tZERO and Voatz Partner to Bring Blockchain Transparency to Corporate Proxy Voting

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 aims to establish a new standard for shareholder participation that is secure, verified, and recorded on-chain, potentially transforming corporate governance processes across public and private markets.

The collaboration brings together tZERO's regulated market infrastructure with Voatz's identity-verified voting platform to create a more transparent, secure, and efficient system for corporate governance. Alan Konevsky, CEO of tZERO, emphasized that as markets have gone digital, governance should follow, stating that the partnership will transform shareholder engagement into a real-time, transparent and accountable process. This approach aims to deliver verifiable truth quickly and seamlessly, moving away from what tZERO describes as opaque and over-intermediated legacy processes.

Voatz brings significant experience in secure voting technology to the partnership, having served more than 5 million voters across 150 elections in 8 countries. Nimit Sawhney, Co-Founder and CEO of Voatz, noted that shareholders deserve a secure, convenient, and verifiable way to vote, and their platform provides identity-verified voting with a blockchain-backed audit trail. The partnership with tZERO means that votes can directly reflect issuer records and 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, and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). tZERO also expects to offer this solution to its tokenized securities and real-world asset clients as part of its end-to-end solution set for private markets. This expansion could significantly impact how emerging digital entities manage governance and shareholder participation.

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 significant step toward modernizing corporate governance through blockchain technology, potentially setting new industry standards for shareholder engagement and voting transparency. More information about tZERO can be found at https://www.tzero.com while details about Voatz are available at https://www.voatz.com.

The implications of this partnership extend across multiple sectors of the financial industry. For public companies, the technology could provide greater assurance in proxy voting outcomes while reducing administrative costs. For private markets and emerging digital assets, it offers a standardized approach to governance that could facilitate broader adoption of tokenized securities. The blockchain-backed audit trail provides an immutable record of voting activity, potentially reducing disputes and increasing confidence in corporate decision-making processes across global markets.