Add staking to nodes so that we can upgrade to v0.51.x

[jeromy-cannon]

Previously, in v0.49.0-alpha.2, we were able to do a solo node add successfully in our E2E tests.

With version 0.50.0 it fails (see -> link). Based on discussion in this Slack thread -> link, we need to use v0.51.0-alpha.4 (discussion link, tag link). We also need to stake some HBAR to each of the nodes.

Because weight of consensus per node uses amount staked, we should go ahead and stake following genesis, which would imply in solo node start after the consensus nodes are active.

Requires Nathan to publish: https://builds.hedera.com/node/software/v0.51/build-v0.51.x

Sample code to stake to nodes generated by ChatGPT - Hedera Hivemind, thus will need to be adapted into our codebase:

  // Create the transaction
  const transaction = await new AccountUpdateTransaction()
    .setAccountId(myAccountId)
    .setStakedNodeId(nodeId)
    .freezeWith(client);

  // Sign the transaction with the account's private key
  const signTx = await transaction.sign(myPrivateKey);

  // Submit the transaction to a Hedera network
  const txResponse = await signTx.execute(client);

  // Request the receipt of the transaction
  const receipt = await txResponse.getReceipt(client);

  // Get the transaction status
  const transactionStatus = receipt.status;
  console.log("The transaction consensus status is " + transactionStatus.toString());

[jeromy-cannon]

bumped priority to P0. We need this ready so that solo node add can be used in Dynamic Address Book testing.

[swirlds-automation]

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 0.28.0 🎉

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