chore(deps): update dependency hardhat to v2.22.17

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Adoption	Passing	Confidence
hardhat (source)	2.22.16 -> 2.22.17

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Release Notes

nomiclabs/hardhat (hardhat)

v2.22.17: Hardhat v2.22.17

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This release introduces support for Solidity 0.8.28, enhances the flatten task with an optional --output parameter to specify the output file, and aligns with the latest spec by making the totalDifficulty field in block responses optional. Additionally, it fixes an issue to prevent panic errors from precompile failures.

Changes

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

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