Ondo to Unlock Voting Rights for 250+ Tokenized Stocks and ETFs

Ondo Finance has partnered with Broadridge Financial Solutions to give holders of its tokenized stocks and ETFs the ability to participate in proxy voting for the underlying securities. For the first time, investors holding onchain versions of traditional equities can access governance rights that were previously only available to holders of the conventional offchain shares.

What Is the Ondo and Broadridge Partnership?

Broadridge Financial Solutions settles over $15 trillion in securities daily and serves more than 10,000 public companies. It is the leading provider of investor communications infrastructure connecting issuers and investors across the global financial system.

Through this integration, holders of more than 250 Ondo tokenized stocks and ETFs can now indicate voting preferences and review prospectuses, regulatory filings, and other governance documents through Broadridge's established communications infrastructure. Voting recommendations are weighted proportionately based on each user's token ownership. 

Broadridge then aggregates those preferences alongside the votes of traditional market participants, with Ondo Global Markets' consent.

How Do Tokenized Stocks Work on Ondo?

Tokenized stocks are blockchain-based tokens that represent ownership in an underlying traditional security, such as a share of Apple or an ETF like SPY. Ondo refers to these as "onchain wrapper stocks." They trade 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and can be transferred freely on public blockchains, unlike traditional brokerage accounts that are constrained by market hours and settlement windows.

The Gap This Partnership Closes

Until now, holding a tokenized stock carried a notable limitation. Investors got the price exposure and the liquidity benefits of being onchain, but they had no access to the governance rights that came with the underlying security, such as voting on corporate board decisions or mergers. This partnership closes that gap by connecting Ondo's onchain token holders directly to Broadridge's proxy voting infrastructure.

Matthieu de Vergnes, MD and Global Head of Institutional at Ondo Finance, stated: 

"By working with Broadridge, we are enabling holders of our onchain wrapper stocks to access governance and voting capabilities like holders of the traditional offchain stocks, with all the additional benefits onchain wrapper tokens provide."

Why Does Proxy Voting Matter for Tokenized Equities?

Proxy voting is the mechanism through which shareholders submit their preferences on major corporate decisions without attending annual general meetings in person. For institutional investors, it is a standard part of equity ownership. For retail investors in tokenized equities, it has not existed until now.

Doug DeSchutter, President of Investor Communication Solutions at Broadridge, described the announcement as expanding voting infrastructure to connect Broadridge's Web3-enabled platform with the governance and disclosure standards that underpin modern capital markets.

Ondo currently holds roughly 70% of the total tokenized equities market share, with over $800 million in total value locked across 250-plus tokenized stocks and ETFs. Its tokens are available on Solana, Ethereum, and BNB Chain, and are supported by wallets and exchanges including Binance, Bitget, MetaMask, Ledger, and Blockchain.com.

Where Does Ondo Stand Across Its Other Products?

The voting rights announcement is one part of a broader expansion Ondo has been running across its product lines.

About a month before this announcement, Ondo launched early access to Ondo Perps, a perpetual futures platform offering up to 20x leverage on 16 major U.S. equities including NVDA, TSLA, AAPL, and MSFT, as well as gold, silver, and oil. 

Unlike most crypto perps platforms that only accept stablecoins as collateral, Ondo Perps accepts tokenized securities as margin, letting traders use existing tokenized positions without liquidating them first.

Protocol-wide, Ondo's total value locked stands at $3.52 billion, with Ethereum holding the largest share at around $1.69 billion. Ondo Global Markets recently signed a partnership with Franklin Templeton, bringing five of the asset manager's ETFs onchain. Franklin Templeton manages approximately $1.7 trillion in assets.

Conclusion

Ondo's integration with Broadridge gives holders of more than 250 tokenized stocks and ETFs access to proxy voting and investor communications for the first time. Voting preferences are proportional to token ownership and flow through Broadridge's existing institutional infrastructure. 

Combined with Ondo's 70% market share in tokenized equities, its multi-chain presence across Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain, and its recent expansion into perpetual futures and Franklin Templeton ETF tokenization, this integration adds a concrete governance layer to what onchain equity ownership can actually do.

Resources 

1. Ondo Finance on X: Post on April 28

2. Blog post by Ondo Finance: Ondo Partners With Broadridge to Bring Voting Capabilities to Tokenized Stocks

3. Ondo Finance Official announcement of Ondo Perps early access launch on X, March 27, 2026

4. DefiLlama Ondo Finance protocol data including TVL, chain breakdown, and fee metrics