feat: Upgrade to Node 18 and remove cross-fetch (#2678)

[ckeshava]

• feat: Upgrade to Node 18 and remove cross-fetch

BREAKING CHANGE: fetch now relies on the native javascript environment in browsers and node.js

• fix typo in HISTORY.md file

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High Level Overview of Change

Context of Change

Type of Change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• Refactor (non-breaking change that only restructures code)
• Tests (You added tests for code that already exists, or your new feature included in this PR)
• Documentation Updates
• Release

Did you update HISTORY.md?

• Yes
• No, this change does not impact library users

Test Plan

[ckeshava]

This PR has been reviewed at #2678

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Package	New capabilities	Transitives	Size	Publisher
npm/@noble/curves@1.4.0	None	0	1.39 MB	paulmillr
npm/@scure/base@1.1.6	None	0	80.4 kB	paulmillr
npm/@types/lodash@4.17.1	None	0	862 kB	types
npm/@types/node@18.19.39	None	0	1.97 MB	types

🚮 Removed packages: npm/@noble/curves@1.4.2, npm/@scure/base@1.1.7, npm/@types/lodash@4.17.6, npm/@types/node@16.18.46, npm/cross-fetch@4.0.0

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[ckeshava]

@justinr1234 Do you know why the Github UI displays Node 16 in these CI/CD options?

I have updated three more instances of Node 16 in this commit: af27476

I couldn't find any other remnants of Node 16 in the codebase.

[justinr1234]

@ckeshava it will continue running the test on the base branch (main) until you merge in these changes