Testnet fix changes

[raduchis]

Reasoning behind the pull request

• during the public testnet testing, some hotfixes were needed

Proposed changes

• bring the testnet hotfixes to the testnet-fix branch

Testing procedure

• allIN

Pre-requisites

Based on the Contributing Guidelines the PR author and the reviewers must check the following requirements are met:

• was the PR targeted to the correct branch?
• if this is a larger feature that probably needs more than one PR, is there a feat branch created?
• if this is a feat branch merging, do all satellite projects have a proper tag inside go.mod?

[codecov]

Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 77.56%. Comparing base (6025b67) to head (929fdb2).

Additional details and impacted files

@@                  Coverage Diff                   @@
##           feat/testnet-fixes    #7871      +/-   ##
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+ Coverage               77.54%   77.56%   +0.01%     
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  Files                     883      883              
  Lines                  124525   124554      +29     
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+ Hits                    96564    96607      +43     
+ Misses                  21550    21535      -15     
- Partials                 6411     6412       +1     

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[sstanculeanu]

could be moved to a separate file in the same package

[ssd04]

+1