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The Proof Economy Needs Infrastructure, Not Promises - And SMX's $111.5 Million Equity Purchase Agreement Builds It

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 1, 2025 / Every industrial revolution begins the same way. Not with a breakthrough, but with a realization. A moment when the world understands that the systems it uses no longer match the complexity of the world it operates in. That moment arrived in 2025 for supply chains worldwide. Commodity markets strained under verification gaps. Recycling programs faced credibility challenges. Compliance regimes collapsed under the weight of new regulations. And industries demanding measurable truth discovered they lacked the infrastructure to deliver it.

SMX's $111.5 Million Equity Purchase Agreement Becomes the Engine Behind the Proof Economy

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 1, 2025 / Supply chains were never designed for the pressures they now face. Commodities move across dozens of borders. Compliance rules shift mid-transaction. Recycling claims demand scientific verification. Markets want authenticity. Governments want traceability. Brands want transparency. Consumers want accountability.

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

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 1, 2025 / The global economy spent the past decade upgrading everything except the one thing it depends on most: verification. Industries digitized. Logistics accelerated. Compliance expanded. But the underlying trust layer never caught up. Too many systems ran on assumptions. Too many certifications depended on paper trails that failed under scrutiny. Too many supply chains were built on declarations instead of evidence.

SMX Scores $111.5 Million Equity Purchase Agreement to Advance "Proof" Economy Platform

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 1, 2025 / Some announcements matter. Others shift the center of gravity. SMX's (NASDAQ:SMX) new $111.5 million equity purchase agreement belongs in the second category. It's not an add-on to an already strong year. It's the headline development that sets the pace for what comes next. The world is moving toward a Proof Economy, and this agreement gives SMX the capital access, strategic flexibility, and operational runway to build it on a global scale.

SMX Announces $111.5M Equity Purchase Agreement with Target Capital 1, LLC

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 1, 2025 / SMX (Security Matters) PLC ("SMX"), the pioneer of molecular "physical-to-digital" marking for supply-chain transparency, announced today that it has entered into an equity purchase agreement (the "Agreement") with Target Capital 1, LLC, to provide an efficient and flexible source of funding, enabling SMX to progress its business development opportunities. In addition, SMX has agreed to use a portion of the net proceeds, after payment of certain fees and expenses, to acquire bitcoin or another cryptocurrency subject to the mutual consent of the parties, which shall serve as a reserve asset for SMX.

iAccess Alpha's Virtual Best Ideas Winter Investment Conference December 9-10, 2025

RALEIGH, NC / ACCESS Newswire / December 1, 2025 / iAccess Alpha's Virtual Best Ideas Winter Investment Conference will take place on December 9-10, 2025, bringing together top micro-cap companies and investors for two days of high-quality insights and investing opportunities.

Gladstone Alternative Income Fund Announces Increase in Monthly Cash Distribution for December 2025

MCLEAN, VA / ACCESS Newswire / December 1, 2025 / Gladstone Alternative Income Fund ("Gladstone Alternative" or the "Fund") announced today that its board of trustees declared monthly cash distributions to shareholders for the month of December. The December distribution amount is $0.00196 per calendar day for each issued and outstanding Class A share, Class C share, and Class I share for the period beginning December 1, 2025 and ending December 31, 2025 (for shareholders who own shares all 31 days in December, the distribution will total $0.06076 per share). The distributions will be paid on December 31, 2025 for Dividend Reinvestment Plan ("DRIP") participants and January 2, 2026 for non-DRIP participants.

Trust But Verify, The SMX Technology That is Changing Global Supply Chain Rules

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 1, 2025 / There is a shift in global commerce that most companies have not yet caught up to. Markets are starting to wake up to the idea that verification is no longer a back-office function. It's a new economic layer that determines pricing power, trust, and access. The companies that can prove the truth of their materials, products, and supply chains are beginning to outperform the ones that cannot. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) sits at the center of that shift. It built a physical-to-digital identity platform that embeds verification into the material itself, transforming proof from a document into an attribute. Companies are discovering that this is the difference between participating in the modern economy and being priced out of it.

SMX Is Capturing Global Attention By Turning Supply Chains Into Intelligence Networks

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 1, 2025 / Modern supply chains used to be simple. A product moved from one place to another, someone signed a form, and the system accepted that as truth. That world doesn't exist anymore. Global regulations hardened, materials started crossing borders at record speed, and companies faced exposure from every direction. A supply chain without intelligence isn't a supply chain. It's a liability. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) stepped into this environment with a technology that gives materials something they've never had. They get memory. They carry their identity from the moment they're created until the moment they're used.

