With agent-to-agent deals and payment transactions increasing exponentially, contractual disagreements are bound to arise. Yet our judicial system is simply unable to intervene where only an internet-native court can.
That's the basic premise behind a novel blockchain protocol backed by 27 crypto firms, including GenLayer Labs and the Genlayer Foundation, MetaMask, OKX, NEAR Protocol, Starknet Foundation, 0G, and Matter Labs.
Agentic commerce is not prepared for the potential fallout when agents disagree at machine speed, according to 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,” he said.
The protocol aims to help reduce the fragmentation of and actively encourage the interoperability between the various agentic commerce systems.
There’s 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 system solves one layer of the stack and leaves the rest for the agents to figure out, said Albert Castellana Lluís, co-founder and CEO of GenLayer Labs.
OKX, MetaMask, Matter Labs back dispute resolution court for AI agents
The Genlayer Foundation is leading the 27-firm consortium that makes AI-based payments, escrow and dispute resolution interoperable.
In practice, what Internet Court introduces is a dispute resolution layer for the agentic economy - an effort spearheaded by GenLayer.
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.
A consortium of leading agentic companies launch Internet Court, the stack that enables the future of Agentic commerce
27 companies form the consortium, including GenLayer, OKX, 0G Labs, ZKsync, and others.
After the warm response to yesterday's breakdown of Chutes AI's achievements, I thought you might enjoy reading a research into the latest developments around Bittensor / Opentensor Foundation. Stillcore Capital, a U.S. fund exclusively dedicated to Bittensor - bridging traditional capital to the decentralized AI revolution, just released its latest State of Subnets Report.
The report details the current market capitalization of the Bittensor network and each of its individual subnets, aligning with the fund's main investment thesis:
Our thesis remains that $TAO will be a breakout 'third great coin' alongside Bitcoin and Ethereum at some point.
Read in full below to understand where one of the most fascinating DeAI networks is headed.
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A intriguing workshop will take place this coming weekend in Berlin. The Foresight Institute is gathering researchers and builders to ideate and collaborate across three interconnected domains: Secure AI, Private AI, and Decentralized and Cooperative AI.
Today, AI development is outpacing our defenses. Traditional security frameworks can’t keep up with the speed, scale, and complexity of AI-driven threats. Privacy-preserving technologies remain fragmented and hard to scale. And as AI systems proliferate into an ecology of coordinating agents, we lack robust mechanisms that favor cooperation over zero-sum competition.
Projects incubated at the workshop will be eligible for funding. Find more details below and apply.
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