[Snyk] Security upgrade web3 from 1.0.0-beta.55 to 4.0.1

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Snyk has created this PR to fix one or more vulnerable packages in the `npm` dependencies of this project.

Changes included in this PR

• Changes to the following files to upgrade the vulnerable dependencies to a fixed version:
  • package.json

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Vulnerabilities that will be fixed

With an upgrade:

Severity	Priority Score (*)	Issue	Breaking Change	Exploit Maturity
	768/1000 Why? Proof of Concept exploit, Recently disclosed, Has a fix available, CVSS 7.5	Prototype Pollution SNYK-JS-WEB3UTILS-6229337	Yes	Proof of Concept

(*) Note that the real score may have changed since the PR was raised.

Commit messages

Package name: web3

The new version differs by 250 commits.

• 5b5bf87 changelog updates
• 45d55c3 version update
• 4358140 Release/4.0.1 rc.2 (#6152)
• cdc2835 fix canary auth (#6151)
• 55a4de1 add util polyfill (#6150)
• 45edf3d Canary releases (#6143)
• 01ce365 Proposal for rearranging docs (#6141)
• 86082bc skip '### Breaking Changes' section from unreleasedSection array (#6138)
• d60c285 Fix plugin example tests with `4.0.1-rc.1` (#6134)
• 88ac791 Correct and enhance documentation for subscribing to events (#6129)
• daaaff7 Autotype for contract methods (#6137)
• ab80131 support ESM builds (#6131)
• 6202d1e min build whitelisting (#6132)
• 7a924db migration guide update (#6130)
• 4f423fc Fix validation of nested tuples (#6125)
• 408332d fix!: remove non read-only ens methods (#6084)
• 8c5ea34 Providers Tutorial (#6095)
• f2abd6a Eth turorial (#6120)
• 210455a transaction integration tests (#6071)
• fe959a1 Contract options fix (#6118)
• bf1311f update docs so web is imported by default (#6112)
• 3b95b5e fix estimateGas to accept hex data without 0x prefix (#6103)
• 8c3a17b Add a tutorial for smart contract basic interaction (#6089)
• edc7a84 `defaultTransactionTypeParser` Refactor (#6102)

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