chore(deps): bump ethers from 5.8.0 to 6.17.0 in /tools/merkle-allowlist

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Bumps ethers from 5.8.0 to 6.17.0.

Release notes

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ethers/v6.17.0 (2026-06-18 00:49)

• Add requestRate throttle to calls (b48bfe3).
• Added provider requestRate throttle support (b74b6d3).
• Disable AlchemyProvider which does not provide the necessary API capacity for tests (1523ca8).
• Map ResolverNotFound error to null for reverse lookup (d07cfb6).
• Use bigint for coinType instead of number values (4f6ec03).
• Updated AlchemyProvider endpoints for BNB (9bec2f9).
• Added basic ENSv2 tests and fixed issues with EVM cointypes (0e9a73d).
• Adding ENSv2 integrations from adraffy (a2d0af4).
• Update Blockscout deffault API key and links (5647ae3).
• Added transactionsRoot to Block (#5077, #5078; 5bd2ce9).
• Preserve 301/302 method and support 307/308 (#3106, #5115; 999af5f).
• Fix maxFeePerGas property for EtherscanProvider transactions (#5080; ca45d23).
• Added rich inspection for Network and Plugins (f2ffb86).
• Tweaking API for Universal Resolver to be completely backward compatible (9a5c4b5).
• Updated ENS Universal Resolver to latest API (0b3b12b).
• Added CCIP to ENS Universal Resolver reverse resolution (982eef2).
• Added reverse lookup for ENS UniversalResolver (9a9a11d).
• Initial forward resolution using ENS UniversalResolver (51df7b9).

ethers/v6.16.0 (2025-12-02 19:47)

• Added utility method to split EIP-7594 BLOb proofs into its cells (88dfe96).
• Update Alchemy URL endpoint for mainnet (#5052; 719b01d).
• Fail on unsupported Etherscan networks immediately to better support the default provider (94b333b).
• Added Filecoin network and Ankr endpoints (#5038; 986e827).
• Moved to better API for EIP-7594 PeerDAS (#5062; 452b422).
• Added initial EIP-7594 PeerDAS support (#5054, #5062; 6d64889).
• Support RegExp engines with string length limitations (#4967; f0dfbe1).
• Added Transaction and Signature support for non-canonical S values (#4223, #5013; 855d727).
• Allow zero-width big-endian data for toBeHex and allow widths fo toBeArray (#5025; 540f30c).

ethers/v6.15.0 (2025-07-01 11:24)

• Allow non-canonical S values in Signatures moving errors to access-time (#5013; 9944ec9).

ethers/v6.14.4 (2025-06-12 23:16)

• Fixed serialization of EIP-7702 transactions with leading 0-bytes (#4916; 389dc03).

ethers/v6.14.3 (2025-05-26 18:55)

• Fixed non-normalized yParity on EIP-7702 JSON-RPC responses (#4985; a8803ca).

ethers/v6.14.2 (2025-05-26 18:31)

• Fixed call stack overflow in makeError stringify for recursive structures (#4977, #4978; 52a0522).
• Explicitly throw error on gunzip failure to prevent uncaught exception (#4873, #4874; fe98f98).
• Skip additional receipt fetch for single confirmation requests (#4972; 243cb02).
• Update EtherscanProvider to use their v2 API (#4975; 5e09aa1).

ethers/v6.14.1 (2025-05-15 14:17)

• Fix JSON-RPC authorizationList signature entries encoded as DATA instead of QUANTITY values (#4916; 135db72).

ethers/v6.14.0 (2025-05-06 22:02)

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Changelog

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ethers/v6.17.0 (2026-06-17 23:50)

• Add requestRate throttle to calls (b48bfe3).
• Added provider requestRate throttle support (b74b6d3).
• Disable AlchemyProvider which does not provide the necessary API capacity for tests (1523ca8).
• Map ResolverNotFound error to null for reverse lookup (d07cfb6).
• Use bigint for coinType instead of number values (4f6ec03).
• Updated AlchemyProvider endpoints for BNB (9bec2f9).
• Added basic ENSv2 tests and fixed issues with EVM cointypes (0e9a73d).
• Adding ENSv2 integrations from adraffy (a2d0af4).
• Update Blockscout deffault API key and links (5647ae3).
• Added transactionsRoot to Block (#5077, #5078; 5bd2ce9).
• Preserve 301/302 method and support 307/308 (#3106, #5115; 999af5f).
• Fix maxFeePerGas property for EtherscanProvider transactions (#5080; ca45d23).
• Added rich inspection for Network and Plugins (f2ffb86).
• Tweaking API for Universal Resolver to be completely backward compatible (9a5c4b5).
• Updated ENS Universal Resolver to latest API (0b3b12b).
• Added CCIP to ENS Universal Resolver reverse resolution (982eef2).
• Added reverse lookup for ENS UniversalResolver (9a9a11d).
• Initial forward resolution using ENS UniversalResolver (51df7b9).

ethers/v6.16.0 (2025-12-02 19:47)

• Added utility method to split EIP-7594 BLOb proofs into its cells (88dfe96).
• Update Alchemy URL endpoint for mainnet (#5052; 719b01d).
• Fail on unsupported Etherscan networks immediately to better support the default provider (94b333b).
• Added Filecoin network and Ankr endpoints (#5038; 986e827).
• Moved to better API for EIP-7594 PeerDAS (#5062; 452b422).
• Added initial EIP-7594 PeerDAS support (#5054, #5062; 6d64889).
• Support RegExp engines with string length limitations (#4967; f0dfbe1).
• Added Transaction and Signature support for non-canonical S values (#4223, #5013; 855d727).
• Allow zero-width big-endian data for toBeHex and allow widths fo toBeArray (#5025; 540f30c).

ethers/v6.15.0 (2025-07-01 11:24)

• Allow non-canonical S values in Signatures moving errors to access-time (#5013; 9944ec9).

ethers/v6.14.4 (2025-06-12 23:16)

• Fixed serialization of EIP-7702 transactions with leading 0-bytes (#4916; 389dc03).

ethers/v6.14.3 (2025-05-26 18:55)

• Fixed non-normalized yParity on EIP-7702 JSON-RPC responses (#4985; a8803ca).

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Commits

• 3ea4c22 admin: updated dist files
• 2d35b6a docs: fix property access order for Flatworm
• b48bfe3 Add requestRate throttle to calls.
• 39f5ce1 tests: add INFURA_APIKEY for docs and workflows
• 96bd29c tests: added provider throttling to test suites
• b74b6d3 Added provider requestRate throttle support.
• 1523ca8 Disable AlchemyProvider which does not provide the necessary API capacity for...
• d07cfb6 Map ResolverNotFound error to null for reverse lookup.
• c32c542 docs: fix typo in config for INFURA API key
• 7c6b840 admin: include INFURA_APIKEY in docs generation to resolve throttling
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