How Does a ‘Stratum Protocol’ Facilitate Communication within a Mining Pool?

The Stratum protocol is the communication layer used between a miner's software and the mining pool server. It efficiently transmits the work template (block header) from the pool to the miner and allows the miner to submit valid partial solutions (shares) back to the pool.

It is designed to be low-latency and handle the massive volume of data required for distributed mining operations.