Issue 322: testing: Implement Chaos Engineering (Network Partitioning) Tests

[AlAfiz]

Description

Distributed networks must survive "split-brain" scenarios. We need to introduce Chaos Engineering into our test suite to artificially simulate dropped packets, high latency, and network partitions to verify the node's recovery logic.

Requirements

• Create a local Docker Compose test environment running at least 5 nodes.
• Use a tool like Toxiproxy or Linux tc (Traffic Control) to dynamically inject 500ms latency and 10% packet loss between specific containers.
• Write an automated test suite that partitions the network into two halves, processes transactions on both sides, and verifies they successfully reconcile when the partition is healed.

[Neziahtech]

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