July 10, 2026 – Lewes, Delaware – A consortium of 27 companies spanning the agentic and decentralised commerce infrastructure stacks today announced the launch of Internet Court, an open skill for agent-to-agent contracts.
Led by the GenLayer Foundation, the Internet Court is designed to integrate previously fragmented protocols around payment, escrow and dispute resolution, enabling interoperability via a single open standard. Ultimately, this means that any two AI agents acting on behalf of people or businesses can structure a deal, hold funds safely and settle disagreements fairly, all in natural language and at internet speed.
“Agentic commerce is reaching a critical turning point, and we’re not prepared for the potential fallout. Agents will disagree at machine speed, and the system meant to resolve such disagreements was built for parties with bodies and a finite tolerance for waiting,” said David Riudor, CEO and co-founder of the GenLayer Foundation. “Internet Court is the shared place agents can turn to when a deal goes wrong. Machine-speed money needs machine-speed adjudication.”
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SubscribeThe launch comes as AI agents begin to negotiate and pay one another without humans in the loop – and at remarkable speed. According to Adobe data, traffic from generative AI tools to US retail sites surged 4,700% year over year in July 2025. At the same time, McKinsey projects that AI agents will mediate $3- $5 trillion in consumer commerce globally by 2030 (up to $1 trillion in the US alone) even under conservative scenarios.
Yet the infrastructure underpinning this new economy is still highly fragmented. A wave of emerging protocols and standards – from Coinbase’s x402 for payments to ERC-8004 for agent identity and Google’s A2A for agent interoperability – each solves one layer of the stack and leaves the rest for the agents to figure out. Critically, every layer has been engineered assuming that everything goes right; yet none handles when something goes wrong. There is no full-stack option for agentic contracts, and no shared place to turn when a deal is disputed. In other words, the system is operating on the so-called “happy path,” without taking into account any of the issues that can arise. Traditional courts lack the speed and agility to handle these issues, taking an average of 344 days to resolve complex civil disputes in the US.
Internet Court addresses this gap head-on. The consortium’s founding members span every layer of the agentic commerce stack, featuring key players such as GenLayer Foundation and GenLayer Labs, which are building an adjudication layer for agentic commerce; Matter Labs’ ZKsync, which is using cutting-edge ZK tech to enable the privacy, performance and connectivity that businesses need to thrive in the digital asset economy; global cryptocurrency exchange OKX; and 0G Labs, the decentralized AI Operating System (dAIOS). GenLayer is using ConsenSys MetaMask Smart Accounts Kit as part of the Internet Court standard. Each member’s protocol is embedded directly into the Internet Court standard.
“The agentic stack is being built right now, but each standard solves one layer,” said Albert Castellana, co-founder and CEO of GenLayer Labs. “Internet Court makes them work together. With our founding members, we’re turning a fragmented space into a single open skill that any agent can use to make financial commitments hold up, even when they’re contested.”
Internet Court connects existing protocols through a shared set of natural-language interfaces spanning the full lifecycle of an agentic deal:
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Discovery, identity & reputation (ERC-7857, ERC-8004)
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Negotiation (A2A)
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Contracts & obligations (ERC-7710, ERC-8183, Arkhai)
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Payment & escrow (x402, MPP, APP)
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Execution (OpenClaw, Hermes)
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Verification & disputes (GenLayer, Kleros, UMA)
The standard is open and openly governed, and any agent can adopt it now.
“AI Agents are becoming a core part of how commerce works, and MetaMask is building at the frontier to put them at the center, transacting securely and acting within safe, well-defined permissions,” said Ryan McPeck, Smart Accounts Lead at MetaMask. “GenLayer is using the MetaMask Smart Accounts Kit, including ERC-7710 delegations and our x402 Facilitator, as part of Internet Court. These are the secure account and payment rails this new agentic economy needs underneath it. Internet Court is the kind of infrastructure we want our developer tooling to support. It lines up with our work on the MetaMask Agent Wallet, and we’ve already seen it in action with Osobot, an autonomous agent built on the delegation framework that’s been autonomously shipping code, running a newsroom, and judging hackathons.”
“The natural way for agents to transact will be crypto, programmable money that moves without a human in the loop. As more and more of the transactions on the internet are carried out by agents, the full flow needs to be reliable, from payment all the way through to catching when something goes wrong,” said Vassilis Tziokas, VP of Growth at Matter Labs. “That’s why we’re supporting the Internet Court initiative – it gives agentic commerce a complete standard, from settlement to the resolution of inevitable disputes, and the chain powering it runs on the ZK Stack.”
One of the core gaps filled by Internet Court is the introduction of a verification and dispute resolution layer for the agentic economy. This missing piece is addressed by GenLayer: a blockchain protocol that uses decentralized AI validator consensus to resolve contracts that require judgment, not just code. At its core are Intelligent Contracts – agreements that combine code, natural language and real-world information – evaluated by validators powered by diverse large language models.
Further details on the Internet Court standard, its founding members and its public launch are available at internetcourt.org.
