NYSE taps Broadridge to enable shareholder voting on blockchain

The New York Stock Exchange wants to put stocks on a blockchain. It has now hired the company that already handles the paperwork for shareholder voting.

Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR) will provide onchain governance and digital transfer agency services for the NYSE’s planned tokenized securities platform. The company announced the arrangement on Monday, November 2, 2026. It is a quiet but meaningful addition to a project that still needs regulators to sign off.

What Broadridge is actually building

Under the new arrangement, Broadridge will help public companies manage shareholder records, communications and voting as their shares move onto blockchain rails. Its contribution includes smart contracts that enforce governance rules, proxy voting systems, and tools for authenticating digital wallets.

Smart contracts are self-executing code on a blockchain. Here, they would bake a company’s voting rules directly into the software, so the rulebook and the ballot box live in the same place.

Broadridge will also keep doing its traditional transfer agency work. That service will cover both tokenized shares and conventional equities, which matters because no company is flipping its entire shareholder base onchain overnight.

CEO Tim Gokey framed the company’s role in ambitious terms.

“Building the governance layer for tokenized equities.”

The NYSE’s growing roster of crypto-native partners

Broadridge is not the first firm to join the project. It lands alongside Securitize and tZERO as the exchange pieces together the infrastructure needed to bring stocks onchain.

The NYSE first outlined its tokenized securities platform in January 2026. In March 2026, Securitize was named the initial digital transfer agent through a memorandum of understanding with the exchange.

The platform’s pitch is aimed squarely at the limits of traditional market plumbing. The NYSE is aiming for continuous trading of tokenized equities, including 24/7 operations, instant settlement, and the ability to fund trades with stablecoins.

For context, stablecoins are crypto tokens pegged to a fiat currency, usually the US dollar. Using them to fund trades would let investors move cash in and out without waiting on bank wire hours.

None of this is live yet. The platform remains subject to regulatory approval, and Broadridge’s services are tied to that approval coming through.

Broadridge has done this before

Broadridge is not starting from scratch on blockchain voting. Its ProxyVote platform has already supported tokenized securities.

The company has also run onchain shareholder votes in practice. In May 2026, it processed proxy voting for Galaxy Digital, where shareholder votes were executed using an Avalanche-based layer-1 blockchain.

A layer-1 is a base blockchain network, the foundation other applications are built on, rather than an add-on that runs on top of another chain.

What this means for tokenized stocks

A share of stock is not just a price ticker. It comes with voting rights, dividend entitlements, and a legal paper trail. If a tokenized share cannot reliably deliver those rights, it is closer to a synthetic bet than actual ownership. Bringing in Broadridge signals the NYSE is trying to close that gap rather than paper over it.

The division of labor is also worth noting. Securitize and tZERO come from the crypto-native side of the industry. Broadridge comes from deep inside traditional market infrastructure. The NYSE appears to be blending both camps, which may help with the regulatory review the platform still faces.

Broadridge offering services for both tokenized and traditional shares suggests a long hybrid period. During that stretch, some shareholders hold tokens, others hold conventional shares, and everyone still expects to vote at the annual meeting.