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With 45-plus locations and more than 225 providers, the physician-owned practice makes it simpler for families to get all the appointments they need, while ensuring comprehensive, complete care.

HOUSTON, TEXAS / ACCESS Newswire / August 25, 2025 / As the new school year begins in the greater Houston area, families face the challenge of getting all the vital medical appointments and exams that their children need. CLS Health makes this busy time less stressful and more comprehensive through its Back-to-School Health Campaign.

The Back-to-School Health Campaign provides families with a one-stop destination for the care that children need to start the year, from required immunizations and sports physicals to nutrition consultations and vision exams.

“Back-to-school is one of the busiest times of the year for families, and healthcare shouldn’t add to the stress. Our campaign is about making it easier for parents to keep their children and themselves healthy as the year begins,” said Dr. Khaled Attia, family medicine physician with CLS Health.

Another goal of the CLS Health initiative is preventing health problems that can impede students’ performance in school, like unaddressed vision problems, incomplete immunizations, or suboptimal nutrition.

For example, a recent three-year study of 2,300 students in Baltimore public schools found that a vision-check program led to improved reading scores for students in grades 3 to 7. Multiple studies show that vaccinated students miss fewer school days and do better in school. Additionally, eating enough foods with specific nutrients also has been shown to improve academic performance.

The features of the Back-to-School Health Campaign highlight CLS Health’s emphasis on preventive care that supports healthy living. The practice also emphasizes the “whole-family wellness” approach to healthcare and encourages parents to prioritize their own preventive care along with their children’s care.

With 45-plus locations and more than 225 healthcare providers in over 45 medical specialties, CLS Health makes its comprehensive care easily accessible to the Houston metro area. Bringing pediatrics, eye care, primary care, nutrition, and sports medicine under one roof, the practice streamlines the back-to-school appointment process for parents while also ensuring continuity of care.

To learn more about CLS Health’s Back-to-School Health Campaign or to schedule an appointment, visit https://cls.health/back-to-school-health-checklist.

About CLS Health

CLS Health is a physician-owned healthcare group with a pioneering approach to comprehensive care. With over 40 locations and more than 200 providers across the Greater Houston area, CLS Health emphasizes the satisfaction and empowerment of its physicians as a key element in delivering exceptional patient care. Learn more at cls.health.

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giang.le@cls.health
281-731-8431

Madeleine Moench
madeleinem@accessnewswire.com

SOURCE: CLS Health

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / August 25, 2025 / SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) just unveiled a pivotal new milestone in Singapore, announcing a strategic collaboration with Bio-Packaging Pte Ltd-a homegrown leader in PCR, biodegradable, and compostable packaging. This isn’t just another headline. It’s proof that SMX is transforming sustainable packaging into data-rich assets that regulators can trust, brands can defend, and consumers can believe.

The partnership embeds SMX’s invisible molecular marker into Bio-Packaging’s lines at the point of extrusion. From that moment forward, every scan-on the factory floor, in distribution, at point of sale, or at end-of-life-creates a tamper-proof digital twin on SMX’s blockchain. Each bag becomes its own witness, validating recycled content, biodegradability, and compostability in real time. In a world where “green” claims are increasingly challenged, that’s not optional-it’s essential.

As Bio-Packaging’s Director of Business Development Lim Qin Jie put it, customers are demanding proof, not promises. By fusing SMX’s traceability with Bio-Packaging’s PCR, biodegradable and compostable offerings, they can now deliver indisputable evidence that every product lives up to its eco-promise. That’s not marketing-it’s measurable sustainability.

From Innovation to Infrastructure

This deal isn’t happening in isolation. It follows two game-changing announcements earlier this year that set the stage for SMX’s ASEAN surge. Back in April 2025, SMX first joined forces with Aegis Packaging, embedding molecular traceability into its O₂X™ mono-material barrier coating. Already a breakthrough, O₂X™ became more than innovative packaging-it became self-verifying infrastructure. Every unit could now authenticate its own origin, usage, and recovery, no third-party audits required.

