Shardul Bansal

Shardul Bansal appeared at Proof of Talk Paris 2026 as co-founder and chief executive of ORO. Y Combinator’s public company directory later listed ORO AI in its Fall 2026 batch and identified Bansal as Founder and CEO, alongside co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Seth Schilbe. The directory describes the company as building an open benchmark for agentic commerce.

In Y Combinator’s description, builders submit shopping agents and independent validators evaluate them against problems that change over time. Agent performance determines rewards, while the evaluation runs create training data. On 8 June 2026, Bansal, Seth Schilbe and Jarrod Barnes submitted a research paper to arXiv about using Bittensor agent arenas to produce training trajectories for shopping agents. The paper describes ORO Subnet 15 as a deployment of the ShoppingBench benchmark and examines filtering evaluation traces into a training corpus. The Paris programme placed his appearance in the Bittensor track’s grouped subnet keynotes. The grouped keynotes brought together builders from several subnet projects during a shared afternoon programme.

At Proof of Talk Paris 2026, Shardul Bansal took part in the keynote session "Bittensor Track - Subnet Keynotes" on 2 June. The session ran from 15:30 to 16:45 on the Taostats Stage at the Louvre Palace. The programme also listed Robert Myers, Julien du Bois, Micaela Bazo, Tim Kalic and Ken Miyachi. In that edition’s roster, Robert Myers was billed with Manifold Labs; Julien du Bois was billed with Hippius; Micaela Bazo was billed with Metanova Labs; Tim Kalic was billed with Score; Ken Miyachi was billed with BitMind.