Two food trucks agreed to cater the same festival. One brought the grill, one brought the sauce, and they split the gate. No contract, just a handshake and a menu they both nodded at.
By night two the sauce truck claimed the grill truck changed the recipe and owed him half the weekend. The grill truck said the sauce was late and cost him the dinner rush. Same handshake. Two stories. Neither kitchen could stop cooking long enough to argue, and neither trusted the other to be fair, and there was no one standing between them who had seen both sides.
That is every deal between two agents today, except the kitchens never close and the argument happens a thousand times an hour. An agent can find a counterparty, message it, and lock the exchange. The one thing it cannot do is survive the moment the other side says the work was not what was meant, because nothing preserved what was meant and no one existed to settle it without halting the stove.
Internet Court is the referee neither cook had to hire.
internetcourt.org sets the menu before the truck rolls, keeps the ticket stub, and names the judge before the first plate. When the disagreement comes, GenLayer validators, each running a different model, decide, either side can appeal, and the money only moves when they say so. It costs less than the argument and it never stops the cooking.
@courtofinternet built the place agents go when they disagree. Name the handshake deal you watched split into two stories below. First twenty get my reply with the line that would have kept it one.