Shortly after, SMX announced its collaboration with Skypac Packaging, a regional powerhouse in PP, OPP, HDPE, and LDPE products. Skypac’s ethos-“Paper When Possible, Plastic When Useful”-synced perfectly with SMX’s mission. With molecular markers and blockchain passports integrated, every plastic wrapper or container became fully accountable across its lifecycle. And layered with SMX’s Plastic Cycle Token (PCT), circularity wasn’t just compliance-it was currency.

Put together, these partnerships chart a clear trajectory. SMX isn’t sketching roadmaps or running pilots. It’s embedding itself across materials, technologies, and markets-positioning its platform as the industry’s new benchmark for proof.

Singapore as Launchpad, ASEAN as Inflection Point

Singapore is the ideal launchpad. The nation consumes nearly a million tonnes of plastic annually, with 94% still incinerated. It also sits at the center of ASEAN’s industrial supply chains. By embedding traceability directly into the packaging that circulates daily through supermarkets, retailers, and distributors, SMX and its partners are flipping that equation. Waste becomes certified material. Incineration costs give way to recycling dividends. And sustainability shifts from rhetoric to measurable return.

This momentum also arrives against the backdrop of the recent UN Plastics Treaty negotiations, where more than 150 nations came together to tackle one of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. While no consensus was reached on issues like production caps versus recycling mandates, the very act of convening showed the seriousness and scale of global commitment. What’s missing is a unifying mechanism-one that can bridge divides and make every position part of the solution, not excluded from it. That’s where SMX steps in as the toolbox every side can use. And benefit from.

Its platform, built on molecular traceability, material efficiency, and blockchain-backed verification, is the ultimate circularity toolbox-able to validate recycled content, authenticate biodegradability, and align with any policy framework. In short, SMX turns ambition into proof.

And ASEAN is where that toolbox is already at work. Singapore and its regional peers are showing how fast policy can translate into practice. From Extended Producer Responsibility schemes to advanced recycling infrastructure, the region is proving that circularity doesn’t have to wait for global consensus. By embedding itself into these supply chains, SMX is helping ASEAN lead the world-turning the challenge of plastics into a model of measurable, inclusive, and profitable sustainability.

A Go-To Global Blueprint

Momentum is the real story. In just a few months, SMX has secured three strategic partnerships across Singapore that span substrates from flexible plastics to barrier coatings to biodegradable films. Each one points to the same conclusion: the future of packaging-and by extension, global manufacturing-belongs to platforms that can prove, price, and profit from sustainability.

And that’s where SMX’s Global Plastics Passport and Plastic Cycle Token come into play. By tying molecular-level data to block-chain records and tokenized value, SMX is turning packaging into a financial instrument-where recycled content and biodegradability aren’t claims, but assets. It’s a system designed not only for Singapore or ASEAN, but for Europe, the U.S., and anywhere regulators, investors, and consumers demand proof over pledges.

SMX isn’t chasing momentum. It’s creating it. And as its footprint in ASEAN deepens, one thing is clear: This isn’t just packaging evolution-it’s the foundation of a global standard

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.

About Bio-Packaging

Founded in 2007 and headquartered at Woodlands Spectrum 1, Bio-Packaging Pte Ltd provides HDPE, PCR, biodegradable and certified-compostable carrier bags, produce rolls and industrial liners to supermarkets, food service, retail and industrial clients. The company is ISO 14001-certified and focuses on delivering high-quality, competitively priced, innovative and sustainable packaging solutions.

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: successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber, plastic 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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MIAMI BEACH, FL / ACCESS Newswire / August 25, 2025 / The Tripathi Foundation Inc. has released a draft manuscript introducing the Equation of Forces (EoF), a proposed unified law of nature that seeks to bring together gravity, electromagnetism, the strong and weak nuclear interactions, and quantum corrections within a single covariant framework.

