX turns anonymous waste into verified, recoverable, and higher-value resources. Partnerships with REDWAVE and A*STAR show how authenticated materials improve sorting accuracy, raise recycler yield, and enable governments to measure true recovery rates. This shift transforms waste from a cost center into a predictable supply stream, positioning SMX as an enabling infrastructure for the emerging circular materials economy.

What is the ‘Circular Economy’?

The circular economy represents a fresh perspective on how markets, customers, and natural resources interact.

This is the biggest opportunity to transform production and consumption since the First Industrial Revolution 250 years ago. By unleashing circular innovation, we can boost the global economy’s resilience, support people and communities around the world and help fulfil the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

- World Business Council for Sustainable Development,
CEO Guide to the Circular Economy,2017 [v]

Enter the Circular Economy with The Fashion Equilibrium!

Amidst the drive to curb single-use plastic waste, the UK HMRC introduces the Plastic Packaging Tax (PPT), targeting plastic packaging with less than 30% recycled content, with a £200 per tonne levy.

Enter SMX, a trailblazer in blockchain-based object digitization for a transparent circular economy. Their solution aligns with UK legislation, enabling seamless compliance with the 30% recycled plastic requirement.

SMX's groundbreaking marking technology withstands processing, digitally and physically tagging recycled plastics. This ensures robust auditing, crucial for regulatory adherence.

By adopting SMX's solution, companies transition from linear to circular economy paradigms, reaping benefits like enhanced supply chain visibility and resource optimization. Expect heightened recycling rates and reduced carbon footprint—a win-win for businesses and the environment.

Benefits

Equilibrium Circular Economy

Fashion Sustainability Competence Centre

Enabling Fashion Brands to Meet Carbon Neutrality & ESG Targets

SMX officially opened a Fashion Sustainability Competence Centre to provide fashion brands more transparent, cost-effective and efficient access to SMX’s ‘plug & play’ proprietary technology that has been designed for use within the fast, high volume and low-price fashion industry.

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In summary…

SMX is establishing a verification layer that addresses long-standing gaps across global supply chains. Industries that once operated on assumptions—gold, rare earths, textiles, plastics, and industrial waste—now gain material-level proof that survives every transformation.

This capability is driving measurable adoption. Partnerships with Goldstrom, A*STAR, REDWAVE, CETI, and major recycling networks show how verification is moving from concept to infrastructure across multiple regions and sectors.

The technology also aligns with rising global regulatory demands. Digital Product Passports, ESG reporting, and origin-based compliance frameworks increasingly require evidence rather than declarations.

Together, these factors place SMX in a position where its platform supports higher trust, stronger accountability, and new economic models built on verified materials.

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SMX Appears Well Positioned Across Multiple High-Growth Sectors—A Company Investors May Want to Keep an Eye On Early

Source

i - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/industrial-traceability-circularity-supply-chain-193000688.html

ii - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/smx-just-gave-cotton-first-193000074.html

iii - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/smx-cracked-textile-code-changes-143000460.html

iv - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/smxs-amended-equity-purchase-agreement-123000509.html

v - https://smx.tech/assets/pdf/LH-SMX-SPAC-Investor-Presentation-20220725-FINAL.pdf

vi - https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/recycled-plastics-market

vii - https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/gold-market-109454

viii - https://www.imarcgroup.com/plastics-market

ix - https://www.uniformmarket.com/statistics/global-apparel-industry-statistics

x - https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/rare-earth-elements-market-102943

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