feat(account): add GET /account/balances with CHEQ/USD conversion

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What

Adds GET /account/balances — the on-chain balance of the authenticated customer's mainnet and testnet payment accounts, in ncheq, CHEQ and USD.

GET /account/balances            // auth: read:account (same as /account, /account/analytics)
{
  "mainnet": {
    "address": "cheqd1...",
    "denom": "ncheq",
    "balance": { "ncheq": "1500000000000", "cheq": 1500 },
    "usd": 3.03
  },
  "testnet": { "address": "cheqd1...", "denom": "ncheq", "balance": { "ncheq": "0", "cheq": 0 }, "usd": 0 },
  "rate": { "cheqUsd": 0.00202, "source": "coingecko", "asOf": "2026-09-08T13:00:00.000Z" }
}

Why

GET /account returns only the payment-account addresses. checkBalance from @cheqd/sdk was used internally (faucet top-up) but never surfaced, and there was no CHEQ→USD lookup anywhere. The Studio portal needs both to show customers their account funding status. Studio owns the price-feed dependency and caching (the same way it wraps Stripe); the portal just displays.

How

• src/helpers/price.ts — new PriceHelper.getCheqUsdRate(). Fetches the CHEQ/USD spot rate from CoinGecko (coin id cheqd-network, matching cheqd/market-monitoring), caches it in-process for CHEQ_USD_RATE_CACHE_TTL seconds (default 300), 5s request timeout. Never throws — any failure logs and returns null.
• src/helpers/denom.ts — new. Extracts ncheqToCheq / cheqToNcheq / toSafeFaucetAmount out of account.ts so the pure conversion logic has one home and is unit-testable in isolation.
• account.ts — getBalances() controller method (inline @openapi, [Account] tag). getTestnetBalanceNcheq generalised to getBalanceNcheq(address, rpcUrl) with an 8s timeout guard (StargateClient exposes no cancellation).
• Route in app.ts, read:account rule in account-auth.ts, AccountBalancesResponse / AccountNetworkBalance schemas in swagger-api-types.ts (+ regenerated swagger-api.json).
• Config: COINGECKO_API_URL / COINGECKO_TOKEN_ID / COINGECKO_API_KEY / CHEQ_USD_RATE_CACHE_TTL (constants use the existing parseNumberEnv; documented in README.md + example.env).

Edge cases handled

• Customer has no payment account on a network → that key is null.
• A network's RPC query fails → that network's balance is null (the address is still returned); the other network is unaffected.
• CoinGecko unavailable → rate is null and every usd is null; balances still returned; response is still 200.
• Balances beyond Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER ncheq → conversion via Number(bigint) / 1e9, no throw (covered by a unit test).

Deliberate deviations from existing conventions

1. Price cache lives inside PriceHelper (its own node-cache), not LocalStore — LocalStore is coupled to PaymentAccountEntity and sits under database/; a market-rate cache doesn't belong there.
2. Per-network failure isolation + checkBalance timeout — the existing getTestnetBalanceNcheq lets RPC errors propagate. /account/balances isolates them so one RPC outage doesn't blank the other network or the addresses.
3. Named swagger schema (AccountBalancesResponse) rather than fully inline like the newest /account/faucet block — the response is structured enough that a named schema (like AccountAnalyticsResponse) reads better.

Testing

• npm run build (swagger + tsc) — clean.
• npm run test:unit — 137/137 pass (6 new in tests/unit/account/balances.test.ts).
• prettier --check 'src/**/*.ts' 'tests/**/*.ts' — clean.
• New Playwright specs under tests/e2e/parallel/account/ (authenticated shape check + testnet address parity with /account, and an unauthenticated 401) — these need a deployed environment, so they run in CI, not locally.
• Manually exercised end-to-end against a local Postgres-backed instance: returned the testnet address (matching /account), a live balance, and a live CoinGecko rate; with CoinGecko pointed at a dead URL, rate/usd were null, balances still returned, 200, no crash.

Follow-up

Per-account transaction history is tracked in the payment table (PaymentEntity) but has no read endpoint — raised as #815.

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