The work, developed by Dr. GNR Tripathi and Pradeep Tripathi builds systematically from the history of unification – from Newton and Maxwell through Einstein, quantum field theory, and string theory – toward a modern synthesis designed to remain consistent across both classical and quantum regimes.

About the Equation of Forces

The EoF framework presents a single master equation with:

Integration of gravitational, gauge, scalar, and effective correction terms.

Structural safeguards enforcing causality, anomaly cancellation, positivity, and duality symmetries.

Reductions to known physical laws in the appropriate limits, while allowing for new, testable corrections.

The framework is not offered as a final theory, but as a carefully constructed draft for discussion and exploration. Its design emphasizes both consistency with established science and openness to empirical testing in gravitational-wave astronomy, cosmology, particle physics, and laboratory-scale precision experiments.

Continuing a Tradition

This work is presented with deep respect for the tradition of unification that has guided physics for centuries. Each step, from Newton’s universal gravitation to Maxwell’s unification of electricity and magnetism, from Einstein’s general relativity to the Standard Model of particle physics, has demonstrated that nature’s laws grow simpler and more coherent at deeper levels.

The Equation of Forces is offered in that same spirit – as a continuation of this ongoing search for unity, placed before the scientific community with humility and an openness to refinement, testing, and critique.

About the Tripathi Foundation Inc.

The Tripathi Foundation Inc. is dedicated to advancing fundamental inquiry in physics and supporting research that aims to deepen humanity’s understanding of the natural world. [Our apologies for incorrect page numbering.]

SOURCE: Tripathi Foundation Inc

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• Marks a key milestone following the company’s public listing and continued growth as a U.S.-listed SAF company

• Celebrates XCF’s mission to decarbonize the aviation industry through scalable, investor-grade SAF infrastructure

HOUSTON, TEXAS / ACCESS Newswire / August 25, 2025 / XCF Global, Inc. (“XCF”) (Nasdaq:SAFX), a key player in decarbonizing the aviation industry through Sustainable Aviation Fuel (“SAF”), today announces it will ring the Nasdaq Stock Market Opening Bell this morning at Nasdaq’s iconic MarketSite in Times Square. The Opening Bell Ceremony will be broadcast live on the Nasdaq website and social media platforms.

The Opening Bell Ceremony marks a major milestone for XCF following its public listing earlier this year and highlights the company’s momentum in building a global platform of renewable fuel production facilities engineered to accelerate the decarbonization of the aviation industry through the adoption of SAF.

Mihir Dange, Chief Executive Officer and Board Chair of XCF Global commented:

“Becoming a publicly traded company on Nasdaq, one of the largest stock exchanges in the world, is a major milestone for XCF. But today’s ceremony is not just about what we’ve achieved – it’s about where we are going. SAF is fast becoming the defining market of the next decade, and XCF has the early-mover advantage to lead. With our flagship New Rise Reno facility at the core and an ambitious growth plan, we are proud to offer investors access to one of the most dynamic growth stories in renewable fuels. With its focus on growth and innovation, Nasdaq is the perfect home for XCF.”

Join XCF’s Opening Bell Ceremony Online. Today’s Ceremony will be streamed live at: https://www.nasdaq.com/marketsite/bell-ringing-ceremony.

About XCF Global, Inc.

XCF Global, Inc. is a pioneering sustainable aviation fuel company dedicated to accelerating the aviation industry’s transition to net-zero emissions. XCF is developing and operating state-of-the-art clean fuel SAF production facilities engineered to the highest levels of compliance, reliability, and quality. The company is actively building partnerships across the energy and transportation sectors to accelerate the adoption of SAF on a global scale. XCF is listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market and trades under the ticker, SAFX. Current outstanding shares: ~153.2 million; 20% free float (as of August 25, 2025).

To learn more, visit www.xcf.global.

