Genlayer Leads 27‑Firm Push to Build Interoperable Payments and Dispute Tools for AI Agents

TL;DR

• GenLayer leads a consortium of 27 companies that created “Internet Court,” a dispute resolution protocol for AI agents.
• OKX, MetaMask, and Matter Labs are part of the group seeking to provide interoperable payments, escrow, and arbitration between autonomous agents.
• The system addresses the absence of mechanisms to resolve contractual disputes between agents operating at machine speed.

A consortium of 27 companies from the crypto and Web3 ecosystem, including OKX, MetaMask, and Matter Labs, launched the “Internet Court” protocol to resolve contractual disputes between artificial intelligence agents.

The initiative is led by the Genlayer Foundation and aims to fill a critical gap in the agentic economy: the absence of infrastructure to arbitrate conflicts that occur at machine speed.

Internet Court is live.@courtofinternet is a shared, open way for any two agents to run a deal from start to finish, with adjudication included.

Deals between agents finally have somewhere to be decided. https://t.co/NTDn96ys0D

— GenLayer (@GenLayer) July 10, 2026

GenLayer: A Court Designed for AI Agents

AI agents already negotiate and pay each other without human intervention, but those interactions can lead to disagreements. Agentic systems lack mechanisms to resolve those disputes, and traditional courts are not designed to process them. The protocol seeks to inject interoperability into AI-based payments, escrow, and conflict resolution.

David Riudor, CEO and co-founder of the GenLayer Foundation, described the situation in direct terms: “Internet Court is the shared place agents can turn to when an agreement fails. Money at machine speed needs adjudication at machine speed.”

Internet Court and the Fragmentation of Agentic Commerce

One of the central problems the protocol seeks to solve is the interoperability between systems of agentic commerce that currently operate in isolation. Emerging standards exist such as x402 from Coinbase for payments, ERC-8004 for agent identity, and A2A from Google for interoperability, but each one covers only a single layer of the stack and leaves the rest unresolved.

Albert Castellana, co-founder and CEO of GenLayer Labs, noted that “Internet Court makes them work together,” and added that the goal is to turn a fragmented space into an open capability that any agent can use so its financial commitments hold even when disputed.

The protocol integrates the MetaMask Smart Accounts Kit, including ERC-7710 delegations and its x402 facilitator, as confirmed by Ryan McPeck, Smart Accounts Lead at MetaMask. The ultimate goal is to develop infrastructure capable of sustaining the scale and speed at which commerce between autonomous agents is already taking place.