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ROW 82-9 · DUG FRAME, WITH ITS THREE TESTS PRINTED · TO NOVEMBER 2026
The frame first, as the audit ordered it: Granger has no cryptocurrency industry, no exchange, no mining operation, no crypto firm seated in the CDP in any record reached, and no resident has ever been publicly identified as a crypto founder, executive or defendant from this ground. What a suburb of this kind actually has is exposure, not industry — bank apps, kiosk machines in its convenience stores, and residents inside statewide fraud statistics that are never broken out by place. Printed at that true size, the documented local items are three tests, and each is carried at its own strength.
The bank test. The dated first in Indiana is a state first, and it is not Granger's: on November 2, 2021, STAR Bank — the Fort Wayne-based community bank of STAR Financial Group — announced it had become the first bank in Indiana to offer bitcoin trading, letting customers buy, sell and hold bitcoin inside its mobile banking app through NYDIG on the Alkami platform, launched as a closed beta. STAR Bank keeps no office on this ground. Tested against the seven institutions that are seated here — the bank row the banked Businesses leg verified in November 2026: 1st Source Bank, Lake City Bank, Notre Dame Federal Credit Union, Communitywide Federal Credit Union, United Federal Credit Union, Old National Bank and Everwise Credit Union — no record reached shows any of them offering bitcoin or any cryptocurrency buying or selling, at any date. The first bank selling Bitcoin therefore stands outside this ground's row, dated November 2021, and the row's own course on the question is a documented silence.
The shell-company test and the victim test. This run swept the U.S. Attorney's releases and the federal-court and regulator record for a crypto case with a Granger shell company, a Granger defendant, or a Granger firm among a scheme's victims. The sweep returned Indiana crypto cases seated elsewhere — a SIM-swapping conspiracy charged against Elkhart residents in November 2024, its proceeds concealed through cryptocurrency; a $37 million theft run from Lebanon, Indiana, sentenced in the District of South Dakota in February 2025 — and nothing seated in Granger, nothing naming a Granger firm as victim, in any release or report reached. Both tests print as TESTED NEGATIVE, with the searches as stated; the settling source for any correction is the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana's release archive and the district's PACER docket, swept by party address.
Sources:
- STAR Bank's bitcoin-trading announcement, November 2021 (carried by Bitcoin.com News and The Cryptonomist, November 4–5, 2021) — first bank in Indiana; NYDIG/Alkami; buy, sell, hold in the mobile app; closed beta.
- Banked Businesses (intact mirror, read first-hand) — the seven-name bank row seated on this ground, verified November 2026.
- Search record of this run: U.S. Department of Justice releases and web sweeps for Granger + Bitcoin/cryptocurrency prosecution, fraud and shell-company phrasings — the Elkhart SIM-swap indictment (N.D. Cal., unsealed November 2024) and the Lebanon theft (D.S.D., February 2025) returned as the nearest Indiana cases; no Granger case returned.