The American Arbitration Association (AAA), together with Integra Ledger and a coalition of major tech companies including Google, IBM, and Circle, announced the launch of the Legal Context Protocol (LCP). This open standard is intended to be a "legal layer" for transactions between AI agents, ensuring the legal integrity of transactions, agreement between parties, and clear dispute resolution when networks act on behalf of individuals or organizations.

Unlike many Web3 solutions, LCP does not require a blockchain or specific infrastructure and can be implemented on any web server. The protocol complements existing technical standards for payment and agent coordination, such as x402 and A2A. The LCP specification and benchmark implementation is released under the Apache 2.0 license, with future project management to be transferred to a neutral fund. The initiative has already been endorsed by dozens of leading market players, from the Stellar Development Foundation to UiPath.

By 2028, AAA projects that up to 90% of B2B purchases will be made by autonomous AI agents, and that the volume of such transactions will exceed $15 trillion. Creating an LCP responds to the challenges of time: the existing e-commerce legal framework is not designed for transactions between machines.