* moved TxDependency Metadata to ExtraData in Block Header
* updated unit tests
* lints
* small bug fix
* small improvement
* minor bug fix
* addressed comments
* bug fix, only using the BlockExtraData structure after the Parallel Universe HF
* addressed comments
* fixed an error
* bug fix
* encoding nil ValidatorBytes and TxDependency in prepare if the current block is not the last block of the sprint
* bug fix
* rpc: add execution pool metrics
* rpc: stop execution pool and report metrics using ticker
* fix lint
* update go.mod, update metric report interval
* handle empty workerpool case to fix tests
* fix lint
* refactor ep metrics collection based on each service
* remove log
* rpc: convert processed metric to histogram
* dev: chg: pos-1605: fix govulns by bumping golang version and replacing mongodb version
* dev: chg: pos-1605: update some dependencies to solve dependabot vulns
* dev: chg: update linter for compatibility with upgraded go version
* dev: chg: update go version in golangci lintere
* dev: chg: update go version in ci workflow, docker and travis
* dev: chg: change govulncheck version to a stable fixed one
* dev: chg: fix govulncheck version
* dev: chg: remove vulncheck version
* dev: chg: adapt tests based on go-ethereum for go version upgrade
* dev: chg: use explicit go version for templum action
* dev: chg: fix lint
* dev: chg: fix lint
* dev: chg: 1.20.x explicitly in packager
* dev: chg: ignore some additional leak to be fixed
* dev: chg: ignore some additional leak to be fixed
* dev: chg: fix lint
The `baseFee` can be `nil` in certain situations, the tracing must not use `baseFee` unless it was checked otherwise if such case happen, Go is going to panic.
