A group of cryptocurrency and Web3 companies, including OKX, MetaMask, Matter Labs, and Genlayer, have established an “Internet Court” to resolve disputes between AI agents.
These days, AI agents negotiate and pay each other without humans, but just like transactions between humans, contractual disagreements occur in transactions between agents.
The problem is that the representation system has no way to resolve these disputes, and traditional courts are not built to handle such cases. Therefore, a protocol backed by 27 companies led by the Genlayer Foundation will be needed to make AI-based payments, escrow, and dispute resolution interoperable, according to the press release.
According to David Riudor, CEO and co-founder of the GenLayer Foundation, agent commerce is not prepared for the potential impact of differing opinions between agents at machine speeds. “Internet courtrooms are a shared place for agents to turn to when a deal goes wrong. Machine speed funds require machine speed rulings,” he said.
A key issue that dispute protocols solve is interoperability between different AI commerce systems. While agent commerce is certainly moving forward, the infrastructure supporting this new economy remains highly fragmented.
