Background

Currently, long zero addresses encode the shard and realm values. After discussion, this behaviour needs to be reverted as it serves no purpose and possibly causes unnecessary complications.

Acceptance Criteria

1. Ensure that shard/realm do not get encoded into long zero addresses
2. Test that addresses with where the first 12 bytes are not zero are treated as normal EVM addresses verses long zero.
3. Fix HAPI tests that have been altered to use long zero addresses with encoded shards and realms

Dependencies

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Definition of Ready (DoR) Checklist

• Clear acceptance criteria
• Clear and detailed description
• Dependencies identified
• Links to documentation
• Should be completable in 2-3 Days
• Initial draft of Low-level design document
• At least high level test plan
• Groomed/Estimated

Definition of Done (DoD) Checklist

• Acceptance Criteria complete
• No Codacy issues greater than minor (in new code)
• JavaDocs updated/created
• Code commented
• Unit tests created/updated
• 80% test code coverage (in new code)
• Happy Path and major negative cases in HAPI tests as applicable