chore(deps): update dependency hardhat to v3

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
hardhat (source)	^2.25.0 -> ^3.0.0

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Release Notes

NomicFoundation/hardhat (hardhat)

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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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!

v2.26.3

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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)

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