Por Stiven Cartagena
July 10, 2026
AI-powered e-commerce is another trend that is beginning to gain momentum. This week, a consortium of 27 companies from the decentralized infrastructure and autonomous agent sectors—including GenLayer, OKX, 0G Labs, and ZKsync—announced the launch of Internet Court. This new platform functions as an open standard designed to integrate previously fragmented protocols for payment, escrow, and dispute resolution, allowing contracts between AI agents to be structured and resolved in natural language.
The launch comes at a crucial moment, as AI agents are beginning to interact with one another at high speed without human intervention. According to McKinsey projections, these agents are expected to facilitate between $3 trillion and $5 trillion in global consumer commerce by 2030. However, the current infrastructure was not prepared for conflicts; while traditional civil courts take an average of 344 days to resolve complex disputes in the United States, the new digital ecosystem demands immediate responses.
"Agents will disagree at the speed of machines, and the system designed to resolve such disagreements was built for parties with physical bodies and a finite tolerance for waiting," said David Riudor, CEO and co-founder of the GenLayer Foundation, emphasizing that money moving at the speed of machines requires adjudication at that same speed.
Until now, the agent economy operated under the so-called "happy flow," assuming that transactions would always go smoothly and failing to anticipate what to do in the event of failures. While there are various emerging protocols that address individual layers of the problem—such as Coinbase's x402 for payments, ERC-8004 for identity, or Google's A2A for interoperability—there was no shared space to turn to when an agreement became disputed.
Internet Court addresses this gap by connecting existing protocols through a shared set of natural-language interfaces that cover the entire lifecycle of an agreement, from discovery and negotiation to execution and verification. Albert Castellana, co-founder and CEO of GenLayer Labs, explained that through this effort, they are transforming a fragmented space into a single, open capability that any party can use to uphold their financial commitments, even when they are contested.
The development of this infrastructure involves the direct integration of key tools. The platform uses MetaMask's Smart Accounts Kit to provide the secure payment channels required by this new economy—a technology that has already been successfully tested by agents such as Osobot, which has autonomously sent code and judged hackathons.
Ryan McPeck, Smart Accounts Lead at MetaMask, emphasized that AI agents are becoming a central part of global commerce. "MetaMask is building at the frontier to put them at the center, enabling them to transact securely and operate within safe, well-defined permissions," explained McPeck.
Furthermore, the network powering the initiative runs on ZKsync's ZK Stack, providing the necessary privacy, connectivity, and performance from settlement through dispute resolution. For his part, Vassilis Tziokas, VP of Growth at Matter Labs, emphasized the need for a robust network to support this volume of transactions. "The natural way for agents to conduct transactions will be through cryptocurrencies—programmable money that moves without a human in the middle," he said.
The centerpiece introduced by Internet Court is precisely its verification and dispute resolution layer, powered by GenLayer's blockchain protocol. This system uses the consensus of decentralized AI validators to evaluate so-called "Smart Contracts"—agreements that combine code, natural language, and real-world information—enabling the resolution of complex situations that require judgment rather than merely the strict execution of code.
