[General] L2 ETH token 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000800a balanceOf -- execution reverted

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Environment

Mainnet

Provide a brief description of the functionality you're trying to implement.

I tried to call balanceOf with 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000800a on a number of addresses.

I am using the required uint256 format to turn these wallets into the right format before calling.

1. balanceOf
(uint256)
_account (uint256)

This used to work just fine, up until the start of this week or so.

What is the specific issue or error you're encountering?

execution reverted

Can you share the error messages or logs you're receiving, if any?

ERROR - Failed to crawl balance for 0xD4A9Ec44027A7e567094c09bE036E5eE3DB60540 on 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000800A with error: execution reverted
ERROR - Failed to crawl balance for 0xD4aA165c09D00E493270f12D14586ca70b62a682 on 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000800A with error: execution reverted
ERROR - Failed to crawl balance for 0xD4AA5748309634Fc49701326308AB5E5D4aE4405 on 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000800A with error: execution reverted
ERROR - Failed to crawl balance for 0xD4AAe3198F717206B3DEB3BBA01BBF0C59Dd7AcE on 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000800A with error: execution reverted

Have you made any recent changes to the contract before encountering this issue?

No

Are there any external libraries or contracts that your contract interacts with?

web3 for python

Can you provide the relevant portions of your contract code where the issue is occurring?

value = w3_contract.functions.balanceOf(
                safe_to_check_sum_address(address)
            ).call(block_identifier=block_number)

Have you tried to isolate the problem, and if so, what were the results?

I have tried to pass in manually uint256 and it seems to be working in the explorer, but not via any of public endpoint or quicknode endpoint or chainstack or other.

What steps have you already taken to try to resolve the issue?

Debugged the code step-by-step to no avail.

Repo Link (Optional)

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On UI it works both with address type and with uint256 type. Before the error would be verbose, i.e. balanceOf(uint256) was found but not balanceOf(address), which I had a handle function for, but after upgrade it just reverts, so it needs special handling as a token.