tZERO and Voatz Partner to Transform Corporate Governance with Blockchain-Enabled Proxy Voting
tZERO and Voatz are collaborating to bring blockchain-backed proxy voting to capital markets, creating a more transparent, secure, and efficient system for shareholder participation that could reshape corporate governance standards.
tZERO Group, Inc., a leader in blockchain and tokenization for capital markets, and Voatz, a pioneer in secure mobile voting, have announced a strategic collaboration to deliver blockchain-backed proxy voting. This partnership represents a significant advancement in corporate governance technology, addressing longstanding concerns about transparency and security in shareholder voting processes.
The collaboration combines tZERO's regulated market infrastructure with Voatz's identity-verified voting platform to create a new standard for shareholder participation. tZERO and its broker-dealer subsidiaries were among the first to bring private securities on-chain, establishing the leading broker-dealer-led infrastructure for the issuance, trading, and custody of tokenized securities in the US. As blockchain technology gains momentum across private and public markets, this alignment aims to power a new era of transparent, secure, and efficient corporate governance.
"Markets have gone digital - governance should follow," said Alan Konevsky, CEO of tZERO. "tZERO is reaffirming its roots as a pioneer of blockchain innovation in public markets. By pairing our regulated market infrastructure with Voatz's verified voting technology, we're transforming shareholder engagement into a real-time, transparent and accountable process - delivering verifiable truth quickly and seamlessly - not trust through opaque and over-intermediated legacy processes."
Voatz brings substantial experience in secure voting systems to the partnership. The company has successfully served more than 5 million voters across 150 elections in 8 countries. In 2018, Voatz ran the first mobile vote in U.S. Federal Election history, and in 2020, became the first blockchain-based election system to be used for voting in the U.S. Presidential Elections. For more information about Voatz's voting platform, visit https://voatz.com.
"Shareholders deserve a secure, convenient, and verifiable way to vote," said Nimit Sawhney, Co-Founder and CEO of Voatz. "Our platform provides identity-verified voting with a blockchain-backed audit trail. Partnering with tZERO means those votes directly reflect issuer records and can be reported faster, with greater transparency."
The product vision extends beyond traditional public companies to include governance solutions for late-stage private companies, tokenized real-world assets, DAOs, and other distributed entities. tZERO also expects to offer this solution to its tokenized securities and RWA clients as part of its end-to-end solution set for private markets. This expansion could significantly impact how emerging asset classes and corporate structures manage governance and shareholder relations.
This partnership advances tZERO's long-term vision of uniting traditional market infrastructure with the efficiencies of digital finance. By integrating security, automation, and transparency, tZERO is reshaping how capital formation and ownership evolve in the Web3 economy. The collaboration represents a meaningful step toward modernizing corporate governance processes that have remained largely unchanged for decades, potentially setting new industry standards for shareholder engagement and voting integrity.
tZERO Securities, LLC operates as a broker-dealer registered with the SEC and a member of FINRA and SIPC. More information about tZERO Securities may be found on FINRA's BrokerCheck at https://brokercheck.finra.org. The integration of blockchain technology into proxy voting processes addresses critical concerns about vote verification and auditability, potentially reducing disputes and increasing confidence in corporate election outcomes across both traditional and emerging financial markets.