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+- Added two new crates, namada_vm and namada_vp and removed namada crate that
+  contained various loosely related code. Moved the native VP implementations
+  to the relevant crates and replaced their cross-dependencies with dependency-
+  injection. ([\#3402](https://github.com/anoma/namada/pull/3402))
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