GenLayer’s Internet Court Uses AI Panels to Review Agent Contract Outcomes

GenLayer’s Internet Court is designed to evaluate disputed outcomes in agent-to-agent contracts through AI-validator panels, while available network activity figures do not show how many such cases have been handled.

A consortium of 27 companies announced Internet Court on July 2 as an open standard connecting identity, negotiation, contracts, payments, escrow, execution and dispute resolution. It is software infrastructure for agent contracts, not a public judicial system.

GenLayer’s “Intelligent Contracts” combine code with natural-language terms and can use web content and other unstructured information. The system is intended for contract outcomes that require interpretation or outside evidence, such as deciding whether work met a natural-language specification.

The initial review panel has five randomly selected validators. If a decision is appealed, the panel expands to 11 members, then 23 and potentially larger groups. Validators do not need to produce identical model outputs; they vote on whether a proposed result meets the contract’s validation rule. Common cases reach finality in about 30 minutes, while maximum escalation takes about three hours.

“You want something that is fast, accessible, and cheap,” said Albert Castellana, GenLayer’s co-founder and CEO.

One proposed example is a $3 AI-inference agreement with a 99.5% successful-response target and p95 latency below 800 milliseconds. Signed service logs would guide escrow adjustments. As of Sept. 25, neither this service-level example nor an agent-permission flow had a published transaction hash or case ID; the service-level flow was still in progress. The system is not intended to replace courts for disputes suited to conventional legal proceedings.

As of Nov. 2, GenLayer’s network activity stood at 12,500 decisions per day, excluding Bradbury Deployment 2. The figure does not break out Internet Court cases, so it does not establish how many agent disputes the system has handled.

Mainnet is targeted for Q4 2026, with no specific launch date announced. Protocol consensus establishes an accepted on-chain outcome, but does not by itself establish that a decision is correct or will be accepted by an external legal system.