Have your shares held directly in Computershare (the transfer agent for GameStop and most big corporations) instead of in a brokerage. Depending on if you buy your shares directly from Computershare, or if you transfer them there from a brokerage, they will be classified as either "Plan" or "Book". You want them in "Book". Swapping them from Plan to Book only takes a few clicks of a mouse on the Computershare website.

https://www.drsgme.org/

Not your wallet, not your crypto = not booked shares, not your stock.

https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/34-47978.htm

“DTC states that issuers to do not have continuing ownership rights in shares they have sold into the marketplace and therefore cannot control the disposition of shares already registered in DTC's nominee name by directing that those shares be surrendered to the transfer agent or by restricting their eligibility for book-entry transfer at DTC.44 DTC contends that attempts by issuers to control their publicly traded securities are improper and may constitute conversion*.