Oro is the first startup with a live crypto token to ever get accepted into YC. And it’s on Bittensor. A few months ago, co-founders Shardul and Seth were probably at their lowest point. They’d just been hacked, things were looking rough, and they decided to apply to YC as basically a Hail Mary. To their surprise, Bittensor, their subnet, and what they were trying to build caught some attention and they got accepted. The guys have built one of the most innovative subnet designs on Bittensor, using incentives to create a machine for collecting diverse, high-quality agent traces at scale to build better agentic commerce systems. Now YC can give them the other half of what they need - support with turning all of that into a killer product and company. We’re at a point where basically every investor has spent the last year spitting on crypto tokens. For valid reasons tho because most tokens add absolutely nothing. Oro is a bright spot for the opposite case, with the token being an essential part of the core mission and system. Overall, a huge signal for Bittensor