The author also mentioned -you know- building a solution on 1980&#x27;s-era tech, namely a <i>single</i> database of <i>actual</i> (rather than proxy) shareholders and contact information&#x2F;voting instructions&#x2F;other useful info:<p>&quot;You could just, you know, build a big database of who owns shares, and transfer shares on that database, and not rely on a system in which people own shares in brokers&#x27; databases and brokers own shares in DTC&#x27;s database and DTC owns shares in companies&#x27; (transfer agents&#x27;) databases. The big database could send out voting instructions directly to the shareholders, cutting back on the outsourcing. You could build a new system, from the ground up, corresponding to the actual practices of finance rather than to the archaisms that they&#x27;re built on.&quot; [0]<p>No need to go all blockchain and shit, just consolidate the mess of systems into a single well-designed and well thought-out one.<p>[0] That &#x27;graph is -incidentally- the &#x27;graph that immediately <i>precedes</i> the one that mentions The Blockchain(TM).