{"id":2305,"date":"2026-02-10T02:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/mrbeast-just-bought-a-banking-app\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T02:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:14:13","slug":"mrbeast-just-bought-a-banking-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/mrbeast-just-bought-a-banking-app\/","title":{"rendered":"MrBeast just bought a banking app"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Photo: Victoria Sirakova \/ Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/gettyimages-2255012715.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Beast Industries, owned by YouTuber Jimmy \u00ab\u00a0MrBeast\u00a0\u00bb Donaldson, announced on Monday that it has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20260209810928\/en\/Beast-Industries-Acquires-Step-Expanding-its-Platform-to-Include-Financial-Services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acquired Step<\/a>, a banking app designed for teens and young adults. The move comes a couple of months after Donaldson announced <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hCmveoGig50?si=JDReLSIhu6iIRj0T&amp;t=345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plans to start a new YouTube channel<\/a> centered on personal finance and investing. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@MrBeast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">main channel<\/a> has 466 million subscribers and has long been one of the most popular on YouTube, frequently featuring videos where Donaldson gives away huge sums of money. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">MrBeast&rsquo;s other business ventures also include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/8\/7\/23822859\/mrbeast-burger-virtual-dining-concepts-counter-lawsuit-ghost-kitchen\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/8\/7\/23822859\/mrbeast-burger-virtual-dining-concepts-counter-lawsuit-ghost-kitchen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a chain of ghost restaurants<\/a>, the Feastables snack brand, and an upcoming phone service company called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mrbeast-ceo-confirms-plans-launch-phone-service-beast-mobile-2025-12\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mrbeast-ceo-confirms-plans-launch-phone-service-beast-mobile-2025-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beast Mobile<\/a>. This is \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/876080\/mrbeast-step-mobile-banking-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beast Industries, owned by YouTuber Jimmy \u00ab\u00a0MrBeast\u00a0\u00bb Donaldson, announced on Monday that it has acquired Step, a banking app designed [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}