tZERO will link its market infrastructure to Voatz’s mobile voting technology.
tZERO Group, a blockchain and tokenization provider for capital markets, and Voatz, a mobile voting technology company, are collaborating to deliver blockchain‑backed, digital proxy voting that will herald a new era of corporate governance, officials say.
“Markets have gone digital — governance should follow,” says Alan Konevsky, CEO of tZERO, in a prepared statement. “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 … We look forward to partnering with a range of transfer agents and other market participants to deliver these solutions.”
“Shareholders deserve a secure, convenient, and verifiable way to vote,” adds Nimit Sawhney, co-founder and CEO of Voatz, in a statement. “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 vision for the collaboration includes plans for offering governance solutions “for late-stage private companies, tokenized real‑world assets [RWAs] and DAOs [decentralized autonomous organizations] 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,” according to the announcement.
Officials say that tZERO and its broker-dealer subsidiaries “were among the first to bring private securities on-chain,” facilitating a broker-dealer-led infrastructure for the issuance, trading and custody of tokenized securities in the U.S.
Voatz offers a mobile-first elections platform with security, biometrics and a blockchain-backed infrastructure, officials say.
tZERO Group and its broker-dealer subsidiaries — tZERO Digital Asset Securities and tZERO Securities — provide a liquidity platform for private companies and assets, and offer institutional-grade solutions for issuers that want to digitize their capital table using blockchain technology and make that equity available for trading on an alternative trading system (ATS), officials say.
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