Contacts

XCF Global:
C/O Camarco
XCFGlobal@camarco.co.uk

Media:
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Andrew Archer | Rosie Driscoll | Violet Wilson
XCFGlobal@camarco.co.uk

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These forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements regarding XCF Global’s expectations with respect to future performance and anticipated financial impacts of the recently completed business combination with Focus Impact BH3 Acquisition Company (the “Business Combination”), estimates and forecasts of other financial and performance metrics, and projections of market opportunity and market share, are subject to risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based upon estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by XCF Global and its management, are inherently uncertain and subject to material change. These forward-looking statements are provided for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to serve as and must not be relied on by any investor as, a guarantee, an assurance, a prediction or a definitive statement of fact or probability. New risks and uncertainties may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible to predict all risks and uncertainties. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include, but are not limited to: (1) changes in domestic and foreign business, market, financial, political, and legal conditions; (2) unexpected increases in XCF Global’s expenses resulting from potential inflationary pressures and rising interest rates, including manufacturing and operating expenses and interest expenses; (3) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of negotiations and any agreements with regard to XCF Global’s offtake arrangements; (4) the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against the parties to the Business Combination or others; (5) XCF Global’s ability to meet Nasdaq’s continued listing standards; (6) XCF Global’s ability to integrate the operations of New Rise and implement its business plan on its anticipated timeline; (7) XCF Global’s ability to raise financing in the future and the terms of any such financing; (8) the New Rise Reno production facility’s ability to produce the anticipated quantities of SAF without interruption or material changes to the SAF production process; (9) XCF Global’s ability to resolve current disputes between its New Rise subsidiary and its landlord with respect to the ground lease for the New Rise Reno facility; (10) XCF Global’s ability to resolve current disputes between its New Rise subsidiary and its primary lender with respect to loans outstanding that were used in the development of the New Rise Reno facility; (11) costs related to the Business Combination and the New Rise acquisitions; (12) the risk of disruption to the current plans and operations of XCF Global as a result of the consummation of the Business Combination; (13) XCF Global’s ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the Business Combination and the New Rise acquisitions, which may be affected by, among other things, competition, the ability of XCF Global to grow and manage growth profitably, maintain relationships with customers and suppliers and retain its management and key employees; (14) changes in applicable laws or regulations; (15) risks related to extensive regulation, compliance obligations and rigorous enforcement by federal, state, and non-U.S. governmental authorities; (16) the possibility that XCF Global may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; (17) the availability of tax credits and other federal, state or local government support; (18) risks relating to XCF Global’s and New Rise’s key intellectual property rights; (19) the risk that XCF Global’s reporting and compliance obligations as a publicly-traded company divert management resources from business operations; (20) the effects of increased costs associated with operating as a public company; and (21) various factors beyond management’s control, including general economic conditions and other risks, uncertainties and factors set forth in XCF Global’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including the final proxy statement/prospectus relating to the Business Combination filed with the SEC on February 6, 2025, this Press Release and other filings XCF Global makes with the SEC in the future. If any of the risks actually occur, either alone or in combination with other events or circumstances, or XCF Global’s assumptions prove incorrect, actual results could differ materially from the results implied by these forward-looking statements. There may be additional risks that XCF Global does not presently know or that it currently believes are not material that could also cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements. In addition, forward-looking statements reflect XCF Global’s expectations, plans or forecasts of future events and views as of the date of this Press Release. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing XCF Global’s assessments as of any date subsequent to the date of this Press Release. Accordingly, undue reliance should not be placed upon the forward-looking statements. While XCF Global may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, XCF Global specifically disclaims any obligation to do so.

SOURCE: XCF Global, Inc.

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Pairing sustainable materials with “physical-to-digital” authentication to validate recycled-content claim and EPR compliance.

