27 Crypto Firms Launch Internet Court for AI Agent Disputes

A consortium of 27 major cryptocurrency and blockchain firms announced the launch of the Internet Court on July 10, 2026, a new open standard designed to resolve contractual disputes between autonomous artificial intelligence agents. The initiative, led by the GenLayer Foundation, aims to provide a machine-speed adjudication system for an emerging economy where AI agents are projected to mediate trillions of dollars in commerce.

The protocol addresses a critical gap in what proponents call "agentic commerce." While AI agents can already negotiate, execute payments, and fulfill contracts using existing standards, they lack a unified mechanism to resolve disagreements that arise from these automated interactions. The consortium argues that traditional human court systems, which can take hundreds of days to settle complex disputes, are incompatible with transactions occurring thousands of times per second between software programs.

Internet Court functions as an integrated framework connecting six layers of agent interaction: discovery, negotiation, contracts, payments and escrow, execution, and dispute resolution. It incorporates established protocols like ERC-8004 for agent...