The American Arbitration Association, one of the world’s largest providers of private dispute-resolution services, has created a specialist panel to handle blockchain and digital-asset cases. The move, announced on Wednesday, gives companies access to arbitrators experienced in the technical and legal issues of crypto disputes.

The new Web3 Panel gathers specialists from law, technology, academia, litigation and digital-asset businesses. It is structured to resolve disagreements that arise from automated and decentralized commercial systems. These include questions of contract interpretation, governance, asset control, cybersecurity, transaction records and cross-border enforcement.

The panel also addresses disputes involving agentic commerce and autonomous transactions, in which software or artificial intelligence systems may start or complete agreements with limited human input.

Initial members include lawyers focused on digital-asset and technology disputes, University of Pennsylvania law professor David Hoffman and Rich Widmann, global head of Web3 strategy at Google Cloud.

Eric Dill, the association’s senior vice president and head of panel relations, noted that Web3 disputes present familiar commercial issues within a highly technical setting.

The panel does not confer any regulatory authority on the association over the cryptocurrency sector. Arbitration remains available only when the parties agree to submit their dispute to a private arbitrator.