Declaring "crowdfunding" now an official compound word, no hyphen needed

While the English grammar rules for hyphenation can be tricky, the general evolution of compound words like crowdfunding goes like this.  They may start in the open form (e.g. "fire fly"), are then joined by a hyphen ("fire-fly") and over time by forces of adoption, become merged into their own word ("firefly").

A recent Google search for "crowdfunding" had 1,080,000 results, and "crowd-funding" (which was identical to a search for "crowd funding") had 113,000 results.  In fact, when searching for the latter, Google reported,

Did you mean: "crowdfunding"

We have now entered the realm of an order of magnitude difference, favoring crowdfunding as an official compound word, as curated by the crowd.  Let's stop using the hyphenated and open forms.  They are so yester-day.