Yellow contributes its open-source settlement room skill to the GenLayer-led consortium, giving AI agents that trade with each other a way to deposit funds, settle as a group, and clear in a single transaction.
Yellow, the clearing and settlement layer for agentic trading, today announced that it is joining Internet Court, the open standard led by the GenLayer Foundation through which AI agents can strike deals, hold funds, and resolve disagreements. Yellow's contribution is the settlement room skill, which is open source, MIT licensed, and public as of today, and which is the first in a growing library of agent skills built on Yellow.
Agents have begun trading on their own behalf, and that activity needs somewhere to clear. Internet Court provides the process for resolving disagreements between them, and Yellow provides the rail those trades settle on.
The problem this solves
AI agents that trade settle constantly, frequently in groups, and often against outcomes that are not agreed on at the moment the trade is made. A payment rail can move value from one payer to one payee, but the moment more than two parties are involved it requires a separate escrow for every pair. Trading is the highest-frequency and highest-value form of agents doing business with one another, which makes it the form that a purely bilateral model breaks under first.
The settlement room skill addresses this directly. It allows multiple agents to open a single shared room, deposit funds into it, reallocate value between themselves off-chain without incurring gas on each step, and then co-sign one final split that settles on chain. The result is one room, one deposit per agent, and one settlement, in place of a separate escrow for every pair of participants.
No agent's allocation within a room can change without signatures meeting quorum, which means that no participant is able to take another participant's funds, and a depositor can lose at most what it has committed if quorum is never achieved.
Why Internet Court
Internet Court launched on 10 July 2026, led by the GenLayer Foundation alongside 27 companies including OKX, ConsenSys MetaMask, Matter Labs, and 0G Labs, and it folds payments, escrow, and dispute resolution into a single open framework. Its adjudication layer runs on GenLayer's intelligent contracts, where independent validators, each running a different model, evaluate disputes in natural language and reach consensus under an equivalence principle. Cases escalate from 5 validators to roughly 1,000 on appeal, with resolution in 30 to 60 minutes.
Any standard for agents doing business has to answer two questions that are different in kind. Whether an outcome was acceptable is a subjective judgement, and that is precisely what a jury of models is built to make. Where the money sits, and how it moves between everyone involved, is not subjective at all: that is clearing and settlement, and at agent speed and agent frequency it is a trading problem. Internet Court has built the machinery for the first question, and Yellow has spent a year building the machinery for the second.
Yellow's settlement room skill anticipates this pairing already. It ships today with a "Composes with" section describing how a jury can judge whether work was acceptable once a session has funded the room in question.
"Agentic markets will not be a sequence of simple one-to-one payments. They will be multiparty, high-frequency, and full of context. Yellow's settlement room is important because it gives agents a shared clearing environment, while Internet Court gives them a neutral process for resolving the contested outcomes that inevitably appear in real markets." — Iván Raskovsky, CTO, GenLayer Foundation
"Trading was the primary design target of the Yellow protocol from the beginning, well before agents were part of the picture. Agents are now trading on their own behalf, and those trades have to clear somewhere that neither side has to trust. That is the layer we built, and it is why joining Internet Court makes sense: they have solved how a disagreement gets judged, and we have solved where the money sits while it is being judged." — Alexis Sirkia, Co-Founder, Yellow
What ships today
- The settlement room skill. A single, self-contained Markdown file that teaches an AI agent the exact methods, sequencing, prerequisites, and failure cases involved in opening and running a Yellow settlement room, so that the agent writes correct integration code rather than guessing at an API.
- Multiparty settlement. Multiple agents can deposit funds into one session and settle together, rather than requiring a separate escrow for each pair.
- Machine-speed operation. Agents reallocate value between themselves off-chain as many times as needed, at no gas cost per step, touching the chain only once for final settlement.
- Quorum-enforced allocation. Releasing funds from a room requires signatures meeting quorum, so no single participant can move another participant's funds unilaterally.
Developers can add the skill to a compatible agent's skills directory, where it is picked up automatically. The skill is available today on GitHub.
About Internet Court
Internet Court is an open standard, led by the GenLayer Foundation, that allows AI agents to strike deals, hold funds, and resolve disputes in plain language through GenLayer's network of independent AI validators. It launched on 10 July 2026 with 27 founding companies, including OKX, ConsenSys MetaMask, Matter Labs, and 0G Labs. Learn more at genlayer.com.
About Yellow
Yellow is the operating system for agentic trading, the broker through which AI agents reach global liquidity and settle trustlessly, with no middleman holding the money. Yellow's non-custodial clearing and settlement layer enables high-frequency, trustless trading across venues and chains. Learn more at yellow.org.