NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / November 25, 2025 / For generations, the gold market operated on confidence. Refineries stamped metal, vaults logged it, and traders exchanged paperwork that everyone accepted as the truth. That structure held up when the trading landscape was slower and regional. The modern market no longer fits that model. Supply chains now stretch across continents. Compliance requirements have multiplied. Digital systems expect precision that legacy documentation cannot deliver. Trust alone cannot serve as the foundation of a global market of this scale. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is stepping into the 2025 DMCC Precious Metals Conference (DMCC) to show how verified identity can finally replace assumption with certainty.

The Dubai Multi Commodities Centre plays a central role in this transition. Under the leadership of Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ahmed Bin Sulayem, the DMCC has become one of the most influential hubs in global precious metals trade. Dubai's position between East and West makes it a natural point of convergence for refineries, logistics companies, and traders who need a jurisdiction that prizes standards and stability. As trade volume increases and expectations tighten, organizations within the DMCC ecosystem are pushing for tools that provide stronger oversight without slowing commercial activity. The market is signaling that the era of paperwork-driven trust is reaching its limit.

That pressure creates the opening SMX is addressing. The company's Physical to Digital Link gives each piece of metal a unique molecular identity the moment it enters the value chain. That identity stays with the asset as it moves from mine to refinery, vault to trade, and eventually into recycling or reuse. It's a structure designed to survive real-world handling and real-world environments. It also aligns with the regional push for higher standards. Even Brink's, one of the most well-known secure logistics providers serving the GCC, is working alongside SMX to explore more reliable forms of material auditing. The industry is shifting toward systems that make truth measurable.

SMX is walking into DMCC prepared to show how that shift becomes operational.

Gold Outgrew Its Own Documentation

At the right time. The modern gold market is larger, faster, and more interconnected than at any other point in its history. Metal now moves through supply chains that span dozens of jurisdictions, each with its own record-keeping standards and regulatory expectations. Those systems were never designed to communicate with one another, leaving the industry with fragmented, inconsistent, and vulnerable documentation. As long as the market relied on slower settlement cycles and regional trade flows, those inconsistencies were manageable. Today, they sit at the center of every operational challenge the sector faces.

This is especially visible in active hubs like Dubai, where the DMCC has created a central platform that attracts miners, refineries, logistics companies, bullion banks, and traders from around the world. The more transactions move through a single ecosystem, the clearer the gaps become. Institutions need methods to ensure that the identity of the metal arriving at their facilities is the same identity that left the origin point. Paper records and inspection reports cannot provide that precision. They depend on manual entry, human interpretation, and trust-based reconciliation between organizations that do not share systems.

SMX fills out this landscape with a solution built to remove those points of friction. Its Physical to Digital link establishes a fixed identity for every bar, coin, or refined ounce with a molecular signature that survives handling, transport, and long-term storage. That identity provides each participant in the chain with a reliable reference point that remains constant regardless of where the material travels. Even long-standing service providers in the region, including Brink's, have begun exploring how modern identity systems can reinforce their established logistics frameworks.

Here's the point that matters most: The sector is not abandoning its history. It is strengthening it with tools that match the scale of today's trade.

Dubai's Leadership Defines the Future of Gold

Dubai's rise as a global precious metals center did not happen by accident. It happened because the DMCC built an environment that rewards efficiency, standardisation, and responsible conduct. The organization's leadership has attracted participants who want a marketplace that supports rapid movement while maintaining confidence in the integrity of each transaction. As the conference approaches, that commitment becomes even more visible. The region is preparing for a future where every major commodity sector must operate with greater transparency, and gold is no exception.

This sets the stage for technologies that reinforce the region's ambitions. The Physical to Digital Link fits directly into that vision because it delivers identity that does not depend on interpretation. It gives refiners, vaults, and traders a way to align their operations with a more rigorous global standard without disrupting their workflows. It supports the city's goal of being more than a transit point. It enables Dubai to remain a destination where institutions conduct business with confidence because the foundations behind each asset are verifiable.

The presence of companies like SMX at the DMCC Precious Metals Conference highlights how far the market has progressed. Identity is no longer a theoretical add-on. It is an operational requirement for a sector that must compete with digital systems, stricter regulations, and rapidly shifting trade patterns. Dubai's leadership places it at the center of that shift. SMX's technology complements that environment by giving the industry exactly what it has lacked. A way to verify the truth of the metal without relying on the paperwork that once defined the entire sector.

Verified Identity Unlocks the Next Stage of the Gold Market

The concept of creating a digital counterpart for a physical asset is only valuable if the underlying identity can survive real-world conditions. That is why the industry is paying attention to SMX. The Physical-to-Digital Link is not a theoretical model. It is a functional system that embeds identity into the material itself. When that identity becomes permanent, it transforms how the market can structure custody, settlement, recycling, and cross-border transport. Every participant benefits because every participant gains a reference point that cannot be duplicated or separated from the metal it represents.

This is also where tokenised gold becomes more practicable without relying on digital asset terminology or speculative frameworks. Once identity is consistent, traceable, and tied directly to the material, new forms of ownership and trade become possible. Institutions can manage inventory with greater precision. Investors can understand the origin of the assets they hold. Regulators can verify that compliance requirements are being met. The entire system becomes more disciplined, which gives the market room to modernise without creating new vulnerabilities.

As SMX steps into the DMCC Precious Metals Conference, the message is clear. Gold is moving from a trust-based economy to a verification-based one. The companies that provide that layer will shape the next decade of this sector. The DMCC has built the environment. The global market is demanding higher standards. And, SMX is delivering the identity infrastructure that brings both sides together. This time, the truth sits inside the metal itself.

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