This wallet never opens for me on Windows 8.1, it just crashes while loading each time, no idea what to do :/
Edit: This makes no sense, but it seems that, for some reason Singularity's wallet conflicts with RazorCoin's wallet - I had Razor open all this time, I tried closing it, because I figured - why not, and then Singularity opened no problem. But obviously now Razor won't open, so I can't keep both open at the same time it seems, which is odd, this is the first time I've had any wallets conflicting with one another.
i was going to report that i too had problems with singularity getting past the "verifying wallet"
but i too had razor running.
and like you, killing razor allows me to start up singularity.
now i can see perhaps some Tor network resource conflict perhaps?
but that's not 'verifying wallet' -- perhaps more splashscreen sub-statuses are needed like 'starting secure networking' or something...
wtf?