Hardhat v2.12 persistSnapshots Flag Alters Snapshot Restoration Behavior
Goal: Determine whether enabling the persistSnapshots flag influences the restoration of transaction‑dependent state after an evm_revert in a forked Hardhat Network, given that snapshots currently capture only EVM state and not the mempool. Constraints: The flag persists only contract storage, code, and balances to disk; transaction logs and pending transact