diff --git a/prdoc/pr_10471.prdoc b/prdoc/pr_10471.prdoc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..9470a61027bc3
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@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+title: '[Revive] Change default value of eth_getStorageAt'
+doc:
+- audience: Runtime Dev
+  description: |-
+    Closes https://github.com/paritytech/contract-issues/issues/230
+
+    With this change `eth_getStorageAt` of the eth rpc always returns a 32 byte array. If the storage slot has never been written before, it returns the 32 byte zero value as the default value. Before that it was the empty array.
+crates:
+- name: pallet-revive-eth-rpc
+  bump: patch
diff --git a/substrate/frame/revive/rpc/src/lib.rs b/substrate/frame/revive/rpc/src/lib.rs
index c5cbbcbd7b2ac..b65cd76c6627e 100644
--- a/substrate/frame/revive/rpc/src/lib.rs
+++ b/substrate/frame/revive/rpc/src/lib.rs
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ impl EthRpcServer for EthRpcServerImpl {
 		let hash = self.client.block_hash_for_tag(block).await?;
 		let runtime_api = self.client.runtime_api(hash);
 		let bytes = runtime_api.get_storage(address, storage_slot.to_big_endian()).await?;
-		Ok(bytes.unwrap_or_default().into())
+		Ok(bytes.unwrap_or([0u8; 32].into()).into())
 	}
 
 	async fn get_transaction_by_block_hash_and_index(