fix(deps): update dependency hardhat to v3

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
hardhat (source)	2.26.3 -> 3.0.11

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Release Notes

NomicFoundation/hardhat (hardhat)

v3.0.11

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Patch Changes

• a4733f6: Add defineConfig in hardhat/config
• 52d9902: Fix package manager detection
• d45234d: Fixed Etherscan verification failures by removing hardcoded v1 API URLs from chain descriptors (#​7623). Also enhanced config resolution to support partial overrides in block explorer configurations for future extensibility.

v3.0.10

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Patch Changes

• fe28daf: Added support for showing gas statistics after running tests (#​7472 and #​7503)
• 1ab6b75: Optimism ISTHMUS hardfork support added to Hardhat (#​7517)
• 5e64246: Improved JS/TS test tasks to not compile Solidity tests (#​7626)
• 217a1a8: Fix arbitrum sepolia chain id in chain descriptors (thanks @​aelmanaa!)
• 8a03bd0: Fixed gas calculation for EIP-7702 refunds (#​7606)
• 8a03bd0: Make all parameters of eth_feeHistory rpc call required (#​7606)

v3.0.9

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Patch Changes

• 0ee442d: All test runners now set NODE_ENV to "test" in case it is not set before the tests start (#​7511)
• b27b924: Fix bug in flatten task where ordering was incorrect (#​7586)

v3.0.8

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Patch Changes

• d2c9a7f: Don't swallow the original error when trying to improve installation error messages (#​7569)
• ec50793: Validate initialBaseFeePerGas against hardfork only for L1 chain type (#​6181)

v3.0.7

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Patch Changes

• 138d673: Added network.createServer(...) to spawn a Hardhat node programmatically (#​6472)
• d414eda: Added support for conditional dependencies on plugins (#​7424)
• 138d673: Added support for compiling solidity tests separately from contracts (#​6474)
• e17972f: Added hre.versions with Hardhat and EDR package versions.
• 34add2d: Added configVariable support for test.solidity.forking config
• b13620a: Added compilation progress spinner to show build progress (#​7460)
• 4c65d3e: Automatically add compilation results to a running npx hardhat node on recompilation (#​6040)
• 138d673: Updated EDR to version 0.12.0-next.7
• d821a0a: Fixed npm artifact cleanup on windows (#​7459)
• 138d673: Fixed creation of network connections to include config extensions from plugins (#​7106)

v3.0.6

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Patch Changes

• 609d05c: Add deprecation warning for testFail_* test functions
• 8c1cb1e: Fixed dependencies for Hardhat so rpc utils can be loaded (#​7415)

v3.0.5

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Patch Changes

• bebf87c: Added support for Linea network verification, thanks @​kyzooghost (#​7357)
• 0bfe6ac: Fixed coverage report when loading data from large test suites (#​7385)
• be469d6: Display an error message when attempting to use a global hardhat installation in a local repo (#​5362)
• 49cc9ba: Load resolved global options into environment variables during tests (#​7305)
• 8d3b16c: Support for custom compilers (#​7130)
• a475780: Added automatic proxy detection for hardhat-verify and fixed case-insensitive proxy environment variables for network requests (#​7407)
• 3996886: Fixed getBuildInfoPath and getBuildInfoOutputPath to correctly return undefined when build info files are missing 7052

v3.0.4

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Patch Changes

• af301a8: Update validation for solidity test config (#​7205)

v3.0.3

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Patch Changes

• 34a5bc9: Fixed an issue when making historical calls in a forked network (#​7271)
• e0e658a: Upgraded EDR to 0.12.0-next.5. This brings a fix for expectEmit cheatcode stack traces and performance improvements from upgrading to REVM 27 (#​1063)

v3.0.2

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Patch Changes

• d45d544: Fixed passing global network options to node:test and mocha subprocesses (#​7248)
• 003e72c: Help message phrasing unified
• 0120e67: Added warning when running with a non-LTS Node version (#​7167)
• 9261714: Update npm module regex to include versions in solidity imports (#​7308)

v3.0.1

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Patch Changes

• a3bd239: Add Yarn support for Hardhat v3 (#​7192)
• 617254e: Move extraneous dependency to peer (#​7231)
• 6446a38: Add temporary fix for incorrect error message (#​7168)
• 6361ea4: Fixed an issue with compiling a Hardhat project after switching OS users (#​7161)
• 5c9ee7f: Warn the user if they are not using the latest version of Hardhat
• 0fc1f3f: Remove full stops from help message descriptions (#​7185)
• 8acf48f: Improved exception filtering for Sentry telemetry (#​7246)
• e7d2f80: Added missing Solidity test config option allowInternalExpectRevert.

v3.0.0

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Major Changes

• 29cc141: First release of Hardhat 3!

v2.26.5: Hardhat v2.26.5

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This release is a small bug fix to improve compilation in the presence of a malformed solidity-files-cache.

Changes

• f886268: Ignore malformed solidity-files-cache so compilation keeps running while logging the issue in debug, thanks @​iosh (#​6489)

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v2.26.4: v2.26.4

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This is a small release that includes solc version support for 0.8.30 along with other bug fixes.

Changes

• e5ff273: Fix to be explicit that execFile should pass stdout/stderr as strings (#​7333)
• 5655ebb: Update latest supported solc version to 0.8.30 (#​7365)
• 9d10226: Links in the code and READMEs updated to point to the Hardhat 2 documentation and resources

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