Krista Lynch

Krista Lynch is a finance professional and managing director and head of trading and capital markets at Grayscale Investments, where she works with trading participants to support activity in the firm’s digital-asset products. She joined Grayscale in March 2022 after working in exchange-traded fund (ETF) markets at BlackRock and in product control at Goldman Sachs.^[1]^[2]

Education

Krista Lynch earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, specializing in Accounting and Finance, from the University of Miami School of Business (2009–2013). ^[2]

Career

Krista Lynch began her career at Goldman Sachs, where she worked as a Summer Analyst in the Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities Product Control group from June to August 2012. She returned to the firm as an Analyst in July 2013 and remained there until February 2016.

In February 2016, Lynch joined BlackRock in New York as an Associate in U.S. Private Capital. From November 2017, she worked in iShares Global Markets, progressing from Associate to Vice President in January 2020. Her responsibilities included managing daily primary-market trading for iShares fixed-income exchange-traded funds (ETFs). She remained at BlackRock until March 2022.

Lynch joined Grayscale Investments in March 2022 as a Director in ETF Capital Markets. She became Vice President in January 2024, Senior Vice President in July 2025, and Managing Director in July 2026. Based in Stamford, Connecticut, she leads trading and capital markets activities, including relationships with authorized participants, ETF market makers, and digital-asset liquidity providers. Her responsibilities also include trading relationships for private-placement vehicles and Grayscale Investment's proprietary activities, connecting participants in cryptocurrency markets with traditional financial markets. ^[1] ^[2] ^[3]

Media Appearances

In an interview published by The Rollup on October 14, 2026, titled “Wall Street Is Going All In On Digital Assets (Insider Take),” Lynch discussed financial advisers’ growing interest in Grayscale’s digital-asset ETFs. Topics included in-kind creations and their tax and estate benefits, the roughly $100 million fund size advisers seek, and interest in Zcash as AI-resistant money. The interview description also noted that Grayscale had filed to tokenize two additional products.^[4]