NEW YORK, NY AND SINGAPORE / ACCESS Newswire / August 25, 2025 / SMX (Security Matters) PLC (NASDAQ:SMX; SMXWW), the pioneer of molecular “physical-to-digital” fingerprinting for supply-chain transparency, today announced a strategic collaboration with Bio-Packaging Pte Ltd, a Singaporean manufacturer of Polyethylene, Post-consumer recycle (PCR), biodegradable and certified-compostable general packaging. Established in 2007, Bio-Packaging serves supermarkets, food-service operators and retailers with ISO 14001-accredited, competitively priced solutions that combine quality, affordability and sustainable alternatives.

The collaboration embeds SMX’s invisible molecular marker into Bio-Packaging’s PCR, biodegradable and certified-compostable product lines during extrusion. Each scan-whether at production, distribution, point of sale or end-of-life-writes a tamper-proof “digital twin” to SMX’s blockchain platform, giving brand owners and regulators verified proof of origin, material type, recycling loops and composting outcomes in real time.

SMX believes that brands face growing scrutiny over ‘green’ labelling and packaging end-of-life performance. Integrating the SMX marker with Bio-Packaging’s green solutions can potentially turn every bag into a data-rich asset that proves its sustainability journey.

Lim Qin Jie, Director of Business Development of Bio-Packaging, added: “Our customers trust us for practical, cost-effective packaging that meets Singapore’s high environmental standards. By fusing SMX’s traceability technology with our PCR, biodegradable and compostable offerings, we can now deliver indisputable evidence that each product lives up to its eco-promise.”

Key Features of the Collaboration

• Drop-in marking – SMX’s marker is added during films or bags production without altering the material’s performance.

• Regulatory readiness – Data aligns with Singapore’s forthcoming Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) scheme for packaging and designed to support global plastic-tax reporting.

• Anti-greenwashing assurance – Embedded metadata to substantiate biodegradability and recycled-content claims, expecting to bolster consumer trust.

Looking Ahead

By empowering local converters with verifiable data, SMX and Bio-Packaging aim to accelerate Singapore’s transition to a zero-waste, high-value circular economy. SMX and Bio-Packaging will work with government agencies and industry groups to scale the platform across additional substrates and end-use sectors, with the goal to make transparent, accountable packaging the new norm across Asia-Pacific and then globally.

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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.

About Bio-Packaging

Founded in 2007 and headquartered at Woodlands Spectrum 1, Bio-Packaging Pte Ltd provides HDPE, PCR, biodegradable and certified-compostable carrier bags, produce rolls and industrial liners to supermarkets, food service, retail and industrial clients. The company is ISO 14001-certified and focuses on delivering high-quality, competitively priced, innovative and sustainable packaging solutions.

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: successful launch and implementation of SMX’s joint projects with manufacturers and other supply chain participants of steel, rubber, plastic 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.

SOURCE: SMX (Security Matters)

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CEO Dan O’Toole wants to pay and get paid in Bitcoin

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA / ACCESS Newswire / August 25, 2025 / Arrive AI (NASDAQ:ARAI), an autonomous delivery network anchored by patented AI-powered Arrive Points™, is preparing to use Bitcoin cryptocurrency to pay its vendors, clients and employees who prefer it over traditional dollars.

“We think cryptocurrency is a better way to pay, and as we continue to expand our footprint globally, we think our associates will be happy to have this option,” said Arrive AI CEO Dan O’Toole, who will be the first staffer to accept his compensation in cryptocurrency.

O’Toole said he is following the cryptocurrency strategy model established by Micro Strategies.

“Longer term, we see the opportunity to go beyond Bitcoin by creating our own token, an Arrive Coin. It would be designed for use across our entire ecosystem: paying employees and contractors, rewarding loyal customers, settling vendor contracts, and even streamlining transactions within our delivery network. Because our business sits at the intersection of logistics and AI, a proprietary digital currency could enhance transparency, speed and efficiency while giving investors and users a stake in the growth of our platform.”

Additional uses for cryptocurrency the company will consider include keeping cash holdings in Bitcoin and instituting a Bitcoin-denominated At the Market (ATM) program to facilitate fundraising.

