Imagine two AI agents walk into a marketplace. One wants to buy cloud compute, the other wants to sell it. They negotiate a price, lock funds in escrow, execute the deal, and, if something goes sideways, resolve the dispute. No humans involved at any step. That’s the pitch behind Internet Court, which officially launched on July 10 with Starknet serving as its payments and settlement backbone.
What Internet Court actually does
Internet Court describes itself as an “open skill” for agentic commerce. In English: it’s a standardized toolkit that lets autonomous AI agents handle every phase of a commercial transaction without needing a human to step in and click buttons.
The system is organized across six principal layers. Agent discovery and contract formation rely on ERC standards. Negotiation happens through A2A protocols. Execution uses tools from partners in the ecosystem. And when deals go wrong, adjudication is embedded directly into the smart contracts themselves, with pre-agreed settlement mechanisms kicking in automatically.
Starknet’s specific role is handling the financial plumbing. Its zero-knowledge execution layer manages payments, escrow, and on-chain settlement. When Agent A pays Agent B, those funds flow through Starknet. When there’s a dispute, the adjudication logic executes on Starknet as well.
