Process hangs with Invalid hex bytecode for contract error

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Feature: Solidity tests

Process hangs with Invalid hex bytecode for contract error

What’s also curious about this error is that it is not advertised on the error callback. It is just displayed and the process hangs.

Reproduction steps:

1. Check out the wip/testing-solidity-tests-wtih-hardhat branch of NomicFoundation/edr.
2. Check out the wip/solidity-test-merged branch of NomicFoundation/hardhat
3. Go to v-next/hardhat of the Hardhat checkout
4. Build Hardhat with pnpm build
5. Go to crates/edr_solidity_tests/tests/testdata of the EDR checkout
6. Link Hardhat with npm link $PATH_TO_HARDHAT/v-next/hardhat
7. Replace the value of https://github.com/NomicFoundation/edr/blob/wip/testing-solidity-tests-wtih-hardhat/crates/edr_solidity_tests/tests/testdata/hardhat.config.js#L4 with ["default/fork"] or ["default/linking"].
8. Run solidity tests with npx hardhat3 test:solidity

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Done in #704