offcycle: Release circuit provers for v24.2

[EmilLuta]

This is an impromptu PR to release a fork from v17.0.0, adjusted for protocol version v24.2. Whilst this exercise exposes multiple risks, it is done internally to derisk moving from v24.2 to v25 on mainnet.

This release is not mandatory and is done mostly to carry circuit provers to mainnet, without being blocked by protocol upgrade. The same changes will arrive to mainnet later on during the v25 protocol upgrade.

[github-actions]

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[EmilLuta]

This PR is just a demonstration of the changes that will be released with provers-v16.7.0. Closing as it will never be merged.