[Snyk] Security upgrade web3 from 1.0.0-beta.36 to 1.2.8

[snyk-bot]

Snyk has created this PR to fix one or more vulnerable packages in the `npm` dependencies of this project.

Changes included in this PR

• Changes to the following files to upgrade the vulnerable dependencies to a fixed version:
  • package.json
  • package-lock.json

Vulnerabilities that will be fixed

With an upgrade:

Severity	Issue	Breaking Change	Exploit Maturity
	Timing Attack SNYK-JS-ELLIPTIC-511941	No	No Known Exploit

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