This paper examines how emerging AI-mediated verification systems and open scholarly platforms are reshaping the epistemic foundations of academic peer review. It argues that traditional approval-based review mechanisms are increasingly misaligned with framework-based and structurally verifiable research, and proposes a layered verification model distinguishing between structural validation and human judgment. The paper contributes to the broader framework of Fiscal Epistemology by analyzing peer review as an epistemic infrastructure governing acknowledgement, verification, and legitimacy in knowledge production.