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# eth_getStorageAt

Returns the balance of the account of given address.

This method will use `40` [Compute Units](/nodeapi/about/billing).

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## Reference: [Here](https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/apis/json-rpc/#eth_getstorageat)

## **Parameters**

1. `DATA`, 20 Bytes - address of the storage.
2. `QUANTITY` - integer of the position in the storage.
3. `QUANTITY|TAG` - integer block number, or the string `"latest"`, `"earliest"` or `"pending"`, see the [default block parameter](https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/apis/json-rpc/#default-block-parameter)

## Returns

`String` - Hex value representing data at this storage position.

```json theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"github-dark-default"}}
// Result
{
  "id":83,
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000" 
}
```

<CodeGroup>
  ```bash title="testnet" theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"github-dark-default"}}
  curl https://testnet.tempo.validationcloud.io/v1/<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE> \
      -X POST \
      -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
      -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0", "method": "eth_getStorageAt", "params": ["0x295a70b2de5e3953354a6a8344e616ed314d7251", "0x0", "latest"], "id": 1}'
  ```
</CodeGroup>


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