fix: Resolve various problems to enable tests from local-node and smart-contracts to run agains solo network #2100

All 5 tests pass in 2m 58s

1 files ±0 1 suites ±0 2m 58s ⏱️ +5s
5 tests ±0 5 ✅ ±0 0 💤 ±0 0 ❌ ±0
6 runs ±0 6 ✅ ±0 0 💤 ±0 0 ❌ ±0

Results for commit 043cb47. ± Comparison against earlier commit 6240d84.