MrBeast's finance bet could become the new generation's Schwab, Robinhood, Tom Lee says

The BitMine chairman said at Hong Kong Consensus 2026 that MrBeast acquiring neobank Step could win over a new generation of investors to crypto. What to know : Thomas Lee, the chairman of BitMine Immersion, said the company's bet on MrBeast and his neobank acquisition is a way to capture a new generation for whom digital assets are financially native. What Schwab was for boomers, BlackRock for Gen X and Robinhood for Millennials, Beast could become the financial institution of Gen Z and Gen Alpha, Lee said.