feat(backend): harden reliability — timeouts, circuit-breaker, retry,… - #1437

• closes Add request timeout and cancellation handling #1237

• closes Add circuit breakers for Soroban RPC and Horizon #1238

• closes Add retry with jitter for transient upstream failures #1239

• closes Add request body size limits per route #1224

• Add explicit timeouts for all outbound HTTP (Soroban RPC, Horizon, IPFS, X API) via fetchWithTimeout / withTimeoutAndSignal; timeouts are configurable through env (SOROBAN_RPC_TIMEOUT_MS, HORIZON_TIMEOUT_MS, IPFS_TIMEOUT_MS, X_API_TIMEOUT_MS) and merged with client-disconnect AbortSignal (req.signal)

• Server-level request timeout middleware (REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS, default 30s) returns 503 REQUEST_TIMEOUT and aborts in-flight upstream work; client close also aborts via AbortSignal

• Extract X circuit breaker into shared utility src/common/utils/circuitBreaker.ts; re-export from x.circuit-breaker.ts so x.circuit-breaker.test.ts passes unmodified; apply breaker to RPC (Soroban) and Horizon with fast-fail 503 SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE, logging and metrics exposure via /metrics (circuitBreaker states, timeouts)

• Standardise retry in src/common/utils/retry.ts with exponential backoff + full jitter, non-retryable 4xx / non-idempotent guard, configurable ceiling, logged attempts; indexer/retry.ts re-exports shared implementation for backward compat

• Right-size payload limits: default JSON 100kb (configurable JSON_BODY_LIMIT, down from 1mb), per-route larger 500kb for /tips /profiles /auth, multer files:1 fields:10 fileSize 5MB; oversized bodies mapped to 413 PAYLOAD_TOO_LARGE in errorHandler instead of HTML

Closes #90, #91, #92, #77

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