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git cherry-pick 468697a773b3bd368b2cc553dc41802cf8a51e31

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The only conflict was moving functions get_head/get_finalized from RPC_server.ml to here !7863 (89ca8a3a)

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Edited Mar 01, 2023 by Ilya Peresadin