diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ce57b90601a..b229ca1fe97 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -685,3 +685,4 @@ Released with 1.0.0-beta.37 code base.
 ### Fixed
 
 - Builds fixed by updating all typescript versions to 4.9.5 (#6238)
+- ABI encoding for large negative `int`s (#6239)
diff --git a/packages/web3-eth-abi/src/index.js b/packages/web3-eth-abi/src/index.js
index 600b993c289..3bb6e797c6f 100644
--- a/packages/web3-eth-abi/src/index.js
+++ b/packages/web3-eth-abi/src/index.js
@@ -268,8 +268,11 @@ ABICoder.prototype.formatParam = function (type, param) {
     if (match) {
         let size = parseInt(match[2] || "256");
         if (size / 8 < param.length) {
-            // pad to correct bit width
-            param = utils.leftPad(param, size);
+            param = param.startsWith("-")
+                // pad to correct bit width, with - at the beginning
+                ? `-${utils.leftPad(param.substring(1), size)}`
+                // pad to correct bit width
+                : utils.leftPad(param, size);
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/test/eth.abi.encodeParameter.js b/test/eth.abi.encodeParameter.js
index 4ba9548fd05..eec17f11fc1 100644
--- a/test/eth.abi.encodeParameter.js
+++ b/test/eth.abi.encodeParameter.js
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ var tests = [{
 },{
     params: ['bytes32[]', ['0xdf3234', '0xfdfd']],
     result: '0x00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000200000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000002df32340000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000fdfd000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
+},{
+    params: ['int128', '-170141183460469231731687303715884105727'],
+    result: '0xffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff80000000000000000000000000000001'
 }];
 
 describe('encodeParameter', function () {