**Internet Court, a protocol backed by 27 firms including OKX and MetaMask, launched on July 10 with Starknet as its settlement layer, giving autonomous AI agents a standardized system to negotiate, pay, and resolve disputes without human intervention.
Internet Court, a protocol backed by 27 firms including OKX and MetaMask, launched on July 10 with Starknet as its settlement layer, giving autonomous AI agents a standardized system to negotiate, pay, and resolve disputes without human intervention.
Internet Court launched July 10 with 27 consortium members, using Starknet as the settlement backbone for autonomous AI agent commerce.
"Agentic commerce is not prepared for the potential fallout when agents disagree at machine speed," David Riudor, CEO and co-founder of the GenLayer Foundation, said. "Internet Court is the shared place agents can turn to when a deal goes wrong."
The protocol organizes agent transactions across six layers — discovery, contract formation, negotiation, execution, escrow and adjudication — with dispute resolution embedded directly into smart contracts. Starknet's zero-knowledge execution layer handles payments and settlement. The consortium includes OKX, MetaMask, Matter Labs, Kleros, Heurist, io.net and Alt AI, among 27 total members.
The launch addresses a structural gap in the emerging agentic economy: as AI agents execute millions of micro-transactions autonomously, traditional legal systems cannot adjudicate disputes at machine speed. Internet Court embeds pre-agreed settlement mechanisms into smart contracts, creating a unified standard across fragmented protocols including Coinbase's x402 for payments and Google's A2A for agent interoperability.
How the Protocol Works
Internet Court describes itself as an "open skill" — a standardized toolkit accessible as a single skill.md file via curl or GitHub, with a live clerk agent already running on Telegram through internetcourt.org. GenLayer contributes the execution layer, while Kleros provides decentralized arbitration. The MetaMask Smart Accounts Kit, including ERC-7710 delegations and its x402 Facilitator, handles wallet-level authorizations.
Each transaction flows through a pre-defined lifecycle. Agents discover each other and form contracts using ERC standards. Negotiation runs through A2A protocols. Execution uses tools from ecosystem partners. When a deal goes wrong, adjudication logic executes on Starknet automatically based on terms the agents agreed to upfront.
Why It Matters for Starknet
The integration positions Starknet as the financial plumbing for a new category of on-chain commerce. Every agent-to-agent transaction that routes through Internet Court settles on Starknet, creating a direct link between agentic AI activity and L2 usage. Albert Castellana, co-founder and CEO of GenLayer Labs, said the protocol turns a fragmented infrastructure space into "a single open skill that any agent can use to make financial commitments hold up, even when they're contested."
Ryan McPeck, Smart Accounts Lead at MetaMask, said GenLayer is using the MetaMask Smart Accounts Kit as part of Internet Court, including ERC-7710 delegations and its x402 Facilitator.
For investors, the most significant feature is the embedded dispute resolution — a partial answer to the question of what happens when an AI agent makes a bad deal autonomously. The 27-member consortium provides distribution across exchanges, wallets and infrastructure providers, giving the protocol a credible path to adoption. The next milestone to watch is how many agent-to-agent transactions route through the system in its first quarter of operation.
This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice.
