Twenty-Seven Crypto Firms Are Building a Court for AI Agents

By Isaac • July 11, 2026 9:37 pm •

AI agents can negotiate a deal, move money, and execute instructions without waiting for a person. The trouble starts when one agent says the other failed.

That missing step has drawn 27 crypto and Web3 companies into a project with an ambitious name: Internet Court.

GenLayer, OKX, MetaMask, and Matter Labs are among the firms trying to give autonomous software a shared route from identity and payment through escrow, evidence, and dispute resolution.

GenLayer Foundation describes its broader mission as building decentralized trust infrastructure for intelligent agents and human institutions. The organization supports the protocol, ecosystem, and governance expected to carry that mission.

Its premise is straightforward. Ordinary smart contracts are good at deterministic rules, such