Hardhat-ledger v3

[ChristopherDedominici]

Ports hardhat-ledger to Hardhat 3.

hardhat-ledger will not be included in the toolboxes, but will provide a key deployment option when running in Hardhat scripts. Hardhat Ignition support is not included in this PR but is coming soon.

Link to internal design doc

Fixes: #5646

TODO after MERGE

• Write documentation: HH-ledger: add documentation hardhat-website#96
• Improve UI: HH-ledger: improve UI #7576

TODO

• Port code to v3
• Port tests to v3
• Resolve manual test failure
• Add README.md
• Resolve question of exporting core functions (are they going to utils and when?) - Move methods and types for hh-ledger #7281
• Resolve node-hid overrides question: synch needed - need second eye opinion Hardhat-ledger v3 #6983 (comment)
• Resolve npx hardhat node failure: fix: copy across network config extensions #7106
• Remove this change (node-hid) before merge: https://github.com/NomicFoundation/hardhat/pull/6983/files#r2225623969
• Check that v3 handles the scenarios addressed in this PR
• Manual testing with a hardhat-ledger

Related V2 bugs fixed in V3

• Using both accounts and ledgerAccounts in an http network doesn't work is now fixed, as shown in this test
• Hardhat-ledger plugin error using blockchains that don't support EIP-1559 transaction format is now fixed, as shown in the example project

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Total size of the bundle: 35M
Total number of dependencies (including transitive): 40

List of dependencies (sorted by size)

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456K	@nomicfoundation/edr
452K	fast-equals
408K	json-stream-stringify
368K	ethereum-cryptography
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320K	@nomicfoundation/hardhat-zod-utils
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24K	strip-ansi
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24K	ansi-regex
20K	ms

John is OOO and he confirmed that all remaing comments are not blocking
PR approved by @fvictorio