Stratification and the smashing spectrum

We develop the theory of stratification for a rigidly-compactly generated tensor-triangulated category using the smashing spectrum and the small smashing support. Within the stratified context, we investigate connections between big prime ideals, objectwise-prime ideals and homological primes, and we show that the Telescope Conjecture holds if and only if the homological spectrum is T-0 and the homological support detects vanishing. We also reduce stratification to smashing localizations. Moreover, we study induced maps between smashing spectra and prove a descent theorem for stratification. Outside the stratified context, we prove that the Telescope Conjecture holds if and only if the smashing spectrum is T-0 with respect to the small topology.