Num Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, has raised $1.5 million in a funding round to expand its stablecoin offerings in Latin America and Middle East. Investors in the pre-seed round include Reserve, H2O Scouter Fund, Ripio Venture, VC3 DAO and Matias Woloski. The protocol will focus on tokenizing money market financial instruments and growing its real-world asset offering.