Trump officials host crucial Ukraine talks in Florida

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio kicked off high stakes talks with a Ukrainian delegation in Florida on Sunday, as the United States pushes to end Russia's war against its neighbor.

OPEC+ reaffirms planned pause on oil output hikes until March

OPEC nations and oil-producing allies reaffirmed Sunday plans to keep current oil output levels unchanged until March, and agreed a mechanism to assess members' maximum production capacity, without giving any details.

Long-lost Rubens 'masterpiece' sells for almost 3 mn euros

A long-lost painting by 17th-century Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens sold at auction in France on Sunday for almost three million euros -- well beyond its asking price.

Kyrgyzstan vote in polls set to hand president more power

Kyrgyzstan began voting Sunday in a snap parliamentary election that featured no formal parties or opposition and that critics say will cement the power of President Sadyr Japarov.

Australia arrests dozens in coal port protest

Australian police said Sunday they had arrested dozens of people during climate protests that claim to have halted two cargo ships at one of the world's biggest coal export ports.

'End of an era': MTV pulling plug on global music channels

MTV kick-started a new era of music and pop culture in 1981, when it went on air for the first time, emblematically playing "Video Killed the Radio Star" as its debut music video.

Electric vehicle prowess helps China's flying car sector take off

A worker in white gloves inspects the propellers of a boxy two-seater aircraft fresh off the assembly line at a Chinese factory trialling the mass production of flying cars.

OPEC+ likely to maintain current output levels

Ministers of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allied nations (OPEC+) are expected to keep current output levels unchanged when they meet for online meetings on Sunday, analysts told AFP.

Paris's arthouse cinemas adapt to battle decline

Paris is one of the world's arthouse cinema hotspots, but falling attendance levels mean beloved independent operators must innovate and invest to survive.

Air travel disrupted over Airbus A320 software switch

More airlines around the world announced delayed or cancelled flights Saturday following an Airbus alert that up to 6,000 A320 aircraft may require upgrades.

How successful has OPEC+'s oil output policy been in 2025?

Ministers of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allied nations (OPEC+) are unlikely to make changes to their oil output strategy when they discuss production at an online ministerial meeting on Sunday.

Inch by inch: the search for Mexico's disappeared in a city cemetery

Elizabeth Alvarez has been searching for her brother since 2013, when the 31-year-old left his home to run an errand in Mexico City.

Stocks rise in thin post-Thanksgiving trading

Global stocks mostly rose Friday, extending a positive winning streak based in part on expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates again next month.

Crowds, bargains greet US shoppers on 'Black Friday'

The annual "Black Friday" kickoff to the US holiday shopping season drew crowds Friday as millions of Americans seized on the time-tested custom at physical stores and through e-commerce.

Air travel faces disruptions over A320 software switch

Air passengers have been warned of potential travel disruptions following an Airbus alert on Friday that up to 6,000 operational A320 aircraft may require upgrades.

Rebel nuns win reprieve in Austrian convent dispute

Three nuns in their 80s who made headlines after fleeing their care home to take back their convent in Austria are being allowed to stay there "until further notice", church officials said Friday.

Stocks rise in thin Thanksgiving trading

Wall Street and key European equity markets rose on Friday in thin US holiday weekend trading, with a key US exchange suffering an outage.

Belgian PM digs in against EU push to use Russian assets for Ukraine

Belgium's Prime Minister Bart De Wever has called an EU plan to use frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine "fundamentally wrong", throwing further doubt on a push to agree the move next month.

Hong Kong's bamboo scaffolding under scrutiny after fatal fire

Dozens of deaths in an inferno at a Hong Kong residential estate have ignited debate over the role the city's quintessential bamboo scaffolding played in the fire's spread, as the government promised to phase it out.

India economic growth beats forecasts but tariffs loom

India's economy grew faster than expected in the last quarter, official data showed Friday, but the impact from US tariffs is expected to bite in the rest of the financial year.

Rebel octogenarian Austrian nuns win reprieve

Three rebel nuns in their 80s who made headlines after fleeing their care home to take back their Austrian convent are being allowed to stay in the nunnery "until further notice", church officials said Friday.

Markets muted in thin trade, hit by data centre glitch

Stock markets were little changed Friday, capping a solid week driven by expectations of more US rate cuts, with trading thinned by the Thanksgiving holiday and a data centre outage.

Most Asian markets build on week's rally

Most markets squeezed out gains Friday at the end of a strong week for equities fuelled by growing expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates again next month.

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