Backport !3753 - Shell: offer exception-less functions in Hex
Context
Changes in !3753 (merged) touch src/proto_alpha and we need them in snapshotted Protocol I. Cherry-picked all commits from it using the following commands.
$ git checkout -b proto-i-backport-3753
$ git cherry-pick 5cc1ce23555543afe0c80c77674e63f416118ac3
Manually testing the MR
Check CI.
Edited by Fedor Sheremetyev