Release: Sovereign Chains v0.5.0

Highlights:

• Sovereign Forge: multi-phase deployment + setup orchestration, with async deploy/callback flows.
• Hash-locked operations: replay protection and safer execution across bridge/config paths.
• Fee Market: new fee-market contract + fee distribution and whitelisting.
• ESDT Safe consolidation: token custody + registration flows reworked and consolidated.
• Validator + Header Verifier upgrades: validator registration flows and improved header verification logic.
• Operational controls: pause/unpause for cross-chain flows and stricter setup-phase gating.

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