Part Three: Where this goes first
Grant milestone verification and bounty payouts are the natural first market, because the funds are typically already on-chain and there's no skeptical counterparty who needs convincing. Today, verifying whether a grant recipient delivered against a milestone is usually a human committee manually reading a GitHub link — slow, inconsistent, and shaped by relationships as much as by the actual rubric. An Intelligent Contract that fetches repository state, CI status, and delivered artifacts, and evaluates them against a published rubric, replaces subjective committee judgment with a transparent, fast, and appealable process.
SLA credits for cloud, API, and decentralized-infrastructure providers are an equally strong fit. Uptime evidence is public, multi-sourced, and timestamped — exactly the kind of evidence an Intelligent Contract can independently re-verify. What was previously hard — was a latency spike really an "outage" under the contract's specific definition? — becomes a question the network can answer consistently, quickly, and without asking the customer to argue with the very provider whose failure caused the claim.
Both of these are, structurally, the same contract that will eventually settle a dispute between two AI agents completing a task for each other. Whoever builds this today has already built the infrastructure the agentic economy will need tomorrow — and it will already be proven on real money by the time the agents arrive at scale.