A 2024 Deloitte survey showed that more than 6,000 U.S. businesses accept bitcoin as a means of payment. An accompanying Deloitte perspective said crypto offers benefits that traditional currency doesn’t, including real-time and accurate revenue-sharing and enhanced transparency to facilitate back-office reconciliation.

Bitwage, an international payroll services provider, says savvy tech workers prefer cryptocurrency because of its real-time payments across international borders, elimination of some transaction fees and the potential for added value from bitcoin marketplace value, among other considerations. Bitwage said crypto particularly appeals to blockchain developers, remote tech workers and Web3 professionals. The organization cited a 2023 Deloitte report that found more than 60 percent of Millennials and Gen Z view crypto as a key part of the future financial system.

“We’re a tech company on the rise, and we need the absolute best minds in the AI space to help us continue to refine our platform and take advantage of AI-driven learnings as we go,” O’Toole said. “Offering compensation in cryptocurrency – and potentially our own Arrive Coin in the future – is another way to attract and retain those people.”

Arrive AI is in the process of tripling its staff to add artificial intelligence scientists, delivering on the company’s commitment to be AI first in its operation and deliverables. Other jobs will include software and product engineering, underscoring Arrive AI’s commitment to continuous refinements of its proprietary technology and patented products. Additional positions will support critical sales and marketing functions as the company prepares for widespread deployment.

A Q2 2025 North American CFO Signals survey, which polled 200 North American finance chiefs working at companies with at least $1 billion in revenues, showed that 99 percent of responding CFOs said they envisioned using cryptocurrency for business functions in the long term. Nearly a quarter of them said their companies will use crypto for either investments or payments within the next two years. Cited benefits included enhanced protection of customer privacy, improved cross-border transaction facilitation, attracting new customers, faster transactions, elimination of chargebacks, lower processing fees and greater payment volumes.

O’Toole said he also plans on using cryptocurrency as an investment opportunity for company cash on hand.

“Embracing the emergence of Bitcoin allows us to have an upside in balance sheet ‘cash’ which could be a great synergy in our economics,” he said.

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About Arrive AI

Arrive AI’s patented Autonomous Last Mile (ALM) platform enables secure, efficient delivery to and from a smart, AI-powered mailbox, whether by drone, ground robot or human courier. The platform provides real-time tracking, smart logistics alerts and advanced chain of custody controls to support shippers, delivery services and autonomous networks. By combining artificial intelligence with autonomous technology, Arrive AI makes the exchange of goods between people, robots and drones frictionless and convenient. Its system integrates with smart home devices such as doorbells, lighting and security systems to streamline the entire last-mile delivery experience. Learn more at www.arriveai.com. See the company’s press kit here.

Media contact: Cheryl Reed, media@arriveai.com
Investor Relations Contact: Alliance Advisors IR, ARAI.IR@allianceadvisors.com

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This news release and statements of Arrive AI’s management in connection with this news release or related events contain or may contain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In this context, forward-looking statements mean statements related to future events, which may impact our expected future business and financial performance, and often contain words such as “expects”, “anticipates”, “considers”, “intends”, “plans”, “prepares”, “believes”, “potential”, “will”, “should”, “could”, “would”, “wants”, “optimistic”, “in the process of” or “may” and other words of similar meaning. These forward-looking statements are based on information available to us as of the date of this news release and represent management’s current views and assumptions. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, events or results, for example, whether the company’s implementation of its crypto strategy could be successful, whether the company will eventually follow through with its plan to use cryptocurrency in its operation, or whether it could be successful in adding ideal workforce, and involve significant known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may be beyond our control. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which apply only as of the date of this news release. Potential investors should review Arrive AI’s Registration Statement and other filings with the Securities Exchange Commission, for more complete information, including the risk factors that may affect future results, which are available for review at www.sec.gov. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as a predictor of actual results. We do not undertake to update our forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this news release, except as required by law.

SOURCE: Arrive AI Inc.

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