# minimumLedgerSlot

Returns the lowest slot that the node has information of in its ledger.

This method will use `30` [Compute Units](/v1/about/billing.md).

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## **Parameters**

None.

## Returns

`u64` The lowest slot that the node has information of. This number may increase over time if the node is purging older ledger data.

```bash
// Result
{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "result": 1234, "id": 1 }
```

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="mainnet" %}

<pre class="language-bash"><code class="lang-bash"><strong>curl https://mainnet.solana.validationcloud.io/v1/&#x3C;YOUR_API_KEY_HERE> \
</strong>    -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"method":"minimumLedgerSlot","params":[],"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}'
</code></pre>

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="devnet" %}

```bash
curl https://devnet.solana.validationcloud.io/v1/<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE> \
    -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"method":"minimumLedgerSlot","params":[],"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}'
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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