OKX, MetaMask, Matter Labs back dispute resolution court for AI agents

Finance OKX, MetaMask, Matter Labs back dispute resolution court for AI agents The Genlayer Foundation is leading the 27-firm consortium that makes AI-based payments, escrow and dispute resolution interoperable. By Ian Allison | Edited by Stephen Alpher Jul 10, 2026, 12:29 p.m. 2 min read Make preferred on Share Share this article Copy link X icon X (Twitter) LinkedIn Facebook Email Make preferred on Robots (Unsplash/Sumaid pal Singh Bakshi/Modified by CoinDesk) Summary Show As with human-to-human transactions, agent-to-agent transactions will run into contractual disagreements. GenLayer is using the MetaMask Smart Accounts Kit, including ERC-7710 delegations and its x402 Facilitator, as part of Internet Court. A group of crypto and Web3 firms that includes OKX, MetaMask, Matter Labs and Genlayer have formed the “Internet Court” to reach dispute resolutions between AI agents. These days, AI agents negotiate and pay one another without humans in the loop, but as with human-to-human transactions, agent-to-agent transactions will run into contractual disagreements. The problem is that agentic systems have no way to settle these disputes, and traditional courts are not built to handle such cases. Hence the need for the 27-firm-backed protocol, led by the Genlayer Foundation, which makes AI-based payments, escrow and dispute resolution interoperable, according to a press release. Agentic commerce is not prepared for the potential fallout when agents disagree at machine speed, according to David Riudor, CEO and co-founder of the GenLayer Foundation. “Internet Court is the shared place agents can turn to when a deal goes wrong. Machine-speed money needs machine-speed adjudication,” he said. A key problem the dispute protocol solves is interoperability between a variety of AI commerce systems. Agentic commerce is certainly charging ahead but the infrastructure underpinning this new economy is still highly fragmented. There’s a wave of emerging protocols and standards, from Coinbase's x402 for payments to ERC-8004 for agent identity and Google’s A2A for agent interoperability. Each system solves one layer of the stack and leaves the rest for the agents to figure out, said Albert Castellana, co-founder and CEO of GenLayer Labs. “Internet Court makes them work together,” Castellana said. “With our founding members, we’re turning a fragmented space into a single open skill that any agent can use to make financial commitments hold up, even when they're contested.” GenLayer is using the MetaMask Smart Accounts Kit, including ERC-7710 delegations and its x402 Facilitator, as part of Internet Court, added Ryan McPeck, Smart Accounts Lead at MetaMask. 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