Impressive that @GenLayer lets smart contracts judge whether a task was actually completed, then settle the payment onchain. An AI agent submits the work. Who decides if it actually followed the brief? This is the @GenLayer use case that clicked for me. Imagine I hire an agent for $1,000 to produce a research report with: – 10 primary sources – Data published within the last 30 days – A summary of the key market changes – Delivery before a fixed deadline The payment sits in escrow. A normal smart contract can verify the deadline and whether a file was submitted. It cannot judge whether the sources are relevant, the data is current or the report actually satisfies my instructions. A traditional oracle can bring the source data onchain. It still does not interpret the complete delivery against the agreed criteria. This is where GenLayer works differently: [1] The Intelligent Contract stores the task, accepted evidence and possible outcomes. [2] The agent submits its work. [3] A selected validator runs the contract, checks the submission and relevant web sources, then proposes a result such as COMPLETE or INCOMPLETE. [4] Other validators independently assess that result against the same brief and evidence. The contract’s Equivalence Principle defines whether they reach the same decision in meaning. [5] Validators commit their votes before revealing them, reducing the ability to copy or adjust to other votes. [6] If the committee accepts the result, the contract releases the $1,000 or returns it according to the predefined rules. [7] If the result is challenged, an appeal can send it to a fresh committee for another review. The important part is that one AI does not control the payment. AI provides the judgment, then the validator network turns that judgment into a shared, enforceable result. That makes GenLayer more than an oracle that reports what happened. It can evaluate whether a natural-language agreement was actually fulfilled. Someone must interpret the evidence before the contract can settle. As far as I know, only GenLayer is building that decision layer atm.