The funds you deposit at the beginning can be used to pay multiple seeders. You have one "ledger channel", funded by that on-chain deposit, which is being used

The funds you deposit at the beginning can be used to pay multiple seeders. You have one "ledger channel", funded by that on-chain deposit, which is being used to open a "virtual channel" for each seeder you connect to. There's a bit more about it in this post: https://blog.statechannels.org/channels-funding-channels/ https://blog.statechannels.org/channels-funding-channels/.