From Zero to GenLayer: A Beginner's Mental Model for Trustless Adjudication A beginner-friendly guide to understanding why GenLayer introduces Intelligent Contracts for decisions that need judgment. Why GenLayer matters If you are new to GenLayer, the simplest way to start is to compare it with earlier blockchain ideas. Bitcoin made trustless money easier to reason about. Ethereum expanded that idea into trustless computation. GenLayer presents itself as the next layer in that progression: trustless adjudication. That word sounds formal, but the core idea is practical. Some applications do not only need code to execute fixed rules. They need a way to resolve situations that involve judgment, natural language, unstructured data, or live web inputs. GenLayer is designed for that category of problem. 1. What "adjudication" means here In traditional software, many decisions are handled by a central service, a company policy, or a human reviewer.…