The Waves custom blockchain ecosystem has announced the releases of its node update 0.17 which includes the much anticipated lauch of the RISE programming language for dApps on testnet. RIDE is a blockchain scripting language that enables ‘smart’ blockchain transactions. RIDE is billed as a way for an account to assign a programmable function to itself, with callable functions that are able to receive payments, change the account’s state, and send WAVES and tokens from the account