diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e1c7284192..ca8e6c1f6b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -319,6 +319,7 @@
 - [9762](https://github.com/vegaprotocol/vega/issues/9762) - Referral fees API not filtering by party correctly.
 - [9775](https://github.com/vegaprotocol/vega/issues/9775) - Do not pay discount if set is not eligible
 - [9788](https://github.com/vegaprotocol/vega/issues/9788) - Fix transfer account validation.
+- [9797](https://github.com/vegaprotocol/vega/issues/9797) - Default pagination limits are not always correctly set.
 
 ## 0.72.1
 
diff --git a/datanode/entities/pagination.go b/datanode/entities/pagination.go
index 6ffbf266fb..5187ce842d 100644
--- a/datanode/entities/pagination.go
+++ b/datanode/entities/pagination.go
@@ -107,7 +107,10 @@ func NewCursorPagination(first *int32, after *string, last *int32, before *strin
 }
 
 func CursorPaginationFromProto(cp *v2.Pagination) (CursorPagination, error) {
-	if cp == nil {
+	if cp == nil || (cp != nil && cp.First == nil && cp.Last == nil) {
+		if cp != nil && cp.NewestFirst != nil {
+			return DefaultCursorPagination(*cp.NewestFirst), nil
+		}
 		return DefaultCursorPagination(true), nil
 	}