Update dependency hardhat to v2.26.3

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
hardhat (source)	2.22.12 -> 2.26.3

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Release Notes

NomicFoundation/hardhat (hardhat)

v2.26.3

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Patch Changes

• 5b2be3d: Make the resolver more robust (#​7073)

v2.26.2

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Patch Changes

• 11ee260: Don't use undici's global dispatcher, making Hardhat more stable across Node.js versions

v2.26.1

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Patch Changes

• 896c4ea: Revert micro-eth-signer to ^0.14.0 to fix compatibility with earlier Node 20 versions (#​7026)

v2.26.0

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Minor Changes

• 14b3042: Updated the minimal supported version of Node to v20 (#​6982)

Patch Changes

• 69acece: Upgraded EDR to v0.11.3 which includes:
  • fixes for stack trace generation and RIP-7212 support.
  • Removed copying of account code for provider accounts in forked networks. Code was previously ignored for default accounts only, now also for user accounts.
• 84fff85: Remove unneeded type dependencies, thanks @​reallesee (#​6990)
• e139cf3: Update the version of micro-eth-signer (#​6950)

v2.25.0

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Minor Changes

• 94b36b0: Upgrade hardhat-gas-reporter to v2 on both toolboxes (#​6886)

v2.24.3

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Patch Changes

• 6be5c13: Upgraded EDR to v0.11.1, which fixed a bug when sending ETH to the testing accounts in forked networks. Now testing accounts are automatically undelegated.

v2.24.2

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• 2bbb705: Wrap eth_accounts usage on http provider to handle method deprecation (#​6632)

v2.24.1

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• 9b75f5d: Fix a few potential errors that could happen when compiling Solidity in a subprocess
• a8ad44c: Added support for Node v24.

v2.24.0

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Minor Changes

• 82feaae: Set prague as the default hardfork in Hardhat network

Patch Changes

• a7aa6d6: Upgraded EDR to v0.11.0:
  • Replaced const enums with non-const enums in *.d.ts files
• 2ab8103: Relax validations for transaction signing introduced in the previous version by disabling strict mode in Transaction.prepare.
• 67f1e95: Support chainId values above 2^32 - 1 for local account transactions

v2.23.0

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Minor Changes

• aa09462: Add support for the Prague hardfork

Patch Changes

• a5419a7: Use npm_config_user_agent to determine what package manager to use for project creation
• 4ad0bc0: Upgraded EDR to v0.9.0:
  • Added support for the Prague hardfork
• 9d6f713: Upgraded EDR to v0.10.0:
  • Add Prague hardfork to the list of supported SpecIds
• b61cdd8: Add hardfork activation history for avalanche network
• 2f27ee8: Display configurable banner on project creation and task execution

v2.22.19

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Patch Changes

• 5d79fca: Fix heuristic to detect that an ESM project doesn't have a Hardhat config with an explicit .cjs extension.
• 00d542a: Update EDR to v0.8.0:
  • fix: improved provider initialization performance
  • fix: ignore unknown opcodes in source maps
  • fix: crash when loading EDR on Windows without a C Runtime library installed
  • fix: improved stack trace generation performance

v2.22.18

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• 25f45b0: Improve solidity stack traces performance by getting them from the EDR response
• 0e5c8d7: Restored the message linking to the 2024 solidity survey

v2.22.17

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• c6efe1d: fix: don't panic when a precompile errors
• 56d127b: Make totalDifficulty field optional, as spec has changed.
• e47b495: Added support for solc versions 0.8.28
• 9ad82f5: Added an optional --output param to the flatten task

v2.22.16

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• fcece65: Replaced chalk with picocolors, glob with tinyglob, and upgraded find-up

v2.22.15

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• ede1cde: Fixed custom HTTP headers for forked configurations

v2.22.14

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• 09ead48: Fixed error when remote nodes are not returning total difficulty from the eth.getBlock RPC API, by adding fallback value

v2.22.13

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Patch Changes

• bf92f4c: Fixed more bugs in the newly ported Solidity tracing logic
• 3df95d3: Remove support for console.log selectors that wrongly use "(u)int" type aliases in the selector calculation
• 4c1bcfc: Fixed minor bugs in the newly ported Solidity tracing logic

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