I managed to resolve the issue as follows. The biggest issue is with ganache, the version of brownie that I am using appears incompatible with ganache, so I had to uninstall and downgrade to the older and deprecated ganache-cli, if you have ganache globally installed you'll have to first uninstall it:
npm uninstall --global ganache-cli ganache-core ganache
Then make sure you're on node 16(node 18 doesn't work) before installing install ganache-cli(you can use nvm to switch to node 16):
npm install --global [email protected]
I also had to upgrade the black and eth-brownie dependency versions in the requirements.txt as follows:
black==21.9b0 brownie-token-tester==0.1.0 eth-brownie>=1.16.3 flake8==3.7.9 isort==4.3.21
Make sure to install the dependencies(preferably in a python virtual environment) and make sure that when running brownie test it lists the correct dependencies and versions:
================================================= test session starts ================================================= platform darwin -- Python 3.9.6, pytest-6.0.1, py-1.10.0, pluggy-0.13.1 rootdir: /Users/usr/multi-rewards plugins: eth-brownie-1.14.5, hypothesis-5.41.3, xdist-1.34.0, web3-5.11.1, forked-1.3.0
