# GenLayer

> GenLayer is the adjudication layer for the agentic economy. It is a decentralized AI consensus protocol where validators powered by diverse models resolve contracts, disputes and real-world questions at machine speed.

GenLayer turns subjective, ambiguous, non-deterministic questions into verifiable on-chain outcomes. Many independent AI models each reason on their own, then reach agreement on questions that have no single deterministic answer, producing one trustworthy result the whole network can rely on, usually within ~30 minutes.

## Core pages
- [Home](https://genlayer.com/): What GenLayer is and why the agentic economy needs an adjudication layer.
- [How it works](https://genlayer.com/how-it-works): The primitives, one at a time - Optimistic Democracy, Intelligent Contracts, the GenVM runtime, Greyboxing and the Equivalence Principle, plus the end-to-end flow from dispute to finality.
- [Use cases](https://genlayer.com/use-cases): Where GenLayer adjudicates - agentic commerce, autonomous finance, prediction markets, parametric insurance, performance-based contracts and autonomous DAOs.
- [Ecosystem](https://genlayer.com/ecosystem): Builders, validators, partners and the projects already live on GenLayer.
- [Blog](https://genlayer.com/blog): News, deep dives and developer guides from the GenLayer team (RSS: https://genlayer.com/blog/rss.xml).
- [Brand](https://genlayer.com/brand): Official logos, the GEN token icon, colors and usage rules, with a downloadable media kit.

## Build
- [Documentation](https://docs.genlayer.com): Developer docs for writing Intelligent Contracts.
- [Whitepaper](https://genlayer.com/whitepaper): GenLayer: The Intelligent Contract Network. Technical whitepaper, version 2.
- [Whitepaper v1](https://genlayer.com/whitepaper-v1): The original 2024 vision paper, superseded by the technical whitepaper.
- [GitHub](https://github.com/genlayerlabs): Open-source repositories.
- [Studio](https://studio.genlayer.com): Browser IDE to prototype Intelligent Contracts.
- [Portal](https://portal.genlayer.foundation): Live network activity and the ecosystem.

## Key concepts
- Intelligent Contracts: Python programs that read the web and interpret natural language, not just on-chain data.
- Optimistic Democracy: a random set of diverse AI validators reaches consensus; disputes escalate through appeals (5 -> 11 -> 23 ... up to ~1,000) until finality.
- GenVM: the sandboxed runtime that safely mixes deterministic code with non-deterministic LLM and web calls, logging the reasoning path.
- Greyboxing: every validator runs a different, undisclosed model, defeating prompt-injection and adversarial inputs.
- The Equivalence Principle: two answers can differ in form yet be equivalent in meaning; developers define what counts as equivalent, validators decide if outputs match.

## Projects built on GenLayer
- Rally.fun: outcome-based marketing adjudicated by GenLayer (https://rally.fun).
- Intelligent Oracle: prediction markets and parametric insurance resolved from live web evidence (https://www.intelligentoracle.com).
- Internet Court: an open standard for agent-to-agent commerce, with GenLayer as the disputes layer (https://internetcourt.org).

## Languages
The site is written in English and translated into Español (https://genlayer.com/es), 简体中文 (https://genlayer.com/zh), Русский (https://genlayer.com/ru), Türkçe (https://genlayer.com/tr). Each language's blog carries the posts translated into it, with its own feed (https://genlayer.com/<language>/blog/rss.xml); the other posts are in English.

## Who is behind it
- GenLayer Labs: the research and engineering lab building the protocol (https://www.genlayerlabs.com).
- GenLayer Foundation: the steward keeping the protocol neutral until the network can govern itself (https://genlayer.foundation).